Halloween is one of those holidays that you don’t really have to prepare in advance to get through. Did you know that 1/4 of all candy sold annually is sold for Halloween? This does not surprise me in the least. I’m sure I buy most of it. For years, I have started buying Halloween candy a month before the night when kids come knocking. “Get it now and you won’t have to worry about it,” I say while traveling through the store aisles. It’s really amazing I can kid myself over and over again and I still don’t get it. You’d think I had no brain. I eat the candy the next day – or maybe over the next two days – and then buy it again. And so on all during the month of October. This year, I really tried to remind myself that I am one big ‘fat’ liar, and I will not get it early for the kids, and so I didn’t get any candy this year.
Did you also know that Halloween is the second highest grossing holiday after Christmas? That’s gross. Truly. What is the point?
Now that I live in LA, I wasn’t even sure if the kids go trick or treating here. From what I’ve seen about LA eating habits, they might go biking instead; dress up and ride five miles with their parents on their bikes in the perfect weather. Or, maybe they give out granola bars if you go from house to house. I dunno. I can comfortably say that I doubt very much if it’s business as usual on Halloween. Nope. I do believe that they give out little Tootsie Rolls if they give them out at all and the kids eat one a day or something. Whatever. Suffice it to say that I didn’t buy candy or put the paper on my door welcoming kids from the building.
And, last but not least, the original jack-o’-lanterns were made out of turnips, not pumpkins, which actually are fruits. And, that wraps up my Halloween information. Happy Halloween.
