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Halloween Is Different This Year For My Kids

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Much like the Halloween’s at Everyday Tips and Thoughts, my Halloween were simple but exciting!

My kids are lucky in that Trick-or-Treat is from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Halloween day in my neighborhood.  Most of the surrounding neighborhoods have it during daylight hours, and on a day that isn’t Halloween.  Is it safer?  Yes, but for a seasoned Halloween-er like myself, it doesn’t have the same feel.  In many ways, I feel that my kids are lucky considering that Halloween in my neighborhood that Norman Rockwell Halloween feel of yesteryear.

3 Halloween Witches

Girl Witches

Then why didn’t my kids go trick-or-treating this year?

My son didn’t get a costume, and  only at the last minute with friends, did he decide to go, but he didn’t even take a bag?!?  So he’s going to come home with any candy.  My daughter (who is only 7 years old), didn’t want to go either!  She stayed home and passed out candy in her Halloween costume.

Confused?  You bet I am!  The group I use to go trick-or-treating with would run to each house to get the goodies!  But not my kids…  There has been times that I have taken my kids to get ice cream after a soccer game for a surprise treat but when we would get there, they would say that they don’t want anything!

Perhaps candy and ice cream has lost it magic with my kids because it’s readily available at home?

This saddens me to a degree, because I had such great times trick-or-treating with my friends as a kid.  Don’t tell my mom, but we would even do a bit of tricking too (heh heh).  My son would never dream of doing any tricks on any of the neighbors.  Where I grew up, the houses weren’t so close together, perhaps it was a bit easier to do tricks when the houses aren’t so close together as they are in my current neighborhood…

And now my attempt to tie this article into a financial one!  Accounting is one area that scares the average small business, but Darwin’s Money wrote a great intro that takes the bite of out the the fear.

Happy Halloween!

MR

 

 

A Modern Norman Rockwell Like, Trick-Or-Treat Night

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3 Witches

Girl Witches

Tonight, I lived though another neighborhood Trick-Or-Treat Night!  Much like all of the previous Trick-Or-Treat nights, this one also reminded me of a scene from a modern Normal Rockwell painting.

Rockwell-like classic scenes on this cool Trick-Or-Treat night:

  • A few boys were running from house to house to collect as much candy as possible (it’s always boys, funny huh).
  • One boy dressed as a monster while another boy dressed as his girlfriend.  Always funny and actually quite brave of the boy dressing as the girl.
  • A few small groups of teenage girls, starting to become women, showing off how attractive they were in their Brittney Spears like schoolgirl costumes.
  • A large group of young girls all wearing similar costumes, this year it was a fairy theme, very cute.
  • The classic dad pulling his very tired, young children in a wagon up to the doorstep to collect candy.  What  a good dad!
  • A few horror themed monster (Jason, Freddy, etc) kids that always said thank you very politely after getting candy.

So what did my kids go as? 

My daughter chose to be a witch!  She embellished the costume with green makeup on her face, and colored her hair black via a spray can.  She also had “Wizard of Oz” striped witch stockings and an authentic looking twig broom.  She was adorable, if I may say so myself.

My son almost didn’t go, but at the last-minute, he dress as a soccer player (which he is), and went out and had a great time.  I was glad he changed his mind, Trick-Or-Treat is one of those things that have an unspoken age limit.

So why am I writing about this experience?  Because it has a lot of value that once my kids are grown, it’s not the same!  This is something worth spending money on while my kids are young enough to enjoy this Halloween holiday tradition…

Limited time events like trick-or-treat should be taken advantage of while you (or really your kids) are young, because it’s a short lived and once it’s over… it’s over! 

For those of you that are parents, your maximum enjoyment in the event is also limited !  Make the most of it while your kids are kids!!!

Have a great Trick-Or-Treat night!

-MR