Quote Originally Posted by Ax01 View Post
it's a millennials thing. alotta broke young peeps can't afford to travel home for Thanksgiving, so we sometimes throw our own dinner party w/ the other friends staying behind in town. i used to do this often when i lived in California. i would only usually be able to afford to buy plane tickets to visit either Thanksgiving or Christmas, not both.

OK, but I did this too when I was in college (Ohio State, early 80's) and we still called it Thanksgiving. So that is what is lost on me as it is still Thanksgiving day.