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Thanksgiving 99′ will always go down in history. I went outside with my cousins to play after dinner. We ended up climbing a deer stand to look around, the branch broke and we all feel out of the tree. I was the only one that got hurt, I broke my ankle in 3 places.
No pumpkin pie for us!
My craziest Thankgiving was about 10 years ago..My mom started dating a man of “color” which my grandparents didn’t approve of. Well, she told them he was her neighbor, and at the end of the dinner, my grandmother says-”How did he know where all the dishes went in the cabinets?? Needless to say, the cat was out of the bag!!!!!
One of our first Thanksgivings we hosted for the family, We had a huge turkey and a small pan. The drippings ended up on the bottom of the oven sending smoke throughout the house setting off the fire alarms. We had to air out the house but unfortunately it was cold and snowy outside so the family got to enjoy a nice cold wait for dinner to be ready. Lesson learned.
Our craziest Thanksgiving was about 17 years ago and the first Thanksgiving I was with my husband. It was so unusually warm that we cooked on a grill outside and had a BBQ instead of cooking a turkey indoors. Really, we had family and friends over and had a wonderful time.
Mine was… we were all very sick with the flu. All of us were lying around on the couches, wrapped in blankets drinking broth.
I don’t really have a story. So far, in life, holidays have been fun. I always liked when I was young…the men would go to deer camp and the women would stay home and go shopping. Loved it, so fun. Lots of good memories.
I think the crazest was when the dog ate the turkey. I cannot think of anything else
Mine was when my parents had just moved into their new house, and we ate Chinese take out on paper plates. It was still so fun.
Last year was the first year I made Thanksgiving dinner myself. I burnt the sweet potatoes and cooked the turkey with the bag inside, but over all we had a great Thanksgiving.
i remember church thanksgiving and i ran right into the glass door and my nose started bleeding everywhere.. so embarassing!
Two years ago I tried making mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner. I thought you could microwave the peeled potatoes instead of boiling them to save room on the stove. WRONG! They turned out like paste. Next year I boiled them and they turned out beautifully!
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My most bizarre Thanksgiving would have to be the year when my proud dad shot a buck during hunting season and surprised all of us (and not in a good way) by replacing the traditional turkey with venison, which we all found pretty disgusting! He even added the stuff the the dressing and gravy. Needless to say, that year we ate a lot more mashed potatoes (without gravy) and cranberry sauce, and we’ve never let a year go by since without teasing Dad about it!
The craziest Thanksgiving was two years ago when my mother-in-law dropped accidently already prepared turkey on the floor. We still ate it after, but didn’t enjoy it that much
My craziest Thanksgiving was the first year I hosted Thanksgiving dinner at my house. Feeding and cleaning after dozens of people was definitely exhausting!
Oh my goodness mine has to be the year my Aunt got lost going to my Mom’s new house and she was bringing the turkey well she is a bit high strung so by the time she got there she was fit to be tied and well she got nasty with my Mom and her husband had already taken the turkey in the house and when he came back out my Aunt said get in the car we are leaving and well at least we had the Turkey lol. They made up later!
My great grandpa had an old style pacemaker. Mom was doing the final heating to serve and turned on the microwave. Great grandpa grabbed his chest. The microwave changed the pace of his pacemaker because he was sitting in its path. Scary but never fogot!
The most bizarre Thanksgiving I’ve ever experienced was when I was going to cook Thanksgiving for the family. I had the Turkey unthawing so I could start cooking it early in the morning. When my alarm clock went off and I got up to check it. My dad had it on the stove boiling it!!!!! I couldn’t get over it and was pretty mad that he went and destroyed the Turkey after he knew I was going to cook it. The worse part is he didn’t even remove the insides at all!! Everything was floating in the boiling water. It was so gross! My dad officially didn’t know how to make a turkey. My mom always did the cooking but she passed away years before. I could have stayed mad but I knew he was only trying to help. He’s the type that doesn’t like to read or follow directions either, and just do something on his own.
One year, we were all at my grandmother’s, and it had been sleeting. So, my cousin had just arrived and was carrying a casserole dish. I guess she didn’t realize how icy it was, so when she went to step on the porch, she ended up slipping, and ended up falling. We all rushed to her to see if she was okay. She was, but didn’t want to talk about it for the rest of the day.
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My mom and dad always host Thanksgiving. One year they decided it was too much cooking for them even though everyone always brings the sides. They decided to have the dinner catered. Thanksgiving day we sat waiting for our turkey dinner to arrive. Arrive it did…minus the turkey; they had run out! They ended up coming back an hour later with some sliced turkey that looked like it came from a t.v. dinner. Luckily we had plenty of side dishes to fill us up and didn’t miss the turkey at all.
My most bizzare thannksgiving experience was when I was newly married. I forget to take the bag is insides out of the turkey before roasting it. I felt like a real jerk as my husband started carving it at our dinner table!
