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Anonymous wrote: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.

Save your $. Nobody likes those coloring books. Kids do one page and parents recycle it.

Anonymous wrote:If people want the holiday to run the entire month, they should focus on decorating or making costumes from scratch or something not constant plastic.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

Leaving trash on someone’s doorstep is rude and hurtful, especially when they have posted a sign that they don’t want the Boo crap. So don’t talk about “rude and hurtful” when you started it by ignoring a posted sign and dumping unwanted crap on someone else’s property.

You’re insufferable and probably have very few friends, but people might actually like your children and want to do something nice for them, even if it’s something you dislike. Read an etiquette book. Returning gifts by leaving them on the giver’s porch is NOT a polite way to handle unwanted gifts.

DP

Giving gifts which have already been pre-declined by leaving them on the decliner's porch is NOT a polite way to handle your need for social interaction.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

Leaving trash on someone’s doorstep is rude and hurtful, especially when they have posted a sign that they don’t want the Boo crap. So don’t talk about “rude and hurtful” when you started it by ignoring a posted sign and dumping unwanted crap on someone else’s property.

You’re insufferable and probably have very few friends, but people might actually like your children and want to do something nice for them, even if it’s something you dislike. Read an etiquette book. Returning gifts by leaving them on the giver’s porch is NOT a polite way to handle unwanted gifts.

Anonymous wrote:I totally agree. We throw out everything from Halloween the next day. It’s gross how much waste there is. Same with Valentine’s Day. I don’t understand when these converted from small candy days to “candy plus stuff” days.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

Leaving trash on someone’s doorstep is rude and hurtful, especially when they have posted a sign that they don’t want the Boo crap. So don’t talk about “rude and hurtful” when you started it by ignoring a posted sign and dumping unwanted crap on someone else’s property.

You’re insufferable and probably have very few friends, but people might actually like your children and want to do something nice for them, even if it’s something you dislike. Read an etiquette book. Returning gifts by leaving them on the giver’s porch is NOT a polite way to handle unwanted gifts.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

Leaving trash on someone’s doorstep is rude and hurtful, especially when they have posted a sign that they don’t want the Boo crap. So don’t talk about “rude and hurtful” when you started it by ignoring a posted sign and dumping unwanted crap on someone else’s property.

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Anonymous wrote:Halloween night is already The Thing: an evening of dressing up, getting candy, seeing friends and neighbors, having fun. That’s it, that’s the thing. Maybe also a school party or school parade—great, fine.

If someone lives in a neighborhood where there is literally no Trick or Treating, fine, some kind of trunk or treat or whatever.

But we don’t need “Boo Baskets”—no one needs more cheap plastic crap from China.
We don’t need five trunk or treat events—HALLOWEEN IS ALREADY THE THING

And FFS pass out some candy and maybe a few non-candy treats for kids with allergies or who can’t have sugar or something. Not some huge ass bag filled with spider rings (trash), cheap and literally useless erasers (trash), those stupid fake teeth that get put in one time and then go in the…wait for it…trash.

Stop. Halloween is already special, you don’t need to make the entirety of October a landfill-exploding wasteland of cheap, cheap, tacky garbage.

You should definitely celebrate All Hollows and then go to mass on November for All Saints Day and to mass on November 2 for All Souls Day. No cheap plastic or annoying events tied to Halloween.

No thank you, I don’t support large-scale cover ups of pedophiles. That’s pretty scary/spooky, eh?

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Anonymous wrote:Halloween night is already The Thing: an evening of dressing up, getting candy, seeing friends and neighbors, having fun. That’s it, that’s the thing. Maybe also a school party or school parade—great, fine.

If someone lives in a neighborhood where there is literally no Trick or Treating, fine, some kind of trunk or treat or whatever.

But we don’t need “Boo Baskets”—no one needs more cheap plastic crap from China.
We don’t need five trunk or treat events—HALLOWEEN IS ALREADY THE THING

And FFS pass out some candy and maybe a few non-candy treats for kids with allergies or who can’t have sugar or something. Not some huge ass bag filled with spider rings (trash), cheap and literally useless erasers (trash), those stupid fake teeth that get put in one time and then go in the…wait for it…trash.

Stop. Halloween is already special, you don’t need to make the entirety of October a landfill-exploding wasteland of cheap, cheap, tacky garbage.

You should definitely celebrate All Hollows and then go to mass on November for All Saints Day and to mass on November 2 for All Souls Day. No cheap plastic or annoying events tied to Halloween.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Halloween in general, but I don't understand this logic.

Would you apply the same to Christmas? Christmas morning and presents is already THE THING. No need for caroling or holiday parties or gift exchanges or pictures with santa or anything else. The morning of 12/25 is already THE THING.

Just participate in what makes you happy OP and skip the rest.

OP here. That…is how I feel about Christmas.

I…do participate in just what makes us happy and skip the rest. But even when we proactively put up a sign that “We’ve Been Booed,” literal baskets of plastic landfill items somehow end up on our front porch. We put them back on the porch of the person we suspected. Once a friend texted why and I said, “Oh, you must not have seen our sign—we were Booed already, so I wanted you to have the chance to Boo someone who didn’t get Booed!” Like no thank you to a bin of crap.

That’s just plain rude. You don’t have to participate in booing, but returning the boo bags to friends without saying a word is hurtful. This year post a sign that says, “We don’t participate in booing. Please boo someone else.”

Leaving trash on someone’s doorstep is rude and hurtful, especially when they have posted a sign that they don’t want the Boo crap. So don’t talk about “rude and hurtful” when you started it by ignoring a posted sign and dumping unwanted crap on someone else’s property.

Anonymous wrote:Halloween night is already The Thing: an evening of dressing up, getting candy, seeing friends and neighbors, having fun. That’s it, that’s the thing. Maybe also a school party or school parade—great, fine.

If someone lives in a neighborhood where there is literally no Trick or Treating, fine, some kind of trunk or treat or whatever.

But we don’t need “Boo Baskets”—no one needs more cheap plastic crap from China.
We don’t need five trunk or treat events—HALLOWEEN IS ALREADY THE THING

And FFS pass out some candy and maybe a few non-candy treats for kids with allergies or who can’t have sugar or something. Not some huge ass bag filled with spider rings (trash), cheap and literally useless erasers (trash), those stupid fake teeth that get put in one time and then go in the…wait for it…trash.

Stop. Halloween is already special, you don’t need to make the entirety of October a landfill-exploding wasteland of cheap, cheap, tacky garbage.