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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom proudly told me on Monday that she just finished cooking the turkey so she can re-heat it for us Thursday. :([/quote]

This right here is the kind of wacky I love finding buried in these threads among the house too cold/too hot, garbage police, and nobody is allowed to eat posts![/quote]

I’ve been haunted by wondering where the cooked turkey is stored. [/quote]

On the patio! It's cool enough. I mean people are whining and wearing sweaters INDOORS so it's definitely cool enough for a turkey outdoors. Logic. [/quote]

Are you in the Midwest? When we used to go to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, my mom would cook all this food a week or so in advance and then leave it in the garage if there wasn’t room in the fridge (and they had two huge refrigerators and a deep freeze….). I don’t think the garage was ever under 40 degrees. When the kids were little, we’d buy our own groceries and cook for them under the guise that they were too picky and needed their own food. We stopped going there for holidays around 7-8 years ago because the old food, cold house, uncomfortable beds, weird rules, etc got to be too much.

My dad has now passed away and my mom is in a small apartment. I was feeling sad that we didn’t have big family travel plans this year and wouldn’t all be together in their big house, but this thread is reminding me of how much we hated going to my parents’ for Thanksgiving! It was never the cozy Hallmark Thanksgiving that I’m picturing in my head—it was the Griswolds. [/quote]

"We stopped going there for holidays around 7-8 years ago because the old food, cold house, uncomfortable beds, weird rules, etc got to be too much."

Hey you guys maybe this is it?! Maybe this is the plan? They don't WANT company so this is how they prevent it with all these "rules." [/quote]

I’m PP, and you just blew my mind. They never were sad that we stopped coming out for Thanksgiving!! Come to think of it, I do think they preferred going to dinner at their country club with friends over spending time with their kids and grandkids. In fact, that’s what my mom is doing tomorrow and she is so excited to dress up and go out with her “buddies.” Never once asked if we might consider coming out to see her. [/quote]

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