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Started by Ecurb Noselrub, October 31, 2011, 06:08:35 PM

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Ecurb Noselrub

October 31, 2011, 06:08:35 PM
From Halloween to New Years is just one extended holiday in the USA - the eating binge has begun. So I suggest just calling it by one name, incorporating all our major holidays.  So today begins "New Hallowthankmas - a combination of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Even Hannukah is included, as the "han" in "thank".  So, here's wishing you all a Great New Hallowthankmas!

Tank

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October 31, 2011, 06:22:23 PM
Fortunatly we in the UK are not blessed with Thanksgiving  ;D
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xSilverPhinx

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October 31, 2011, 06:25:37 PM
We in Brazil have sort of imported Halloween, but not Thanksgiving. Happy Hallowmas!
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Willow

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October 31, 2011, 09:04:06 PM
We have had 40 local kids come knocking on and now we are clean out of chocolate.  We have pumpkins/ jackolanterns, so we do encourge them, but I was expecting to have some left over for me.

Guy Fawkes or bonfire night on Saturday, so my hubby will be taking the kids out for fireworks.  I'm scared so I'll stay home.
Then we just have to get ready for Christmas.
phew.

fester30

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October 31, 2011, 09:34:51 PM
Quote from: Tank on October 31, 2011, 06:22:23 PM
Fortunatly we in the UK are not blessed with Thanksgiving  ;D

So is that what you're giving thanks for this year?

Whitney

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November 01, 2011, 01:11:01 AM Last Edit: November 01, 2011, 01:12:41 AM by Whitney
Quote from: Willow on October 31, 2011, 09:04:06 PM
We have had 40 local kids come knocking on and now we are clean out of chocolate.  We have pumpkins/ jackolanterns, so we do encourge them, but I was expecting to have some left over for me.

I bought 400 pieces of candy and am almost out...I gave each kid about 4 (it's the cheap kind).  My plan was to not have any left over so I guess I'm on track since it's 8:10 and I wasn't planning on answering the door after around 8:30 so I can actually sit down for longer than 3 minutes at a time.  The kids in costumes are cute but a few hours of this is plenty.

btw, this is my first year to actually live somewhere with lots of kids...at least since i was a kid.

DeterminedJuliet

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November 01, 2011, 01:43:54 AM
Thanksgiving is in early October here in Canada, so we have an even longer span of gluttony.
I currently have a bowl of mini-chocolate bars sitting right in front of me. Nom nom.
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Whitney

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November 01, 2011, 02:00:31 AM
I ended up running really low at 8:20ish at which point I gave everything left to a cute shy girl dressed as a princess...lots easier than having to get back up again when it was probably going to be only teenagers from that point on.  I turned off my lights but can still hear kids outside walking past....I thought it was a generally understood 'rule' to be done by 9pm??

Sandra Craft

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November 01, 2011, 02:15:29 AM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on October 31, 2011, 06:08:35 PM
From Halloween to New Years is just one extended holiday in the USA - the eating binge has begun. So I suggest just calling it by one name, incorporating all our major holidays.  So today begins "New Hallowthankmas - a combination of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Even Hannukah is included, as the "han" in "thank".  So, here's wishing you all a Great New Hallowthankmas!

So many people complain about the money drain of all 4 holidays, I was thinking that one solution would be to pick your favorite holiday and ignore the other four.  I'd go all out celebrating Thanksgiving, forget about carving a pumpkin on Halloween, email everyone not to send me a gift on Xmas and go to bed early on New Year's Eve. 

But I can see where this would be confusing if everyone in your circle was celebrating different holidays.  What if we picked one day between Halloween and New Year's Eve, call it New Hallowthankmas and celebrate everything at once?  Family gets together for turkey lunch (Thanksgiving), gifts are only bought for kids under 13 (Halloween and Xmas) and in the evening people visit friends for a drink, kiss at midnight and go home (New Year's Eve).  If it was held on the traditional Thanksgiving day, most of us would get Friday off to recover.
Sandy

  

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Ecurb Noselrub

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November 02, 2011, 03:22:49 AM
Quote from: Whitney on November 01, 2011, 02:00:31 AM
I ended up running really low at 8:20ish at which point I gave everything left to a cute shy girl dressed as a princess...lots easier than having to get back up again when it was probably going to be only teenagers from that point on.  I turned off my lights but can still hear kids outside walking past....I thought it was a generally understood 'rule' to be done by 9pm??

I was done by 9, and had to turn one group away.  I estimate 250-300 kids came by my house. They were dropping them off in our neighborhood on trailers, vans and pickups.  But, no bad events.

Whitney

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November 02, 2011, 03:37:03 AM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on November 02, 2011, 03:22:49 AM
They were dropping them off in our neighborhood on trailers, vans and pickups.  But, no bad events.

That's how it was in the neighborhood I grew up in because it was one of the nicer neighborhoods in the general area....I guess that meant better candy.  We had one lady who use to give out full size candy bars all night; I don't know how she afforded it because the neighborhood wasn't that nice.
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