Halloween is already The Thing. We don’t need ‘Boo baskets,’ trunk or treat, other dumb stuff

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What exactly are we supposed to give kids with allergies or don’t eat sugar

Don't make an argument for a rare outliner

I don’t see how this is even a question. The Halloween-themed bags of mini-pretzels are out on the shelves, right near the candy. Anyone with eyes could find a half-dozen non-sugar options just by, you know, walking down the Halloween display aisle.

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I don't know OP. I sort of agree, I do like the simplicity of old school holidays, but I do also like the holidays lasting more and there being more to it than just a day

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure talking about it online has no effect. Not in the individual case, probably, but when there are a lot of people making fun of and/or criticizing new trends, sometimes culture changes.

This thread freed me up from “paying it forward” like we did last year. We don’t enjoy spider rings and such and I’m not passing on the chore this year!

We used to put those things in a bag, put the bag in our Halloween storage bin and use them next year when we boo'd other people. Simple.

No, creating a chore and a burden for others is not simple. We simply enjoy Halloween on Oct. 31.

Maybe you have depression. A lot of people find it fun and exciting, not a chore and a burden.

Child labor making trinkets from China that end up in our oceans is depressing.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know OP. I sort of agree, I do like the simplicity of old school holidays, but I do also like the holidays lasting more and there being more to it than just a day

Most people put up a few decorations and watch a few Halloween movies with their family. That and an evening of costumes and candy sounds like more than enough.

I mean, do your kids need 15 more non-functional erasers and glow sticks and spider rings? Mine don’t.

If this were organic and was kids surprising other kids, that wold be one thing. But it’s not, it’s attention-seeking moms with Pinterest printables, making sure to document every moment for Instagram so they can show off their outfit and their family and how special they are.

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There is alot to life people don't need, but some things are just fir fun.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

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You better not travel with your family on planes for vacations or drive an SUV, OP. You also better buy you and your family’s clothes secondhand. You likely have no room to talk.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

DP. Will you pay attention to the signs this year? That'd be great.

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Anonymous wrote:There is alot to life people don't need, but some things are just fir fun.

Ding ding ding.

If it's not fun for you, then don't pass it on. Put the things you consider junk in your bowl with the halloween candy and let kids pick them on halloween night instead of candy if they choose.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

NP. Older than you, for sure. You must have fairly young kids if you're getting "Booed," especially if your house is getting "baskets" (as in multiples) of these things. I get it, you're anti-plastic-crap etc. So am I. But first, this too shall pass; your kids will get older and the silly Boo thing stops, thank heaven. And spending the intervening time getting your panties in THIS big a twist about it is not stopping it, is it? Put up your "We've been Booed" sign, make it bigger this year, and if you still get left crap on the doorstep teach your children some gratitude and giving--they can keep one Boo basket or whatever, then you take them to donate the others somewhere. Yes, I know. YOu're passing on that plastic junk so that will still make you livid. Well, before it ends up in a landfill anyway, show your young kids they don't need so much stuff and let them enjoy one and give the others away. Do not make it a "Boo" though since that perpetuates the nonsense you hate (and I disliked it too). Find someplace like a shelter that has famiilies with kids and ask if you can bring it there--preferably with your kids, so they are the ones donating.

You personally and indvidually cannot stem the tide of all plastic junk but what you CAN control is how you teach your kids to share. Yes, even plastic crap. They will get older, the Boo stuff stops, you then teach them to donate other things including their time and effort. At least it's a start. Right now you're nothing but a ball of rage at something you can't control unless you plan to control it by angrily telling every single family who might boo your kids that you'll leave their boo basket back on their own doorstep if your doorbell camera catches them....Which sounds like where you're heading with all this anger.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

