Reply #45: Heck, m,y only complaint is that [View All]

[SheilaT]

Halloween is rapidly becoming a holiday for which I'm supposed to decorate big time, like Christmas.

Sadly, my neighborhood is full of people aging in place, and last year not a single trick-or-treater came to my door. Year before I had maybe three. There just aren't that many kids around here any more. Fifteen years ago, when we first moved here (and my kids were then 3 and 7) we had trick-or-treaters until past 11pm. I miss those days.

One of my sons used to attend a Jewish pre-school. I recall there was some kind of official prohibition against Halloween since it was considered a "Christian" observance, but the entire week or two after October 31st every single kid brought leftover Halloween candy to school in the lunch bag.

Oh, and for what it's worth, I remember the nuns at my Catholic school approximately 50 years ago not sure that Christmas trees were really acceptable, since they were actually pagan symbols.

The more things change....