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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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Book Review: The No-Brainer Brain Explainer

Human brains are pretty amazing, allowing us to think, feel, create, communicate, move and more. But humans aren’t the only animals with cool brains, as Crab Museum explains in the book The No-Brainer Brain Explainer (illustrated by Bruno Valasse).

This book, aimed at kids in grades 1-4, is colorful and silly but also educational about how brains actually work, with billions of neurons sending electrical and chemical signals around the body.

“Everything we think, feel and experience comes from an electrical relay race, with neurons passing chemical batons to each other,” the book says. “The constant chatter of billions of brain cells creates your entire world.” 

The book compares the brains of mammals to those of crabs (the book is “written” by a crab after all) and notes that crabs have fewer neurons and of course are much smaller, but they have separate parts of their brains that control their eyes and their legs. Crabs are also capable of remembering things, using tools and solving puzzles. 

Some animals’ brains allow them to know more about their world in different ways from humans, such as spiders being sensitive to vibrations in their webs and catfish having an amazing sense of taste, with taste sensors all over their bodies. 

It notes that 95 percent of brain activity goes toward things we do unconsciously, like breathing, walking and catching a ball flying toward us. It also talks about dreams, memory, how our emotions try to predict the future, where brains came from and fun facts about brains. For example, did you know a sperm whale is believed to have the biggest brain of any creature that’s even lived? Their brains weigh 18 pounds, compared to just 2.5 pounds for humans. 

Information on what creatures have the smallest brains, the toughest brains, the most brains and those who actually eat their own brains will delight kids (and maybe gross them out a little bit). They’ll also enjoy learning about the mycelium network of fungi, which is like a brain without a body, and slime molds, which are like a brain without a brain. 

It ends talking about why human brains are so special because we’ve found ways to work together, communicate and build communities on a scale bigger than any other animal. 

Kids and adults alike will enjoy this colorful, silly and informational book about brains!

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $19.99.