"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
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Personally, I'd be satisfied if we just spent less on it. IMOH, Halloween
just doesn't justify two months of preparation--for those of us not in the
Carnival biz.

None of our holidays do. All of the major holidays, and most of the minor
ones, have been turned into enormous marketing sieges, designed to maximize
public consumption of goods we don't really need.

That's one of the reasons that, at least from a creativity and personal
effort points of view, the display in question actually scores relatively
high on the "cool" scale. Most people's approach to "celebration" of a
holiday is to waste a significant amount of money on the same crap everyone
else is wasting their money on. At least these guys did something
different.

I don't see the post right now, but I believe someone else mentioned all the
lighted Christmas yard decorations. I've had about as much of the same trio
of reindeer, snowmen, and Santa Claus wire "sculpture" with Christmas lights
on them as I can stand. What a waste...I mean, if you're going to do a
public display, at least put some *thought* into it, rather than just
following lemming-like into the pit of wasted money and materials.

And that's about as short as I can make that rant. Be thankful (in about a
month ) that I didn't say *everything* on that topic that I could think
of to say.

Pete