I realized yesterday that we were to decorate our car. THEN, I realized everyone was dressing up. I feel funny dressing up as an adult. Initially, I thought how hard can it be to dress up? Keith and I would be 'old' super heroes. Well, the day of Halloween it's pretty hard to find all the pieces for a costume! The first few discount stores I went to, when I inquired about different items, like a black mask, the sales associate informed me they had been out of "that" for weeks, as in, why would I even ask! I even looked for black construction paper, a black headband and tape. Apparently black construction paper is popular on October 31st. SO I went to one of those Halloween stores. When I walked in I realized I was a little late. I found a friendly looking zombie working there and asked if they had just a black mask, you know that could pass for Batman. The zombie asked if I wanted a sexy mask? HUH? As I looked around everything in adult sizes was sexy or gruesome! I don't think at 57 I could or should try to pull of sexy anything! All I need is a black mask people! I finally found a mask in the back on the floor that had been returned. I bought it. I figured it wouldn't be worn long enough to catch any germs!When did Halloween become bigger than Christmas? When did we go from dressing up in costumes made at home to designer costumes that come in only sexy or gruesome. Yes, I could have bought the child's mask but I knew that wouldn't fit! There was a little boy behind me in line with a horrible looking, blood dripping costume. I just stared at his mom. I thought, he is too young to want that. You want that. Glancing around, I saw that many of the children's costumes that were being bought were horrible. I wanted to run get the Minnie Mouse outfit and exchange it with them.
Call me crazy but I think we have the responsibility to choose wisely for our kids. I think we should tell our kids, no that costume is inappropriate or offensive or just not funny. I think I have more of a problem with all the 'sexy' costumes than the gruesome ones. You can tell kids a gruesome costume is just silly, pretend. But what message are we sending when we dress up as, or see walking down the street, 'sexy' nurse? Most young kids don't know what they really want or if they do, they need guidance.
I would like to think we would ban together and boycott them. But I know better. So tomorrow I will start getting in shape for my 'sexy' grandma costume for next year!
Be safe and please don't let your kids eat all
the candy. Throw it away or take it to the office!
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