{actor} What's on my mind? This "new" commercial holiday - Black Friday... If I hear ONE MORE store opening at 8:00 p.m. Thanksgiving evening for "Black Friday" shopping, I am totally going to lose it!!!! In my family we were still sitting at the table, having dessert well after 8:00 p.m. - enjoying time together, playing a game, or just starting...{actor} What's on my mind? This "new" commercial holiday - Black Friday... If I hear ONE MORE store opening at 8:00 p.m. Thanksgiving evening for "Black Friday" shopping, I am totally going to lose it!!!! In my family we were still sitting at the table, having dessert well after 8:00 p.m. - enjoying time together, playing a game, or just starting to clean up.... sometimes, depending what time you started that day, you were just sitting down for "Seconds"...... This commercial "holiday" of Black Friday is taking away our tradition of Thanksgiving - a family holiday, of giving thanks for what we have been blessed with..... Now they are encouraging - inviting - you to cut the holiday short, leave your family, and run out to buy buy buy! Please don't do this to your families.... each hour your get to spend together is important....each holiday you get to spend with your loved ones is important....That time can never be replaced.... EVERYTHING you run out to buy can be bought another day; everything you buy can be replaced, and will be! Only TIME with loved ones can never be replaced.... In these days where so many have suffered such losses.... don't lose the time you can spend with family and loved ones... Giving thanks for what you have....family, friends, food, a roof over your head - many people do not have that.... and this year....so many who had that just a few weeks ago, no longer do.... Life is very fragile....treat it gently..... I will not shop at any store this year that opens its doors at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving day.... not Thanksgiving Day, not Black Friday, not any day this holiday season. To do my part, I am going to volunteer at a Food Kitchen to serve food this Thanksgiving - and then spend time with my Family..... Show more