Halloween is for Everyone

Halloween (October 31) is almost always celebrated everywhere with costume parties, haunted houses, horror films, bobbing for apples, school carnivals, carving jack-o-lanterns, and of course trick or treating. Candy, candy, and more candy!

Retailers say that Halloween is the sixth most profitable holiday in the United States. Decorations sometimes include: witches, skeletons, ghosts, spiders, scarecrows, jack-o-lanterns, spider webs, mummies, bats, ghouls, black cats, vampires, pumpkins, tombstones and gargoyles. Anything that will scare anyone!

Children love going to the "Pumpkin Patch" and picking out their very own pumpkin. This choosing might be at the local farm or the corner lot now transformed into the "patch". Some children prefer not to cut the jack-o-lantern face into their pumpkin; so parents can draw on a face.

All kids; young and old, like to receive wonderful, sweet treats. A favorite part of the festivities is the chocolate candy bars, bubble gum, caramel apples, suckers, cookies, corn candy, and many other sweets, or better known as the "treat". Some over indulge and miss the next day of school or even work.

Q: How do you mend a broken Jack-o-Lantern?
A: With a pumpkin patch!