I spend more money on Halloween than I do on Christmas. And every year I realize it more and more … I’m spending money on Halloween to share it all with a bunch of strangers and their children rather than on my own family and friends.
I already give lots to my family throughout the year, I don’t need a special holiday to justify those relationships. I used to spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars on decorations, suppers, gifts and doing things for family in or around Christmas and none of it ever made a damned difference. I still love my family but it wasn’t because of Christmas … it was because they are my family. I don’t do any of that any more and you know? I still have the same level of appreciation for my family and they do the same for me … without all the BS of Christmas fanfare.
But on Halloween, I’m giving more to random strangers I don’t even know or will probably never meet again during the year … and all just for the sake of being nice to them.
So now I find that Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas. It’s made me realize just how wholesome Halloween is compared to the commercialized hellhole that Christmas has become.
Also, Halloween you get to spend with friends, people you choose. Much more relaxing than family.
Fuck yeah, I’ll raise a glass of spider-venom-laced-pumpkin-juice to that!
I would also say that Halloween is the last remaining holiday that encourages and expects self-expression and artistic abilities. Making costumes, coming up with unique prop ideas, carving pumpkins, etc.
Also, the act of trick or treating and joining halloween parties encourages socialization far, far more than other holidays which seem to just expect you to have dinner with people you don’t necessarily want to be around. The act of sending kids to knock on neighbor’s doors does more for our communities and our shared future than all the inflatable santa’s in the world.
I don’t particularly like christmas but I downvoted you for the culture war. Get fucked, Halloween-country. :p
Do you think you can scare us?
Fear is our egg-nog!
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Wait actually nvm, the parents give $100 in a 红包 to your aunt’s kid, then your aunt gives you $100 in a 红包, then you both say thanks.
Then you go home and your parents tell you to give it to them to “safeguard” the money for you; “帮你保管” my mom said, “for college”.
So result:
Money exchanged, money has been moved, but zero actual value has been transfered. They just have a different, fungible, $100.
Gifts: None, except temporarily in possession of $100
But you know, “your mom gave birth to you, you need to 感恩, to be thankful” xD
“世上只有妈妈好” lolol
Thank a lot mom, I love the um… gestures to the air in front of me gift you gave me, very lovely mom 🤗
(okay I kinda exaggerated, I did sometimes get gifts, but not often. it was so rare lol. often its nothing I really wanted… 🥺)
Ugh… Asian Families… It is what it is… I wasn’t even supposed to be born, so I should probably be more thankful to my parents that I even survived past One Child Policy.
You’re either really cheap at christmas, or you have the greatest Halloween spread ever
I just don’t value Christmas much any more … I do give out gifts but at this point, I just hand out money to the people I want to gift to because I never know what people want, especially kids and teens … and when you give them money, they know exactly what they want to do with it.
Halloween however, I do spend a lot more on. And I don’t spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on big ugly props and blow up things or store bought crap … I spend quite a bit of money building up a supply of candies, chocolates and chips. I take the month leading up to the holiday and steadily buy a little bit at a time. Then by Halloween, I’ll hand out handfuls of stuff to every kid that comes to the door. This year I had 100 kids and they each got a bunch of stuff. Then I have a tradition at the end of the night of waiting as long as possible and then giving away whatever I have left to the last kid. This year, it was a couple of teen boys who looked to be about 15/16, I filled one guys bag by dumping my box of chocolates into his sack … the other kid was just messing around and didn’t even have a bag, so I gave him a supply of old pillow cases I had ready, handed him one and told him to open it up as I dumped the rest of my chocolates and chips … those were two of the happiest guys I got that night … the bonus was that I didn’t end up with all that candy that would have made me sick anyway.
Ha! So you have the greatest Halloween spread ever! Nice work!
Halloween is my fav holiday. It’s just so whimsical. I wish that trick or treating was still as popular here as when I was a kid. If I can ever afford a house, I hope to be in a neighborhood that has trick or treaters
I like both
Halloween is nihilist, anything-goes.
Christmas is meant to be much tamer, not a feast, but a conmemoration.
100% it is.
And you don’t have to deal with your awful family feeling entitled to your time and money.
It’s a shame how Christmas has become a commercialised hellhole due to secularism instead of being what it originally was: a Christian holiday. It’s always more fulfilling to get back to the roots of it, many churches hold special events for it.
Halloween is similar. Unfortunately, Protestants barely observe the religious aspect.
Both of them are excuses to sell cheap Microplastic nowadays.
At least Halloween isn’t being run by a huge religious cult. Imagine people getting upset about Halloween like the people that get pissed about writing X-mas. 😂
Halloween is also a Christian holiday. Both are being run by capitalists these days.
Did you forget the huge outcry from the Christian lunatics about Halloween costumes and devil worship?
Search online and find countless anti Halloween articles from churches and the Christian groups.
The origins don’t matter to religious nutters.
Xmas started out as the Winter Solstice and was co-opted by Christians.
It’s all just consumerism now.
religious nutters.
Yes. Specifically the nutters.
Xmas started out as the Winter Solstice and was co-opted by Christians.
No. Christmas is on the 25th of December. The Solstice is the 21st
Ok. But also, wrong…
Bad opinion… change it.
What are you a nazi? Communist? Why do you hate freedom so much? Do you hate Jesus? The guy so important we made the global date according to his birth?
Lol by your definition, it’s only freedom if they follow your silly sky magician. So yeah, absolutely not.
My definition? Did I give one?
