Are You A Big Spender On Halloween?
So it’s Halloween here tonight. October 31. What does this mean? It means as a grown up I buy candy and serve it to random children who ring my doorbell - which wouldn’t be acceptable at any other time of the year, really.
There won’t likely be a lot of door-ringers because Halloween isn’t such as big deal here in New Zealand, but I buy the candy and then have an excuse to eat it if there’s any left (actually I have already started…).
As a kid I would occasionally go trick or treating (only once did someone say ‘trick’ - I was flummoxed because I hadn’t prepared) and it was mostly lame because people wouldn’t have candy at the ready, so instead they would hand out fruit. Fruit!
Costumes varied. One year I was a ‘ghost’ (pillowcase with eye-holes cut out) and another I was a Smurf (white hat and blue face paint and blue turtleneck).
Which goes to show either a) you don’t need a lot of money to have fun - it’s about creativity or
b) you do need money and this illustrates why precisely - otherwise you end up begging in a pillowcase for strangers to give you food.
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Happy Halloween Shona!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:48 amOh, I am definitely not big spender on Halloween, because I am from Czech Republic. So we don‘t celebrate Halloween.
Happy Halloween for you!
November 1st, 2007 at 5:34 amlol- still laughing from the last part about the pillowcase!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:30 amWe only had 2 trick or treaters last night. The TV makes it seem like such a big deal, but really it’s rather quiet.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:34 pmWe saw quite a few kids out on Halloween this year. I think a big part of it was the weather which was pretty good….not cold, nor was it raining, although the forecast did call for it.
November 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 am