Halloween's Not Just For Kids
Halloween is no longer considered a children's holiday, according to many national retailers. Young adults have turned it into a $3.3 billion industry. From the article: Off-the-shelf vinyl masks and tacky little pumpkin lights don't cut it with this crowd. Only Hollywood-style makeup and effects will do.
My wife thinks I spent too much on Halloween decorations this year. I shelled out about $50 for a couple of plastic skulls, a sound-activated ghost, and three giant white cobwebs. Wait until I tell her about the guy who spends $500 each year! Or the Starbucks manager who thinks he's dropped about $10,000 on Halloween supplies over the past few years.
I don't mind my kids getting a thrill out of ghosts and skeletons. It's fun to dress up, get scared, laugh a little bit, and remind ourselves that life shouldn't always be so serious. It's also important to teach our kids about the turning of the seasons, so we always mix in some harvest festivities with the spooky stuff.
Anyone who's not so sure about letting their kids celebrate Halloween, go and read the thoughts that Barbara wrote about this time of the year.
Permalink posted by Phil at 5:01 PM
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Phil, Just loved the picture! This has always been a Halloween House. Now that we are officially empty nesters, we had to decide if that was a real thing or if it was a thing we did when our kids were little. It's a real thing here. Now we get firm instructions from the east coast to the west coast on the exact protocol and procedures for the official Halloween look here at Bellemaison: cemetery with headstones on the front lawn complete with 70 carved pumpkins (this is really hard to do when you do not have children with friends living at home), lifesize hanging skeleton off the garage door and Frankenstein on the roof. We're just about done and will photo tomorrow evening so we can pass inspection. Heck, we may not have any kids living here anymore but we've still got a life. Sort of.
BTW, Phil, I did read Barbara's thoughts on Halloween and I think Barbara's right on the money. You never did say what you are going to be?
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