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An acquaintance of ours returned from a missionary trip to Tanzania recently. As these cross-cultural encounters go, each side had plenty to share with the other about their lives. Toward the end the trip, she asked one of the locals what stood out from everything the Americans related. It was that there are people on this earth who actually spend money to walk. (He was referring to Americans either buying treadmills or paying gym memberships to walk on them.) They (everyday folk in Tanzania) have no choice but to walk miles every day, and they simply have a hard time imagining walking as a luxury for which one would pay serious money.

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One of the major themes of Thanksgiving is gratitude. Ideally, we would show our thanks for the important (and the not so important) things in life every day of the year, but it can sometimes be left on the wayside when life gets busy or difficult.

Most of the questions I get from readers about their finances have some things in common.

They’re at a crossroads of some kind. Whether it’s triggered by a major life change or not, they have a sense that their current direction in life isn’t perfect for where they think they want to be going.

They have some idea of where they want to go in the future, but it’s often cloudy and unspecific. There is a vague vision of “retirement” or “getting out of debt,” but they don’t really have any specifics about what that will mean.

The path between their current place and that destination is completely unclear. They know the specifics of where they’re at, but they don’t have any real idea how to move from where they are currently at to that vague goal of where they want to go.

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Love it or hate it, Black Friday ain’t what it used to be.

Time was, you’d gather with friends and family on Thanksgiving to over-indulge in food and football. The next day, off from work, you might go buy a Christmas tree and then head to the mall to start your holiday shopping. Pretty simple, really.

Soon enough, stores caught onto the fact that everyone was out shopping the day after Thanksgiving. They began opening as early as 6 a.m. for the savvy shoppers and hardcore bargain hunters looking to pick up an entire season’s worth of gifts in one day, most at a good discount.

This is a guest post from former GRS staff writer Donna Freedman.

Want to start a fight? Announce that you’ll be shopping on Thanksgiving Day.

A whole bunch of folks will likely sigh and mourn the once-was-sacred Thanksgiving dinner with family. Why, they’ll ask, would anyone want to shop on this day? Why would anyone force retail clerks into manning their posts even though they’d rather be home melting marshmallows atop sweet-potato casseroles?

One such pearl-clutcher, hearing that Macy’s would open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, suggested to a Chicago-area newspaper that an obituary was needed. “I think this death needs to be acknowledged,” she said. “It is the death of Thanksgiving.”

Wow.

Hyperbole aside, she does have a point: Not everyone is excited about the idea of working on turkey day. (Some are, though. A relative of mine who works in retail is desperate for all the hours she can get.)