Thanksgiving Fun Facts from GiftWorksPlus

The holiday season is finally here! This time of year is really our time to shine at GiftWorksPlus, our custom frames and unique gifts come in themes for all holidays and winter activities! In addition to winter sports frames, vacation and travel frames, and Christmas and New Years picture frames, we also have customizable photo frames in Thanksgiving designs! With Thanksgiving coming up this week, we wanted to provide fun facts about the holiday to help get you and your loved ones in the spirit!  

• In 1953, the folks at Swanson ordered a few too many frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving…and by a few we mean 26 tons. This lead to the first TV dinners being created!
• Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday thanks to a magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale who campaigned for 17 years in order to make it happen.
• Sarah Josepha Hale also wrote the nursery rhyme about a girl named Mary who had a little lamb.
• Black Friday is known for being a pretty big day for shopping, but it is also the busiest day of the year for plumbers, likely due to people having a little too much Thanksgiving fun.
• The first Thanksgiving was eaten with spoons and knives. Forks weren’t invented until around ten years after.
• Each year the president pardons a turkey from being eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. This tradition started in 1947 with President Truman.
• The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is an even longer tradition; it began in 1924 and featured only animals from the Central Park Zoo.
• Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird instead of the eagle, saying it was a more “respectable” bird.

  During your Thanksgiving festivities be sure to take plenty of pictures of family and friends enjoying time together and eating respectable birds! Then stop by the GiftWorksPlus website to check out some picture frames that will make perfect gifts for the holidays. Don’t fret if your best memories aren’t from Thanksgiving! We offer plenty of other personalized frames and gifts in all kinds of themes that will be sure to make heartfelt gifts for anyone in your life.