tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503737103502630690.post6778175858605503543..comments2024-03-16T05:17:47.608-04:00Comments on These Things Happen...: Halloween SpendingSponge-headed ScienceManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914014641719908195noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503737103502630690.post-41966070664766235612011-11-06T00:40:16.966-04:002011-11-06T00:40:16.966-04:00I hate Halloween...Because I hate buying a ton of ...I hate Halloween...Because I hate buying a ton of fattening candy not knowing how many Trick or Treaters will come to the house, then being FORCED to eat all the leftovers and gaining weight...(OH, how I suffer!). Actually, we have adorable munchkins who walk from house to house in our neighborhood that I always enjoy seeing, mostly wearing homemade and/or dress-up box scrounged costumes so it's not that bad. No grownups in costume (around here, it would be considered extremely tacky). Our church sometimes has an anti-Halloween party to give kids a chance to prance around in innocuous costumes. <br /><br />I was always appalled by the demons and Freddie Kruegers and young hookers, etc. I saw in my kids' elementary school classes, tho. My kids got mad that I wouldn't let them be vampires. But they mostly went as pirates or D and D characters or other characters from their fantasy adventure books, or ROman legionaries or Robin Hood or the like. We had a few years of fancy masks (rubber chimpanzees with fur, and dragons and StarWars, but they had to improvise the costume parts. <br /><br />I let my kids participate in these secular holidays, but tried not to make a big fuss of them.Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503737103502630690.post-81635341572956637992011-10-29T11:24:58.102-04:002011-10-29T11:24:58.102-04:00Check out the adult costumes. Halloween has becom...Check out the adult costumes. Halloween has become another sex, booze, and chocolate holiday - as the others are.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com