NP. Older than you, for sure. You must have fairly young kids if you're getting "Booed," especially if your house is getting "baskets" (as in multiples) of these things. I get it, you're anti-plastic-crap etc. So am I. But first, this too shall pass; your kids will get older and the silly Boo thing stops, thank heaven. And spending the intervening time getting your panties in THIS big a twist about it is not stopping it, is it? Put up your "We've been Booed" sign, make it bigger this year, and if you still get left crap on the doorstep teach your children some gratitude and giving--they can keep one Boo basket or whatever, then you take them to donate the others somewhere. Yes, I know. YOu're passing on that plastic junk so that will still make you livid. Well, before it ends up in a landfill anyway, show your young kids they don't need so much stuff and let them enjoy one and give the others away. Do not make it a "Boo" though since that perpetuates the nonsense you hate (and I disliked it too). Find someplace like a shelter that has famiilies with kids and ask if you can bring it there--preferably with your kids, so they are the ones donating.

You personally and indvidually cannot stem the tide of all plastic junk but what you CAN control is how you teach your kids to share. Yes, even plastic crap. They will get older, the Boo stuff stops, you then teach them to donate other things including their time and effort. At least it's a start. Right now you're nothing but a ball of rage at something you can't control unless you plan to control it by angrily telling every single family who might boo your kids that you'll leave their boo basket back on their own doorstep if your doorbell camera catches them....Which sounds like where you're heading with all this anger.

For someone with a “let it go” message, you sure did write a judgmental book.

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Anonymous wrote:Halloween night is already The Thing: an evening of dressing up, getting candy, seeing friends and neighbors, having fun. That’s it, that’s the thing. Maybe also a school party or school parade—great, fine.

If someone lives in a neighborhood where there is literally no Trick or Treating, fine, some kind of trunk or treat or whatever.

But we don’t need “Boo Baskets”—no one needs more cheap plastic crap from China.
We don’t need five trunk or treat events—HALLOWEEN IS ALREADY THE THING

And FFS pass out some candy and maybe a few non-candy treats for kids with allergies or who can’t have sugar or something. Not some huge ass bag filled with spider rings (trash), cheap and literally useless erasers (trash), those stupid fake teeth that get put in one time and then go in the…wait for it…trash.

Stop. Halloween is already special, you don’t need to make the entirety of October a landfill-exploding wasteland of cheap, cheap, tacky garbage.

And also: YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN

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IKR?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

NP. Older than you, for sure. You must have fairly young kids if you're getting "Booed," especially if your house is getting "baskets" (as in multiples) of these things. I get it, you're anti-plastic-crap etc. So am I. But first, this too shall pass; your kids will get older and the silly Boo thing stops, thank heaven. And spending the intervening time getting your panties in THIS big a twist about it is not stopping it, is it? Put up your "We've been Booed" sign, make it bigger this year, and if you still get left crap on the doorstep teach your children some gratitude and giving--they can keep one Boo basket or whatever, then you take them to donate the others somewhere. Yes, I know. YOu're passing on that plastic junk so that will still make you livid. Well, before it ends up in a landfill anyway, show your young kids they don't need so much stuff and let them enjoy one and give the others away. Do not make it a "Boo" though since that perpetuates the nonsense you hate (and I disliked it too). Find someplace like a shelter that has famiilies with kids and ask if you can bring it there--preferably with your kids, so they are the ones donating.

You personally and indvidually cannot stem the tide of all plastic junk but what you CAN control is how you teach your kids to share. Yes, even plastic crap. They will get older, the Boo stuff stops, you then teach them to donate other things including their time and effort. At least it's a start. Right now you're nothing but a ball of rage at something you can't control unless you plan to control it by angrily telling every single family who might boo your kids that you'll leave their boo basket back on their own doorstep if your doorbell camera catches them....Which sounds like where you're heading with all this anger.

For someone with a “let it go” message, you sure did write a judgmental book.

Helluva weird way to lodge judgement about other people's twisted panties, for sure

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

Leaving trash on someone’s doorstep is rude and hurtful, especially when they have posted a sign that they don’t want the Boo crap. So don’t talk about “rude and hurtful” when you started it by ignoring a posted sign and dumping unwanted crap on someone else’s property.