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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly are we supposed to give kids with allergies or don’t eat sugar? Seems like money is the only thing you would find acceptable, which isn’t going to happen. I have a variety of candy and let kids pick. That’s the extent of it. You can’t please everyone all the time.

Hi there! My kids have nut allergies, and our friends down the street don’t eat sugar, so I get it. Um no, don’t expect money. We give the Halloween-themed bags of Pirates Booty (gluten free) and Veggie Straws (shaped like bats and also gluten free), as well as sugar-free gum as some of our non-candy treats. Thank you for asking so I could give you those ideas!

You should think more grain free and natural.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly are we supposed to give kids with allergies or don’t eat sugar? Seems like money is the only thing you would find acceptable, which isn’t going to happen. I have a variety of candy and let kids pick. That’s the extent of it. You can’t please everyone all the time.

Hi there! My kids have nut allergies, and our friends down the street don’t eat sugar, so I get it. Um no, don’t expect money. We give the Halloween-themed bags of Pirates Booty (gluten free) and Veggie Straws (shaped like bats and also gluten free), as well as sugar-free gum as some of our non-candy treats. Thank you for asking so I could give you those ideas!

You should think more grain free and natural.

You're joking, right? Please tell me this is a joke?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly are we supposed to give kids with allergies or don’t eat sugar? Seems like money is the only thing you would find acceptable, which isn’t going to happen. I have a variety of candy and let kids pick. That’s the extent of it. You can’t please everyone all the time.

Hi there! My kids have nut allergies, and our friends down the street don’t eat sugar, so I get it. Um no, don’t expect money. We give the Halloween-themed bags of Pirates Booty (gluten free) and Veggie Straws (shaped like bats and also gluten free), as well as sugar-free gum as some of our non-candy treats. Thank you for asking so I could give you those ideas!

You should think more grain free and natural.

What are your specific product ideas?

[Anonymous]

Also has anyone noticed that kids get sick after eating tons of candy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly are we supposed to give kids with allergies or don’t eat sugar? Seems like money is the only thing you would find acceptable, which isn’t going to happen. I have a variety of candy and let kids pick. That’s the extent of it. You can’t please everyone all the time.

Hi there! My kids have nut allergies, and our friends down the street don’t eat sugar, so I get it. Um no, don’t expect money. We give the Halloween-themed bags of Pirates Booty (gluten free) and Veggie Straws (shaped like bats and also gluten free), as well as sugar-free gum as some of our non-candy treats. Thank you for asking so I could give you those ideas!

You should think more grain free and natural.

Like bags of broccoli?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all need to move to my neighborhood; some folks give out candy, but I don't even know what a boo bag is. If someone leaves something on my porch and I don't want it, I throw it away or just leave it on my porch until someone else steals it.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Boo Baskets are insane and silly. They went around my neighborhood one year only thankfully. However, I have seen more than one post on this board in the past about parents complaining that their house wasn’t boo’d and they were left out.

[Anonymous]

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.

You do you. I'll do me. K?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also has anyone noticed that kids get sick after eating tons of candy?

No.

[Anonymous]

"Boo'ing" is a lot of fun for kids. It's also a lot of fun for parents who love to see their kids having fun. For parents who are overburdened, stressed out, can't see the forest for the trees because they have so much to do, I get it -- many things in life feel like a burden when you're at your limit on a regular basis.

Boo bags are here to stay. Because they are fun as hell, for kids and for many parents. I love whoever came up with this idea. Can't stand "Elf on the Shelf" but "We've Been Boo'd" is a keeper.

[Anonymous]

What are boo bags?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I agree, OP, because of the meaning and historical celebrations of Halloween and Christmas.

Samhain is supposed to be the only time in the year when this world and the spirit world are closest, and on that night, spirits can walk the earth - humans historically feared them, as they could play dangerous tricks, and kidnap or kill. This fear became strongest as the Pagan festival was subsumed by the Catholic Church into a sort of evil prelude to All Hallow's Day (All Saints' Day) on November 1st. The Catholic Church has a long history of erasing various pre-Church celebrations around the world by deliberately placing its feast days at around the same time as the ancient feast days.

So there is no other moment when All Hallow's Eve can be celebrated.
Same for Christmas: setting up the tree was done on Dec 24th, otherwise the needles would fall. Lighting the candles on the tree was done in the evening of the 24th for a short period of time, and obviously supervised. The caroling was historically done on Christmas Eve, a time when people were resting at home before the feast instead of doing backbreaking work. Presents were on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, depending on cultures.

It's perfectly fine if people want to extend the celebrations and parties to cover the entire fall and half of winter! But it's a bit ridiculous and in my opinion, dilutes the special cultural and historical significance of the exact dates (I'm not commenting from a religious perspective, of course).

You're talking about the Christmas season, which is 12 days from Christmas to Epiphany on January 6 (or Three Kings Day, depending). Some families put their tree up on Christmas Eve and leave it up for the Christmas season. But before Christmas is the four weeks of Advent, preparing for the arrival of the Christ Child, and there are many activities in church and at home (advent wreaths, advent calendars, carol singing, Christmas pageant, putting candles in the window) that take place during that month. Yes, Christmas is just one day, but traditionally activities before Christmas start on December 1, or include gift giving on other days such as St Lucie Day (December 13).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly are we supposed to give kids with allergies or don’t eat sugar? Seems like money is the only thing you would find acceptable, which isn’t going to happen. I have a variety of candy and let kids pick. That’s the extent of it. You can’t please everyone all the time.

OP suggested a few non-candy treats for those who need it, but doesn’t think people should skip candy and hand out nothing but the plastic trash, sorry, I mean, toys. I agree with this.

No OP did not suggest an alternative. No plastic crap allowed. What is a non candy treat that fits the bill? Is a sticker better? That’s still crap in my book. It’s all crap, there is no alternative so take what you are given and say thank you.

We get maybe 10 trick or treaters and so give out full size play dough, pirates booty, or candy. The little kids take play dough, the kids too old to be trick or treating take candy, and my kids use the rest of the play dough pack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You should definitely celebrate All Hollows and then go to mass on November for All Saints Day and to mass on November 2 for All Souls Day. No cheap plastic or annoying events tied to Halloween.

not even religious but this sounds kind of nice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is a Boo basket? Is that like an an Easter Basket?

So extra candy on top of the trick-or-treating candy?

It’s so wasteful all of that candy gets tossed and donated a couple days after Halloween ends.

Yes. To the pp who trashes everything the day after Halloween, you are adding to the problem.

Did boo baskets start during covid?