Do you give the Butterfinger to Halloween?
Does the thought of teens going to Halloween parties bring you to Three Muske-tears?
Do you find it impossible to find any Milkyway to have fun on October 31st?
I grew up loving Halloween as a kid. I was a dinosaur, a cute witch and a mime. I was even Kristi Yamaguchi one year on my roller blades.
In our house it was all about fun of dressing up and getting candy (particularly candy corn which can only be found this time of year – imagine a world without candy corn?!). It was all about the candy I got to eat that night, the candy I got to eat for weeks afterwards, the candy I got to throw away one year later (don’t lie – you know you’ve done it too!) and the candy my dad would decide was ‘poison’ or ‘opened’ or ‘one you won’t like’ or part of his ‘candy-checker commission.’
Some of my favorite childhood memories include Halloween. As a result, I’ve always had a hard time with the idea that Halloween should be boycotted, changed into some sort of ‘light party’ or celebrating the harvest (that’s Thanksgiving!).
It’s for this reason that I really appreciated this post about Halloween as Satan’s Birthday Party. I recommend you read it and try not to be a milk-dud about Halloween this year (I’m talking to you: raisin-givers)
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