One Thanksgiving we loaded the family into the car to make the 45 minute trek to my sister in laws for dinner. When we got there, we were turned away. Apparently they all had the stomach bug and had forgotten to call us. We ended up going home and ordering Chinese food.
I’ve never had anything bizarre happen on thanksgiving
I haven’t had any bizarre Thanksgiving incidents. There has been a time or two that one of us has been sick but nothing major!
The most bizarre thanksgiving I’ve ever had was in 85degree weather in California. weird to see a shining sun in late Nov
Honestly, I have yet to have an odd Thanksgiving.
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The most bizarre Thanksgiving experience was in 2000 when my mother bought some cream puffs for dessert but didn’t refrigerate them. She gave them to my husband and I to try and my husband immediately felt sick afterwards and threw up. I didn’t feel sick until the next day. I was horribly sick for several days and actually had to start a new job 2 days late because of it. I thought that I’d actually lose that job because of missing the first 2 days. I’ve never had cream puffs again!
I was once in Spain on Thanksgiving, and my father got it in his mind that we would have us a Thanksgiving dinner. Needless to say, in Spain they weren’t very clear on what stuffing and cranberry sauce entailed and finding a whole turkey was not feasible.
One year we forgot to turn on the oven for the turkey so we ended up running to the local convenience store & had turkey hoagies for dinner!
My most bizarre Thanksgiving experience is when my son was an infant, we managed to ignore the snow that was falling when we were visiting relatives. We almost got stuck several times trying to get home and realized our newer van was not good in the snow!
My most bizarre Thanksgiving experience was when my mother forgot to put sugar in the pumpkin pie. It tasted horrible but we all ate it anyway for her.
My mother always hosted Thanksgiving. The one year our family was gathered together, and as the food was cooking, my mother mentioned that she didn’t feel well at all. I told her that she should go to bed and we’d take care of all the food, serving and clean-up. Maybe a short rest would make her feel better and she could join us all for her wonderful dinner. Well, she slept through the night and felt better the next morning. But that was the first holiday dinner that she wasn’t at the table with us all.
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When I was a kid, we had our turkey on a snack tray. Unfortunately, it was just low enough so that our dachshund could stand up on his hind legs and help himself to a whole side of the bird (which he did)! We had meatless meal that year.
I don’t have a bizarre story (thank heaven!), but in the spirit of sharing a story, I’ll share that my love of cooking started on a Thanksgiving day when I was 7 years old and my Auntie let me “cook” some appetizers (celery stuffed with cream cheese or peanut butter). I was so proud, and everyone told me how wonderful they were lol. I dunno, maybe that is bizarre?
the most bizarre Thanksgiving experience happened when I was 8. My cousins and I decided to put on a talent show which including dancing and singing. My uncle was recording it, so every Thanksgiving I have relive the nightmare of how bad I look and sound singing as he replays it for everyone to see.
We got a turkey smoked and forgot to remove the bag of giblets before we took it to the smoker. They didn’t get it out and we had to throw the turkey away. I forget what we served that year.
I got sick during dinner – it’s very awkward when your family cooked all day and you throw up right after eating
When I was 16 my father had to have surgery in a hospital 150 miles away. My mom accompanied him, and they were both gone over Thanksgiving. I fixed a complete turkey dinner for my brother and I – having never really cooked before. It actually was pretty good, and I’ve fixed the meal at Thanksgiving since then.
Once, my pecan pie boiled over in the electric oven, and the ensuing mess caught fire around the oven element. The pie was finished in the microwave, and the oven was cleaned the next day.
Years ago my great dane pulled my beautiful turkey off the table and drug it all over my floors. This happened when I stepped outside and was talking to a neighbor.
I remember one yr. I ordered a premade complete thanksgiving dinner and it was horrible and dried out and tasteless. I said thereafter, that I’d cook my own Thanksgiving meal from now on.
My most bizarre Thanksgiving was when I turned on the oven to cook the casserole and dessert that we were taking to my mother-in-law’s house–and the oven didn’t come on. We had planned on baking these items as we showered and got ready to go for dinner. We went ahead and got ready and drove to my mother-in-law’s house, so that she could bake the items, even though she had plenty to bake herself. Since time was getting short and the other items were ready, she cranked up the heat in the oven and forgot about it as she worked on the rest of the meal. We realized what was going on when we smelled something burning. Both of my dishes were pretty much ruined and inedible.
I’ve never really had a bizarre Thanksgiving. The weirdest one was when I was going through a divorce and had no family around, so I spent it alone, watching Christmast movies and eating a tv dinner – it was kind of nice.
My most bizarre thanksgiving was when I attended a “half thanksgiving” in May. We were cooking all day and it was over 90 degrees outside.
My dad was really drunk and thanked God for bringing him to America. I was so drunk, I started laughing. We were in the middle of praying.
Our oddest experience was when my brother in law invited his girlfriend to dinner with us, and she brought ended up stealing things from our home and other guests.
My most bizarre Thanksgiving memory was three years ago when my entire family was here and I some how forgot to cut off the oven. Mt turkey was burnt to a crisp!
