Halloween
Well, well, well.....first - I do not and never have considered Halloween to be a holiday.
Putting that aside I have probably participated in more Halloween pranks than most...when I was young (about 500 years ago) we actually meant it when we said "trick or treat" only we didn't go "trick or treating" we went "Halloweening" and we did things like soaping windows, tipping out houses and running bicycles up flag poles:laugh:. Once we pushed an old Overland touring car 3 miles, took the rail down pushed the car up onto the porch of the barber shop and put the rail back up:biggrin:. Took folks quite a while to figure out how it got there. Once we took an outhouse loaded it on the back of a pickup truck and left it blocking the door on the porch of Bill Dean's Sweet Shoppe:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:. ..we did worse. We went out every night for a week because we got invited in to every house we visited and chatted with the owners
. We got very little candy but a lot of home made cookies or cupcakes and apples, oranges or other fruits. Nothing got tossed without being used. {Bill Dean was married to my wife's aunt Irma and my MIL was the next owner of the shoppe}
None of us considered it a Holiday it was just a time of the year to have fun. We dressed in costumes but would not have dreamed of buying one. We bought masks sometimes but more often created something - sometimes as simple as a grocery bag with eyeholes cut in it or one of our mom's old stockings
Today --- it appears to me to have become a complete waste. It celebrates nothing - maybe 1000 years ago it did but now nothing. It is just another day that we've turned in a way to spend money. Like every form of entertainment we've been able to invent - we have over done it.
But then I feel the same way about the Super Bowl - and wouldn't see any use for a superbowl pen either.
