Do you buy each other presents for thanksgiving day or do you wait until christmas to do that and do you have turkey again on christmas day,hope you all have a wonderful day, happy thanksgiving to all our lovely american friends.
Nine answers:
daisycm
2007-11-21 16:39:17 UTC
no you dont get presants on thanksgiving that would be nice though :) the turkey thing all depends on the family, in the past my family has done turkey on christmas but they usually do a ham, or we do a brunch
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2016-05-25 03:05:52 UTC
The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that year Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians. Days of thanksgiving were celebrated throughout the colonies after fall harvests. All thirteen colonies did not, however, celebrate Thanksgiving at the same time until October 1777. George Washington was the first president to declare the holiday, in 1789. A New National Holiday By the mid–1800s, many states observed a Thanksgiving holiday. Meanwhile, the poet and editor Sarah J. Hale had begun lobbying for a national Thanksgiving holiday. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, looking for ways to unite the nation, discussed the subject with Hale. In 1863 he gave his Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday in November a day of thanksgiving. In 1939, 1940, and 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt, seeking to lengthen the Christmas shopping season, proclaimed Thanksgiving the third Thursday in November. Controversy followed, and Congress passed a joint resolution in 1941 decreeing that Thanksgiving should fall on the fourth Thursday of November, where it remains
waffles_cck
2007-11-22 00:32:10 UTC
No I dont have any presents given to me on Thanksgiving on Christmas yes of course but I do not have Turkey then
Turtle
2007-11-21 16:36:42 UTC
I've never bought presents for Thanksgiving day and usually if we have had turkey for Thanksgiving we have something different at Christmas.
evanescent
2007-11-21 16:39:51 UTC
I've never done thanksgiving presents. My family rarely has turkey on Christmas [i'm vegetarian so i don't eat it at all].
anonymous
2007-11-21 16:38:15 UTC
I'm English so I don't do Thanksgiving, but I wish all Americans a happy and healthy Thanksgiving on Thursday from England.
Sonya
2007-11-21 16:38:07 UTC
My family doesn't exchange gifts on Thanksgiving, and we usually have ham on Christmas but sometimes we have turkey too. =]
anonymous
2007-11-21 16:37:14 UTC
give the presents on christmas only
Olivia E
2007-11-21 16:45:03 UTC
u ttly should wait till christmas to give presents!! then u have more money to buy too!! LOL
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