Mhy bisarre Thanksgiving was the year that went attended 3 Thanksgiving meals
My most bizarre Thanksgiving was when I was much younger. My parents had invited my grandfather and his girlfriend over for Thanksgiving. I had made pistachio salad. All the sudden we heard the worst loud buzzing in the world and instead of the girlfriend whispering she wouldn’t touch the green stuff, she screamed it because her hearing aid battery had died.
cold frozen turkey, burnt potatoes and nothing could be done but go out to eat
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When I was young a small military installtion burned to the ground the weekend before Thanksgiving. My parent cooked and served dinner to 120 Navy men. We also housed 8 for a month and 2 for 6 months. In addition to 2 siblings and 4 foster children.
my mom always prepares thanksgiving dinner so we haven’t had any zany thanksgivings that i can remember anyhow
I messed up the turkey by burning it, and luckily Hardees was open. We had burgers with all the fixens.
my most bizarre thanksgiving experience was one year we happened to be out of town and ate dinner at a restaurant. it felt strange to not be having a home cooked meal with family!
I’m fairly new to Thanksgiving, I moved to the US in 2006 after I married my American husband and a lot of Thanksgiving is bizarre for me. I can’t get used to the food, I’m vegetarian so I get offered a lot of that beans with mushroom soup stuff…bean casserole? I’m not a fan but I’ve eaten it to be polite more than once.
Ma was defrosting the turkey in the sink. We had to run out to get more Thanksgiving items from the grocery store. We opened the door to discover the cat was in the sink eating….yup the thawing turkey. Ma cooked it anyway and we kids had the giggles all Thanksgiving.
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My most bizarre Thanksgiving would be when I went duck hunting with my Dad and then came back and ate Turkey, that was very strange to me!
I thought you were supposed to put eggs in the mashed potatoes after they were cooked….didn’t know raw egg was a no no. LoL
Probably the most bizarre Thanksgiving would be one year hubby was sick and did not go with me to my family dinner. It just didn’t feel right and my family missed him so much. They even said it felt strange without him there. Plus my hubby is the humorous one in the family so he was thoroughly missed.
Well, one thanks giving we were all at the table about to eat and I had a seizure at the dinner table.. . LOL – It was surprise to have one at that particular time/occasion but not that I had a seizure (Epilepsy) but it was a good topic to laugh about once I regained conciseness.. LOL
Mine was the time we burnt the bird and ended up getting pizza on Thanksgiving.
My most bizarre Thanksgiving was when I was on a plan flying to China and the only turkey I could have was a cold cut turkey sandwich – it was enjoyable though, because I gave thanks with my family and at least we were all together!
That would be the Thanksgiving we went to my Mother in Laws with our new baby. While the baby and I were napping my husband came in and asked me to come out and not leave him alone. Seems his mother had invited a friend she thought he might like better and she was ALL over him, even when I came out with my baby to join the guests. Needless to say we have never had another visit there.
My sister was making dinner one year and thought it would only take 1 day to thaw the turkey. We ended up at some dive bar for thanksgiving, fortunately the food was pretty good…oh and the beer was cold.
my craziest experience when my oven gave up working the day before thanksgiving. I remember cutting the huge bird into pieces and preparing it on the stove
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A few years ago we went to the first time my young niece hosted Thanksgiving. The turkey looked beautiful…on the outside. We discovered that she had cooked the gravy pouch and neck still inside the body! We all tried to be as diplomatic as possible.
My most bizzare experience was drinking alcohol on an empty stomache as I was helping my mom out with her Thanksgiving prep and becoming very ill and missing the whole thing.
I made the turkey and I didn’t leave the legs tied so that area was still raw after hours of cooking..nasty. I had to carve the breast and make sure it was totally cooked and only serve that.
One year i decided i would volunteer to host the dinner and had planned on the entire extended family and in-laws, what i failed to prepare for was the lack of room in my oven and stovetop for all the dishes i had planned so we had to call the leader of the church and use the church kitchen
My craziest Thanksgiving was last year. my hubby burned the turkey!!
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This year will probably be the craziest Thanksgiving because it is my first year hosting the event and I have never made a turkey before. Wish me luck.
Believe it or not, I don’t think I have any bizarre Thanksgiving stories to tell! But I did learn my lesson one year when I was in my 20s…I baked an actual pumpkin so I could make pumpkin bread. It took about 8 hours (about 6 hours longer than I expected!) and didn’t even taste good. I learned then to always use canned pumpkin!
My most bizarre Thanksgiving was the year we went to my husband’s brother’s house. The turkey was still in the freezer at 5:00am and they wanted food at noon. His brother’s wife had decided she was “sick” and couldn’t cook. So I was left with a frozen turkey, a small box of stuffing, a small box of instant mashed potatoes, a can of green beans, and a pack of rolls to feed six adults and three children. It was a disaster! I wouldn’t eat the turkey or allow my children to eat any of it. My brother-in-law and his wife, who was now feeling wonderful, would not let us eat any of the desserts I had brought from my home because they were “saving them for later.” My brother-in-law also expected me to clean up after every single person there. Needless to say, I have never been to his house again.
