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GET INVOLVED MAKE DINNER Would you like to be featured in the next publication of Stronger ON A BUDGET Together? We’re looking for hidden gems such as... Eat well & spend less! By making some simple changes to your Thanksgiving preparation, you can save time & money & spend more time enjoying this holiday. ∙ Photos ∙ Recipes There’s only one week left before Seek Out Specials ∙ Craft/DIY Ideas Thanksgiving so let’s take a quick Look for store coupons and weekly ∙ Poems/Essays rundown of simple ways to plan a specials, especially during the ∙ Art Work that won’t blow holidays when retailers are trying to ∙ Trivia up your budget. These money-saving attract you into the stores. tips will help you keep costs down. If you think your ideas should be Choose Generic Brands featured, submit your content to: Buy Store-Brand Frozen Turkey Generic brands are less expensive [email protected] Turkey is usually about 40 percent of but just as good as big-name brands. the cost of the meal. Save money by Due to the upcoming holiday, buying a store-brand frozen turkey Shop Early the next publication of Stronger (with a coupon) instead of a fresh Buy canned sauce and Together will be Friday, Dec. 4th. bird. Be sure to allow enough time to filling and other canned thaw the bird: one day in the fridge goods the week before Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving! for every five pounds. when they typically are on sale. Keep It Simple Buy Some Frozen Foods Stick to recipes that use everyday Like canned goods, frozen ingredients you’d normally keep in ingredients can cost a lot less than your pantry. fresh.

As we express our Go Big Stick to the List gratitude, we must never forget that the Potatoes are cheaper by the bag Go to the store with a shopping list highest appreciation and they last for quite awhile. Same and stick to your list. Impulse buys is not to utter words, thing goes for buying butter, eggs, add up quickly. but to live by them. , and flour. Split the packages ~ John F. Kennedy with friends and you’re sharing the Share the Cost savings. Thanksgiving potlucks are a great way to share the big feast (and the Buy in Bulk cost) with family and friends. It’s a Herbs are cheaper if you buy in bulk win-win all the way around. bins where you can purchase only the small amounts you need. November 27th is Stay , the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year and the official start of the holiday season! The first ACTIVE recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash THANKSGIVING of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. SCAVENGER HUNT

The most commonly repeated, though inaccurate, story about the origins of Black Friday is that retailers, after operating at a loss (“in the red”), stores would supposedly earn a profit (“went into the black”) on the day after Thanksgiving.

The true story behind Black Friday dates to the 1950s, in Philadelphia, when this term was used to describe the chaos Scavenger hunts are great ways to get your kids and that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving, when hordes of adults of any age up and moving. To run a lightning shoppers, tourists, and fans flock there for the next day’s scavenger hunt, give players clues one at a time and Army-Navy game. This also meant that Black Friday was a award points to the first person that produces the haven for shoplifters as well as a crowd-controlling nightmare for the Philadelphia police. By 1961, Black Friday caught on in prompted object or action. Philadelphia when retailers turned a negative into a positive by ∙ Close your eyes and spell “” way of reinvention. The term Black Friday wasn’t in common ∙ Grab a can of use nationwide until 1985. ∙ Name 5 Native American Tribes ∙ Gobble like a turkey Venus de Milo Soup ∙ Hold up a thank you card Courtesy of Jennie Thomas, resident at The Fairways at LeBaron Hills. ∙ Find a football ∙ 1.5 lbs lean ground ∙ Show off a ship beef ∙ Share one thing you are grateful for ∙ 2 cans Hunts traditional spaghetti sauce ∙ 1 can Campbell’s beef consomme Relaxing Exercises to ∙ 4 cans of Veg-all ∙ 1 envelope Lipton Release Tension #2 Onion Soup Mix This is a relaxing exercise to reduce total-body ∙ 2 envelopes of Sazon tension and calm our worried minds. Goya Con Azafran ∙ 1 lb box of Orzo pasta Cat-Cow 1. Start on all fours with your shoulders over your ∙ Brown and drain ground beef & put meat in large wrists and hips over knees. stockpot. 2. Take a slow inhale, and on the exhale round your ∙ Over medium high heat, add spaghetti sauce, beef spine and drop your head toward the floor (this is consomme, onion soup mix & Sazon seasoning. the Cat posture). ∙ Add liquid only from the Veg-all. 3. Inhale and lift your head, chest, and tailbone ∙ Fill all the cans with water, twice for the spaghetti sauce toward the ceiling as you arch your back for Cow. cans, and add to the pot. ∙ Bring to a boil & add as much of the uncooked Orzo as 4. That’s 1 rep. Continue performing reps for 30 to 60 desired. seconds. You should feel a stretch in your spine and possibly your glutes and shoulders as well. ∙ When Orzo is done, add the Veg-all. Stir & turn off heat. ∙ Adjust broth with water to the consistency you prefer. To round your spine even more in cat position, press ∙ Enjoy. into the floor with your hands and knees.

