Black Thursday

This year a bunch of stores are opening on Thanksgiving night instead of the traditional early Friday morning.  It's ridiculous and unnecessary and sad that our society it that driven by trying to please consumers that stores feel the need to open on Thanksgiving.  This morning on Facebook I saw an article that perfectly sums up my thought on this issue.  The article is titled "If You Shop on Thanksgiving, You Are Part of the Problem."  I highly recommend that you read it.  Here is the link.
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-walsh/shopping-on-thanksgiving_b_4310109.html

Although there are many great lines in the article, here is one of my favorites:
"How appropriate, then, that a holiday created by our ancestors as an occasion to give thanks for what they had, now morphs into a frenzied consumerist ritual where we descend upon shopping malls to accumulate more things we don't need. Our great grandparents enjoyed a meal and praised the Lord for the food on the table and the friends and family gathered around it. We, having slightly altered the tradition, instead elect to bum-rush elderly women and trample over children to get our hands on cheap TVs."

SO TRUE.  Not to mention how sad it is that the store workers have to leave their families and miss thanksgiving dinner just so we can trample each other for sale items when we should be home with our own families giving thanks for what we have.  Although I could write a lot more on this, I'll leave it at that.