Roving Reporter: Thanksgiving 2021

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? “Yes, I am participating in Black Friday. My friend and I are going to the Natick Mall for 7 hours.”

What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions? “I go over to my cousin’s house, and it’s a time when we get to spend time with family, and I enjoy that.”

What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions? “Seeing all of my family. Most of them live far away and they're all coming.”

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? “Yes, I plan on going to get people gifts for Christmas on the Cape, as well as maybe some stuff for myself as well.”

What are you thankful for this year? ¨I'm thankful for the house that I live in.¨

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? “Definitely not. I have long transitioned to doing all my shopping online. I’m all for getting a great deal, but I don’t like going to stores much anyway.”

What are you looking forward to doing this Thanksgiving weekend that you weren’t able to do last year due to COVID restrictions? “It’s honestly going to be very similar to last year. It’s just going to be a small get-together with family, which is what we did last year. We don’t really like big get-togethers because it’s a lot of cooking and cleaning, and we want to enjoy our vacation...

What are you thankful for this year? “Good health and good food. I’m not sick and I’m not in the hospital.”

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? “Probably not because I basically have everything I could want or need right now and I don’t feel like getting up super early in the morning to drag myself to superstores and spend a bunch of money on stuff I probably don’t need.”

What are you thankful for this year? “I’m thankful that I have such a great group of friends and family that I can spend time with. I’m also thankful that everyone has been staying safe and healthy during COVID.”

What are you thankful for this year? “Going to college, applying to various places and having more free time due to not [figure] skating anymore. I was a figure skater on the Polish national team, so I didn’t have much time for anything else.”

What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions? “My family always goes down to my grandparents’ house and watches the [Macy’s] Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the afternoon, after we eat, we go to see Christmas lights at a church.”

What are you looking forward to doing this Thanksgiving weekend that you weren’t able to do last year due to COVID restrictions? “I can see my grammy this year. I couldn’t see her last year.”

What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions? "I get to do all of the deserts. I just keep experimenting with new ones every year. Some of them make my family gag, but sometimes they're like ‘Oh yes, make that one again!'"

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? “I won’t be participating in Black Friday, but maybe Cyber Monday if I’m feeling up to it. Honestly, I think all of these sales are a scam and just a way to get people to buy things that they don’t need.”  

What are you thankful for this year? “I am thankful that this is the first Thanksgiving I have been fully vaccinated, and we are back in person five days a week. Everything seems to be normal again.”

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? “Yes I will, to get ahead of my Christmas shopping for my family and friends.”

What are you thankful for this year? “This year in particular, I’m thankful for my friends and the fact that I can start doing normal things with them after two years of not being able to see them in person. Also, my sister because we’ve gotten really close over the last year.”

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? "No, I don’t do Black Friday, and I never go out to do Black Friday. For me, it’s a time when the family just does things together and relax. But I do start preparing for Christmas on Black Friday. So instead of going out shopping, I pull out all of my Christmas stuff and try to unpac...

Will you be participating in Black Friday this year? Why or why not? If yes what’s your Black Friday plan? “Black Friday is really 'unfun', and I don’t like the idea of people going back to their primal instincts for a crappy TV.”