Thanksgiving is the most self-indulgent time of year where we are openly encouraged by everyone to forget all about eating properly and living healthily.
Instead, Thanksgiving menus are crammed with course after course of unhealthy but so incredibly good food.
Thanksgiving recipes concentrate on the foods that we can't eat for the rest of the year and we oblige by eating more than is possibly healthy in a single day.
This has been true right throughout Thanksgiving history, right back to the pilgrims in fact.
The food is, of course, the pinnacle of any Thanksgiving party planning and buying Thanksgiving party supplies can often require taking out a small bank loan.
You've probably been saving magazines with recipes in for the past 12 months especially for this day and you've got a cupboard full of new dishes to try.
You will probably pay so much attention to preparing the food that throwing up Thanksgiving decorations will be a last minute thing and as for the very idea of Thanksgiving party games, if you're going to have them then you must have them before you eat or the mess could be unbearable.
Thanksgiving party favors can be absolutely anything you like, whether you want to hand out more culinary delights like personalized candy bars or personalized money you will really put a smile on your guest's face as they struggle to squeeze out of the door to leave.
There are a number of other Thanksgiving party ideas that can really personalize an event, you could rope the kids in to handle valet parking, but only if they have a driving license and can be trusted with family and friends' cars of course.