I hate thanksgiving

[Freya1984]

I always end up feeling like garbage at the end of the day, I barely even eat the food I make, it’s just a pointless waste of a day.

[Maxiomargie]

I usually feel like that too. Thanksgiving used to be my favorite Holiday. This year I kept it as simple as possible. It still takes all day in the kitchen. Enjoy your day today; hope you are off from any work.

[Freya1984 in reply to Maxiomargie]

I don’t work I’m a full time music production student I’m supposed to be on break but I won’t take one

[Windy101 in reply to Freya1984]

I can relate to this. I have a huge paper to write with a presentation that's due on Monday.

[Freya1984 in reply to Windy101]

Yea I’m working on a performance video which creates its own anxieties for me

[Windy101 in reply to Freya1984]

We'll get through it.

[Sprinkle1]

Unfortunately a lot of people feel that way. I say let go of the expectations, and do not spend the day in the kitchen, plenty of restaurants cook meals for Thanksgiving . A friend of mine, orders food to go from a near by Chinese Restaurant. He said he was not going to have his wife stand in the kitchen all day slaving. So I say make it simple for yourself, how many are you feeding - what are the age groups? For kids you can cook a frozen pizza, see what the others would like and have some volunteer to help, it is a holiday for you to. Does not have to be turkey, over 244 million innocent turkeys are slaughtered for Thanksgiving, there are other healthy choices that can be made.

Next big one coming up is Christmas another period I intensely dislike. So I skate thru it the best way I can, I have not kids, therefore no grand-kids. And I am always glad when January 1 st gets here. Do not feel like garbage, because You are Not. You are special and lovable. Do not let others put you down, ignore any ungrateful remarks, and plan to do it different next year, with help. We love you, to us you are special lady. Sending love & hugs. Sprinkle 1

[Freya1984 in reply to Sprinkle1]

I’ll stick to a traditional meal. And I have kids I’m not making them pizza for holidays.....I enjoy the cooking I just don’t enjoy eating anything ever and then I’m so disgusted by my life I don’t eat most days.

[Maxiomargie in reply to Sprinkle1]

The Holidays can be hard for a lot of people. I've started to view it as a retail holiday. All the fuss and money spent is just not worth it. I too, skate through this time of year as best I can. I Just ignore the "fa la la". It gets a little easier each year to detach from all the hoopla. It's just totally overrated. If I didn't have my family, I think I would spend the day volunteering in one of the soup kitchens. I'm sure there would be real gratitude to be found there. It's really just another day.

Peace to all. oxox

[SpeaktheTruth]

It's always going to be with those kinds of attitudes. That's the problem

with a lot of people on this site...the negativity kills any hope of making things better.

[Freya1984 in reply to SpeaktheTruth]

I don’t enjoy food I’m not the kind of person who lives to eat, I eat in order to stay alive, so a holiday that ends up being about cooking all this food is wasted on me. It’s supposed to be about family and togetherness but I don’t have that type of family so it is what it is.

[Pearl67]

Freya1984, perhaps making a traditional meal for the fam and you can go serve at a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving and Christmas? My family has and it is such a beautiful thing and so helpful to your soul😍

[Freya1984]

I still have 4 kids at home I can’t just cook and walk away from them

[MomBoss in reply to Freya1984]

Well at least you have 4 kids to cook for, see the blessing in that😎

[Windy101]

I dearly love all of the relatives I saw, but the holiday itself means nothing to me. I don't even know what it means anymore. I'm not really proud of its origins, and gorging myself made me sick all the way home.

UGH.

[Freya1984]

I never like to eat I don’t like food in general