Holidays

The 2024 White House holiday decorations include 83 Christmas trees and more than 28,000 ornaments.

Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people’s regular routines and the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation — has become the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to the deals and the hype the industry has created to fuel it.

Sunday is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the holiday week as Thanksgiving weekend comes to an end. 

While retailers hope to go big this holiday season, customers may notice that the catalogs arriving in their mailboxes are smaller. Many of the millions of catalogs getting sent to U.S. homes were scaled down to save on postage and paper. Some gift purveyors are sending out postcards. In a sign of the times, the American Catalog Mailers Association rebranded...

The week-long holiday was created by activist and author Maulana Ron Karenga in 1966.

Consumers are hardwired to think more of short-term gratification than long-term goals.

More shoppers are using ‘buy now, pay later’ plans heading into Black Friday and the holiday season, as the ability to spread out payments looks attractive at a time when Americans still feel the lingering effect of inflation and already have record-high credit card debt. Experts say the short-term loans can lead consumers to overextend themselves and warn that those...

Food safety experts say safely serving a holiday feast takes planning and know-how. Outbreaks of some types of food poisoning tend to rise in November and December.

Parents, if you’ve experienced a Thanksgiving Day with kids who refuse to eat, judgmental questions from relatives on the topic and party-ending meltdowns from those hangry children … you’ve come to the right place.

Want one more thing to be grateful for on Thanksgiving? You’ll really be counting your blessings when you bite into a turkey that you didn’t have to cook yourself.

Holiday traveling is in full swing and although Thanksgiving is not until next week, many Americans are already heading out of town for the holiday break.

Black Friday is just around the corner and deals are popping up everywhere. NBC6 Responds’ Alina Machado tells you how to protect your wallet this holiday season.

Two of the new holiday movies coming to TV this season have a Taylor Swift connection that her fans would have no problem decoding.

The presidential turkey pardon began back in the 1800s under President Abraham Lincoln.

Here are some post-Thanksgiving recipes that will make you extra excited to have leftovers.

Jason Kelce discussed his plans for giving gifts to his brother Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift, admitting it’s “tough” to shop for the stars.

Flying with Thanksgiving food? Here’s everything you need to know before getting to the airport security checkpoint with that frozen turkey.

Walmart, Target, Costco and many other major retailers will close their doors on Thanksgiving.

A 19-foot-tall Frasier fir from Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm in Newland, North Carolina, was selected to be the White House Christmas tree.

Here’s a list of what stores will be open and closed on Nov. 28, 2024.