One year at my husband’s family’s Thanksgiving we did not eat dinner until 8. 8PM!! I was starving, but they were so disorganized getting the meal together, then taking tons of pictures. It was painful.
I haven’t had anything bizarre happen on Thanksgiving.
My most bizarre Thanksgiving experience occurred in Northern California, where my boyfriend and I were visiting his relatives. We were all enjoying our sumptuous meal, and suddenly, a dark movement was noticed outside by one of the guests. Someone rushed to the window, only to report that a black bear had been spotted! Apparently our Thanksgiving dinner smelled so good that the scent alone drew out all sorts of rare wildlife that night!
My was I did not know you were to put spices in the pumpkin pie. I just took from the can into the shell and cook it. Took to my mother’s house and my father say it was pretty good looking pie but, he tasted it and that was it. My mother try to doctor it up but, it was lost because never know you have to put the spices in first. Live and learn. Thanks for the great sweep and hope to win
Several years ago after dinner. We had some issues with the sink backing up. One of my friends went into the basement to see if he can figure something out. We’re all upstairs and we hear the sound of rushing water and laughter coming from downstairs. Yep, the pipe burst. What a mess, but what a memory
The first Thanksgiving in my house, I was planning a great traditional Thanksgiving meal. As the turkey was in and I was making the sides, our power went out. We have now been here about 10 years and this is one of two times that our power has been off for about an h our! It would figure!
An aunt and uncle decided to treat everyone to Lupper at a restaurant that was doing a special Thanksgiving buffet. Our first trip up the aunt filled a plate with things she piled in a napkin and put in her purse to take back to her dog.
We had a new oven which apparently had a rack slightly smaller than it should have been. The turkey fell through with the rack and a fire started from the grease. Needless to say, dinner started later than planned.
One Thanksgiving my mom accidentally asked my grandfather to pass her the “shit” instead of the salt. She didn’t even know it until we were all staring at her in disbelief!
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The most bizarre Thanksgiving I’ve ever had is when my brother got drunk and was walking around with a bowl of mashed potatoes trying to kill an invisible fly with the spoon. Coincidentally the same Thanksgiving we had grown our own turkey and it was too big to fit in the oven. lol
my first thanksgiving with my husband we got snowed in…He’s from the north, but I am a southerner, so that was plenty bizarre to me
The dog ate the turkey last year when we were outside getting ice!
I hate Thanksgiving. I hate turkey. I hate stuffing. I hate mashed potatoes. I hate gravy. So the first year I had it at my house, I made everything fancy and exotic (I had the stupid turkey, but it was marinated and infused and other interesting things) and thought it was delicious. But everybody else was disappointed because they like the traditional old boring stuff. Sigh.
My wife and I were going to go to New York for the first time ever a week or so after Thanksgiving. Everybody was so excited but my brother said “Maybe your plane will crash and you will die.” He wasn’t joking and nobody knew how to respond. It was so bizarre
The weirdest Thanksgiving was went my mother got mad at my father for drinking a beer and cancelled supper.
Our worst experience was the year we didn’t properly set the oven start timer and therefore couldn’t eat until about 8PM
Last year – we had both families over – so many people. In all my planning I completely forgot to even buy a turkey – let alone thaw it and roast it. It was a hilarious meal – albeit vegetarian!
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Let’s see what was definitely Twilight Zone worthy was the fact that I helped with the Turkey…talk about crazy!
I can’t think of a single bizarre Thanksgiving experience. Something tells me I’ve had them, but I seem to be blocking them out. Thanks for the cool offer!
Our most unusual Thanksgiving may be this one: We’ve been invited to a neighbor’s house for Thanksgiving- she worked as a cook in a nursing home and her “style” is, the blander and mushier, the better! Should be an interesting meal.
I wanted to make Thanksgiving dinner for my in-laws the first year I was married. I’d never made a turkey before, and found the whole process much more daunting than when I’d merely watched in grandma’s kitchen. I’d seen my Gram make giblets for my grandpa before, but it still didn’t dawn on me to take the innards out. And of course, I cooked the darn bird as is…innards and all. I had quite a few cooking mishaps in my youth, luckily my family still lets me cook.
A few years ago I was pregnant on Thanksgiving and I didn’t feel well enough to eat. I thought that was so bizzarre! I wanted to really eat a lot and I couldn’t hardly eat!
I would say the most bizarre was the year we were all at my Mom’s someone came in wearing Rose perfume, this always sets off my Mom’s asthma. Well it did, so we ended up taking her to the ER for breathing treatments, spent the whole day there. Never got to have our dinner. It was nuts at the time but having lost her a couple of years later, I would give anything to spend another Thanksgiving at the ER with her
One Thanksgiving my dad, brother and I were headed to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving and we ended up in Cuba. Cuba,In that is.
