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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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

Did boo baskets start during covid?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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

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

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

[quote]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?[/quote][/quote]

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