7 Reasons I Refuse to Host Thanksgiving, Like, Ever Again

With four kids, I'm lucky if I get a chance to shower, let alone plan, shop for, and prepare an Instagram-worthy Thanksgiving table and feast for my family and friends.

So they sit around at the dining table complaining about how they're stuffed. Yet they load up their plates with food, eat it, and then bemoan how they're even more full. Then they eat pie. And I get it; Thanksgiving is about stuffing yourself. It's fun! You can eat healthy every other day (except Super Bowl). But I've been witness to this routine for too many years, and I think I have had my fill (see what I did just there?) of people not wanting to eat the food I spent hours preparing.

OK, one year it might have been me. But for every year forthcoming, I'd like everyone to over-imbibe and make fools of ourselves at someone else's house. That way, I don't have to tell anyone to leave or end up hiding out in my bedroom to avoid the unruly people in my own home!

It's big enough for my family, but not to accommodate my whole extended family. So it gets too darn crowded. Shoes, coats, abandoned drinks, ugh! They're everywhere, and the cleanup is insane.

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Remember what I said about cleanup duty? Others pours themselves another drink, or dive into the desserts, or start a movie. I want to dive into a slice of pie! I want to watch the movie! But instead I'm collecting abandoned drinks.

Like everyone else, I have a lot going on without the hassle of hosting Thanksgiving. That's why this year, I vote we all go out to eat so no one has to take on the stress!

And that is less than four weeks after Thanksgiving this year. So someone else is going to have to make the turkey. Sorry (not sorry)!