Here is a peculiar gratitude: Thanksgiving, unlike many other holidays, has not been moved to Monday. It stays on Thursday and makes a four day holiday with most of the days after the big event, so those three days are not available for preparations. I suspect that this timing is preserved by the pressures of consumers who want to buy stuff on Friday and merchants who hope to go into the black that day. I have never hit those sales and it is easy for me to disdain the impulse to shop at mid-night, but I'm grateful for the sales as I enjoy a day ordinary tasks (housecleaning, bread baking, even school work) without dashing back to work.
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