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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is part of the Halloween industrial complex and more make-work for moms. I'm very over this holiday at this point.[/quote]

Same. This holiday is out of control, frankly. It used to be a fun, somewhat silly holiday that was enjoyable in large part because the obligations were pretty low. I truly don't understand what happened here. Social media? Now it's dumb.

My family does not do family themed costumes and this makes us outliers within our community. DH never dresses up (he just doesn't like wearing costumes, it's not his thing). I usually dress up but do something super easy (witch, cat, artist -- something with one or two props we might already have and that allows me to wear black and however many layers I need to be comfortable in whatever random-ass weather we get that night). There have been two years I didn't dress up because it was a tough week and I was just too tired. My kids do NOT care as long as they like their costumes, and have never expressed any concern about my basic costumes or DH's lack of costume.

Meanwhile, other parents seem really worked up about our lack of effort. Every year we get people "suggesting" costumes we should throw together to go with our kid's chosen costumes (note: these suggestions seem to assume a bizarre amount of fabric, face paint, and random props in our tiny row home), or we'll get grilled on it ("but why don't you want to dress up?? my kids looooove it -- I bet yours would too! you guys should do something together next year!") or people are weirdly condescending about it. I'm like... why does it require a comment at all? Who cares? Why put something like this on other parents? I don't understand the weird pressure.

I'm also not on social media at all so maybe I just don't get it for that reason.[/quote]

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