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

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Anonymous wrote:you don’t need to make the entirety of October a landfill-exploding wasteland of cheap, cheap, tacky garbage.

+100

Halloween section at Target makes me cringe.

Yep. I was there this weekend and almost had a panic attack.

You are not well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like some people really don't like it when you don't appreciate their activities. Insults abound. Interesting.

Are you confused about who started this post and what their comments were?

[Anonymous]

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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?

Why go trick-or-treating if you're just going to throw everything out? Just walk around the neighborhood with your friends and don't take any candy. Save the earth!

Boo bags were around long before COVID.

Yes, indeed they were. Here is an article from 2011:

Take Back the Fright:
How Martha Stewart, Boo Bags, and modern life almost killed Halloween for me—and why I’m reclaiming the holiday.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/10/martha-stewart-and-boo-bags-almost-ruined-halloween-but-im-taking-it-back.html

If you are wondering what Boo Bagging could possibly be, consider yourself lucky. It is when a person with far too much time on her hands puts together multiple Halloween-themed gift bags (the more Martha Stewart the better) with a standardized “Boo” poem attached. She leaves one on your doorstep in the middle of the night. You open the door in the morning and you’ve been “Boo’d.” Sounds fine, I know: Who wouldn’t want a cute bag of homemade goodies? Just wait till you read the instructions contained in one of these poems, though. The whole thing is a pumpkin-seed-brittle-fueled chain letter. Having been “Boo’d,” a woman has just 48 short hours to return the favor by “Boo’ing” two more friends or neighbors. If you don’t have a gift closet stocked with seasonal items and a super-organized wrapping station, you are screwed. What sane woman would do this to another woman?

I didn't know Martha Stewart started boo bags. One more point for her. And thanks for the further example of the b/tching and complaining some women can do about making a memorable childhood for their kids. Do you think it should happen effortlessly?

Ugh, because there is always one more thing that’s the mom’s job. Let’s not even pretend dads might take care of this ish.

[Anonymous]

I did not like the tradition of booing people because in my neighborhood it ended up that one clique of parents did all of the booing and unfortunately we were not part of that clique so all the neighbor kids were being booed and we were not. I softened it by saying something like oh those are swim team parents and you're not on the swim team or whatever, but I know my kids felt a little ostracized.

Regardless, outside of booing I agree with the OP that we have too much cheap plastic in our landfills. I never buy cheap plastic even when I was doing goodie bags for kids birthday parties, I find anything other than plastic. I might do a coloring book or something like that. But not cheap China plastic that just gets thrown away.