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Day 18 NaBloPoMo at yeah write guest blogger: Mackenzie Stephens

Dear Target,

You know I love you. I’ve proven it by the amount of hours I spend a month with you and the amount of money I spend on things I don’t need while browsing your familiar, brightly lit aisles. You’re great. You know it. If you didn’t exist, I’d have to shop at Wal-Mart. Thank you for existing so that I don’t have to shop at Wal-Mart.

That being said, why do you have to start your Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day? Worse yet, why do you have to start them at 8 p.m.? That’s encroaching on dinner time. That’s Thanksgiving dinner time, when people should be sitting down with their loved ones, digging in to turkey and mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. At Thanksgiving dinner people should be laughing and sharing stories and basking in the joy of spending a holiday with people who are precious to them. I get it, we live in a consumer-driven, materialistic society. We love our sales and our big box retailers and if we can get something at 60% off, we’re deliriously happy. That’s the way we are, but you don’t need to encourage it, do you?

I work in a hotel and I understand that working holidays is a reality. It’s a sad one, if you ask me. Maybe I’m displaying a pathetic amount of naiveté here, but everyone should be able to spend holidays with their families. This is the second Thanksgiving I won’t be able to spend with mine, and maybe it’s because this is such a new thing to me, but it hurts. I’d give anything to go home and spend Thanksgiving at my grandpa’s ranch like I’m used to doing. There’s coffee and pumpkin pie, and so much love and happiness it nearly makes my heart burst just thinking about it. Does that resonate with you at all?

We have a finite number of Thanksgivings to spend with our parents, grandparents, brothers, cousins. . . Let us have them. Your sales can wait a day. Your earnings will still be astronomic. Your people will be happier.

Let us have one day to remember to be thankful for what and who we have in our lives. It gets harder every year. Won’t you make it a little easier?

Sincerely,

A consumer.

(and girl with a family)

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Badges are ready for yeah write #136 challenge grid opening on Tuesday. We are so excited about the new visitors because of NaBloPoMo, and we invite you to take a look around at our other challenges. 

The challenge grid is for personal essays or traditional blog anecdotes following our submission guidelines.

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