Wow, if you think your Thanksgiving was sub-par or just average, read a few of the thousands of posts Martha Stewart got when she asked readers to talk about the lessons they learned from their worst Thanksgivings ever.

Burned turkeys, plumbing clogged, sliced hands in the electric knife, bad arguments with friends and relations! It’s all there! One family’s whole house burned down when they tried to fry their turkey. They lost everything.