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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?

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!

Have you read?

Stitch a Play Mat with a Gorgeous Butterfly

The butterfly on this piece — the Owl Butterfly Playmat by Sophie’s Stitches — caught my eye before I even knew what the project was. Now that I’ve give it a closer look I’m still not 100 percent sure what it is meant to be for, but I still love it. 

I think it’s maybe to give you a flat surface to roll dice or play cards on, but there are no images of the project in use so I’m just speculating on that. If you know what it is, be sure to let me know!

What it physically is is a worsted weight mat (the sample is worked in cotton) that measures 14 by 24 inches, or 35.5 by 61 cm. The impression I get from the pattern notes and the photos is that you knit the rectangle plain and the butterfly is stitched on after using duplicate stitch, which is provided as a chart. 

Of course you could choose to knit some of the colorwork as you go, either using stranded knitting or intarsia techniques, or maybe some of both. It just looks like a lot of duplicate stitch (and it is!) so knowing me if I were making this project I’d probably try to knit some of it instead of stitching it all. 

The pattern also suggests that you can knit a second plain mat to sew on the back and cover up all the yarn ends, as well as making the mat thicker and a little more stable. There’s also a photo that shows fabric sewn to the back, which is also a good option if you have some fabric that has a bit of grip. 

I like the graphic on this one enough I might just make it as a table pad for our entry way table. You can always make the mat part a different dimension, just make sure you’re centering the image if you do. 

You can find this pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Sophie’s Stitches]