Would you be in favor of Halloween being celebrated on the last Saturday in October, from now on?
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October 26th, 2011
This morning on the radio they were discussing a politician in the mid-west who put forth a bill or amendment that proposed celebrating Halloween on the last Saturday of every October, from now on. The thinking is that when Halloween falls on a week night, as it usually does (as 5 out of every 7 nights is a week night), many people (parents of kids) have to leave work early, rush home, eat dinner, give out candy and/or take the kids trick-or-treating, and get ready for bed. The proposal is to have it on a Saturday and none of those things (or at least for the majority of people) would be an issue. What do you think?
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That’s not a bad idea. I also know of places where the kids trick or treat at the businesses during the afternoon and don’t do any after nightfall. They don’t go to houses at all.
No, it wouldn’t be Halloween then. It would be Sundayeen. The date is connected to all Saints Day, it’s All Hallows Eve. Plus it’s treat for the kids to get to do something on a school night sometimes, don’t you think? As for all the rushing around and leaving work, it’s only once a year.
I don’t like the idea of moving holidays associated with specific dates to weekends. It lessens the impact of the holiday.
Heck, there are so many options if you don’t like doing this “on a school night” as it is.
We are going trick or treating tomorrow night at the museum, Friday night at the zoo, Saturday night in our neighborhood, Sunday in my sister’s and possibly Monday in a neighboring burb (where they keep it traditional and do it the night of Hallow’s Eve).
Erm…. All Saints day is November 1st, which is the reason that All Hallows Eve falls on the 31st of October. You can’t move one without moving the other, and I rather doubt the Catholic church would be too interested in moving All Saints day.
@YoBob The churches certainly don’t have any problem moving Easter around, so much so you can hardly find it some years. ;-)
For Pete’s sake. Leave it alone.
Nope, I say leave it alone. Besides, some of us work weekends, so changing it to a Saturday may not get rid of the rushing home to take the kids out trick or treating.
I don’t know why they never did that in the first place. That’d be a good idea. Then my little ones won’t have to worry about going to school the next morning and waking up all tired from the night before.
You can’t have the eve of November 1st on a different date any more than you can have the Fourth of July on a different date.
And I think ease and convenience are already given way, way too much weight as a reason for things. It leads to the absurd notion that things ought to be easy and convenient and that we shouldn’t have to do things that aren’t. I think the ramifications of this false value, reinforced on all sides by advertising, are undermining our culture, our systems (in education, business, politics, and a great deal more), and our collective morality in incalculable ways.
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