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14 healthier ways to spend Black Friday.

For most of my life, Thanksgiving was spared the overt commercialization of the other holidays.

Christmas has the gifts, Halloween, the candy and costumes Valentine's, the chocolates, roses, jewelry,

and guilt. Perfect avenues for commercial interests. But Thanksgiving genuinely felt different,

as if it was only about getting together with friends and relatives over a crispy-skinned

bird and offering gratitude for what we had and who was still with us.

These days, commercialization has crashed the party. You've got Black Friday, then Small Business

Saturday, then Cyber Monday, giving Tuesday I can get behind. The Black Friday deals on Amazon started

going last week and should continue till well past the holiday.

I get it, that's how the business world works.

People have the day off.

They're up early enough to start shopping right away,

since tucking away 4,000 calories in a single sitting the night before,

probably put them to bed by nine.

Most importantly, people are jonesing for some ritual to commemorate the passing of another holiday.

Sacrificing one's sleep, free time, and money to the commerce god Bogos seemingly does the trick,

especially if you get a killer deal and everyone else is doing it.

You get swept up in the moment, the power of the crowd, the knowledge that in every town across

this great

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