Past week and a half I see more and more Halloween stuff in the stores, I've seen Halloween decorations around houses, has this gone from just a non-holiday event to a season?
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It starts right after Labor Day now. I think I've heard that Halloween is the most lucrative holiday next to Christmas. Valentine's Day starts right after New Year's, Easter starts right after Valentine's Day. I think Thanksgiving and Christmas both start right after Halloween. The stores are afraid you'll spend your money at their competitors if they don't try to beat them to the punch.
If the theme parks have their way, Halloween definitely will become a season -- they line up events from Labor Day through the rest of September and entirety of October.
We got Halloween stuff in late July and started to get Christmas two weeks ago. We are sending back summer stuff now and back-to-school will soon follow. We also have fall décor as well.
It might seem like a long time but there are only six weeks to sell a lot of Halloween merchandise and candy!
In a way I don't mind. I remember how the trick or treating tradition was going down hill in my old neighborhood to the point where one year we only got six kids. Still the commercialism makes me wonder of the Charlie Brown Halloween Special shouldn't be re-tooled a bit to resembled the Charlie Brown Christmas special. And when did all girl costumes have to become sexy?
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Better Halloween stuff than Christmas.
I don't know if it's a season now, but it seems to me it's much more about adult activities than trick or treating anymore.
It starts right after Labor Day now. I think I've heard that Halloween is the most lucrative holiday next to Christmas. Valentine's Day starts right after New Year's, Easter starts right after Valentine's Day. I think Thanksgiving and Christmas both start right after Halloween. The stores are afraid you'll spend your money at their competitors if they don't try to beat them to the punch.
The jokes on them, I don't have any money.
If the theme parks have their way, Halloween definitely will become a season -- they line up events from Labor Day through the rest of September and entirety of October.
We got Halloween stuff in late July and started to get Christmas two weeks ago. We are sending back summer stuff now and back-to-school will soon follow. We also have fall décor as well.
It might seem like a long time but there are only six weeks to sell a lot of Halloween merchandise and candy!
And Christmas will be much much more!
In a way I don't mind. I remember how the trick or treating tradition was going down hill in my old neighborhood to the point where one year we only got six kids. Still the commercialism makes me wonder of the Charlie Brown Halloween Special shouldn't be re-tooled a bit to resembled the Charlie Brown Christmas special. And when did all girl costumes have to become sexy?
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