Not only is it much more festive to use your favorite plates, silverware, napkins and tablecloths, it also means that less waste ends up in the landfill. Don't forget to recycle as much as you can when cleaning up over the long weekend, including glass, aluminum and plastic beverage containers, as well as tinfoil used in cooking. Consider donating your leftovers to a shelter for those less fortunate. Don't forget to add Thanksgiving food scraps to your compost pile. If you do not have a compost pile, now is as good a time as any to get started.
Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.
If you take the car, carpooling is the best way to go, and a good way to spend time with family and friends. A Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison. Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger. Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.