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Thanksgiving Traditions that have nothing to do with Thanksgiving

Posted on By Kartika
House Renovation

America is full of unique traditions, some might even say weird and Thanksgiving is no exception. Here in America we pride ourselves on individuality and are certainly creative. I mean heck, Thanksgiving itself is 100% Made in the USA!

Over the years we’ve changed just about everything about the holiday and it’s almost unrecognizable to what it looks like in its original form. Behold a bunch of traditions we associate with Thanksgiving today that has pretty much nothing to do with the holiday’s original purpose.

Weird. Odds. and Things that make you go Hmmmmm…..

Turkish Traditions

OK so turkey has always been a staple of the Thanksgiving holiday but these days here in America we apparently do much more than simply give thanks and then eat it.

Turkey Toss

In Indianapolis, IN, people have started an annual tradition of dressing their turkey in a baby onesie, dousing it in lighter

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Heidi Klum Transforms Housekeeper’s Home on ‘Celebrity IOU’

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House Renovation
  • The latest season of HGTV’s “Celebrity IOU” premiered on Monday night.
  • Heidi Klum teamed up with the Property Brothers for the season premiere.
  • Klum renovated her housekeeper Lucia’s home for the show, and she was hands-on during the process.

HGTV’s hit show “Celebrity IOU” returned on Monday with another A-list celebrity: Heidi Klum.

The supermodel and “America’s Got Talent” judge teamed up with the Property Brothers to gift her housekeeper Lucia with a surprise home renovation.

As they shared during the show, Lucia has worked for Klum for 17 years, not only cleaning her home but cooking for her family and caring for her children.

Heidi Klum and her housekeeper Lucia pose for a photo.

Heidi Klum and her housekeeper Lucia.

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“She’s become part of our family. She really is someone in my house that

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Surprise home renovation for Sandy’s family facing terminal illness

Posted on By Kartika
House Renovation

SANDY, Utah — At the Boyle family home in Sandy they have a motto, a phrase that guides Jeremy and Amelia and their six children.

“Amelia says if you have something good, share it,” neighbor Emilie Wright said. “That’s just the hallmark of her life, and so we have something good, and we want to share that with her.”

Over the last year, finding that good has been a challenge. Jeremey, 44, a marriage and family therapist, was diagnosed with a rare and terminal neurodegenerative condition called multiple system atrophy, and his body is shutting down.

“It’s difficult for him to get up and down the stairs, to function like he used to, he’s really active and handy and he’s not able to do that as well as he used to without a lot of pain,” said Wright.

Paying for guidance on how to help the family through the difficult

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Make Your Own Whirlig Toy

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House Renovation

What is a Whirligig Toy?

The word whirligig derives from two Middle English words: whirlen (to whirl) and gigg (top), or literally “to whirl a top”. So the gist of the whirligig toy then is basically to use a scientific force (in our case we create it) to get the thing whirling and then we seek to keep it going.

That’s all pretty fancy to say a disc on a string. This simple pleasure of both making and playing with whirligigs provided hours of entertainment for the children of early America and still does today.

Native American whirligig toy

Whirligigs are documented as early as the 1400’s in Europe but there is also evidence of whirligigs being here in America some say as early as 500 BC! (For you scientific types, it refers to the Fourche Maline Culture) There is evidence that the whirligig was used in the ceremony to

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