The timing couldn’t have been better!
This year, I finally had a reason to avoid Halloween that even my neighbors – the ones with the orange pumpkin lights in the trees and giant fuzzy spiders in the flower beds – could understand. Halloween is hazardous! I came across this frightening warning from the Consumer Product Safety Commission: Halloween Skull Pails Recalled Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard. Dog food, Mattel toys, and now Halloween is laced with lead! Surely I could count on their support to skip Halloween this year!
But Noooo! Not even environmental hazards can kill Halloween. So here we are once again, the oddballs of the neighborhood – but at least we’re lead free. But now that the festivities are over, how can we make the day after Halloween special. I’ve done some research and have come up with some things to help you avoid those Halloween day after blues.
- Did you know that Starbucks officially kicks off the holiday season on the day after Halloween by bringing out their annual gingerbread latte. Did you also know that Halloween is the best shopping day of the year – for clowns. Why not make the day after Halloween “treat a clown to a latte’ day.
- Don’t know what to do with that Jack-o-lantern? One web site suggests “starting a new family tradition” of burying your carved up pumpkin. Consider this cheerful thought: “It is especially fun for family gatherings and keeps the children interested for one more day as they dig a grave for burying the pumpkins”.
- Pack up the family for a surprise vacation to the “Baltic Sea Day-After-Halloween Cycling Race”. I think its in
So there you have it. The best ideas for the day after Halloween from the internet. But as I think about it, maybe its best just to have devotions, toss out the leftover candy and go about the Lord’s business. Just remember – don’t keep those lead-covered skull pails where the kids can get them.
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