# Thanksgiving.........how many at your table **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558 "2015-11-25T16:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/1 "2015-11-25T16:00:34Z")
Happy Thanksgiving everyone !!! Back to the family homestead, last count was 32. Stragglers or friends of family always appear so will be 1 or so more I suspect will be there. How about you all ? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/2 "2015-11-25T16:03:06Z")
32??? Holy cats. Will be 14 at ours, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/3 "2015-11-25T16:11:04Z")
Two. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/4 "2015-11-25T16:14:17Z")
This year, it’ll just be the 2 of us, not counting the critters. We just didn’t feel like spending 5 hours on the road to be with the same family gathering we were in 2 weeks ago. So spousal unit and I will chill at home and have an ordinary meal while enjoying a day off. My mom said she expects about 20 folks to show up at her place, so we would have made 22. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/5 "2015-11-25T16:18:22Z")
We’re going to my grandma’s tomorrow, then cooking for a different group the next day. At both dinners, less than ten are expected. Crazy Uncle is visiting some other branch of the family this year, woot! ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/6 "2015-11-25T16:19:29Z")
Three. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/7 "2015-11-25T16:30:46Z")
Going to my cousin’s and it looks like we’ll have 13 this year. That can’t be good. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/8 "2015-11-25T16:45:01Z")
1. Me, wife, 2 kids, my mom and step dad. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/9 "2015-11-25T16:50:14Z")
Six for me, too - four nuclear family members, two friends. > [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Going to my cousin’s and it looks like we’ll have 13 this year. That can’t be good. :eek: Just make sure you don’t arrive last. Enjoy those bread rolls! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/10 "2015-11-25T17:03:11Z")
Two of us and the cat and dog. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/11 "2015-11-25T17:14:22Z")
I am at my niece’s tomorrow, and she said fifteen ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/12 "2015-11-25T18:07:28Z")
Two. Or more likely one, since we never eat at the same time anyway. Very free-form around here. If we were doing the family thing - 15? or 17 if everybody shows up. However, if I go another family member won’t, and if she goes I won’t - so back down to 15. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/13 "2015-11-25T18:09:16Z")
One ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/14 "2015-11-25T18:18:04Z")
Zero (I never eat at the table). I moved out of state from family and I couldn’t be happier about my four day weekend unencumbered by cooking, cleaning and family. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/15 "2015-11-25T18:21:00Z")
24 at my sisters, but we all get along so it’s a low stress 24 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/16 "2015-11-25T19:24:24Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > One [Turkey TV Dinner?](http://amarkedman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/TV-Dinner.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/17 "2015-11-25T19:39:46Z")
Last year there were over 100. But it isn’t my table. It is a pot luck turkey celebration. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/18 "2015-11-25T19:41:44Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > One Well, Annie, you can come and join us. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/19 "2015-11-25T19:47:04Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > Zero (I never eat at the table). I moved out of state from family and I couldn’t be happier about my four day weekend unencumbered by cooking, cleaning and family. 😃 This. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558/20 "2015-11-25T19:52:22Z")
I think nine this year, and technically not at my table, I’ll be at a relative’s. Maybe two more to bring it up to eleven. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Thanksgiving with more than a dozen people. Growing up, it was typically just five or six of us. Many years, it’s been just my wife and I. We often throw out an invite to people we know and we’ll pick up a few stragglers who don’t have family commitments. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558.md?page=2)