Peabody Properties | Peabody Resident Services | Peabody Real Estate | Peabody Miami Thanksgiving Trivia Glitter 1. What meats were served at the first Thanksgiving Snowflake celebration? 2. Who was the first Hang then on President to pardon a your tree or as turkey? embellishments on 3. Which President made your gifts! turkey pardoning an annual event? What you’ll need: 4. How many calories on average are consumed, per person, at Thanksgiving dinner? ∙ White paint 5. How much did the world’s most expensive Thanksgiving ∙ 8 regular size clothespins dinner on record cost? (each snowflake) 6. When was the first Thanksgiving NFL game? ∙ 8 mini clothespins (each 7. Which President made Thanksgiving a permanent national snowflake) holiday? ∙ Tacky glue 8. What Native American tribe celebrated the first ∙ Glitter glue Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims? ∙ Crystal course glitter 9. Which Native American friend to the settlers acted as an 1. Disassemble the clothespins interpreter? (it will take 8 regular and 8 mini clothespins to make 10. How many turkeys and pumpkin pies are consumes on one double snowflake). Thanksgiving in America each year? 2. Glue clothespins together and allow to dry for 11. Statistically, what is Americans’ favorite Thanksgiving side about an hour. dish? 3. Once dried, give them a quick coat of white paint. 12. What percent of Americans skip turkey on Thanksgiving? Spray paint or acrylic paint works fine. Paint only the 13. What happens at Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts top. every Thanksgiving? 4. Once dried, brush on a thin coating of glue and 14. Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for what trade sprinkle top with glitter. profession? 5. When glue has dried, glue the small snowflake to 15. What turkeys actually gobble? the top of large snowflake or leave them separate if 16. What city has the oldest Thanksgiving Day Parade? preferred. 17. Which city’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ends with getting a key to the city? 18. What 18-minute monologue is performed on many rock Holiday Shipping Deadlines and classic rock stations every Thanksgiving? 19. On average, how many people attend the Macy’s for USPS, FedEx and UPS Thanksgiving Day Parade each year? And how many people Here’s a guide of when to mail your participate in it? gifts and cards to arrive in time for the 20. Black Friday isn’t the only holiday the day after holidays! This is for expected delivery Thanksgiving. What’s the other? before December 25th but please 21. What popular song’s real title is “The Boy’s check with each mailing center Song About Thanksgiving Day”? prior to shipping since there are many 22. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, how shipping options to choose from! much does the heaviest turkey on record weigh? 23. What meat is the most popular alternative to turkey on USPS. December 15th - 23rd.

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We put the HOME in housing. VIRTUAL THANKSGIVING IDEAS If you’re at a loss on what to do on Automobiles? The Steve Martin Turkey Day, here are ideas for some and John classic that inspiration. centers around getting home for Thanksgiving. Send invitations. Whether it’s a that’s cute e-card or a sweet piece of snail Share a Workshop. Have a signature been the mail, drive the point home that dish? Know how to bake the perfect year so far. despite being physically apart, it’s still ? How to perfectly cook special that everyone is gathering for a turkey over a fire? Share your Make Thanksgiving. expertise. Or even hire a professional gratitude to teach you all something new. If your jars. Start a new Have a video dinner party. It will be Thanksgiving attendees will be adults, tradition (if you easiest for everyone (and save table hire a bartender to host a virtual haven’t already): Get space!) to have just one gadget at play mixology workshop. a large jar, box, basket or per location. other container, and every Educate yourselves on Native day, write a note of what you’re Share a Thanksgiving playlist. Give American history. Thanksgiving grateful for and put it in. Next everyone the same musical vibe celebrates the pilgrims teaming up Thanksgiving, read through them! by sharing a Thanksgiving-themed with Native Americans, but we usually playlist. learn more about the pilgrims than Take virtual family photos. A virtual about the people who saved them. photo booth (like Snapbar) lets you Set a dress code. Set a dress code Check out some great resources on customize your photos to make them for your virtual Thanksgiving to get Native American contributions to as sweet and silly as you want. everyone in on the theme and make it history. Or take a virtual field trip to feel extra special. You can even make the first Thanksgiving celebration. A Family History. What better time it a pajama party! great teaching tool for kids, Scholastic than Thanksgiving to look into your will take you on a virtual tour to Get your board game on. Many family’s roots? As a way of giving see how the pilgrims and Native gratitude to your ancestors, learn classic board games, including Americans lived. Scrabble, Clue and Catan, have mobile more about them. Surprise your virtual Thanksgiving guests with insight apps so you can play together even if Make signature cocktails together. from Ancestry.com, or ask your eldest you’re not at the same table. We can all use a drink in 2020, right? relatives to share memories and Send out a recipe for a Thanksgiving- stories of their eldest family members. Have a virtual holiday movie night. themed cocktail and mix them up How about Planes, Trains, and together, then toast to the insanity

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