Originally Posted by valsma
It is the only holiday I feel I can choose to or choose not to participate. Every other holiday including Christmas you feel obligated to give gifts to others and I find so many people don't appreciate what you give unless it has a high $$$$$$$ amount. Talk about one of the worst days of the year, a retailers money maker and a parent nightmare. The true meaning is gone from that holiday.
Halloween is meant to be fun in it's current incarnation. It is not evil and is for me a joy to see all those little faces in all their little costumes.
My thought is how can it be evil when so many young kids who know nothing about evil have so much fun dressing up and going around and collecting candy or going to wherever to get the candy and going to school for thier parade. My grandson is 5 and he is vampire this at night and to be appropriate he's a gingerbread man at school; no scary costumes allowed there and that's understandable. Since he was 8mos old on his first Halloween he's loved the costumes. He says its all about being scary and creepy; he thought his friend wanting to be Sponge Bob was lame. I no longer have kids at home but when I get off tonight I'll be home giving out candy and watching all of those precious faces have fun.