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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh, it makes me happy. My kid is over the moon excited to boo friends. It’s an opportunity to think about what friends might like. (I take him to the book store or Michael’s and we pick out a Halloween book or craft for them).

If you don’t like it, pass it on. Someone will. You cannot control my actions and I cannot control your reaction and that’s okay.[/quote]

Serious question: do you ever think about environmental waste?[/quote]

[b]Are books considered environmental waste[/b]? Crafts?

You sound like someone I know who made a big deal about why she doesn’t do holiday cards “because of the environment.”

After she pontificated about it at a party she hosted, some guests huddled and ran down a laundry list of her family’s carbon footprint starting with her home renovation and multiple big trips each year. Not to mention her own crafting habits.

See how the tables can turn? [/quote]
Trees are a renewable resource and they break down. Crafts that are made with plastic are, yes, an environmental waste. If you sew or knit or make art, then it's probably not that bad.

But yeah, I hate when people harp on the small things when they take two international vacations each year and eat a ton of meat. My parents go to extreme lengths to recycle everything that comes in their house, yet they eat red meat weekly and live in a large SFH in an area where they have to drive everywhere. My mother acts like she's an environmentalist because she really cleans out that peanut butter jar so she can recycle it and she makes an extra trip (in her car) to recycle soft plastics (that she doesn't try to avoid, she just thinks recycling it is great). Sigh.[/quote]

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