Black Friday: it’s the day most people rush into department stores and maul each other for select appliances. But really, it’s just a day to get some pretty cool stuff at a discounted price on, you guessed it, a Friday.

Well that’s what it should be.

Black Friday is typically referred to as the day after Thanksgiving, and it is traditionally regarded as the first day of the Christmas shopping season on which retailers offer special reduced prices.

Yet, can someone on God’s green Earth tell me why retail stores have been opening on Thanksgiving day for the past couple of years? I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but there are two reasons I don’t want Black Friday interfering on this day: 1) It’s a Thursday, and 2) I have to go out of my way earlier than usual to get what I want.

I remember the days when I use to head out of my house around midnight, after Thanksgiving day officially ended, to get in on the Black Friday sales with my family. For the past couple of years, we have been doing the same thing, but now, stores are either messier or totally wiped out because they have been opening early that day.

For instance, this year Best Buy will be opening its doors on Thanksgiving from 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.; Kohl’s will be open 24 hours from Thursday to Friday; and Walmart will also be open 24 hours throughout both days.

Obviously, there are many other outlets besides the major few mentioned above. But what I’m trying to say is that it’s not considered Black Friday if stores are opening so early on Thursday; it’s more like Black Thursday if you ask me.

In the end, I have to admit I’m not one of those crazed shoppers or people who have no life that stay in tents outside of a store waiting for it to open. Heck, I don’t even buy much on Black Friday, but it would be nice to have it on the day it’s actually called for to.

Overall, you can say that Black Friday drives away the spirit of Thanksgiving because now consumers will be more eager to go shopping during Thanksgiving day than stay home and spend time with their families being thankful.