Backyard football games, naps after the big meal, putting up Christmas trees and reviewing advertising inserts in the newspaper for Black Friday sales — all common Thanksgiving Day traditions.

For many area residents, there are other Thanksgiving Day customs, at least for them and their families.

“We celebrate my birthday!! It falls on Thanksgiving every so often,” wrote Anita Bullock Branch, deputy director of the Beaufort County Board of Elections, in a Facebook post.

William Oughton, via a Facebook post, is sharing this: “Wednesday evening, our youngest son, his wife (they are both lawyers) our grand-daughter, 2 large dogs and a giant cooler will pull in from Jacksonville, Fla. They didn’t just bring the fixin’s they will cook the turkey and all the trimmings. Third year in a row!”

Some traditions are food related — got to have these items or it just isn’t Thanksgiving.

“We make my Grandma’s homemade cinnamon rolls and mimosas with fresh fruit. It is our treat that I look forward to every year!” wrote Danielle Midkiff Hunnings, co-owner of the No Wake Zone Grill, in a Facebook post.

MJ Carbo, former director of the Beaufort-Hyde-Martin Regional Library, shared the following in a Facebook post: “It’s a Maryland tradition to serve sauerkraut with the Thanksgiving meal.”

Theresa “T” Holman, a former Washington resident who now lives in Havelock, posted just three words about her got-to-have item for Thanksgiving: “Grandma’s cake cornbread.”

Some area residents could do without some Thanksgiving “traditions.”

One of them is Jack Willard, who wrote this in a Facebook post: “5th year in a row working on Thanksgiving. I am in retail and must be to work at 3:30pm.”