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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love fall but I despise Halloween. [/quote]

Man, we should start a club.

I feel like the 10% of people who LOVE Halloween make it miserable for everyone else. It is so much forced fun, if you have young kids. Pretty much every other holiday, I feel like it's possible to pick and choose what works for your family. Because Halloween gets shoehorned into a weekday most of the time, and happens in your neighborhood and involves this reciprocal arrangement with trick or treating, it feels much harder to opt out. I do it for the kids but loathe it.

Hopefully in a few years, my kids will either want to go out with their friends on their own, or just stay home and give out candy to little kids, and then I can check out on it.[/quote]

You loathe the one single day of ToT for your kids?

As you point out, it's easy enough to opt out of most esle.[/quote]

+1. People here seem very high strung about Trick or Treating. Your kid picks a costume, you buy a costume, you follow them around for a few hours OR you send your spouse out to follow them around. I can't imagine what drama is going on to make people loathe it.[/quote]

It's the people who don't feel like that's enough. The ones organizing a school costume parade, insisting on orchestrating ToT for the entire neighborhood, asking you why you didn't dress up (it's because I hate fun, Joanne), or trying to pressure you into drinking the "Boo-garitas" they made even though it's 7pm on a Tuesday and you still have to get your amped up kids to bed and then have to be up at 5am tomorrow to make up for having left work at 2pm so you could be at the costume parade at 3pm.

If Halloween looked the way you describe it, I'd have no issue with it. I find the Halloween obsessives more obnoxious and forceful than the people who love Christmas, who mostly seem content to just love Christmas in their own way without forcing me to do anything.[/quote]

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