Thread: Halloween vs Xmas 2010

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For 2010 Halloween sales are projected to up and Xmas sales are projected to be way down. Any thoughts on these articles? My personal opinion for most people Halloween is fun! For a lot of people Xmas is stressful and the obligations and buying of expensive gifts has soured many which has been made worse by the economy.

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I think Halloween sales will be way up this year! Halloween and Christmas are 2 of the most money making Holidays each year. Halloween get's more new props and ideas than Xmas.
Halloween you can be who you want to be and Xmas its Santa or the elf lol.

This is the same predicted trend as last year... however there are no halloween decorations and aisles full of Christmas decorations

Does that make sense to anyone else? There is a Halloween demand... where is the supply?

Originally Posted by propmistress

This is the same predicted trend as last year... however there are no halloween decorations and aisles full of Christmas decorations

Does that make sense to anyone else? There is a Halloween demand... where is the supply?

That is a good question I think despite Xmas sales being down its still a bigger holiday so that's why you see the big early push for Xmas starting in July

Originally Posted by propmistress

This is the same predicted trend as last year... however there are no halloween decorations and aisles full of Christmas decorations

Does that make sense to anyone else? There is a Halloween demand... where is the supply?

Well said!

my local dollar general has about 3' of shelf space for halloween stuff.

and 2 aisles of xmas stuff.

go figure

Made my rounds this weekend. Stoped at Menards, Home Depot, Lowes, Walgreens, K-Mart, Target and Wal-Mart very sad, the only thing I came home with is a pair of "gruesome ground breakers" hands and a few candy pumpkin pails. Not much else caught my eye. But I saw lots and lots of fully decorated christmas trees all lite up. There is something just wrong with this picture.

We haven't even changed the calendar to October and Christmas stuff is out. I love Christmas too, but lets get through Halloween and then Thanksgiving first.

Well, logically, since people spend dramatically less on Halloween than on Christmas (nationwide), there's much more room to "spend more" on H'ween than on Christmas. I'm pretty sure last year the national per-household Christmas expenditures were over $800. Certainly we don't, as an average, anywhere even approach that for H'ween. (As an average, I said! Here on this forum, $800 would be a cheap year, LOL.)

So yeah, it's way easier for a person who spent $20 on candy last year for H'ween to spend $40 instead this year by simply buying one mini-prop or device. By contrast, imagine doubling an $800 Christmas budget. (I'm just using "doubling" as an example/comparison and because the math is easy. Obviously, neither holiday is expected to up or down by double.)

People are cutting back on Christmas in the past few years ONLY because the average spending had been absolutely, positively sick, just outrageous for Xmas, whereas for H'ween, you could buy $1.00 window clings one year, then buy two of them next year and say you'd doubled your spending for H'ween.

Never fear. H'ween *is* more popular now than in recent years. If it goes down again, it will go up yet again in the future. It comes and goes in waves (the popularity of H'ween, I mean). Christmas by contrast pretty much stays a constant. That's just the way it is. We actually are in a minority.

But hearing that H'ween spending will be up AT ALL is music to my ears because if even one more person than last year has discovered the fun of H'ween, then, yay! More fun all around.

Originally Posted by propmistress

This is the same predicted trend as last year... however there are no halloween decorations and aisles full of Christmas decorations

Does that make sense to anyone else? There is a Halloween demand... where is the supply?

I am in totally agreement with you!