Are you ready for Halloween?

Are your decorations all in place? Costumes ready to go? Treats all ready for when the doorbell rings?  I know it isn’t even October yet but if you have been in a grocery store recently then you know that I am not the only one jumping the gun. Now you might think that there is a proper order to the season where you start by decorating then get your costumes squared away and finish up by buying some candy. But I like to make my own rules so I started with the sweat stuff. 🙂

Anyway, I am quit certain that it is not fashionable to wrap your trick or treat candy in what most might consider to be trash, but I hope that is not the first thing that people notice about my Halloween treats.

What do you think about trick or treating anyway? I am old enough to be from the generation where we, young children, ran around the neighborhood loose without adult supervision, accumulating as much candy as we could in the short time we had. Sometimes we even got homemade treats from our neighbors! There was also a house that we had to go too every year. It was a little outside our neighborhood but it was worth the walk. To be clear the walk was not for the unwrapped handful of jellybeans you received, which was a strange candy choice even in my day, although I am sure that I ate them along with the homemade popcorn balls from some other neighbor.

The reason for the long trek out of our way was because the candy was distributed by a talking pumpkin! Now I realize that by today’s standards of Halloween decorating a talking pumpkin probably isn’t all that impressive. But I assure you it drew a line every Halloween back in the mid 70’s.

Halloween for me as a kid was just plan and silly fun. My father always had some elaborate idea for a Halloween costume, there were costume parades and prizes at my elementary school and I always looked forward to the trick or treating. We did of course have a few cautions about tainted candy and stranger danger but not to the extent that there is today. To be honest I don’t believe that our human moral fiber is any worse than it was when I was a kid. I believe that we just know too much more now. We hear all the bad stories and it does cause us some concern.

Anyway, I like to focus on the fun in Halloween. So when my trick or treaters have to choose a bat or a mummy or a spider or a ghost, rather than this candy bar or the other, I hope it will be a surprising bit of fun for them.

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