Boo Baskets for Halloween

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Is anyone planning on making these for their kid(s)?

If so, what are you putting in them?

Obviously.

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That isn't a real thing. Its Infuencer nonsense.

Thought it maybe something that has been monetized in the States.Anything to make another fast,easy dollar.

Please Yanks. A lot of people in the UK just follow your trends because they can't think for themselves and want to be one of the flock of sheep.

Please give the rest us a break and just let us get on with our country by country traditions.

You gave us silly Baby Showers and Dress Down Friday

Go away.

How lovely this turned into a thread to bash Americans for some posters here. Nothing better to do?

I have a small box of Halloween shite, a similar Easter shite box and a larger couple of Christmas decoration boxes of shite.
They come out every year and my ( now adult) kids quite enjoy the nostalgia. Do people chuck away and re buy new shite every year? Just generally curious.
The amount of items on sale for Halloween decoration in the supermarket seems more than usual this year and feels a bit OTT for a one day event.

You took things to ridiculous extremes there. Pushing back against excess doesn't mean a life of martyrdom and misery. Obviously, we're all consumers. We are also all responsible for the environment, our finances, our happiness and each other. A bit of restraint and thoughtfulness helps.

There are far more interesting things to do in life than buying stuff!

That's fine. But don't pretend you aren't part of commercialising holidays and turning them into gift giving occasions.... Reinforcing the consumerism of events where companies encourage you to spend more money than ever before.

And here we go, the name calling for not partaking happens again as a defence mechanism from people getting sucked into it all.

Of course we're all consumers, and of course we all buy stuff we want... but it doesn't mean we should spend even more money for fear of being called names by others who (literally) buy into the idea of making things and events a gift giving occasion, being reinforced by shops and online market places.
Supermarkets are even pushing Eid gifts now, as well as autumn decorations, Halloween bio boxes, Christmas Eve boxes etc they don't do this because they want to see a child's face "light up" over a blanket from vinted, they do this to get people to SPEND MORE MONEY. And it clearly works 🤷🤷

Giving gifts is part of the Eid tradition, though.

Of course there are, but buying and giving gifts isn't wrong.

I don't understand how giving gifts is something some people have such disdain for. People can argue all they want about waste, or whatever, but honestly, it is just misery.

I think the name does big it up and also adds to what a lot of people would normally do.
I don't do boo buckets but in school holidays we would always do craft of some kind. When little I would buy different themed sets, so if that's the sort of thing people put in them then I think it's just a way of dressing it up.
If my kid needed a new costume then I would probably buy that too, not to put in a bucket though.
I do think some examples others give are just falling for the marketing, but if it makes people happy and they can afford to spend their money on it then that's their choice.

It's not miserable to not buy into the commercialisation of everything.

Oddly, the only people calling anyone names here are the people buying into it, it's like some sort of weird defense mechanism.

Gifts of money is the tradition.

But supermarkets are pushing chocolate Eid calendars (akin to advent ones), dolls and such like as presents etc.

All creeping consumerism...and people who calm it out are called miserable by those who (literally) bit into it all.

Not just money. But, that's not the point.
Why piss all over gift giving?

The issue isn’t generosity or the spirit of giving, it’s the hyper-commercialisation that has quietly reshaped our culture. Somewhere along the line, consumerism tricked us into believing that love is measured by constant spending.
We now feel obligated to fund an endless checklist of holiday "traditions": North Pole breakfasts, toy advent calendars, Winter Wonderlands, Christmas Eve boxes, and brand-new matching PJs every single year, all out of fear that our children will feel left behind. And now, Boo Boxes, Brr Boxes, Easter Gifts, Eid Calendars, Autumn Decor, Valentine's, and the adjacent"Galentines" etc, Mother's Day, Father's Day...

Retailers have masterfully normalised this inflation of expectations, steering parents away from a simple £1 or £2 chocolate calendar toward £20 themed sets for each child (eg Lego friends or skincare) and endless add-ons. Well,.not away from, in addition to, people every year say things like "my kid has 5 advent calendars, grandparents got them one too" - so we're collectively spending £30 instead of £3... It's working... when anyone points out how absurd and unsustainable this has become, the immediate defense mechanism is to label them "miserable." It’s a strange irony: we openly stress about the cost of living, yet we ridicule those who choose not to participate in the exact spending spiral driving that stress.

Have you actually read the thread? There are people saying that there should be mandatory ID testing before allowing bank cards, and classist suggestions that anybody who does a boo box must be on benefits. Not to mention the numerous people who have come on an innocuous thread asking what people put in boo boxes, just to say goodness no, what a load of crap.

Ah, I seen- so when it's something YOU want, that's ok. But when it's something you don't want but other people do, then it's ridiculous. Got it.

No-one has been called anything for not partaking. Whether you partake or not is entirely up to you. Not one post on this thread has said it's miserable to choose not to do a Boo Box.

You're being called out for loudly judging people who do partake, as if you're not guilty of the exact same thing in some other arena. As I said, I'd put money on being able to walk into your house and see something that I haven't spent money on or that is less eco-friendly than something I have, but I'm hot going around trying to find fault with that because I'm not an arsehole.

This is the thing...I'd actually put money on my own carbon footprint being lower than most of the posters criticising boo baskets. I don't drive, never have done, and not many people can say that. I live in a small house with low heating demands. I'm not a frequent flyer.

When it comes to the environmental impact of buying things I'd buy DD anyway and putting them into a reusable wicker basket, my conscience is completely clear.

It's lovely to give gifts, but a piece of unnecessary plastic tat isn't a nice gift. It's the needless tat that I object to, not the giving.

Nobody wanted a 'boo basket' before someone made it up as a way to sell stuff. Nobody wanted an elf on a shelf or fake spiders or Christmas jumpers or all the other tat filling the 'seasonal' shelves in the supermarket until somebody persuaded them it was a good thing to have. Yes, I buy things I want but I don't get sucked into throwing money away on landfill.

Calling something someone else gives to someone useless tat is misery.

There seems to be a double standard... people criticise/judge others (or call them stupid!) for buying things they deem useless/unnecessary while excusing their own unnecessary purchases.