Once, I didn’t realize how very long a turkey takes to thaw out. Dinner was VERY late indeed! Not good. Learned my lesson though. I thaw waaay ahead of time.
My stepdad fancied himself a great Turkey cooker. Only he’s like me, he sets out to cook with great intentions and ends up with a disaster. We were having a lot of family over for Thanksgiving dinner one year and my parents got so into cooking all the side dishes they forgot about the Turkey. So, we were a few hours to go before people started showing up and my stepdad gets this genius idea to cook the turkey faster by turning up the oven heat. Well, since he bastes his turkey in butter, I think you know where this story is heading. Yep, there was an oven/kitchen fire! We teased him about the turkey fire for years to come!
I’ve never had a bizarre Thanksgiving but oddly enough this year may qualify. My aunt posted a mean message about another family member on FB and now there is a divide so this may be the first Thanksgiving without half my family.
My most bizarre Thanksgiving experience was the first turkey I tried to cook — it burned of course ? *Thanks* for the giveaway!
not too many bizarre thanksgivings but one year when I was dating my now husband, i went up to seattle and I didn’t know him too well at the time but they went around the table and told what they were thankful for normal for some families but people you barely know and met. was a little awkward for me.
a few years ago, my mother decided to change her green bean casserole recipe. my brother decided to have some and took a huge bite. he smiled and gave the thumbs up sign when my mom asked if everything tasted good. he then proceeded to take his girlfriends drink cup and spit the contents of his mouth into it; they had just started dating. every year we laugh when we see the green bean casserole; we never did figure out what she put in it that year…
The most bizarre thing that happened to me was my guests decided to go shopping and came back late for dinner.
We had gone to my Sister’s house for her first Thanksgiving Dinner on her own…we sat for dinner, said Grace, Carved the bird and served our plates. As everyone started eating the Turkey, funny sounds and faces were made. My brother, whom is very out-spoken, said “This turkey tastes like soap!!” It turns out that my sister was under the impression that cleaning the Turkey really meant to “Clean” the turkey with dish soap.
We all had a lot of laughs, including my sister and tossed the Turkey and ate the Ham (which was delicious
My most bizarre was when I got into a fight with my boyfriend of the time and he said he would not eat anything I had made. The turkey was almost done and I took it out and marched it to the apartment dumpster and threw it in. A total waste!
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By the time it was expected to have our thanksgiving dinner, everyone was hungry and waited so patiently, the turkey was overcooked to the point you couldn’t carve it. Embarrassed?, yes, hungry? yes, we had to find a subsitute for the main course.
My daughter in law decided to cook the turkey for thanksgiving and she doesn’t cook. The turkey was raw. Very undercooked
One Thanksgiving, my brother and I thought we would go ride out ATVs before dinner. We took off into the bushes. My brother’s got stuck.
I went and got my pickup to get the ATV ‘unstuck.’ My pickup sunk in the mud up to the axles. I tried to get it out for about 3 hours. As we were out in the middle of nowhere, there weren’t any phones – this was before cell phones – finally, I got ahold of my dad. He came out and tried to winch out us out. He got stuck. He got his ‘other’ truck with another winch and finally got all three vehicles out…
I never made it to dinner…
I spent 2 Thanksgivings in a row (the past two) at the Emergency Room. Once was for my mom and once was for me. I ate burgers in the Cafeteria, I was surprised they couldn’t spring for Thanksgiving dinner at the hospital.
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One thanksgiving we were all ready to eat and I remembered I had forgotten to make the potatoes…oh well, it still was good!
my most bizzare thanksgiving experience would have to be when my mother in law made pizzas…pizza for thanksgiving????
The year before my mother passed away, she chased me around my aunts house with a turkey leg. Have it all on video. It was hilarious
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Before I was born, my grandma accidentally cooked my dad’s football mouthpiece in with the turkey!
My most bizarre Thanksgiving moment is going to my mother in-laws house for Thanksgiving and instead of a traditional dinner, she had weird foods. I mean like nachos, tater tots, and a salad. The next year, we told her we were making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at our house for the kids and we were skipping hers! After that, she has made a traditional Thanksgiving meal every year. When I say made, I mean purchased it already prepared!!
The most bizarre Thanksgiving for me was the time we were attacked by a deer on the road (he hit us, we did NOT hit him), my brother fell asleep while he was driving, and I missed a turnoff and drove us hours out of our way before realizing my mistake.
I forgot to remove the innards from my first turkey. They were in a plastic bag and it melted inside the turkey and stunk up the whole house.
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Our most bizarre was the year we spent Thanksgiving with a German family and they cooked….it was an interesting feast of Germanized American food…
None of my Thanksgiving experiences have been TOO bizarre, but I’ve not had the fortune of hosting one yet… I’m sure my time is coming!
One Thanksgiving my grandmother decided that we should all be scolded for not liking her friends – it was the strangest, most frustrating, and saddest thanksgiving I could imagine!!
