Every family celebrates the holidays differently. While Thanksgiving is primarily about showing gratitude and feasting on delicious food, there are no strict rules about what you have to prepare or when dinner will be served.
The only thing to keep in mind as a guest is to respect and appreciate your host. Otherwise, you might not be invited back next year.
Thanksgiving hosts have recently been sharing their biggest pet peeves on Reddit, so we’ve gathered their rules for being a great guest below.
From showing up empty-handed to insisting on discussing politics, make sure you avoid these cardinal sins at your family’s gathering. And be sure to upvote the behaviors that would get someone kicked out of your house too!
#41
I hate it when people show up with cut flowers tied up in cellophane. Now, in addition to welcoming them, hanging coats getting them drinks, and making introductions....I have to find a vase unwrap the flowers in my cooking space trim and arrange them and get rid of the debris and mess. Never do this! Bring a jar of something instead, or arrange flowers at home and bring them ready to display.
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10points
#42
I hate hosting. It's a lot of work and money and prep and clean up. I also don't like people in my personal space. Invite me and I'll help with buying stuff or making stuff but don't come here.
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10points
#43
When people show up with random food I didn’t ask for. I spend a lot of time planning the menu making sure it complements the other dishes. No, I don’t appreciate you showing up with lukewarm Italian meatballs.
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9points
#44
Everyone has been a great Thanksgiving guest over the years, except my MIL.
DNA proves she's half Italian,but she won't cook.And she won't stay Put of the Kitchen! She will eat the croutons that I cut,measured, and baked for the stuffing! She will come in with a dirty tissue she blew her nose in and hold it out and say she doesn't know where the trash is.
She got really huffy when I picked her up from the Airport once and she had to hold a heavy dish of sweet potato casserole that I was dropping off to a church for a charity Thanksgiving. Yet She is the ultra religious one!
DNA proves she's half Italian,but she won't cook.And she won't stay Put of the Kitchen! She will eat the croutons that I cut,measured, and baked for the stuffing! She will come in with a dirty tissue she blew her nose in and hold it out and say she doesn't know where the trash is.
She got really huffy when I picked her up from the Airport once and she had to hold a heavy dish of sweet potato casserole that I was dropping off to a church for a charity Thanksgiving. Yet She is the ultra religious one!
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9points
