I do spend a lot of money on Halloween … more than Christmas … but it also means I don’t go crazy either. Almost all the money I spend just goes to candies, chocolates and chips … the Halloween serving size … I’m not going to start going further than that. I also don’t spend much on decorations, I put up enough to make people and kids know I’m celebrating Halloween … and I decorate five or six real pumpkins. That’s it … I put on a sound system with scary music and Halloween songs and serve candy all night long.
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mushroommunk@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
All my friends and I have felt this way for a few years now. My wife and I are the planning to spend $200 total on Christmas and that’s including the dinner we’ll likely host for friends.
Halloween is fun and my wife and I get into it but it’s also becoming a very commercialized thing around us. Everyone buying the massive 12 ft skeletons and trying to outdo each other with the yard and giving out bigger and bigger treats. Someone was handing out full Doritos bags this year, not the single serve, we’re talking family size.
I think my wife and I are going to try getting into Mari Lwyd next year instead.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I will never be impressed by purchased decorations that obviously don’t take any effort to set up
“wow, the same inflatable from home depot as the house around the corner! amazing”
ofc, I did fuck all the last couple years, so I can’t complain. I’m hoping to change that next year
also giving out family size bags of chip (let’s be real though, they’re basically only as big as regular full size from 10 years ago despite costing twice as much) is nuts. I ain’t got that money