Monica Johnson Quotes

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

I hate to shop.

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Well, I like shopping.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.

The example which Massachusetts and New England offer in the retention of longstanding custom should be given very careful consideration before ruthlessly permitting it to be sacrificed for mercenary considerations.

October, November, December is a huge selling season globally for Nintendo.

Don't be hungry when you go shopping, but don't overeat, either.