I NEVER REALLY HAD A BIZARRE THANKSGIVING, I NEVER REALLY GOT INTO HOLIDAYS THAT MUCH. HOWEVER, NOW I AM A MOMMY, SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO CELEBRATE FAMILY AT THIS TIME, SO WHO KNOWS WHAT BABY’S FIRST THANKSGIVING WILL BRING
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I myself cannot remember any particularly bizarre Thanksgiving experience, but I do remember that one year one of my cousins forgot to take the giblets bag out of the turkey before she cooked it.
I was teaching an English as a Second language class about Thanksgiving -including how to cook the dinner. I blew the cooking and forgot about the turkey…I cooked it so long it turned into rubber!
Might have done the initial entries twice. The Rafflecopter seems to have completely re-set. (Didn’t change computer, re-set cookies or anything)
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The year my sister got up early and put the turkey in the roaster and by afternoon we all sat down to eat and the turkey was not done, we ended up cutting pieces of it and cooking it in the microwave
my most bizarre thanksgiving was in my teens many years ago, i had the day off from my waitressing job and was walking along the hiway hitchhiking down to see if i could find my uncle i got picked up by and taken into the commune led by j.d. miller(deleware deathrow inmate) he designed a tattoo for me but when i asked him to put it on he said he liked me to much which was cool because he kept reposessing tattoos by cutting the skin off of people until they were dead and he had his artwork returned. thats why hes on deathrow.we had turkey with about 60 people who were all on the run from the cops after dinner he put a blindfold on me took me in a van and let me out in the middle of nowhere.in time for me to get back to work the next day.
I cannot think of a bizzare Thanksgiving, but there was one time when my cake fell apart and I glued it back together was frosting
Our most bizarre Thanksgiving was when our oven stopped working that day. Thanks for the chance!
My most memorable Thanksgiving was my first one away from home with my own family. My son was only 2 months old and I was happy to be cooking the big feast for my little family! Little did I know that you had to defrost the Turkey before cooking it all day! Our turkey needless to say took 2 days to cook and was so dry that you had to literally dip it into water to swallow it. Lucky for me that everyone acted as if it were the perfect Thanksgiving ever!
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Most bizarre Thanksgiving was when my mom was bringing in the turkey and ended up dropping it on my grandma. Needless to say, it was ruined
I haven’t had any bizarre Thanksgiving moments, thankfully
we visited dh family & his grandmother tried to hide the ham from her son in law out of spite
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Several years ago my husband was stationed in Okinawa. Celebrating Thanksgiving in a foreign country is not the same.
i spit up water all over the place one thanksgiving dinner as i was laughing so hard and was starting to choke on the water in my mouth
My sister baked the turkey and didn’t know you had to take the bag of giblets out!
I don’t really have any bizarre stories, probably the worst was the year both my vacuum AND my dishwasher AND my heater went out just before everyone was supposed to come to my house! Talk about scrambling! Thank goodness for wonderful neighbors (vacuum) and repairmen!
probably about 4 years ago we went to my then husbands dads house, and instead of having a traditional meal because his girlfriend had to work, we went wandering around town to find soemplace good to eat.. All we could find was the chinese buffet
ended up at a chinese resturant
my first thanksgiving that i cooked myself i cut myself deeply on a can of crisco and ended up bleeding into the gravy! it was a disaster!
I don’t think I’ve had a bizarre thanksgiving, but I work shift work and have weird hours…so it always makes holidays interesting. This year, I get off work in the a.m. of Thanksgiving, will sleep for a few hours, cook dinner, and then go back for more work Thanksgiving night!
Thanksgiving is somewhat of a gambling Holiday. The one hosting the meal prepares the turkey and everyone else brings a prearranged dish to pass. We live in Wisconsin and do not all live in the same town. So asthe Holiday approaches we scour weather reports, the sky, tea leaves etc to see if it will be decent enough traveling weather. We also were a Hockey family so the roads have to be really BAD to stop the show. .
I have an embarrassing not bizarre comment. I forgot to take the gizzards out of the 1st turkey I cooked and everyone made a big deal of it.
My crazy turkey experience is when the oven stopped working on Thanksgiving. It looked like it was working, but several hours later I opened it up and… no heat!
my most bizarre thanksgiving experience is not all that bizarre really. I went to dinner at a dates parents place and we hardly knew eachother. His family was crazy, they got drunk and argued..very uncomfortable and there was not another date after that
I remember when we forgot to take the turkey out of the freezer in time so we had Thanksgiving dinner the next day
one year my mother prepared an entire dinner only to discover the turkey she ha d purchasedhad spoiled.
My most bizarre Thanksgiving was the year my mom let me cook. I think I was like 11. I know. I cooked biscuits(which I burned), I made lumpy mashed potatoes(they were gross) and I ended up making my mom make the Turkey. My pumpkin pie turned out pretty good, though!
My most bizarre thanksgiving experience is when we all got food poisoning after eating a fresh (not frozen) turkey. I still have a hard time eating turkey after that!
I have never had a bizarre one it’s always been great to tell the truth!
