Remember when Thanksgiving used to consist of the time of year when you got together with all your relatives and had a large homemade feast. Well, over the years there has been a major shift in the way people celebrate Thanksgiving. Some are putting their wallets before the turkey, by shopping on the very day of Thanksgiving. While others no longer put as much importance on the holiday, and instead just have small gatherings with friends.
The tradition of Thanksgiving has always been a holiday of celebration with your loved ones, a time to gather around the dinner table and share thanks. However, over the past couple of years we have seen the focus shift from family to consumerism through the rise of Black Friday. For the past decade, media sources have portrayed how every year more and more we see Black Friday separating families from their traditional Thanksgiving plans. Some people sacrifice spending time with their family to camp out up to a week early because of the craze Black Friday has created. And it’s getting even worse now.
When it comes to Black Friday it has generated into a holiday of its own! Before Black Friday began as a tradition of stores opening at the AM on the Friday after Thanksgiving, but over the years the term Friday in Black Friday has been contested. Nowadays, stores are opening even before one carves the Thanksgiving turkey. This move pulled by retailers is a stretch because it is causing many people to ditch their families in order to save a few bucks on a flat screen. Then, the following day after Thanksgiving isn’t really commemorated as the same Black Friday anymore. Turning Black Friday into Black Thursday has become a threat to what Thanksgiving stands for and is something we should all be conscious about this Thanksgiving before we consider standing in line at Walmart instead of catching up with cousins through crazy stories.
