Much like the Halloween’s at Everyday Tips and Thoughts, my Halloween were simple but exciting!

My kids are lucky in that Trick-or-Treat is from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Halloween day in my neighborhood.  Most of the surrounding neighborhoods have it during daylight hours, and on a day that isn’t Halloween.  Is it safer?  Yes, but for a seasoned Halloween-er like myself, it doesn’t have the same feel.  In many ways, I feel that my kids are lucky considering that Halloween in my neighborhood that Norman Rockwell Halloween feel of yesteryear.

Then why didn’t my kids go trick-or-treating this year?

My son didn’t get a costume, and  only at the last minute with friends, did he decide to go, but he didn’t even take a bag?!?  So he’s going to come home with any candy.  My daughter (who is only 7 years old), didn’t want to go either!  She stayed home and passed out candy in her Halloween costume.

Confused?  You bet I am!  The group I use to go trick-or-treating with would run to each house to get the goodies!  But not my kids…  There has been times that I have taken my kids to get ice cream after a soccer game for a surprise treat but when we would get there, they would say that they don’t want anything!

Perhaps candy and ice cream has lost it magic with my kids because it’s readily available at home?

This saddens me to a degree, because I had such great times trick-or-treating with my friends as a kid.  Don’t tell my mom, but we would even do a bit of tricking too (heh heh).  My son would never dream of doing any tricks on any of the neighbors.  Where I grew up, the houses weren’t so close together, perhaps it was a bit easier to do tricks when the houses aren’t so close together as they are in my current neighborhood…

And now my attempt to tie this article into a financial one!  Accounting is one area that scares the average small business, but Darwin’s Money wrote a great intro that takes the bite of out the the fear.

Happy Halloween!

MR