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Campaign for Halloween on the Weekend
Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year. Friend-of-Stay Free! Heidi Cody considers this unacceptable. No time to make costumes. Should the parties have already happened or will they take place this weekend? No daylight trick-or-treating because the folks with the candy are still working.
But Heidi isn't one to let a problem go unsolved, so she has formed the Campaign for Halloween On the Weekend. She is proposing that the federal government move Halloween from October 31 to the Last Saturday in October so that we can avoid the blight of a mid-week holiday.
I can't support this idea enough. Go to the C.H.O.W. website to find out more.
Posted by Charles Star on 10/29/2007 | Permalink
Comments
This makes no sense. Who trick-or-treats in the daylight anyway? My town manages to work in a parade, a street party downtown, and subsequent trick-or-treating citywide-- and yes, it's happening on a Wednesday this year.
I'm surprised Stay Free wants anything to do with a campaign to have the feds tell us when to have Halloween...
Posted by: DaveX | Oct 30, 2007 7:34:41 AM
New Yorkers trick-or-treat in the daylight, unfortunately.
Posted by: Damian | Oct 30, 2007 11:37:24 AM
I hate that idea! I hate it! I hate it! Why don't we have 4th of July on June 30th, while you're at it?
Stop messing with hundreds of years of tradition! Yes, it's inconvenient when it falls on a weekday, but even then--remember when you were a kid--wasn't it nice to have that very special day in the middle of a mundane week? Didn't it make the rest of the week magical? You can't change it!
You obviously don't have *real* Halloween power at all, otherwise you would see how only October 31st can be Halloween!
If you want to work on something, how about getting us a day off on November 1st?
Posted by: Erica | Oct 30, 2007 11:49:00 AM
Ah, you crazy New Yorkers... you've got fantastic pizza, the ESB, and my favorite bridge in the world... but you don't know that trick-or-treating is a nighttime thing? LOL
Posted by: DaveX | Oct 31, 2007 12:04:29 AM
Seriously -- isn't changing Halloween to be just another "convenience" holiday an extension of consumerist culture?
Fachrissakes, enjoy a day out of the ordinary in the middle of the capitalist work week once in a while.
Besides that, how obscene is it to FACILITATE handing out candy to kids? I haven't eaten a candy bar in ages and this past Halloween I had Junior Mints, followed shortly thereafter by stomach cramps. I might as well have jabbed a needle full of Karo syrup into my arm.
Posted by: firefly | Nov 7, 2007 6:47:25 PM
I'd have to agree with firefly on this. It would create a consumption boom. Not just candy, but disposible products. There's already megatons of holiday waste already.
Some of us do prefer the "spirit of halloween" and not the modern hype.
Most halloween parties are on the weekends anyway, so why does it have to be government sanctioned?
Posted by: dBom | Nov 8, 2007 1:10:55 PM
