Will any of you be spending Thanksgiving alone this year?

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

I need extra chairs.

Whaddya mean?? We all will

I am

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.

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

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.

^ alcohol creating problems

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

Yes, I ordered food from Bristol Farms.

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.

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.

[quote] A TG in bed

TG?

R17 Thanksgiving

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.

Lol R1.

You're terrible.

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..

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?"

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.

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.

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

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.

[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?

R25, SAVORY!

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...

R26 What does she do with the bedrooms?

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

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.

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.

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."

[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.

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.

r27 This time I have cranberry-flavored lube.

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

[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.

[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.

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.

[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.