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Anyone else not doing costumes?

monlyn9monlyn9 member
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I have nothing against Halloween but I do not plan to dress DS up this year. I didn't dress him up last year either. He is too little to understand the concept and we wouldn't do trick or treating. If we were to dress him up, we would have to cart him around to the grandparents (one set in the same town, the other 30 miles away) and probably some other family members as well. I don't see the point in coming up with a costume, spending the money on it, and then taking him all over the place to show him off. If we had a costume party to attend or something, that would be different. Anyone else feel this way?
  
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  • jjolijjoli
    I think it is just fun.  Not saying you have to dress up your kid, but I think it is fun to celebrate the holidays.  I guess I look at like Christmas, would you forgo doing presents and such for your LO just because they didn't understand the concept yet?.. Plus I think it is fun.  We probably won't do any trick or treating besides our neighbor who has kids.  But we go to my parents (who are teachers so lots of trick or treaters) and have a family dinner.  Last year I just bought a $5 costume from walmart, but from now on we will make a costume.  That is how we always did it.
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  • jannv11jannv11 member
    Bought one at a yard sale last Halloween and got one on ebay this year.  Last year we dressed up and handed out candy.  We live on a busy street so it was fun.  I think this year he will like seeing all the kids so we will do it again. 
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  • kiwi443kiwi443 member

    My H and I didn't grow up trick-or-treating and don't plan to do it with J.

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  • NewFamily09NewFamily09 member

    I'm not sure if we will either.  DH is kind of anti-Halloween.  He hates dressing up and says that kids these days are greedy.  So he couldn't care less if we dress up our son or not.  If we do something, it'll be something simple that doesn't cost a lot, or most likely I'll make it myself.  I'd love to take him trick or treating because I just love sweets, but that's kind of lame to use your baby to get candy, so I'll probably actually not do it.  LOL.

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  • erbearerbear member
    We're not. Her school does a "Fall Festival" instead of Halloween and they don't dress up.  We're not taking her trick or treating. I don't see the point.
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    We're not. Her school does a "Fall Festival" instead of Halloween and they don't dress up.  We're not taking her trick or treating. I don't see the point.

    In fairness, I hate Halloween anyway.

    "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies. God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut
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  • KathrynMDKathrynMD member

    We're dressing DD b/c there is a Halloween Parade at her school and its adorable to see all the kids in their costumes.  We will probably do a TINY bit of trick or treating and go around to a few neighbors houses - no more than 5 though.  I think she'll have fun, but I certainly don't think she'd "miss" it if we didn't do it either.

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  • outnumberedoutnumbered member
    Buy a costume at a consignment shop or see if your friends with older kids have one to hand off.  It is fun to dress up and hand out the candy.  There is no need to go door to door with such a young one.
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  • monlyn9monlyn9 member

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    Buy a costume at a consignment shop or see if your friends with older kids have one to hand off.  It is fun to dress up and hand out the candy.  There is no need to go door to door with such a young one.

    I have lived in my house for 10 years now and the one year that I was home to hand out candy, there were maybe 5 kids that came to the door. There aren't many kids in our neighborhood and most of the neighbors don't hand out candy either. 

      
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  • monlyn9monlyn9 member

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    I think it is just fun.  Not saying you have to dress up your kid, but I think it is fun to celebrate the holidays.  I guess I look at like Christmas, would you forgo doing presents and such for your LO just because they didn't understand the concept yet?.. Plus I think it is fun.  We probably won't do any trick or treating besides our neighbor who has kids.  But we go to my parents (who are teachers so lots of trick or treaters) and have a family dinner.  Last year I just bought a $5 costume from walmart, but from now on we will make a costume.  That is how we always did it.

    Christmas is different because it is a family holiday. We don't do anything family oriented for Halloween. In all honesty, I don't go all out for Christmas or birthdays for DS at this point because he doesn't understand the concept. I wrapped up a few things that I was buying for him regardless and let the family members that wanted to spoil him take care of the rest. I'll save my money for the days when he "gets it" and is asking for stuff. 

      
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  • Clotho!Clotho!
    w/ ds#1 we didn't dress him up the 1st 2 years for the same reasons. However, the last 2 years we have. Last year we didn't dress up ds#2 b/c he was too little to really understand and we didn't really want to take him out b/c he was so young and Oct. gets pretty cold here.. This year we will dress him up to go out w/ big brother mostly b/c we have a costume that will fit him (hand me down) I'm not sure we would do it if we didn't have a costume already and if ds#1 wasn't going to dress up.
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  • CityplannerCityplanner

    Last year, I knew we were just doing a costume for ourselves.  And, had my mom not bought us one, I probably wouldn't have bothered.  I think this year she is old enough to get into it a little bit, so we are going to do one. 

    Don't you have neighbors?  We'll do a little mini circuit of the closest neighbors.  Maybe six places tops.  They'll all want to see her and she'll be excited to have a bag and things to put in it. 

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  • boshi799boshi799
    I totally understand. I only am dressing up my twins b/c I found cute costumes for $10 at Costco. I figure we will visit some family and take pictures and then hand me down some cute costumes that were cheap! If I did not see these costumes I would not waste the time and money.
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  • jetgrrrljetgrrrl member

    I'm with you - my parents live three hours away and DH's parents are immigrants and couldn't care less about Halloween. I figure it will become an expense and yet another chore for us soon enough, so I'm not doing anything while DS doesn't care.

    I DID almost change my mind when I saw the ridiculously cute animal onesies and hats that The Gap has right now. But since I just dropped about $250 on fall clothes for him I held off.

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  • heatherlaneheatherlane member

    I love Halloween and our neighborhood has a lot of young families, so we will participate this year.

     As far as costume, I think we're just going to do the cowboy thing and buy this cute western shirt and boots that Gymboree has on sale (and he can wear again) and a cowboy hat.

    My aunt gave him the Radio Flyer old-school wooden wagon for his b-day, so I think we'll put hay in that and carthim around in it. But it's more for pics and fun than anything.

    I don't think it's weird or strange that you wouldn't celebrate it.

    Um, yeah. The Bump be too crazy for pics of my kid.
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