Halloween 🎃 Cancelled.

The most concerned about Halloween are the stores. They’ve had the boxes of candy on the shelves for 2-3 weeks. Big business.

Read somewhere that Value Village doesn’t have their costumes this year. China can’t supply them.

I‘ll wait until closer to the night to decide how to handle this. As a parent, I wouldn’t want my kids going to the homes of strangers this year.

Perhaps the schools will hold special afternoon parties.
 

Aunt Marg said:
Keesha. Do you know if the ban is provincial wide, or is it just limited to the province of Ontario at this time?
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There isnt actually a ban on it. It’s a warning from the Health Board advising people against it. There’s a link I added a few posts up #22 that explains it.
 

I feel bad for both the children and adults who enjoy Halloween (myself included) but maybe for this year only families will find a different way to have fun on that night. Maybe a night of staying home and watching the old Universal Studios monster movies together or something like that.
 
Halloween has been progressively eviscerated for years in my area. When I was a kid we had Halloween parties in school that lasted all afternoon, and we could dress like skeletons, witches, monsters...anything! We had a blast, and even the teachers dressed up. In recent years, however, a few religious fundamentalists complained that school observances of Halloween were "promoting Satanism in the schools." The schools caved, and now all that's allowed are "fall parties" where children are permitted to dress up like characters from childrens' literature. It just isn't the same...

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We had a blast when we were kids too. We came home from school, would get all dressed up and be out at dusk and wouldn’t be back until 9:00.

We took pillow cases and would usually have 1/3rd to a 1/2 bag full of candy. There was one crazy lady that would literally make you do a trick to get your treat but she gave away freshly made toffee apples so you bet I sang. She was at the end of the trick or treating track so I’d eat my apple on the way home which I know I shouldn’t have done but did. She lived right across from our public school and had lived there for a long time so i trusted her. She made the best toffee apples.

It was always a blast going out. I’d keep up with my brothers and they’d wait for me. The next day we’d give all our apples to my mom and save the rest.

I always carried a box for Unicef and my box would always be heavy and full so while it was great to collect treats, we were also contributing to a worthy cause.

I wonder if this is a fading tradition.
Poor kids who don’t get to experience this.

Oddly enough I didn’t think to make the Halloween / satanic ritual connection until I was having dinner with a bunch of Mennonites and I asked them why they didn’t like Halloween. Well you should have seen the looks on their faces. They looked at me like my head just rotated three times. 😅
 
Don’t worry about the kids. Adults celebrating Halloween is major. There was some statistic about
$$ spent being close to that of Christmas. Now we’ll have to watch the Covid statistics again.
 
Before the ban/warning I was planning to distribute candy this year through our gate (six feet from the front door) using a grabber.

My front door logistics are unique though. If I had a standard setup where someone rings the bell, I answer the door, and now we're 18" apart, I wouldn't even have considered doing the candy thing.

This year I'll skip the candy and donate $100 to our local food bank instead.

p.s. When I was last in Costco the place was LOADED with costumes and Halloween candy.
 
I remember seeing some photos of Heidi Klum's famous Celebrity Halloween Party, that takes place in New York City. A lot of truly outstanding costumes, including Harrison Ford dressed as a nun!

She sure had the money to put this party together and all of the celebrities loved it.
 
Last year was the first time in years I handed out candy and there were very few kids who came down the street.

My late husband and I really went out for Halloween. We went to parties, decorated like mad and gave out candy AND fun little doo-dads. The last year he was alive, we had an incident with a bunch of older kids forcing their way through the front door (luckily only into the foyer) and grabbing handfuls of candy. When I say "forced", I mean "forced". They actually pushed me back. Needless to say, without him around, I wasn't about to open my door on Halloween after that.

Lights out this year for us. Someone on our neighborhood Facebook page suggested that kids stand at the end of their driveways and adults drive or walk around the neighborhood and throw candy to the kids. Uh, no.

None of the malls here are having trick or treating this year....that's become very popular in the last few years. No Halloween parades, no community parties, no church "harvest fests".
 
Keesha said:
We had a blast when we were kids too. We came home from school, would get all dressed up and be out at dusk and wouldn’t be back until 9:00.

We took pillow cases and would usually have 1/3rd to a 1/2 bag full of candy. There was one crazy lady that would literally make you do a trick to get your treat but she gave away freshly made toffee apples so you bet I sang. She was at the end of the trick or treating track so I’d eat my apple on the way home which I know I shouldn’t have done but did. She lived right across from our public school and had lived there for a long time so i trusted her. She made the best toffee apples.

It was always a blast going out. I’d keep up with my brothers and they’d wait for me. The next day we’d give all our apples to my mom and save the rest.

I always carried a box for Unicef and my box would always be heavy and full so while it was great to collect treats, we were also contributing to a worthy cause.

I wonder if this is a fading tradition.
Poor kids who don’t get to experience this.

Oddly enough I didn’t think to make the Halloween / satanic ritual connection until I was having dinner with a bunch of Mennonites and I asked them why they didn’t like Halloween. Well you should have seen the looks on their faces. They looked at me like my head just rotated three times. 😅
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Pillowcases were the way of the day when I used to trick-or-treat, too, and I remember Unicef boxes, too, until it was found that just 12% of monies collected ACTUALLY went to the cause, and then that was the end of Unicef in our house. My mom put an immediate end to it.

There were neighbours that prepared homemade goods and put together little baggies full of this and full of that, and sadly, when we kids would get home, our candy bags would be emptied out on the kitchen floor, and mom and dad would go through each piece one at a time, throwing out any/all homemade treats.

