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Shift in the Thanksgiving Gifting Trends
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Thanksgiving dates back to 1621 when a group of English people came and settled in America in 1620 during the rough winter conditions. Most of them could not survive but those who did, attempted to grow crops for sustenance though they had no knowledge of farming in this new frontier. The Wampanoag tribe came to their rescue and taught them the method of farming.
Shift in the Thanksgiving Gifting Trends
The new settlers got a bumper harvest and wanted to thank the Almighty and express their gratitude to the Wampanoag tribe as well. All were invited to the grand feast where the natives brought their own harvest food as well. This is how the custom of Thanksgiving was born.
Thanksgiving is celebrated in America on the fourth Thursday of November and is a time to have fun with loved ones and friends. The family gets together to give thanks to the Creator and spending quality time with family. Thanksgiving dinner is a complete family affair and Thanksgiving gifts are mainly gifts related to the table to make the dinner experience more enjoyable and memorable.
Thanksgiving changed over the years with people expressing their gratitude towards family and friends along with thanks to the Almighty. Families get together on Thanksgiving and enjoy the traditional sumptuous meal that have been painstakingly prepared. Later, friends too were invited over to join the Thanksgiving dinner with the host preparing the traditional Turkey and the friends who came over would get gifts for the host. Traditionally gifts brought were wine bottles, table cutlery, centerpieces or fruit baskets.
Gifting trends have changed with change in technology. Electronic gadgets and appliances have gained popularity as Thanksgiving gifts due to its high versatility.These now include music players, game consoles, tablets and kitchen appliances too. The son chooses to gift his father with an iPad!
A long weekend for Thanksgiving has made it very convenient to make it a travel weekend. It is one of the busiest times for travel for most people. Remember to plan your holiday well in advance. With so many getaway options available a lot of dating couples gift a holiday to their partner.
Expressing gratitude through gifts has always been the norm. With the change in lifestyle the trends in gifting has changed considerably. The scope of gifting has further narrowed down to men, women and kids.
A guy can be gifted wine tumblers, bar set, engraved wine bottle stoppers, monogrammed party plates, thermometer, tool set, photo frames and eatables. A woman can be gifted knive sets, electric knife, napkin ring sets, wine bottles, gourmet herb garden basket, wine stoppers, cookware, pitcher, place-mats, cookie jars and a whole lot of eatable goodies. For the teenagers nail art patches, boxers, candy or lollipops make an acceptable gift. For a child it can be books with pictures and clothes.
Unique Thanksgiving gifts which are eco-friendly too have become highly popular. There are re-usable paper plates, organic fruit basket. Others unique gift options are universal remote control bottle opener; nail patches, set of olive oil, ceramic decanters, Swiss cheese boards, cheese plates and bottle openers. For couples who are dating, a weekend spent together at some destination as per the interest of both is one of the awesome gifts that can be given for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving gift basket can be loaded with various gift articles besides the traditional one too. The change in thinking and attitude towards life has a tremendous impact on Thanksgiving gifts that have become more utility gifts rather than simply following the tradition of restricting the gifts to table gifts.
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
—Melody Beattie
Relationship Poll – No Rocket Science What Women Want
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
The recent review on “Why Men Love Bitches”, a new story in the series on reviews of relationship advice books was fairly heated and made Jumpdates fans exchange their views on the blog and on Jumpdates Facebook fan page.
Don’t take the literal meaning of the word “Bitch” which was said probably mentioned 10 times in the book as Sherry Argov wanted to spread that self discipline and dignified does not mean a bitch. We know what men like in their women from our previous article Act like a Lady, Think like a Man. Let’s check out what women like and look when they are in search of a dating or romantic partner.
48% women voted that they think that opposites really attract each other. Only 16% said that they don’t believe in this but 29% said that there is every possibility of attraction. While 7% are in a confused state of mind and cannot decide.
Sharing their thoughts on dating profiles, 44% are more interested in the age when they first see it as they want their partner to be closer to their age group. Whereas 30% give importance to education. 17% said that ethnicity would play a role in deciding on someone to go out on a date. Only 9% said that income is important to them, which is very surprising as we hear many relationship breakups because couples don’t handle their money as well as they should. It is possible that deep inside women do have this important criteria but do not freely express it as it may label them as gold diggers, a quality frowned by most men.
Women are obsessed of accessories but luckily for men they don’t have to do much as wearing an expensive or stylist watch can attract 50% ladies that are looking for a romantic partner. 28% women love guys wearing baseball hats and only 5% like guys with piercings.
