Yep. Seemed like innocent fun in 1950’s/60’s suburban America, but wow, how it’s taken on an entirely new (and to me, weird) status. People seem to treat it as a Holiday, with stores marketing junk and candy in August...
From a few days ago....
https://www.retaildive.com/news/why-retailers-love-halloween-summerween-consumer-spending/729923/
Yes, it’s very weird.
And part of the weirdness is how it’s kind of forced on us.
It IS a holiday. And frankly it’s the best of our holidays. It’s the holiday that you celebrate by having fun, and you don’t have to do any demonstrative spending.
They have to get the Christmas stuff out by the end of October.
Yes, it was just fun in those days. Now, I have come to strongly dislike Halloween for what has been done to it. Adults dressing up was bad enough, but, now, there are also occult and demonic elements.