As for traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating today, it's nothing like it used to be. We see only a mere fraction of the kids that we used to, and nothing is a bigger turnoff for me than to answer the door to high-school aged kids!
 
I wonder if things will be better by Christmas. Just imagine...no visits to Santa, no parties, none of the activities that the kids love and that we love to watch them enjoy. Grandma serving Christmas dinner while wearing a mask? And how will Santa fit a mask over that beard?

It's sad and scary. I remember back when we were told things would be normal by May 1st - then by May 16th - and so on. The Mayor of Boston, a great guy named Marty Walsh, said that he doesn't think things will ever again be the way they were. Isn't that a terrifying thought?
 
Autumn said:
I wonder if things will be better by Christmas. Just imagine...no visits to Santa, no parties, none of the activities that the kids love and that we love to watch them enjoy. Grandma serving Christmas dinner while wearing a mask? And how will Santa fit a mask over that beard?

It's sad and scary. I remember back when we were told things would be normal by May 1st - then by May 16th - and so on. The Mayor of Boston, a great guy named Marty Walsh, said that he doesn't think things will ever again be the way they were. Isn't that a terrifying thought?
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I don't find it terrifying at all, but rather, I welcome it with open arms!

I can't tell you how sick and tired I was of running into sick people when I was out shopping. Total blatant disregard for others. Zero respect!

With all of the electronic thermometer testing and the movement of those who look down the bridge of their noses at others who cough or sneeze, I hope to see more of it! And I'd just love to see every single store, shop, restaurant, you name it, adopt the electronic thermometer rule, where everyone is tested prior to them being granted permission to enter.

As far as I'm concerned, the "I don't care about anyone else other than myself", and "I'm going to do whatever I want" attitude caught up with us, and I hope to continue to see restrictions become even tighter. That is exactly what we deserve.
 
@Aunt Marg I agree with you entirely.

What the Mayor was talking about was kids losing out on experiences that we all took for granted. The freedom to go to school every day, play sports, celebrate holidays, have sleepovers...

And the reason these kids are being deprived are the people you described.

It saddens and kind of does terrify me that childhood seems to be a major casualty of adult indifference and stupidity.
 
Autumn said:
@Aunt Marg I agree with you entirely.

What the Mayor was talking about was kids losing out on experiences that we all took for granted. The freedom to go to school every day, play sports, celebrate holidays, have sleepovers...

And the reason these kids are being deprived are the people you described.

It saddens and kind of does terrify me that childhood seems to be a major casualty of adult indifference and stupidity.
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My apologies, Autumn, I got carried away rambling.

I agree, it's a shame, and I definitely feel for the younger ones who feel the pinch when it comes to all things related to being a kid.

However, what I'm hoping for is parents to absorb what's going on, I mean truly absorb it, knowing that the more adults choose to buck the system and create their own self-serving functions, get-togethers, and whatever have you, more restrictions and closures will follow, affecting the freedom of ones very own lifestyle as well as the lifestyles of their children, and in parents witnessing and experiencing their own children's hurt, maybe, just maybe, people will snap out of their stupors and start taking on a more responsible and sensible lifestyle.

With more and more people realizing that Covid-19 is no joke, I'm hoping we continue to see people take-on a more pro-active approach to prevention.
 
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Autumn said:
I wonder if things will be better by Christmas. Just imagine...no visits to Santa, no parties, none of the activities that the kids love and that we love to watch them enjoy. Grandma serving Christmas dinner while wearing a mask? And how will Santa fit a mask over that beard?

It's sad and scary. I remember back when we were told things would be normal by May 1st - then by May 16th - and so on. The Mayor of Boston, a great guy named Marty Walsh, said that he doesn't think things will ever again be the way they were. Isn't that a terrifying thought?
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I honestly do not see much going away any time soon, Autumn.

I believe what we are seeing is here to stay for a good long time, if not permanently.
 
I haven't heard anything official about halloween being cancelled in my state. Also there was was halloween candy in the stores, I heard - already. Maybe a good sign for kids around here, but it may be safer for them not to this year.

As for wearing masks forever, I've seen on social media that Sept 15 is going to be trash your mask day. I don't know if this is global or not and it probably won't do any good. But it may be a day to experience freedom again as it's a day when no one will be wearing masks.
 
chic said:
I haven't heard anything official about halloween being cancelled in my state. Also there was was halloween candy in the stores, I heard - already. Maybe a good sign for kids around here, but it may be safer for them not to this year.

As for wearing masks forever, I've seen on social media that Sept 15 is going to be trash your mask day. I don't know if this is global or not and it probably won't do any good. But it may be a day to experience freedom again as it's a day when no one will be wearing masks.
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If people trash their masks on September 15th, I'll remain behind closed doors until their brains reboot on the 16th.
 
Autumn said:
The Mayor of Boston, a great guy named Marty Walsh, said that he doesn't think things will ever again be the way they were. Isn't that a terrifying thought?
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I think he's incorrect. We will get past this, it's just going to take a while.

p.s. Little kids' lives were dramatically different from our childhoods way before the pandemic. Likewise, our lives were dramatically different from our grandparents' childhoods. Nothing is as sure as change.
 
Of the many drawbacks with Halloween is stale candy for one. Home made goodies that tasted horrible for another. Also, what about the people that refused to answer the door bell? Little fat people at your door begging for free sh*t and they are turned away. Oh, the humanity. Last, Halloween is the justification for making Candy Corn.
 

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