Shopping on Thanksgiving sends the wrong message to my children.
A large number of retail stores have announced that they will open on Thanksgiving. I think I read that Kmart plans to stay open for something like 41 hours straight for their Black Friday sales. Really? Seriously? 41 hours? I won’t be shopping on Thanksgiving . I highly doubt that I’ll go shopping at all over the weekend. I’ve never been a fan of Black Friday sales. Maybe it’s because my first job was in retail? Maybe it’s because I don’t really like shopping? It isn’t because I don’t like saving money and it certainly isn’t because I don’t like buying gifts. I could blame it on not having any money to spend but some years I have had money to spend and still didn’t participate in Black Friday sales (and those were in the days when stores were actually closed on Thanksgiving and didn’t open until Friday morning, you know, after sunrise). But this post isn’t about Black Friday sales on Friday. This post is about shopping on Thanksgiving. It isn’t part of my family’s traditions