Halloween Has Changed
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Here's the way I look at it; If someone is offended that's their problem. I had a lady get bent out of shape because I had the Ghost Host hanging in my Haunted Mansion display. My response was; "He's white and he's from the Haunted Mansion ride, you idiot! Beat it!" Don't get me wrong, doing an obviously derogatory costume or display means you're gonna face well deserved consequences.
As to the cutesy stuff, let grandma do her thing. I feel the same way about that stuff but it's none of my business if somebody else wants to do cutes trash. Now inflatables, that means war!
As to the cutesy stuff, let grandma do her thing. I feel the same way about that stuff but it's none of my business if somebody else wants to do cutes trash. Now inflatables, that means war!
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If it is the same house that I know, I live in an adjacent town to you
That house drew massive crowds!
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I’ve seen so many Halloween decoration styles come and go since the 1960s (where I started) and I even found myself losing my spooky-focus a few years ago. When my grandson was 5, he’d come to my house to visit and I was terrible at video games so we started making homemade Halloween props. We threw together a little booth made from wood scraps and fence pickets, and we’d change the theme every year. It was always our special time together and he’d come over to help with the 150+ trick or treaters. A couple of years ago, he was 16 and I started getting artsy for some odd reason (I’m medium-old) and I changed my Halloween theme to some kind of boring display and it looked like a backdrop to an old timey craft fair. Then 2020, I just threw together a cutesy theme to cheer up the “crowd”. It’s hard to get away from cuteness, but I’m determined to change back to those earlier scary decorations. I did do a mummy theme last year.. but one mummy out of the 8 was a tiny bit cute. Ha!
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I remember those costumes- and check out the mom with the plaid midi skirt and the Frye boots! Takes me back.
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We do the yard spooky/scary and have a canopy set up in the driveway for trick or treat that is set up cutesy and unimposing so the little ones aren't scared to come up. The yard display has actually been steadily leaning more and more towards scary over the years. There are ways to do both and for a home haunter doing trick or treat you should probably go easy on the little ones so they enjoy Halloween instead of being fearful of it. Once they get older they are fair game though.
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If someone wants to cover their house with glitter candy corn, there's nothing which says you have to. You can still cover your house with black widow spiders, cobwebs, and tombstones. It's a big world. There's room for all sortsd of things people enjoy.
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Collectibles come and go. I sometimes buy just to resell but I'm not greedy. I still have a bunch of Yankee candle halloween stuff, a few old school Dept 56 Halloween ( not the villages...just the home decor line). I have been downsizing my Halloween collection quite a bit. I am being more choosy about what I buy for myself.
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Schools are pretty strict these days on what kids can dress up as. I don't agree with the creativity part. I live in an apartment so I can't do a haunted house but I am crafty as heck and I make a lot of my own gothic/creepy decor.
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Ours has gone a bit to the spooky and creepy side. But the wife has three hard core rules about our display. 1. No blood and gore. 2. No clowns. 3. No babies or zombie kids. We do it for the kids and dont want them freaked out about it. Rule 4 was we were not allowed to scare the kids. Weeeellllllll Two years ago we did a zombie prom theme and 5 minutes in the wife walked down the driveway like a zombie and scared a 4 year old. Didnt mean to but she said that was a little fun. We use to work a professional haunt and got out scare out there big time. Seems we may bring that to the house on a smaller scale.
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The only case I ever saw of stuff being put in candy was actually done by the kids own parents.
Ya, messed up.
But my wife's parents used it as an excuse to never let their kids go trick or treating. Ever.
Didn't help her dad was a caseworker for the states child services and was (and still is) paranoid as heck. Won't even answer the door if they don't know who it is.
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Edit:
To settle this sh*t once and for all:
Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From?
The answer, as always, is to blame the media
www.smithsonianmag.com
It was their own kid.
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The actual razor blade in a candy bar thing started in the early 80's. Was a total myth and never really happened. Some say it all started because of this.
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Halloween 2 from 1981.
Halloween 2 from 1981.
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Although I have not gone trick or treating in a long time (age 21 was my last go at it) and don't plan to my five year old has been going since age 2. When I was a kid there was a guy in the neighborhood that would hand out a fist full of change in lieu of candy. At the time my friends hated going to that house but his was my favorite house every year. One year he ran out of change but he had a fish tank with piranha in it and he offered to let us watch him feed them as our "treat." Very cool! anyways I don't see stuff like that flying now a days, sad really. Watching my daughter go out we've never come across a "money house" or even people that hand out full size candies. Things of the past I suppose.
Schools are strict for the reason I initially described. They're terrified that someone, somewhere, might be offended by something. Screw them. Schools have turned into modern-day indoctrination centers, not about intelligence, education or learning to think for yourself. You have to follow the political zeitgeist forced into your head from a young age.
Unfortunately, the times suck.
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I put out a double-handful of them every year, tied together with twine so the wind doesn't blow them away. You have to buy them online if you want different sizes or colors.
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Not so much! We recognize that fairy-tale and fictional witches are not today Wiccans. Some of the rest of what you say is true, but witches are always a safe bet.
In fact, the only time I've ever heard someone complain is when someone came as a "Salem Witch" from 1692, complete with a noose around her neck. Not a single person killed in Salem was a witch in any sense of the word, and those people still have descendants living today. Not thoughtful.
Some costumes are just effing rude: there is no defending blackface today, sorry. Or dressing like a stereotypical Native American. And with the explosion of the mental illness that's at the root of most unhoused people, giving up hobo costumes is not that big a deal.
I miss scary, too, and I am offended by the sexualization of children and everything under the sun: sexy Hermione Granger and Spongebob Squarepants about finished me off.
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Very solid post.
The sexy children costumes are very disturbing.
So much so... I won't be able to stop 🤬 & I'm sure I'd get banned for life from the HF.
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Amazon has different sets.
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