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Will any of you be spending Thanksgiving alone this year?

Any plans?

by Anonymousreply 42November 27, 2024 8:16 PM

If anyone here will be spending the holiday(s) alone, please let me know.

I need extra chairs.

by Anonymousreply 1November 20, 2024 10:00 AM

Whaddya mean?? We all will

by Anonymousreply 2November 20, 2024 10:12 AM

I am

by Anonymousreply 3November 20, 2024 12:37 PM

Not completely alone. A lot are changes are happening now. I really have to reset. I've never had a time in my life that I haven't done it all for my kids, brothers and other family. My brother wants me to go spend it in Leesburg Virginia with him. I may do that if I'm able. I told him it's kind of a long drive. He said well, there's this little thing called an airplane, lol.

by Anonymousreply 4November 20, 2024 1:08 PM

Alone - by choice! My idea of Hell is going to holiday gatherings and making idiotic chit chat with people I don’t know well.

by Anonymousreply 5November 20, 2024 1:13 PM

Yes, and gratefully so. Partner died years ago and I learned that being invited to someone's house ca.n turn into a boring nightmare: delays, small-talk with obnoxious kids/relatives. fights breaking out, bad food, political arguments, too much alcohol clearing problems. On and on. The juice ain't worth thr squeeze. I don't care. I can cook for myself. Or not. It's a day, for Pete's sake.

by Anonymousreply 6November 20, 2024 1:17 PM

^ alcohol creating problems

by Anonymousreply 7November 20, 2024 1:18 PM

I see a lot of people dreading going home for the holidays this year. Why put yourself through that? Why do something that you're dreading?

by Anonymousreply 8November 20, 2024 1:21 PM

I posted on this on another thread, but I am spending my first Thanksgiving alone & I'm kind of excited about it. I'm going for a hike, preparing a good meal and hope to binge on some mindless show to forget the 24/7 Shitshow going on now. I enjoyed spending holidays with my family, but I'm glad to have a break from all that work to prepare a meal, family drama, whatnot. Work has been very busy so I'm looking forward to just re-charging

by Anonymousreply 9November 20, 2024 1:23 PM

Yes and I'm thrilled. The friend I usually have dinner with was invited elsewhere and I told him to go and have a lovely day. A TG in bed watching TV and eating Chinese food is pure heaven.

by Anonymousreply 10November 20, 2024 1:28 PM

Amen, r10. I can't wait to relax and just do or not do whatever I want.

by Anonymousreply 11November 20, 2024 3:12 PM

I am going to be alone and of two minds about it (does that mean I'm not alone?) Part of me is relieved to be free of all family drama and of course, the possibility of politics arising, but another part feels kind of lonely.

It's always easy to think that everyone else is having good time even though you know that for the most part, they're not.

by Anonymousreply 12November 20, 2024 3:32 PM

Yes. No family anymore except for cousins. I don't feel comfortable going to others' Thanksgivings ... too much of a family thing.

by Anonymousreply 13November 20, 2024 5:36 PM

Yes, I ordered food from Bristol Farms.

by Anonymousreply 14November 20, 2024 5:38 PM

Technically the day of - yes. But I am going to a friend's for a Thanksgiving dinner on Friday - very small.

I'm great with it. I used to love Thanksgiving when I was younger - all of the food and lack of commercialization.

But as I got older, all the starches and heaviness of the dinner started to turn me off. Then it just always seemed to drag on unnecessarily long.

Most holidays are for kids - and that's where I'm at now. I don't really look forward to any holidays - which is sad in a way, but I'm OK with it.

by Anonymousreply 15November 20, 2024 5:43 PM

I'm going to work. It's time and a half and it gets me out of going to the family gathering at a cunt relative's house.

by Anonymousreply 16November 20, 2024 5:51 PM

[quote] A TG in bed

TG?

by Anonymousreply 17November 20, 2024 6:05 PM

R17 Thanksgiving

by Anonymousreply 18November 20, 2024 6:57 PM

I am by choice but it would break my mothers heart if she found out I chose to spend the day by myself. I lost my dad a few months ago and broke up with my long-term boyfriend and honestly just can't face it. He and I used to spend most Thanksgivings with his family so it's not weird for me to not see my family for the holiday. I told my family I was spending Thanksgiving in NYC with friends.

by Anonymousreply 19November 20, 2024 11:07 PM

Lol R1.

You're terrible.

by Anonymousreply 20November 26, 2024 1:00 PM

This will be my tenth year of spending the holidays alone. Don’t miss the NYC crowds and chaos. I’m a loner and hate crowds outside or inside..

by Anonymousreply 21November 26, 2024 1:04 PM

I genuinely don't get why people care if someone is spending the holidays alone? It seems like just any other day. "Oh, no, you had to spend Tuesday night alone? How did you manage?"

by Anonymousreply 22November 26, 2024 1:07 PM

My niece hosts a big Thanksgiving at their house, but this year it's on Saturday. So I'll have Thursday and Friday alone. I plan on doing some deep cleaning in my home and going to the parks.

by Anonymousreply 23November 26, 2024 1:50 PM

Alone, by choice. Most years, I'm flying down to Florida to be with family.

