I’m so busy this week that I’ve had to plan every day of the week in 15-minute increments. So I was wondering, is it OK to celebrate Thanksgiving on Saturday instead of Thursday? I want to prepare a huge feast, but I simply won’t have the time to do it before Saturday. Would that be an unforgivable violation of tradition?
Celebrating Thanksgiving
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I don’t think so; my family celebrated it today, because my sister is visiting but will be gone before Thursday.
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I see no problem with that. But then again, I refuse to travel for the Holidays because the plane tickets are so much more expensive and thus celebrate with family whenever I want. I celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday!
Holidays only have meaning if you give it to them.
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You guys are total overachievers, celebrating it early and all. 🙂 I’m falling behind as usual, even on my celebrations. 🙂
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Just make sure you face west when you cut the throat of the traditional Thanksgiving sacrificial white heifer and you’ll be fine. Juno isn’t picky about the day as long as it gets done before Saturnalia.
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This reminds me of an old Soviet joke. A Soviet submarine gets lost in the sea. It meets an American submarine and the captain asks the American captain, “Hey, how do I get back to our shores?” “Go to the North-East,” the American captain responds.
“Those Americans always screw with people,” the Soviet captain tells his crew. “Like he couldn’t be a normal person and just point with his finger?”
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Clarissa:
I think that it would be viewed as a faux pas to postpone Thanksgiving from Thursday to Saturday. Rightly or wrongly, the day has become highly symbolic in the United States of a day for strengthening family ties. I would make every effort to cancel out other events in order to make way for Thanksgiving. Do not let the urgent push out the important.
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As long as you are THANKFUL for all of your blessings EVERY DAY ;-D)> Have a great Thanksgiving Day!
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YES. All the good parades are on THURSDAY. The Detroit Lions play Thanksgiving football on THURSDAY. The — wait, it’s your own damn life and you can do as you like?
Never mind. 😉
(We are likely visiting some friends for a non-traditional meal on Thursday and then doing our own celebration later, for what it’s worth.)
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TOTALLY FINE. Half the people I know do it on Saturday. People have lives, you know? Often we’ll have our big extended family do Thanksgiving on Saturday – then people can do their own Thanksgiving at home or whatever.
And besides, nothing is as American as taking a cherished tradition and twisting it to suit your own needs, right?
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“And besides, nothing is as American as taking a cherished tradition and twisting it to suit your own needs, right?”
-I’m totally loving this one! 🙂
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Might as well, you’re already a month late by Canadian standards, a few more days won’t hurt. 😛
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In my culture, we are always behind on everything. We even celebrate Christmas on January 6th. Or 7th. And we have a New year’s celebration on January 13th. 🙂
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