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November 23 - Day After Thanksgiving

Posted on November 23, 2018

(Friday after Thanksgiving)

In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is often celebrated by family get-togethers and feasting. 


So...the NEXT day...this day-off-of-school /  work should be a day of rest, right? A time to eat left-overs and recover from all the cooking and eating and cleaning the day before. 

But there are a TON of "holidays" that fall on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Here are some choices:

You're Welcoming Day: a day to remind us to say "you're welcome" or similar words to any and all who thank us. Here are some variants:

No problem.
Any time.
That's okay!
Don't mention it.
No worries.
It's nothing.
With pleasure.
It's my pleasure.
Anything for you!
Happy to help.
Black Friday: a day when many brave crowded stores and

long lines in order to score great deals on Christmas gifts.


Buy Nothing Day: a day of protest against the consumer orientation of Christmas and, really, society in general. So no grocery store, no Christmas shopping, no buying anything at all. (In some countries, Buy Nothing Day is celebrated on the last Saturday in November.)


Sinkie Day (or The Sink Day): some people - apparently - eat Thanksgiving leftovers over the sink. Ummm...I don't recommend this!


Flossing Day: flossing is of course important EVERY day, but this is a day to learn the hows and whys of flossing.



Fur-Free Friday


National Day of Listening: launched by StoryCorps, a non-profit organization. The goal of StoryCorps is to have Americans of all beliefs and backgrounds record, preserve, and share the stories of their lives. Here is a DIY guide to participating.



National Native American Heritage Day






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November 28 – Cider Monday

Posted on November 28, 2016


First there was “Black Friday” - the semi-official start of the Christmas shopping season in the United Sates, a day when stores open ridiculously early and shoppers line up even more ridiculously early for bargains and sales and even a wee bit of hysteria.

Black Friday is traditionally (since the early 1930s) the Friday after the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving.

Then there was Cyber Monday – held the Monday after Thanksgiving – a marketing scheme to get people to shop for Christmas gifts online. Once again, it's seen as a day to get great prices (if you're a shopper) and loads of sales (if you're selling stuff).

Cyber Monday made its debut in 2005.

Now there's Cider Monday. Also on the Monday after Thanksgiving, Cider Monday is a chance to step away from our computers and maybe even from bargain hunting – a chance to slow down and warm up – a chance to support the arts and local businesses.

Specifically, we are urged to go to independent book sellers – actual bookstores with walls and shelves of books to handle and leaf through and read the back covers. Some bookstores are offering free hot cider – and if you're lucky enough to be sipping the warm, fruity/spicy stuff, hopefully you'll take the time to scan the shelves for the next great book to read!

Apple cider is a kind of apple juice – the really yummy kind! It's unfiltered, unsweetened, and often heated and mulled. To be mulled is to be heated with slices of orange and lemon, and with spices such as nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger.




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November 25, 2011 - Evacuation Day



Celebrate the end of the Revolutionary War! The last troops of British “Redcoats” left America on this day in 1783, boarding a fleet of ships and sailing away. The last shot of the war, a cannonball shot from the departing ships at the jeering crowds, fell well short of the shore.

The British flag still flew in Battery Park, at the southern tip of Manhattan, as it was nailed to the top of a greased flagpole. Several men tried to tear down the flag, called the Union Jack, but could not reach it; so people cut and nailed wooden cleats to the pole, and a veteran named John Van Arsdale used a ladder to get to the top of the pole, remove the flag, and replace it with the American Stars and Stripes. He managed to do this while the British fleet was still in sight!

With the American flag flying, the signal was given to George Washington that Manhattan was ready for the victory march, and Washington led the Continental Army down Broadway to the Battery.


For more than a century, this event was celebrated by a reenactment – with a competition to see who could get up the greased pole to tear down the Union Jack! However, once Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln, Evacuation Day subsided in importance.


Since it is the day after Thanksgiving, today is also...

You're Welcoming Day
             A day to say “you're welcome” to all the people who thanked you the day before...

Black Friday
             A day to spend money while trying to save money, buying gifts at the store...


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