I don’t know about you, but I’m counting down the days until I get to stuff my belly full of turkey and trimmings. Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite times of the year. It’s hard to beat good food and a long weekend, but there’s more to that than Thanksgiving. In fact, I’d argue that Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year, and here’s why.
It’s non-religious.
My friends and family come from a variety of races, ethnicities, cultures, and religions, but none of that matters at Thanksgiving. It’s one of the few holidays that everyone can celebrate without people feeling uncomfortable or left out.
It doesn’t involve gifts.
There’s no pressure to buy a bunch of gifts for everyone and no need to practice your fake excited face for when you have to open another horrible gift from your aunt and uncle, who have a knack for giving you gifts that would have been cool five years ago.
It’s all about the food.
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie. That’s just the starting lineup. I haven’t even gotten to the bench. What other holiday can even come close to a lineup like that?
It’s really all about being with family and friends.
Food is great, but it’s even more enjoyable in good company. Thanksgiving is really a celebration of having the opportunity to be together with your family and your friends.
It has something for everyone.
Whether it’s catching the Macy’s Day Parade, watching football all day, preparing for Black Friday, or eating and drinking so much that you pass out, everyone can find something to enjoy during the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Great post. I love thanksgiving more than pretty much any holiday. The beauty of thanksgiving is that the greatest gift of this holiday is family and friends.
Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, and all other big holidays are great, but they seem to have become more about gifts than family, friends, love and happiness.
Kudos to you for this one! Thanks buddy!
I agree with you. I think Thanksgiving weekend is something to look forward to for all those reasons you mentioned. Parade, football, great food, and catching up with family and friends. I also enjoy the cold weather of the fall. The traffic is a different story though. I would also put new years and July 4th in the same category as Thanksgiving for the same reasons.
Craig
http://www.budgetpulse.com
Amen brother, Amen.
Could not agree with you more. What other holiday are you just allowed to let loose and actually promote the act of watching football? About 10 years ago, my uncle purchased a big deep fryer for turkeys, so we took the responsibility of preparing the turkey every year instead of the females of the female. 1 hour and that frozen sucker is ready to eat. It is a great feelings and I really feel that it is the one holiday that brings families together the most. Could not agree with you more!
I totally agree, it’s one of the few holidays that hasn’t shifted from being about people to being about gifts. So many others have been taken over by marketers…
You mean the stores don’t try to rake in the money 3-6 months before the holiday! I know christmas stuff was out before halloween this year.
My favorite holiday is 4th of July, I love fireworks, and I know I spend a lot of money on it, but it is one rare time that you can let loose a little bit of your inner pyro!
Thanksgiving would also rank much closer to the top, and as I get older Christmas is going lower and lower, and much less about the givts, more about the time with family.