This poll was conducted by
http://www.perfectmatch.com which shows that when it comes to women they want their men to be nice and simple, call it as more natural rather than someone with a flamboyant lifestyle.
Tags: relationship poll, what women want, why men love bitches, women love guys wearing baseball hat
Single Parents Knows It – What are their Priorities
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Being single and ready to mingle is an easy tagline for all those who want to enjoy their single relationship status but for single parents it’s much more than this. They are single but, they are parents too and they have the freedom of being single with a huge responsibility of being a parent.
Single parents often neglect their relationship needs which demands equal attention and as much as they give to their children. The online poll done by perfectmatch.com gives answers to all those critics who think single parents don’t understand their priorities.
About 74% of single parents say that they disclose their children in their dating profile and 11% says that they do it before going on a first date. Asking a question on their divorce, 38% single parents say that they did not date enough before deciding to marry and 30% say they married to young. There are evidences that money plays a major part as 22% says there were financial pressures on them which leads them to divorce.
Disclosing on online dating profile presence, 37% of single parents say that their children approved it as 32% say that it was never a topic of discussion for them. 20% of the children are simply not happy with this and they don’t approve this.
Children become a priority for single parents, they create their own world around them as 52% of single dad says that they would like to date someone who understand that children comes first and it’s fine if lady they are dating don’t have children. 27% dad says that she has to be youthful and show fun qualities. These answers in poll show the typical men’s attitude towards relationship.
Asking the same question, single moms are practical because 60% of women are looking for men with a good attitude towards children and 16% of women are looking for men that have children.
This poll shows that single parents (more than 16 million) in US are aware about their children as a priority in their lives. They also understand that they need to have a life with a companion after all spending life alone is a tough job.
Comment on this article and tell us what you think about single parents and what advice you would like to give them to find their perfect partner.
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Tags: men’s attitude towards relationship, relationship poll for single parents, single parents dating, why single parent divorced
Female Views on Love, Sex and Cheating
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
Do you believe that it’s only men that cheat and women don’t, there are plenty of articles on this and you will hear relationship experts, psychiatrist and other relationship pundits that are saying this but the fact is given an opportunity both genders are capable of cheating on their partner. The latest poll conduced by womensaver.com show some of this astonishing findings. Here are some of the answers and questions that were given to women of all age groups.
32% female said that they don’t mind cheating if they can get away with it, similar number of women said that they won’t cheat. 27% said it is immoral but only 9% out of the remaining 32% said that they would feel guilty. This show that the thinking of women are very similar to men and most would choose to do it if they felt that they would not be caught.
While asking on marriages, 79% of women said that they believe in marriages leaving only 11% with various opinions like marry to have kids or they don’t believe in marriage at all. 50% of ladies don’t wait for sex to call it a relationship after dating for a few times, whereas 12% says they don’t like to call it a relationship until they don’t mess with each other in bed. 11% women say they call it a relationship when he says I love you, which might take sometime.
Survey also show that 54% of the women says that hey caught their men cheating on them and 35% says they suspected them but were never able to confirm it. It is shocking to see that 67% females said that they fantasized having same sex relationship even if they were in a relationship.
Till date the survey was conducted on more than 16,000 women on http://www.womansavers.com. The women of Jumpdates.com can also contribute to this article here.
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Tags: relationship pundits, women believe in marriages, women don’t mind cheating
Resorting to Online Dating Means Defeat?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Quora.com is one of the most popular social and democratic platforms for asking people around the world about their views on virtually every topic. The relationship and dating section of this site is one of the busiest where you can answer questions.
Resorting to Online Dating Means Defeat
Latest question that has gone viral on Quora is “Does resorting to online dating mean defeat in the real word?” Well as expected answers are very much mixed and reactions from people with different mindsets have expressed their views.
However, most of the experts that denied the fact that just because you are on an online dating sites looking for a date or a life partner means you are not able to find it in the real world. Online dating sites are not the last option in the world, in fact it has become the first. Any one who does not look for dating or a life partner is certainly missing the biggest pool of singles in the world.
Just few days back we published a similar article on this… that online dating sites are socially accepted – It’s True. This article has also got some interesting comment for Jumpdates members.
Tell us what you think about the presence or having an active profile in online dating sites.
Tags: dating, jumpdates, online dating socially accepted, online relationship, Resorting to Online Dating Means Defeat
