According to one website the day after Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be the day of celebrating shopping. It is instead, as they say in their sexist way, the day women go shopping. So what are men to do when the baseball season is over, the deer hunt is done and the boat is docked? Make the day after Thanksgiving Man-Cave-Day instead.
What is a man cave?
A man cave is where a guy will hang out with all his stuff. Back in the day, the common man cave was the garage or the shed, where a man could become one with his tools and his machines. These days, with the revolutionary age of technology surrounding us, a man cave is much more plush. It includes countless remotes, screens aplenty and blazing input of all kinds of media. According to ManCaveDay.com, Black Friday at noon — offering plenty of sleep-in time defying the norm for the day — men can arise, mosey into their man cave and partake in a blitz of programs tailor-man-made for the shopping widower. They even list right there on their home page dozens of events made just for men. “Man Cave Day celebrations start at Noon on Black Friday as Men raise their drinks as the countdown to a jump ball, puck drop, kick-off, tee-off, starts parties in Man Caves across the nations. Live video feeds of celebrations will be streamed live on mancaveday.com. Every guy should have a place in the home where he can just be a man and hangout with friends to watch the game, have a drink, play video games, display his belongs, and enjoy his hobbies.”
Apparently the idea of Man Cave Day has been long in the making. “I am all but abandoned by my wife on the day after Thanksgiving,” said Greg Harris, of Layton, Utah. “She bails on me right when the dishes on done on Thanksgiving. She sits at the table and strategizes with her sisters about where they are going to shop while the rest of us fall asleep in front of the TV. A couple of years ago they took off in the evening wanting to get a mall that opened at midnight. I didn’t see her until Saturday.”
A survey commissioned by My Merry Christmas.com on the topic find that while some men — as much as 36% of the 150 million expected to participate in Black Friday — do go out and shop a greater majority of them prefer the alone time on Black Friday. 61% of men can find alternative activities they would rather engage in on the day after Thanksgiving.
Will Man Cave Day take hold? Will it become a time for men everywhere to dress down in their skivvies to watch nothing but TV for a full day while the world gorges on Christmas shopping outside?
Time will only tell.
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