KT Dodge

Well we’ve just picked up our 12lb turkey for roasting, which was very small in comparison to everybody elses!! The poor shopkeeper’s arms will ache tomorrow lifting all those huge turkeys into bags. Now I hate to admit my ignorance but I never really knew what Thanksgiving was for before today, so I asked. I was told that it goes way back to the first settlers in America and It is to give thanks for a good harvest. So now I’ve equated it with our harvest festival in the UK.

What is really nice about it, is it’s a kind of christmas dinner without the pressure of having to buy presents. Apparently, I am told that more Americans travel for Thanksgiving than any other holiday in the US as this year they get almost five days leave (well unless you are in retail).

Just like our ‘January Sales’, there are ‘discount offers’ in all stores starting straight after Thanksgiving which is always on the third Thursday of November each year. We’re being sent so much information on how much discount we can have soon they’ll be paying us to take home their goods!! The competition is fierce and they employ all kinds of strategies to get your custom and every year the sales start on Friday, known as Black Friday for retail, as their takings on this day dictate their sales figures for the christmas period. That’s something I really like about the US you can really plan your shopping.