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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Start with everyone leaves work early which creates massive traffic jams early on Halloween every single year.

Teenagers stealing candy - kids emptying bowls of candy left out because you’re out with your kids.

Kids ringing doorbells when the home has the light off

The expectation that every home should decorate

There’s work in the morning and school typically

Are your kids taking candy to lunch?

Are you doing dentist buyback programs?

The list goes on…[/quote]

WTF is a dentist buyback program? Your kids get candy, you set some kind of reasonable rules about eating it. They eat it under those rules. There's no reason to think about this more than that.[/quote]

They get too much candy. We wind up throwing a lot of it away. People buy too much candy and even if you limit ToT, people will hand out whole handfuls of candy -- last year my kid's bucket was full after like 6 houses. If we kept it all, and said our kid could have one piece a day, it would take months and months to finish it. And since the winter holidays also often involve a lot of candy and sweets. It just piles up. And we are a family that enjoys sweet treats! But candy is such low quality treats -- I'd rather make some good muffins or cheesecake bars or something like that.

I don't remember having so much candy as a kid. People would give you one piece of candy. No one in my neighborhood gave out full size anything. I don't know why the volume of candy has gotten so out of control at the same time that I think most people are at least a bit more restrictive about kids having candy.[/quote]

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