Naomi from More With Four blog finishes up our Halloween week long celebration with tips on how to make Halloween better.  Or maybe only one tip.  But I don’t think she’s alone on her Halloween feelings.

Written by Naomi from More With Four blog

I really do not like Halloween. Parents, who’s with me on this one? I’m sure I used to like it when I was a child, but for many, many years of adulthood now I have dreaded the night of Halloween. Sure, it’s fun when you are a kid because you get candy, you get to stay up late and you have fun dressing up. But it is not so fun when you are an adult. The reasons I used to love it are now:

The Reasons I Hate Halloween

• Candy. When you are an adult at Halloween, you don’t get candy; you have to buy the candy. And the “good stuff” is not cheap. There is no way I’m risking buying the crappy candy as I really do not want my house egged, thank you. Speaking of crappy candy, that’s usually what the kids so generously share with me. It’s not like they can afford to give me one of their 85 chocolate bars.
• Pumpkin guts. The insides of a pumpkin are disgusting! They are slimy and guess who ends up cleaning out the entire pumpkin after the kids lose interest 20 seconds in to the carving? Every year I try to convince them we should just draw a face on the pumpkin with a sharpie. Every year I lose.
• Cold night. Can we change Halloween night to a night in July or August when the weather is nice, it stays light out until late, and no-one cares if the kids are jacked up on sugar because it’s summer? Every Halloween it seems to be unseasonably cold or windy, or better yet raining. One year it even snowed. I’m not kidding. Half the time you can’t even see the kids’ costumes because they have to put boots, hats and coats over top. This is how fun Halloween is in Canada. I vote we change the night. Spread the word.
• Costumes. My kids can never make up their minds about what they want to be for Halloween. Then a week before they decide, we scramble to find a costume that meets their satisfaction. One time, I searched high and low for the right costume and then the night of Halloween my kid didn’t even wear it. He decided to wear the costume he wore the year before. Seriously. And kudos to the parents who make their own kids costumes…you have way more talent, patience and ambition that I ever will.
• Scary stuff. I am actually quite a scaredy-cat. I do not like horror movies, or people jumping out at me, or zombies and creepy things. Every where I turn in October there are scary images. I get a little freaked out to be honest.
• Staying up late. Odds are Halloween night falls on a week day which means school is the next day. The kids get to bed late and then suffer the next day with brutal candy hangovers. Getting them out the door for school is usual a process of bargaining and bribing with treats or threatening to take away all their candy if they don’t start getting dressed. Not only do we parents suffer the night of Halloween, but let’s drag it out until the next day as well. I pity the school teachers as well the next day.

Remember how I said we should change the date of Halloween? Now I’m thinking we should just cancel it all together. Our kids are spoiled rotten anyway. They don’t need another sugar-filled day. I say we cancel Halloween. Spread the word…
A re-post from the More With Four blog