Most of our Thanksgivings are normal but last year my younger siblings and I let the conversation deteriorate into almost entire performances of our favorite viral videos- the adults were lost most of the time.
My most bizarre thanksgiving experience is when all of a sudden my oven stopped working,and had to go to my friends house and used her oven,and it was such a hassle going back and forth!
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This is bizarre and sad. I’ll never forget the Thanksgiving holiday when my dad was having major spinal problems. He couldn’t walk even to go to the bathroom. I was the saddest kid thinking that that day was supposed to be a day of gratitude and my daddy couldn’t walk. The good news- he got better and hasn’t had major back problems since!
I don’t really know if I have had a bizarre Thanksgiving. I once cooked a turkey with the bag of stuff still inside, first and last time I made a turkey.
I’m from a very large family (11 kids). One Thanksgiving we went to my grandmother’s new house in Prescott, AZ (we lived in California) where we met up with our cousins. Everyone was bringing pies, potatoes, etc. and my grandma was going to take care of the Turkey. It was getting close to dinner time and still there were no good smells of turkey coming from the kitchen. It turns out the oven was never turned on. My grandmother, who wasn’t much of a cook had never used the oven before and didn’t know how to turn it on. We had a vegetarian Thanksgiving that year.
My birthday is sometimes on thanksgiving. I hate sharing it with a holiday. I always go to family so I dont have to cook.
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Most bizarre was the first time I cooked a Turkey and did not know there was stuff inside to take out before cooking….lol
I do not really recall any bizarre Thanksgiving experiences. My Thanksgivings have always been rather dull and uneventful.
I don’t know that this is as strange as it is funny. I remember one Thanksgiving where my grandma overcooked a pecan pie and it was so hard that the dog wouldn’t even eat it
I really don’t have a bizarre Thanksgiving story. I don’t like Thanksgiving because I am vegan so I hate seeing the dead turkey and all the other food I don’t eat on the table. Plus, I like the idea of Thanksgiving, but I hate the glorification of the first thanksgiving. So maybe it’s bizarre that I don’t care about Thanksgiving.
I have not really had an odd thanksgiving experience…the worst would be having undercooked the turkey a bit…besides that..nothing too big!:)
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Well my aunt use to cook the thanksgiving dinner the night before and serve it to us cold. No one ever said anything. My mom would bring gravy and warm it up right before just so people could put it uon to warm up the rest of the food. Thank goodness my cousins who do not come came a few years ago and my teenage cousin told her mom why is this cold. My uncle stated isn’t suppose to be. Now my Uncle cooks the meal and it is great
We burned our turkey when one of our kids got hurt and we had to run to the hospital ER. We ended up eating Papa johns pizza that thanksgiving
the worst would be the year I volunteered to cook 100 full turkey dinners each to serve a family of 6. way more work than i want to do again!
It was when the dog ate the bird..need I say more?
Last year while preparing dinner, I put a chicken breast in to make a salad for lunch, didn’t remove all of the plastic wrap, and set the microwave on fire….sigh… The house smelled AWFUL for dinner….
The first time I cooked a turkey and didn’t take out the bag of giblets and other stuff. It burned really weird and made part of the turkey taste funny.
Last year I made pecan pies for dessert. They were okay but it seemed like something was missing. The next day I went to heat up some leftovers and there in the microwave was the dish of melted butter I had put in there and meant to go in the pies.
The first time I cooked a turkey, I didn’t remove all the “stuff” from inside. We had dinner at the Waffle House!
I honestly don’t think I’ve had a bizarre Thanksgiving. Hope I don’t either.
I was cooking a turkey in the oven. And then the power went off. We had to find a restaurent thats still open.
the turkey wasnt completely thawed and we needed a few extra hours before we could eat. by that time everyone was starving and most of the sides were cold
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We caught the turkey on fire one time. Yet we still atei t
My most bizarre Thanksgiving was when I was 13 I had some kind of attack with my stomach or gall bladder. I spent the holiday at the emergency room and came back to my grandma’s to have popsicles for dinner.
The first year I roasted a turkey for Thanksgiving and didn’t know the innards needed to come out. The paper started smoking pretty quickly and we got everything out and resumed cooking. It all actually turned out just fine.
Well one year on Thanksgiving, it was unseasonably warm and windy. My brother in law had a kite attached to a fishing pole, and was flying it.. LOL It was the most hilarious thing I have ever seen in my life!
We didn’t take the turkey out in time to unthaw it so we ended up eating THanksgiving dinner at The Boston Market.
i burnt the turkey once
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My most bizarre Thanksgiving moment came a couple of years ago. My mom always made home-made gravy to go with our turkey. That year it came out a little thick but it was still yummy so we took it over to our Grandma’s house to have with the family. We all gathered around the table and my Aunt started to make up the plates for all of us kids. After I got mine I noticed that the gravy was put on my plate as a side-dish. I asked her why she put my gravy on the plate instead of the turkey, her face turned red and she said she thought it was applesauce!! It was so funny and we still tease her and my mom about the ‘applesauce gravy’ incident! Thanks for holding such a great giveaway!
