How Is Your Life Different Since Thanksgiving 2019?

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

For us, we are staying closer to home, picking up groceries (which I actually love now), eating better since we aren't eating out all the time, and more quiet time.

Being older, our crowd has aged and we don't have the people we always had dinner out with. We haven't taken long road trips, and health issues have cropped up as well. And also dealing with increasing prices is a factor.

We hardly ever have the television on, we read more and we exercise less. Only spam and appointment reminders ring the phone.

Life is slower, better in many ways, and drastically different in three short years.

Meowingkitty · ‎06-19-2010

Nothing has changed. We are doing the same stuff as before. Pandemic or no pandemic it never stopped us from going out and doing what we wanted to do.

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

Thanksgiving was always my favorite holiday. It was the one holiday that all our extended families were together.

However, Thanksgiving is now a little difficult. Mom died on Thanksgiving 5 years ago. I miss her so much.

We are all thrilled to have Dad with us, soon to be 91 and still living in his home. I want to be like him if I make it that long.

Jordan2 · ‎03-16-2010

My mother died January 2020, she was in a rehab center during Thanksgiving 2019. We were so close, my life hasn't been the same since she passed.

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

Pretty much the same for me. Still do all the same things. I'm pretty much a homebody, but even during the shutdown we went out to places that were open like Home Depot/Lowes, the grocery store, etc. We did pickup at our local restaurants and started dining inside as soon as they opened up to do so. Was back in church as soon as it opened back up for worship. Still did our yearly ski trip and have one booked for 2023. Our Thanksgiving and Christmas was the same throughout.

Probably the biggest change for me is I'm trying to learn how to shop online for clothing, but that's only because the stores I normally shopped at just don't have merchandise I want. But, that also seems to be the case at a lot of online retailers too. Oversized and slouchy seems to be everywhere. Sizing is such an issue for me and I hate returning things even when it's easy to do so.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

OMG---for me---a 360* change!!! 2019 seems like eons ago---went thru a major house repair after a tree fell on and destroyed the 2nd story of my house at the end of 2018--and I was in the room where the tree hit and should have died as it fell within inches of where I was standing----so there was a year of repair and moving in and out of rentals---then the pandemic hit and then, my now ex-spouse decided he was done with our marriage of 47 years and I went thru a year and 1/2 of that nonsense-- all of 2021 and into 2022-- Sold my house because of divorce, and moved into an apt with my DD in 2021---and THEN....the real kick in the teeth--I tripped and fell, broke my ankle this past Oct and am in a wheelchair for now!!! What I am being punished for----I don't know!!!

vermint · ‎04-05-2010

We lost my dad in 2021, he was the last of our parents...so it seems a little strange to be "orphans". Otherwise, our big change has been being mostly retired..."mostly" because my DH still has one project to oversee that should be finished next spring/summer. It's just a site visit one day a week for him, and the accompanying paperwork for me...just 1 or two hours a week.

Of course the price of everything is a very big change! Somehow I always knew that when we retired that the country would be in a financial mess.

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

Have become much more comfortable staying at home and not partaking in activities that I did pre-2019. We still travel and eat out but do not miss getting together with others. Haven't watched the news in 2 1/2 years. Read the Times and Tribune on line; reading more; knitting more.

Thanksgiving was never a big deal with us--I give thanks every day and do not need a reason to pig out!!-- so no difference there.