Poll: What is your Thanksgiving like?

Cory's Wife · November 2011

Dressing up and fine china?

Football and paper plates?

Somewhere in between?

naylon511 · November 2011

@ My Moms: more on the dressy / good china side of things. Plus, my Mom loves to cook and is really good at it (as is my BIL) so it's always a feast.

@ ILs (where we normally go, boo!) it's more casual and MIL is not a cook so it's normally ham (what?!?! I know, don't even) and stove top stuffing (which I do actually like better than my Mom's from-scratch-in-the-bird sausage stuffing, lol).

JNicMTek · November 2011

This is the first year I've done it, so it's somewhere in between.

I refuse to use paper plates since the holiday is about the meal. If I had fine china for 16-20 people, I'd use that, but since we only have one set of dishes, I bought nice plastic plates that I will try to keep to reuse for future holiday fun. We will have football on and I plan on wearing jeans but a nicer than a hoodie top.

MrsL628 · November 2011

@ My parents: more casual and laid back - macy's day parade & football on in the background & great food (all of my favorites)

@ ILs: more dressy, with good china. decent food but not my mom's. they have a bunch of traditions though that kill me..... no parade or football on whatsoever (no tv period), and after dinner the guys go watch a "guy movie" in one room while the women watch a "chick flick" elsewhere in the house. then everyone (all 15 of us) sleep over and then wake up & the guys are supposed to go out & chop wood & then go to the shooting range together, while the women stay inside & make pierogies to freeze for Christmas Eve. So different from what I grew up with!

JNicMTek · November 2011

MrsL628:

while the women stay inside & make pierogies to freeze for Christmas Eve. So different from what I grew up with!

My H would LOVE this! He's been dying for his grandmother's pierogies lately. Unfortunately for him she lives in FL, so we won't be seeing her for a while.

Cory's Wife · November 2011

We go to 4 places on Thanksgiving to visit different sides of our broken families. It varies from sweatpants and paper plates on the couch to casual clothes and sitting at the table. At my grandma's we spread newspapers all over the living room floor and make our plan of attack for black Friday. It's my favorite part.

JusLyn678 · November 2011

We usually have 2-4 places to go on Thanksgiving. They all tend to be in between super casual and super dressy/fancy. All of our family is big into football so it's always on no matter where we go. We usually all dress fairly casual (jeans, some people wear sweatshirts, etc). It's definitely a very relaxed feel everywhere we go and I love that.

trickeytricky · November 2011

Somewhere in between.

It's buffet style with real plates, but finding a seat is the issue, I wouldn't be surprised to see people sitting in the bathtub.

MrsL628 · November 2011

JNicMTek:
MrsL628:

while the women stay inside & make pierogies to freeze for Christmas Eve. So different from what I grew up with!

My H would LOVE this! He's been dying for his grandmother's pierogies lately. Unfortunately for him she lives in FL, so we won't be seeing her for a while.

I'd send some your way if I could! It is the one thing that I love... both DH & I grew up in families with eastern European heritage so we both grew up with pierogies on Christmas Eve It's just all of the separate women/men activities that drive me nuts by the end of the weekend!

morrigan08 · November 2011

@ my parents - fine china, fine crystal, centerpieces, homemade everything. Everyone dresses up (at least in clean fresh clothing and looks nice). Usually eat around 4pm. The parade is on in the AM. Some food on the table, but most on the buffet / in the kitchen. Wine they specifically bought for Thanksgiving

@ in laws - a mix of disposable plastic or regular plates. All food on plates passed around / on tables. Lots of homemade foods that everyone brings. Rarely alcohol served. Food is served around 2. People where whatever. I force DH and I to dress up

Loveofjoe11 · November 2011

Somewhere in between. It's buffet style and served on a hodge podge of my fun dishes I use for food photography. I don't like eating things with gravy on paper plates, so we'll use our normal everyday ceramic dishes.

613marriedlady · November 2011

Somewhere in between? I like to dress up a little, comfy dressy But we still use paper plates.

EmmaBrooke · November 2011

Whether it's with my family or with DH's family, it's always somewhere in between. There's always a lot of mingling and hanging out, and there's usually a tv on somewhere with football on, but then we all sit down to a family dinner. The IL's use paper/plastic plates & logn banquet tables because there are usually 25+ people there, but the family-style dinner vibe is still the same.

Casperdy · November 2011

Going to ILs. Casual (jeans and sweater), buffet style, but real plates. Crowded though. Their house is not set up to host at all.

mrs.dilligaf · November 2011

I'd say dress is business casual. We do the in laws on thanksgiving, and everyone dresses for the family picture. I always end up on the end in the pic, and the angle makes me look even fatter. This is 35 people. It is a yearly pic, I've been in 5. The only one I'm not on the end for is the one from my wedding. My mom has hers Friday. It's casual, but fancy dishes. That's the one we go to for good eats.

star678 · November 2011

We do use real plates and have candles and prayer and all that for dinner, but the rest of the day is just fun. During dinner, we wear sweaters and button downs and such, but the joke is that we are all wearing pajama pants and the sweaters are just for the pictures!

Beth&Derek · November 2011

Somewhere in between. My aunt always takes out my grandmother's dishes that she inherited (not fine china, just the "holiday only" dishes), but we definitely don't dress up.

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