Reply #18: I think family's use it now, as a tool, to torture the rest of the family!

[Breeze54]

I mean that! And it's all subliminal and a lot of times out right hostile! It's always now about who's house will you go to and who will host it this year and who's invited first and who's not invited at all or overlooked and that in itself becomes a tool for sibling rivalry and that adds to the one-up-man-ship between family members and the constant competition of who gets Ma & Pa the better gift or everyone the better gift and it goes on and on and on.... and that's how, imho, it's not a celebration of thanks or the harvest anymore. It's deteriorated into a competition.

But I've had a couple of rum & cokes tonight too! :P