Boo Baskets for Halloween

[PeasOff]

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

If so, what are you putting in them?

Yes, you’re right. Foregoing a bit of fun for their children by spending £10 on a Halloween treat is going to really put a dent in that 40k deposit the need for their new home. 👍

my dc get enough junk trick or treating, why would they need more?!

New to me but I’m totally old school.
In my boo basket would be spring bulbs and pyjamas. Loot comes from trick or treating.

We also go away every Oct half term so that’s enough spent on the dc.

Baking kits are absolutely fine, they got my disabled daughter interested in baking really early when she wasn’t able to manage the full process, and now she bakes from scratch. The best thing about them is, you don’t need to have a cupboard stocked with things you rarely use. It has nothing to do with being lazy or stupid.

Most adults would only need 1 mug, maybe a few for guests, how many do you have?

@BoredZelda it all adds up. My Granny used to say “take care of the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves”. It’s very true.

Thank you, both my kids are disabled and baking kits work for them. And even if they weren’t disabled, using one still wouldn’t make me stupid or lazy.

Didn’t even have a cup on my list, but I’ll add one now. And some other ‘tat’ I’ll make sure to buy it with my universal credit aswell. Really waste her taxes. 🫢

I hardly think something that costs less than £10 is going to have that much of an impact... people spend more than that on a bottle of wine to literally piss away and think nothing of it.

My finances are fine thank you!

WTAF

Your Granny's house probably cost 16 buttons and 8 raspberries.

@PeasOff it’s still pointless spending on pointless tat. If you’ve got so much money, why not give some to charity? I think it’s rather sad that activities alone aren’t enough for kids these days. Can’t they just enjoy experiences (dressing up for Halloween, Easter Egg hunts etc) without having to have a new pair of pyjamas and some gift box shite?!

@ImmortalNowBabyDoll what’s that supposed to mean?

I don't think arts and crafts are pointless - they're very good for developing fine and gross motor skills. All manner of things people buy are pointless, do you try to police their spending as well?

If people want to buy pyjamas as well - so what?! Children need bed clothes.

Do you drink alcohol or eat things that aren't essential to fuel your body? Not buy the bare basics? If so, perhaps donate to charity yourself.

They originated in America

Eyeroll...

It means that the advice given in generations past are hardly relevant to now, when essentials are expensive and luxuries are cheap. Eliminating little joys from our lives and our children's lives will not buy houses or fund University.

Nobody is forcing you to look at the peddling of shite on the internet. If that's what's appearing in your feed on SM, you can train the algorithm to send you other material that's more in line with your interests.

As a PP has pointed out, the placing of surprise baskets on people's doorsteps, for homeless people, etc, is the basic idea behind the baskets. Americans have always been kind, community-oriented, and practical, and they value neighborliness.

Hence wedding and baby showers, and gift registries. All of which are tutted at by some of the British public, mainly because American traditions that have their roots in kindness, neighborliness, and generosity somehow lose all of that in transit eastward over the Atlantic, and end up grabby and unpleasant. Then the grabby and unpleasant elements are labeled 'American'.

Not in the current UK incarnation, they didnt.

Good lord more US traditions isn’t life hard enough without worrying about boo baskets !

Same mine is 16. Halloween is my favorite holiday. Im our house it's a big deal. I even grew pumpkins for her this year.

No. The commercialisation of every event in the calendar has become crazy 🥴

Why not do some research before spoutung misery?

The US tradition was to anonymously give baskets of treats as a thoughtful "pay it forward" gesture.

Tik Tok changed it to direct gift giving.

If you don't want to take part - don't.
But, why shit on people's joy?
"Isn't life hard enough?"

Nope. No no no.

I take your point. But also want to add that this neighbourliness is a function of social survival where there is no welfare state.

I think it’s less the Americanism (although frankly with the recent news - buying diesel off Putin, live-stresming an execution - I feel fairly anti-America atm) and more the dislike of yet more plastic tat going into landfill