FDR literally changed the rules for how to calculate the date of Thanksgiving (from "the last Thursday of November" to "the *fourth* Thursday of November") because it so happened that that year (1939) it would add an extra week of Christmas shopping and boost the economyhttps://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1329826132997320706 …
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I didn't realize how much I wanted more cohesion and drama between the holidays.
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We should turn boxing day into literally about boxing up old junk because we just got new junk from Christmas. This happens to be what my American brain has head cannoned since I first saw it on a calendar.
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What about the other Black Friday?
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*snrk*
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