Why does everyone wait to put up Halloween decorations until Oct 1?

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[Post New]09/28/2013 23:36
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Anonymous
Christmas has the Thanksgiving holiday before it that makes an easy, logical date for starting the festivities. Which makes me curious why Halloween, without a similar boundary, doesn't start any earlier than it already does? Don't get me wrong, I like that Halloween hasn't crept any earlier but I am frankly just surprised that it hasn't crept up without the boundary of an earlier holiday.
[Post New]09/28/2013 23:39
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Anonymous
Well, I wish they'd get rid of the Christmas decorations out of stores until after Thanksgiving. They're already up!
[Post New]09/28/2013 23:43
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maril332
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Probably because Halloween is one night (31st). The Holiday season is named as such because there are alot of holidays in that time period (Thanksgiving, Xmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa etc). Whereas Halloween is really only about 4 hours of "Celebration" unless you count parties leading up to the actual day of halloween.

Anywho... I think of it this way, I dont want the ghosts and ghouls super creepy decor all over my house and yard for 30 days. Usually the 2 days before halloween we go big with the decorating and such to prep for the trick or treat crowd. But to have our lawn looking like a graveyard from Oct 1... nope!
[Post New]09/28/2013 23:47
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Anonymous
We do it pretty large at our house, and generally wait until the first weekend in October. I'm 36 weeks pregnant, so we started a little early--today--much to the delight of our neighbors' children. I don't mind the early Christmas decorations either... gets me excited for the season. I'm a dork, I guess, but oh well.
[Post New]09/29/2013 01:09
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Anonymous
Jaw tight and pearls clutched: Halloween decorations are terribly, terribly .......
[Post New]09/29/2013 01:32
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Anonymous
maril332 wrote:Probably because Halloween is one night (31st). The Holiday season is named as such because there are alot of holidays in that time period (Thanksgiving, Xmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa etc). Whereas Halloween is really only about 4 hours of "Celebration" unless you count parties leading up to the actual day of halloween.

Anywho... I think of it this way, I dont want the ghosts and ghouls super creepy decor all over my house and yard for 30 days. Usually the 2 days before halloween we go big with the decorating and such to prep for the trick or treat crowd. But to have our lawn looking like a graveyard from Oct 1... nope!


Is ramadan in December? I thought is was during the summer this year...
[Post New]09/29/2013 01:44
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
maril332 wrote:Probably because Halloween is one night (31st). The Holiday season is named as such because there are alot of holidays in that time period (Thanksgiving, Xmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa etc). Whereas Halloween is really only about 4 hours of "Celebration" unless you count parties leading up to the actual day of halloween.

Anywho... I think of it this way, I dont want the ghosts and ghouls super creepy decor all over my house and yard for 30 days. Usually the 2 days before halloween we go big with the decorating and such to prep for the trick or treat crowd. But to have our lawn looking like a graveyard from Oct 1... nope!


Is ramadan in December? I thought is was during the summer this year...


I think she confused Ramadan and Chanukah
[Post New]09/29/2013 07:03
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Anonymous
I think she confused Ramadan and Eid.
[Post New]09/29/2013 07:29
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Anonymous
I saw a carved pumpkin already. Poor thing was already getting mushy!
[Post New]09/29/2013 07:35
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Anonymous
Because Halloween is a stupid, nonsensical fake-holiday.
Let the kids dress up one night, sure, but why all the frightening decorations and 'Happy Halloween' signs? What's happy about it?
[Post New]09/29/2013 07:36
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Because Halloween is a stupid, nonsensical fake-holiday.
Let the kids dress up one night, sure, but why all the frightening decorations and 'Happy Halloween' signs? What's happy about it?


Grumpy person. So unnecessarily nasty.
[Post New]09/29/2013 07:39
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Because Halloween is a stupid, nonsensical fake-holiday.
Let the kids dress up one night, sure, but why all the frightening decorations and 'Happy Halloween' signs? What's happy about it?


Personally I wish we would return to the tradition of dressing and decorating scary and frightening, instead of like, dressing up as Cinderella and going trick or treating at the mall. That's just so sad.

[Post New]09/29/2013 07:41
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because Halloween is a stupid, nonsensical fake-holiday.
Let the kids dress up one night, sure, but why all the frightening decorations and 'Happy Halloween' signs? What's happy about it?


Grumpy person. So unnecessarily nasty.


agree. nasty!
[Post New]09/29/2013 07:43
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because Halloween is a stupid, nonsensical fake-holiday.
Let the kids dress up one night, sure, but why all the frightening decorations and 'Happy Halloween' signs? What's happy about it?


Personally I wish we would return to the tradition of dressing and decorating scary and frightening, instead of like, dressing up as Cinderella and going trick or treating at the mall. That's just so sad.



Cinderella at the mall is ironic because it shows us how our real fears (baseless) have caused us to alter our fantasy play.

That said, our neighborhood does it up big with the scary and trick-or-treating.

Only losers take their children to the mall.
[Post New]09/29/2013 07:51
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because Halloween is a stupid, nonsensical fake-holiday.
Let the kids dress up one night, sure, but why all the frightening decorations and 'Happy Halloween' signs? What's happy about it?


Grumpy person. So unnecessarily nasty.


No, nasty would have been if they called Halloween participants losers and capitalist tools. S/he's just grumpy.
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