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thanksgiving
Checklist Your Way To Thanksgiving Success
It's time to get ready for Thanksgiving. Stay in budget and manage your time effectively with ShelterPop's pre-Turkey Day checklist. What do you do around your house to prepare?
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strange foods
Your Wish For Tufurky/Gravy-Flavored Soda Has Been Granted
Spotter of strange foods NORMLgirl has brought you another gem: Tofurky and gravy flavored soda, in a story by the bemused Cheryl V. Jackson of the Chicago Sun-Times. More » -
price wars
Walmart Wants You To Buy All Your Turkey And TV From Them This Year
Walmart is ramping up the price war on another front. Instead of hardcovers, this time the retailer is cutting prices on turkey and flat-panel TVs, reports Bloomberg. More » -
black thursday
Toys R Us Manager Says Store Will Be Open On Thanksgiving This Year
Retail isn't a great field to be in if you enjoy having nights, weekends and holidays off. A disgruntled Toys R Us manager wrote us to say Thanksgiving, one of his three guaranteed holidays per year, will vanish in order to give the store a jump on its Black Friday competitors. More » -
christmas creep
Hey Lowe's: Is Halloween Next? Or Christmas?
The Christmas trees are in full effect and the decorations are crowding out the Halloween stuff at the Lowe's in Alexandria, VA. More » -
psas
Happy Thanksgiving!
Have a happy turkey day! We'll be too busy stuffing our face to make any posts unless we happen to fall across the keyboard in a tryptophanic haze. So if you see some that are all like al;sdkn;aj'lfdkknsm knamldmmmmmm gravy... you'll know what's up. Otherwise, don't buy anything Friday because it sucks out there and we'll see you Monday! Woo! (Photo: The Joy Of The Mundane) -
tv dinners
TV Dinner's Genesis: Industrial-Sized Leftovers
TV dinners were invented during Thanksgiving in 1953 when the Swanson Company overstocked and was left with over a half-million pounds of turkey they handn't sold. So a salesman tweaked an airline serving tray, put turkey dinner inside, and told Swanson to tie the marketing to the latest fad of television. [US Census Bureau] (Thanks to Michael!) -
christmas creep
New York Times, 1908: 100 Years Of Christmas Creep!
Reader Annie spotted this early Christmas ad while browsing through the New York Times Machine. It's from November 11, 1908. More » -
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Over Thanksgiving, five United Airlines workers had to go the hospital for nausea and vomiting after eating the company-provided turkey dinner. "There were questions about whether the turkey smelled quite right," said Don Wolfel, the president of Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association Local 4, "The popular opinion was that it didn't." [AP]
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I was going through old posts and realized that on "Delta Wants Me To Rebook For A Later Flight Because I'm One Minute Late," I never said why I got there only 44 minutes before departure instead of 45. So here it is: the car service was 20 minutes late, and we hit traffic. Cheers.
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black friday
Fry's Employees Sell Opportunity To Cut Black Friday Line
Fry's employees in Renton, Washington sold Black Friday aspirants the chance to cut to the front of the pre-dawn line for between $108.79 and $200, including tax. Puzzled shoppers were assured that the money went to Fry's, not the employees. A Fry's worker explained the situation with disarming naiveté:
When KING 5 asked about this at the customer service desk, one employee said: "Oh they stopped doing that. They weren't supposed to." The employee said the store manager put a stop to it.
Anyone who paid the advancement fee will receive a full refund. The rogue salesmen will be sent to the back of the unemployment line.Fry's shoppers offered chance to cut in line - for a price [KING 5 News]
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diy
A Bunch Of Ideas For Turkey Leftovers
If you are like us, you like turkey leftovers more than you like Thanksgiving dinner, but don't have a ton of creative ideas for turkey and stuffing. More » -
psas
Happy Thanksgiving
The Consumerist will take a break from posting on Thursday, in celebration of Thanksgiving. Friday will be a half-day of posting. Enjoy your turkey and your families. From all of us at Consumerist, gobble, gobble. -
Advice for people now traveling for Thanksgiving: check in online, get to the airport early, try not to check bags, and more. [Today on the James front]
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thanksgiving
5 Ways To Help Your Local Food Bank
Agonist has put together 5 ways that you can help your local food bank this Thanksgiving as they struggle against more demand and higher prices in their mission to make sure that everyone has a happy Thanksgiving. More » -
travel
39 Million People Are Traveling Today
If you're traveling today, you'll have some company: 39 million other people, according to USAToday:
"An estimated 38.7 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home this Thanksgiving, an increase of 1.5% over last year, according to AAA. Most, about 31.2 million, will go by road, says the auto club formerly known as the American Automobile Association."
A lot is said about flying today, but since most of you will be driving—please remember to drive safely!
Remember: Turkey doesn't taste as delicious at the hospital.
39 Million Slog Through Delays, Storms[USAToday]
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airlines
Delta Wants Me To Rebook For A Later Flight Because I'm One Minute Late
I roll up to the JFK curb for an 8:30 am flight. I give my info to the check-in guy. "Sorry sir, you can't check you bag," he says.
"Why not?" I ask.
"Check-in time is 45 minutes before departure."
I look at my watch. It's 7:46. "So, you're going to bust me for being one minute late?"
"Sir, if you go inside and to the right, one of our agents will be happy to assist you with rebooking for a later flight.""Yeah right," I think to myself, and scurry inside to a self-check-in kiosk, grumbling internally about how the car service was 20 minutes late and we hit traffic... More »
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frugality
Buy Nothing Day Is This Friday
Some wily retailers would have you think the day after Thanksgiving is some sort of "Black Friday" where you're supposed to get up before the roosters and claw with other shoppers over "amazing" deals. Actually, it's really "Buy Nothing Day," where, in solidarity with anti-consumers around the globe, you don't spend any money at all. Some might argue you're swapping one mob mentality for another, but at least one costs less.
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