I really haven’t had any bizzare Thanksgivings…I guess I am lucky! I do remember the first time I attended Thanksgiving with my now hubby’s (he was my boyfriend then) family. He is the youngest of 7 children, all of whom had several children at the time, and it was a bit overwhelming to be surrounded by so many people.
We watched a flock of turkeys stroll through the yard while we were eating dinner!
Well it wasnt really all that bizarre. My bf hadn’t been feeling good the week leading up to thanksgiving and had went to the Dr. They told him there was nothing wrong and to go home. He kept feeling worse and worse. So thanksgiving morning we are making all the sides to bring to his moms. She made the turkey and some sides and his brothers family was in charge of deserts. It gets to the point where he is so sick I had take him to the ER. Turns out he had a kidney infection and kidney stones. We spent all day there because they were giving him pain killers and antibiotics in an IV. So many people were coming into the ER with Bad cuts from either cutting turkey or slicing veggies. Luckily much much later that night his mom brought over some leftovers to our house so we could finally eat!
I used to have to travel from upstate NY to Long Island for Thanksgiving and for those from the area, they know that the traffic to get across the bridge and onto the Island can be insane. I would always go the day before to avoid massive traffic jams, but one year I had a concert the day before and my girlfriend and I were out really late after the show….we didn’t get up really early as planned and ended up being stuck on the Whitestone bridge as my family ate Thanksgiving dinner. A 3 hour trip took me almost 8 hours!!! A nightmare.
I guess my most bizarre Thanksgiving was when my brother showed up with his new girlfriend, who would not stop cursing and just generally acting crass in front of my parents and other relatives.
HHAH cooked the turkey and forgot to remove the bag of stuff from the inside… oops
Our weirdest experience was when we went to a hotel and went swimming on Thanksgiving!
Nothing much “strange” is coming to mind, but we spent one Thanksgiving with my aunt’s family – Her brother owned a restaurant that he shut down and had a massive party. My first shirley temple!
when i was 10 my 14 year old cousin took way too much of MY mashed potatos… seeing as that was all i would eat. i may or may not have stabbed his hand with a fork to get them back…
My most bizarre Thanksgiving was when I was still living at my parents house. We had a dog who would always follow us throughout the house. My mother was cooking dinner as usual and it was about ready to be put on the table so we all helped. Well my mom didn’t want to pick up the turkey just yet so she just opened the oven door and let the turkey rest there for a while. While everyone was in the dining room setting up, our dog decided to help himself! He started eating it right out of the pan… then when we saw him and started for him he ran off with it. There were about 10 people running after a dog with a big chunk of turkey in his mouth… it was hilarious. Thankfully my mom had made a ham as well.
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Most bizarre Thanksgiving was the year my son got a unknown rash and was told he couldn’t be around any pregnant women. We couldn’t go to the in-laws where there were 2 pregnant women, but I was also pregnant. I had to stay isolated in my bedroom for the whole holiday. Very depressing, plus very hard to have Thanksgiving turkey dinner when your turkey that you bought isn’t defrosted yet. We wound up having pizza. Of course, mine was in bed by myself.
I guess the most bizarre would have to be last Thanksgiving. We dont divorce family in my family, just the spouse so everyone is always welcome at my grandmothers. Well my ex uncle showed up with his new girlfriend we had not met yet and their kids, my aunt was there with her new husband and his kids and it turned out my cousin was dating his dad’s new girlfriend’s daughter and had no idea of the fact. It was extremely awkward which was made worse by my grandmother accidently pouring flour in the mix for the stuffing and serving it anyways. It wasnt bad though.
One year I had a tooth ache was all swollen up and was trying hard to “enjoy” the holiday with family and not ruin it for anyone else. It hurt SO bad and I was trying to hide it, which is VERY hard to do. I LOVE turkey and was trying to eat too. Most memorable, but NOT the most fun, lol.
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I am hoping that you, and all the blogs that use rafflecopter can put
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I’ve been tweeting daily & I really hate to be disqualified for pasting URLs that I had assumed were correct!
We live in the country so our Thanksgivings are often shared with local wildlife….deer, pheasant, fox, wolves, and skunks! I love Febreeze, it is the only air freshener I use!
Thanks for the great contest!
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The first Thanksgiving that I was on my own I didn’t have the money to go home or even the money to prepare the usual feast. A close girlfriend was in the same fix so we decided we would spend the day at her house. Our dinner was to be Cornish Hens, potato, and a vegetable. Just as mealtime was drawing near my girlfriend received a call from her building’s front desk asking her to come down to pick up a package that was left for her. We were both shocked to find stuffing, candied yams, cranberry sauce, rolls, and a pumpkin pie with whipped cream. My boss had heard about our holiday plans and had left a care package to fill in the gaps. What a wonderful holiday that was, and what a great boss she was. I’ll always remember her fondly.