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Should you shop on Thanksgiving?

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Did you know that Costco doesn’t open on Thanksgiving day? To me, it seems like the right thing to do. Thanksgiving is all about family and spending time with your loved ones.

You can give shopping a break on at least one day of the year. And it’s not as if there aren’t 100’s of other stores that are open. And of course, the biggest shopping day of the year is just one day after that day.

In a hard hitting article on Huffington Post, author Matt Walsh echoes this sentiment by saying that if you shop on Thanksgiving, you are part of the problem.

While I don’t completely agree with this viewpoint, he makes valid points about the consumerist culture that we live in.

Go have a read: Should you shop on Thanksgiving?

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Comments

  1. i spent years working black Friday in retail. i have never seen such awful people as those who shopped on that day. I would never shop on a holiday, I agree that those clerks should should be home with family. I don’t shop black friday either. I would have to hurt someone if I was in one of those crowds.

  2. I hate to disappoint you, but guess what? Costco *is* open on Thanksgiving, at least in Boise, ID. I was deeply saddened to see them join the ranks of…other retailers, who need not be named. Low blow, that. :/

  3. In sympathy to those who have to work on Thanksgiving I wouldn’t shop on Thanksgiving. People who work in places like hospitals need to work on Thanksgiving but there is no need to have 4 million retail workers on the job on that day.

  4. Tried to leave this comment yesterday, but apparently it didn’t go through…Costco *is* open on Thanksgiving, at least it is where I live. I was deeply disappointed to find this out, via a flyer from them. This whole Black Every Single Day of the Week thing is getting out of hand!

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Christmas Stocking Knitting Patterns for Your Pets

I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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