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Truly be thankful, some of us have no where to go and no one to spend the holiday with. For those in the same boat as me , I feel for you, for everyone else, please have a good time.
-The Rev.
This may not mean much, but please know that someone out there will be thinking of you.
I don’t know your situation, or why you’re in this place in life right now, but I can sympathize and send good vibes in the hope that things change for you in the New Year.
It may be difficult to count your blessings when others seem to have so much, but please reflect on the good that you do have.
You may be falling, but hopefully you can still get up.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and thank you for this post - it’s a reminder to me to be really grateful that I have people to share my holiday with tomorrow.
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Reverend,
Falling or otherwise, I feel for you. I am 1200 mile from the people I want to be with. Some of my friends are over 7000 miles from where they want to be. I am not saying this to make you feel like you are less than special, I am saying this to tell you that you are where you are and you can choose to focus on where you would rather be, or find some happiness in where you are.
You have an internet connection, you have us Dopers. You have a phone? You have family at your fingertips. If you don’t, get a pair, get all dressed up and visit a Chinese buffet. (I think I started a Pit Thread about that last year.) Talk to some people that you barely know and ask for an invitation to dinner if you can’t eat alone.
If nothing else, and you are truly alone, remember that you can decide what you do on this day and make the most of it.
SSG Schwartz
Some of us strongly prefer to be left the hell alone at Thanksgiving. Hell, I look forward to it all year. Four glorious days when I don’t have to leave the house or deal with anybody if I don’t wanna. Net surfing, football watching, game playing, whiskey drinking fun.
Preach it, brother.
As another person who is unwillingly spending most of the day alone tomorrow, I can’t say that these comments bragging about how great it’ll be to be left the hell alone are terribly helpful or comforting. I mean, bully for you if you want to be a hermit, but then go start your own thread. Some of us actually enjoy the company of others.
To the OP, perhaps you and I won’t be the only ones checking in on the boards tomorrow. Maybe I’ll see you around. 
Eh, for all our good intentions, we ended up without guests or anyplace to go, either.
So bright and early tomorrow morning we’re going downtown to volunteer at a Mission to feed the homeless, then stick around and help with cleanup.
Stop wallowing in your own pity and go help someone even less fortunate than you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
If your main concern is that you would like company, why not volunteer at a soup kitchen or food bank?
Plenty of them do special Thanksgiving dinners, and plenty of them need volunteers to help set up, serve, clean up, and generally deal with the crowds. You’ll get to meet new people, while also helping out people in need.
Might be too late to find something this year, but it’s worth keeping in mind if the thought of spending Thanksgiving alone depresses you.
On preview: beaten to the punch by Shayna.
I wish all of you could come over to my house tomorrow. 
{{{Hugs to everyone}}}
I spent a Christmas alone once, and it was terribly depressing wallowing in my own self-pity. I agree with the advice to volunteer somewhere, or call the friends and family you’ll be missing tomorrow. As a last resort, buy a bottle of wine and show up at your neighbors’! OK, that might not go over well, but offer to bring something tasty to a friend or coworker’s dinner. It can’t hurt to ask.
And at least you have the Dope.
I’m looking across the room at a six year old who can’t keep anything down(she’s resting fitfully now). My wife is down the hall with a four year old in the same state. Our dishes we were going to take to my family’s Thanksgiving get-together are in the fridge(either prepared or in ingredient form) and it looks like we’re staying home tomorrow. In addition to feeling like crap, they’re going to be upset at missing the gathering. I know how they feel, I don’t think we’ve missed a Thanksgiving with my family in their lifetimes. We really only get together at Thanksgiving and Chrismas.
There’s the dryer, off to put another load of soiled sheets in. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Enjoy,
Steven
I routinely turn down invites. I’d rather be alone than with people I don’t really know on a mercy invitation. This year I’ll be working the ER hoping all the diabetics, congestive heart failure, renal failure and diverticulitis patients will have the willpower to stay on their diets 'till I go home.
I spent T/giving and C/mas in boot camp when I was 18, and the magic was forever broken, people can be magical*, but calender days not so much.
*they seem to be few and far between for me, but that’s no big deal.
I was about 22 years old, traveling though Europe and living in Munich that Thanksgiving. Staying at Haus International (a youth hostel of sorts) someone had stolen my money while I slept and when I woke up, all I had left was the pocket change in my jeans.
I had enough to buy a bowl of soup to eat that day.
It was actually pretty good soup, and I suddenly laughed out loud at my predicament and thought, “This is still better than having to sit and listen to right-wing, asshole Uncle Joe pontificate on politics at my grandmother’s traditional Thanksgiving dinner!”
Sometimes, hard times have a way to make you look at things in perspective…and I have always been very thankful every Thanksgiving since…so hopefully, you can still find a way to make the day special.
I hope The Falling Reverend is able-bodied & not house-bound or bed-ridden. If that’s the case- then dayum. CALL SOMEBODY, DAMMIT! Someone will come over!
And if you can get out & about, another recommendation to get out & volunteer.
Make the best of it that you can.
I spent two Thankgivings alone. The first time was ten years ago. I was planning on making dinner for the girl I was seeing and her brothers. She broke up with me the Monday before, Just after I got home from the supermarket with 50 pounds of groceries. The second was last year, when every friend I had was travelling out of state, just moved away, or refused to celebrate the holiday (damned Plymouth residents!).
In both cases, I decided not to let my situation interfere with my culinary experience. For once (twice?), I could cook everything just the way I wanted. No sausage in the stuffing, no cranberry sauce from a can, no greenbean casserole. I LOVE to cook T-day dinner, and I’m the only person I know who does it 100% right.
This year I’m spending the day mostly with complete strangers, and I have no idea what culinary abominations I might face. I think I might be staring down the barrel of an ambrosia salad, and I’ll have to pretend it’s not disgusting. And I have it on good authority that I’ll be caught in the middle of an ugly family dispute.
I’m a Canadian, we had our Thanksgiving last month. The last two Thanksgivings and Christmas’s have been very hard on me since my oldest son died. My other son is usually somewhere else in the world, this year he is in LA.
I have learned that it just doesn’t matter what I do or how I feel, the day is still going to happen. I have lost my love of Christmas, it was Jake’s favorite time. BUT, the days still happen, so I surround myself with friends and or family that love me, I call my other son and talk to him, I do whatever I need to do to get through the holidays.
Not everyone is having a Norman Rockwell day, but I do hope everyone has a good day.
Happy Thanksgiving Southern Neighbours, may your day be filled with love and laughter.
And food, lots and lots of food! 
Oh shit I forgot pie! Eat pie for me please! :smack:
Thanks, FarmerChick. And {{{HUGS}}} to you to help you get through this time of year.
If you want a guest for Thanksgiving, you can host a foreign student. My father is a retired professor and we were involved in the local international student center. They used to encourage local families to invite international students for the holiday.
Random, disjointed thoughts…
One year my wife (now ex-) and I heard the local military base had lots of soldiers away from home, so we took one in. And there are places like Salvation Army where you might volunteer. JMO but if you want to appreciate what you have, serve those who don’t have it.
Thinking back to last Thanksgiving, OMG what a drama (take one scorned and unstable woman, add three friends who don’t want to take sides, season liberally with vicious emails and here comes the old facial tic)!
Ah well, any day above ground is a good day, you know? Happy Bird Day to you all!