How much $ will you spend on Halloween this year?

[Thinktank]

I think USA is going to spend $8 billion, so that means we will
spend close to $1 billion on Halloween. I see the stores starting to put
out the candy.

Last year I spent $0.00
The year before I spent $0.00
the twenty years before that I spent $0.00
That means I'm averaging - $0.00 - per year on Halloween.

How much do you intend to spend? And do you spend more on tooth rotting candy,
or on other assorted useless stuff?

Have you ever wondered why? Why would we spend $1 billion on Halloween?

Shouldn't we have 'National Health Food day' instead?

discuss

[Dizzy1]

Shouldn't we have 'National Health Food day' instead?

You have 364 other days you can have "National Health Food Day", let the kids have one day to gorge themselves with sweets. I loved Halloween when I was a kid and I still love it today.

Its bad enough we've got one group trying to take Chrismtas away, another group trying to take Easter away, another trying to take Thanksgiving away and another Halloween.

You don't want to partake, don't partake but leave the rest of us the hell alone and don't touch my candy corn, 'nuff said!

[tgm929]

I think USA is going to spend $8 billion, so that means we will
spend close to $1 billion on Halloween. I see the stores starting to put
out the candy.

Last year I spent $0.00
The year before I spent $0.00
the twenty years before that I spent $0.00
That means I'm averaging - $0.00 - per year on Halloween.

How much do you intend to spend? And do you spend more on tooth rotting candy,
or on other assorted useless stuff?

Have you ever wondered why? Why would we spend $1 billion on Halloween?

Shouldn't we have 'National Health Food day' instead?

discuss

You missed that Halloween is fun. Some people like to have fun and to see others have fun, and they don't mind spending their money for this to happen. It beats complaining about everything just because people enjoy things that you don't.

Also, for many of the kids it might be the only time they get outside all year.

Brush and floss and your teeth won't rot.

[Bpeep]

I just give my excess.
Last year, every kid got a green tomato.
Probably gonna be potatoes this year.
One to a kid.

[JLives]

I've very strict when it comes to sugar and we eat pretty healthy. Some days you just need to have fun. Why not get dressed up and go trick or treating with your friends. I love all of the holidays (although I'm getting fed up with Christmas) and am glad my kids will have fun memories of them. Plus I discovered I'm a pretty awesome face painter.

[Dizzy1]

You missed that Halloween is fun. Some people like to have fun and to see others have fun, and they don't mind spending their money for this to happen. It beats complaining about everything just because people enjoy things that you don't.

Some days you just need to have fun. Why not get dressed up and go trick or treating with your friends.

Agreed, kids these days really don't get to have as much fun as we had back in our childhood days, so its nice to have a day like Halloween just to have fun, plus it lets us be kids again, just like going to Disneyland, it lets us relive our childhood memories for a few hours and make new ones with your kids.


But Disneyland is way cooler ;)

[Thinktank]

I'm not exactly sure why it's 'fun.'

There's nothing fun about being $1 billion poorer than you were a day earlier.

I'd rather get a free potato than 10 lbs. of free candy any day.

[Thinktank]

I'm thinking it's not that fun for kids either.

It's promoted to make us spend $.

[JLives]

We're spending much less than $1 billion this year and the garden is providing plenty of free potatoes.

[Dizzy1]

I'm not exactly sure why it's 'fun.'

Let me guess, you've never been to Disneyland either, have you?

There's nothing fun about being $1 billion poorer than you were a day earlier.

Nobody is $1 billion poorer, nobody is poorer because of Halloween, most people simply do what they can afford to do, for some its more than others, there are no set spending requirments.

I'd rather get a free potato than 10 lbs. of free candy any day.

But its not just what you want, its about what others would like to have, such as fun, dressing up, carving a jack'o'lantern and trick or treating for yummy candy.

[Dizzy1]

I'm thinking it's not that fun for kids either.

Yeah, no its not fun for kids at all ... sheesh <rollingeyes>

[1nick]

I'd rather spend 5 bucks on a bag of candy for the kids rather than cleaning eggs and toilet paper off my house.
What a stick in the mud.

[Thinktank]

When I was really young ( about five) I went to one house for candy
wearing a mask. It was dark and hard to see where I was walking on the
rough dirt driveway, and out of nowhere, this vicious little dog came running at me
like a real devil, and scared the hell out of me, and I even dropped half my candy, but
I got the hell out of there.

What's fun about that?

And later - I learned about a dentists drill.

[Bpeep]

The last time I went out in public wearing a mask, I got arrested.

Halloween is a zero sum game.
Nobody is 1 billion dollars poorer.
Its simply a transfer of wealth.
We buy 1 billion worth of candy, and the kids get 1 billion worth of candy.

[Dizzy1]

When I was really young ( about five) I went to one house for candy
wearing a mask. It was dark and hard to see where I was walking on the
rough dirt driveway, and out of nowhere, this vicious little dog came running at me
like a real devil, and scared the hell out of me, and I even dropped half my candy, but
I got the hell out of there.

What's fun about that?

So because something happened to you, you use that as argument to come to a conclusion that everyone else has experienced similar?

And later - I learned about a dentists drill.

As posted above, brush and floss, simple rule of life if you want healthy teeth.