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Post by shaena on Jul 26, 2019 8:30:39 GMT -5
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Post by Sprockey on Jul 26, 2019 8:45:05 GMT -5
Our town argues this every year  Halloween is on Oct 31st. EOD |
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Post by Tpatt100 on Jul 26, 2019 8:51:45 GMT -5
I’m fine with it and prefer it to be honest
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jul 26, 2019 10:11:11 GMT -5
October 31st EOD. Can we please stop doing shit like this. If we can't figure out how to give candy out to strangers one night a year then we're kind of fucked.
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Post by justthinking on Jul 26, 2019 10:59:48 GMT -5
There us no need to move the date of the actual holiday in some big international campaign. That's overkill. If you want your municipality to have ToT on a different day, work that level. There is no law which says ToT can only happen on October 31st. Our town always has ToT on the last Sunday of October. We've been doing it that way for years.
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Post by Sprockey on Jul 26, 2019 11:09:49 GMT -5
October 31st EOD. Can we please stop doing shit like this. If we can't figure out how to give candy out to strangers one night a year then we're kind of fucked. Right? It's not like celebrating is mandatory LOL |
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jul 26, 2019 11:48:14 GMT -5
October 31st EOD. Can we please stop doing shit like this. If we can't figure out how to give candy out to strangers one night a year then we're kind of fucked. Right? It's not like celebrating is mandatory LOL Exactly - if your kids can't handle being out late on a school night don't send them out. If you don't want to hand out candy on a work night don't send them out. I don't know why we have to take every fun thing for kids and repackage it in a "safe" manner - that means they never have to disrupt their schedule. I get that this is just about Halloween but we're not doing our kids any favours if we do stuff like this - they need to learn about flexibility and disruption in a natural way and things like Halloween are one way of doing that.
What next - we move Christmas to only be on a Sunday?
And TBH when Halloween falls on a Friday/Saturday Trick or Treating coincides with the vast majority of Halloween parties - so you have more people on the roads and more drunk people on the roads. Most adults who are hosting a Halloween party don't do it on the 31st - they do it on the closest Saturday.
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Post by nansel on Jul 26, 2019 12:46:24 GMT -5
I don't know why we have to take every fun thing for kids and repackage it in a "safe" manner - that means they never have to disrupt their schedule. I get that this is just about Halloween but we're not doing our kids any favours if we do stuff like this - they need to learn about flexibility and disruption in a natural way and things like Halloween are one way of doing that. Yes! 100% As a kid I liked it when Halloween was on a weekday anyway because you made a costume and went to school dressed up, and the next day everyone was talking about their adventures. I always thought that the randomness of the day was part of the charm. Adults could have their parties on the weekend previous, Halloween day was all about trick or treat and going out around your neighbourhood after dark. It used to be a small thing, now it's so big a consumer deal that it's lost a lot of the fun for me. For one thing - it lasts forever if you take into account when stores put out supplies. I try to do my part to keep it simple and neighbourly by handing out candy, and only have my lame decorations up on the day of. The guy across the street from us is the same - he has a great set up, but only puts it out at most the day before. |
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Post by deeniereenie on Jul 26, 2019 12:51:35 GMT -5
This is ridiculous, and overkill. It is the last day in October, period.
I will admit though, as a teacher, I HATE HALLOWEEN. It is easily the worst holiday in early childhood, lol.
First of all, it seems to be the one most parents are divided about- those who celebrate, and those who think it is the "devil's holiday". So i try to keep things pretty generic and seasonal, pumpkins instead of jack o'lanterns, etc. but I do also do some Halloween type activities, our directed drawing for October is Frankenstein, for example.
Secondly, they are WIRED the day of. Bouncing off the walls wired. Then the next day, they are so tired. The second day after, WIRED. You get them calmed down the next week, then BAM! Thanksgiving and Christmas hit.
I am suddenly feeling very tired, lol. I need to go take another nap to prepare myself for the beat down that is kindergarten first semester, haha.
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Post by villanelle on Jul 26, 2019 15:36:51 GMT -5
I don't care. lol
I have more of an issue with towns setting specific times and claiming that ToT-ing outside those times is somehow illegal, or restricting ages. As far as I know, I could ring my neighbors' doorbells tomorrow and ask for candy, and no one could stop me or arrest me. They are free to not give me candy on July 27 or Oct 31 or the last Saturday in October, if they don't want to.. Having guidelines to help people decide when to go out and when to call it quits is great, but trying to FORBID anything outside those times (or ages) is ridiculous.
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Post by maurinsky on Jul 26, 2019 15:55:58 GMT -5
Our town argues this every year Halloween is on Oct 31st. EOD Thank goodness for New England! The only time we rescheduled it was when we had a hurricane on Halloween! |
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Post by realcranky on Jul 26, 2019 17:33:18 GMT -5
Halloween is not a legal holiday. LOL
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Post by Pandora on Jul 26, 2019 18:20:28 GMT -5
I reject the idea of there being any kind of legal authority over Halloween. I got into an argument with my best friend over this a few years ago. She mentioned that due to the weather, "they" might reschedule trick-or-treating. Excuse me? They who? I felt that if the people on her street or neighborhood or whatever wanted to agree to do it another night then fine, whatever, but an official authority of trick-or-treating? Ridiculous. She didn't see the big deal but I was very incensed, lol.
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Post by realcranky on Jul 27, 2019 6:15:59 GMT -5
Oh, every place here schedules trick or treating. It's usually on Halloween night, but with limited hours. There's no law against going some other time, but you won't get any candy.
A couple of times it's been in the afternoon, and that was actually great.
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Post by Kay on Jul 27, 2019 7:56:05 GMT -5
Our town argues this every year Halloween is on Oct 31st. EOD Thank goodness for New England! The only time we rescheduled it was when we had a hurricane on Halloween! Yes. The only time we ever didn’t have Halloween on October 31 was during Hurricane Sandy. Halloween is October 31st. EOD! |
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Post by marianparoo on Jul 30, 2019 6:13:29 GMT -5
How can you change the date of a holiday connected with a date?  |
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Post by TapToTalk on Aug 3, 2019 14:14:55 GMT -5
In Columbus, the tradition was to have Beggar's Night on October 30th. I grew up with it and knew nothing different. It even moved a bit so that it wouldn't fall during the weekend. When I moved, no one had heard of this. "How can you not do it on October 31st?"... oh, well. Now that Halloween is a big bucks costume, decoration, party national holiday it needs a date! How can you change the date of a holiday connected with a date? Cause we're Americans and we can do what we want. If we want Cinco de Mayo to be on June 2nd, we will!
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