Hallow-Whatnow?
Nov. 1st, 2022 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerMonday was Halloween. I could barely tell. I'm not one for most holidays (Bah, humbug!) and Halloween wasn't big in my circle of friends or community anyway. I think it also helps that Halloween was kind of on hiatus for the past 2 years due to the pandemic. That helped get people out of the habit of celebrating.
Hawk did dress in a costume this year... at her office. Her company had a costume theme for the day. That works for them as they're mostly in-office. My company is almost 100% distributed so having a dress-up day doesn't work for us.
There were no trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood. There haven't been for several years now, even before the pandemic. I figure that stems from several factors. One, we're a townhouse community, and I'd estimate that fewer than half of the households include minor children. Two, of the children who do live here, more than half are infants and toddlers— too young, really, to go trick-or-treating. And three, the families with kids skew to immigrants— meaning that the parents grew up not celebrating the US tradition of Halloween and thus are less likely to teach it to their kids.
Hawk did dress in a costume this year... at her office. Her company had a costume theme for the day. That works for them as they're mostly in-office. My company is almost 100% distributed so having a dress-up day doesn't work for us.
There were no trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood. There haven't been for several years now, even before the pandemic. I figure that stems from several factors. One, we're a townhouse community, and I'd estimate that fewer than half of the households include minor children. Two, of the children who do live here, more than half are infants and toddlers— too young, really, to go trick-or-treating. And three, the families with kids skew to immigrants— meaning that the parents grew up not celebrating the US tradition of Halloween and thus are less likely to teach it to their kids.
