You’re not obligated to do 1 or 2 ever.
You forgot it being socially encouraged to give people a bit of a spook
Handing out candy isn’t giving gifts?
Different kind of gift though, you know when you can buy in bulk.
One you can consume yourself, too. I buy hundreds of pieces and give away half. We eat the other half. Yum!
Not true, Carnival checks all points as well
But with the additionall caveat of large amounts or drunk people
To paraphrase Marilyn Monroe.
“If you aren’t willing to penguin on Arbor Day, you don’t deserve to penguin on Halloween.”
-Marylin Monroe, fursona advocate
Good points, but I really do like Thanksgiving best. I have good relatives who I like hanging out with, and it’s just doing that and eating food (though I usually do an awful lot of cooking).
I’ve got too much baggage associated with Thanksgiving. Among other things, it’s when my mom blew up at me and told me we shouldn’t see each other, outside of funerals. (She is now confused about why I don’t visit, outside of funerals.)
Also, the American colonists overall were dicks to the indigenous folks, and the popular treatment of Thanksgiving helps paper over that history, or maybe that’s just where I grew up.
