Millennials weigh in on 'Friendsgiving,' shopping and holiday traditions

photo Lisa Revenig, left, serves food in the line as Tyler Gay, right, chooses a dessert during a city-wide Thanksgiving potluck lunch Monday in the middle of Martin Luther King Boulevard. The lunch was sponsored by Causeway.

What are your plans for Thanksgiving? Are you spending it with family in a traditional Thanksgiving or are you spending it with friends in what's known as Friendsgiving?

To find out what folks are doing this year, Skout, a social networking/dating app and website, conducted a survey of 1,300 adults earlier this month. Here are some highlights:

• What you call it: Only 11 percent of those age 18 to 29 plan to have Friendsgiving this year, but 18 percent of adults age 30 to 39 plan to do so.

• Bring your own. Forty-four percent plan to make Thanksgiving potluck.

• Liar, liar. Fifty-nine percent of men admit they've bought a dish at the store, then passed it off as homemade.

• Talk to the hand. At 46 percent, "awkward conversations" was top of the list when asked what is most likely to ruin Thanksgiving, but 37 percent say a poorly cooked meal can wreck things.

• No shopping. Seventy-seven percent age 18 to 39 say retail stores should not be open on Thanksgiving Day so employees can be with friends and family.

• Football rules - but it's a close score - with 53 percent saying they plan to tune in to NFL games on Thanksgiving, but 47 percent saying they can find better things to do.

• Hanging out. Spending time with friends and family is the best part of Thanksgiving for 61 percent.

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