I am looking forward to waking up Thanksgiving morning in my own comfortable bed, rather than on my sister's sleeper sofa. Besides, the beach across the street is closed until further notice because of the hurricanes.

by Anonymousreply 24November 26, 2024 2:20 PM

I am hosting an anonymous cum dump party at my home called stuff me for thanksgiving.

by Anonymousreply 25November 26, 2024 2:30 PM

I’m too old to sleep on sofas and in living rooms. One of my sisters lives in a 3-BR with her husband, no kids. She still has no place for a guest to sleep except her sofa.

by Anonymousreply 26November 26, 2024 7:11 PM

[quote]I am hosting an anonymous cum dump party at my home called stuff me for thanksgiving.

Other than the name, how is this different from a regular Thursday?

by Anonymousreply 27November 26, 2024 8:09 PM

R25, SAVORY!

by Anonymousreply 28November 26, 2024 8:27 PM

I am and loving it....I could go over friends but work has been extra vicious so I just want to stay home, be alone, watch movies, eat, drink and be merry.

And, some masturbation too...ho ho ho...

by Anonymousreply 29November 26, 2024 8:30 PM

R26 What does she do with the bedrooms?

by Anonymousreply 30November 26, 2024 8:42 PM

Sort of.

Though I will be with my husband, it's just the two of us after 22 years of either being at my family's or his.

It's our first Thanksgiving together on our own. We're going to Keens Steakhouse (nyc) then going up to The Townhouse to sing with other gin-soaked pathetic fags like ourselves.

We're going

by Anonymousreply 31November 26, 2024 9:22 PM

As of yesterday, yes. Thanksgiving in my family has officially been canceled. Most of the people who kept the family together are dead, now. No one has the energy to gather or cook. Myself included. We're too emotionally and physically exhausted to do anything for the holidays moving forward.

It's quite sad. My entire family is falling apart and and becoming more distant.

by Anonymousreply 32November 26, 2024 9:56 PM

Sad R32, but that's how it is in a lot of families.

Moms and Grandmas are usually what keeps the family together.

After they're gone, the kids go off on their separate ways, with their own families.

And if you don't have a family of your own, then you're shit out of luck.

by Anonymousreply 33November 26, 2024 10:01 PM

R32 Very true. My grandmother died last month. It sucks twice because she actually raised me. Neither my aunt or mom feel like doing anything this year.

We should. The clichéd, "She would want us together for the holidays and to keep gathering," conversation has been had. Everyone is just tired.

I think we need a hopeful and optimistic youngin' to snap us out of it like the kid in "Soul Food."

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by Anonymousreply 34November 26, 2024 10:10 PM

[quote] [R26] What does she do with the bedrooms?

R30, she and her husband share one of the BRs. One of the BRs is used an office, I think. The 3rd bedroom is for "projects."

I haven't been to her apartment in ages. She lives in a city and it's rare to get an apartment with three decent-sized bedrooms.

by Anonymousreply 35November 26, 2024 10:31 PM

Guest rooms are an outdated concept for most people, especially with the price of real estate today. People don’t want to pay extra for square footage that only gets used a few times a year. That’s what hotels are for.

by Anonymousreply 36November 26, 2024 10:37 PM

r27 This time I have cranberry-flavored lube.

by Anonymousreply 37November 27, 2024 3:08 AM

I was invited to a small gathering. All are vegans and recovering alcoholics/drug addicts.

by Anonymousreply 38November 27, 2024 3:11 AM

[quote] Guest rooms are an outdated concept for most people, especially with the price of real estate today. People don’t want to pay extra for square footage that only gets used a few times a year. That’s what hotels are for.

I'm not saying people should have dedicated "guest rooms." However, if I did have more than one bedroom (I live alone), I think I would have a bed or a convertible sofa in my 2nd room.

Just my modus operandi.

Also, my family acts quelle horreur about staying in hotels, yet they don't really make it easy to stay at their places.

by Anonymousreply 39November 27, 2024 3:17 AM

[quote] I'm not saying people should have dedicated "guest rooms." However, if I did have more than one bedroom (I live alone), I think I would have a bed or a convertible sofa in my 2nd room.

[quote] Just my modus operandi.

I'm the same way, R30.

Even an inflatable airbed would suffice for just a few nights.

It's the hospitable thing to do.

by Anonymousreply 40November 27, 2024 3:22 AM

I live alone and have more than 1 bedroom, and that room is an office/storage room. I'd love to set up a futon or daybed or something for my sister to sleep on when she stays over, instead of the sofa, but that hasn't happened. Maybe someday.

by Anonymousreply 41November 27, 2024 3:22 AM

[quote] Even an inflatable airbed would suffice

Does it have to be a bed because I’ve got something inflatable from my bedroom they can use if they want.

by Anonymousreply 42November 27, 2024 8:16 PM
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