Celebrating Halloween. Halloween is a massive big deal at the card shop where I work. This is a comparatively new phenomenon. When I was a kid back in the 1960s, we carved pumpkins and left them on the front porch. My mom let me tape a cardboard cutout of a ghost or black cat on my bedroom window. My sisters and I put on costumes and went trick-or-treating. That was it. We were happy.
But now there are parties, for children and adults alike. Decorations are intricate and imaginative. Halloween is a multi-billion (with a "b") dollar business, and I see that reflected by what we sell at our little store.
1. Greeting cards
2. Wrapping paper
3. Wreaths. We offer some pre-made, some DIY.
4. Washi tape
5. Stickers
6. Squishies shaped like black cats, pumpkins, and Frankenstein
7. Black cat sunglasses (Please buy these! It's not that they aren't popular, it's that we were sent enough to outfit every man, woman and child in the tri-state area.)
8. Shot glasses shaped like skulls
9. Paper plates and napkins
10. Pumpkin and/or ghost pens
11. Dog- or cat-in-costume ornaments
12. Candles (so many pumpkin candles – I think these would also be appropriate for Thanksgiving)
13. Trick-or-treat bags
How are you preparing for/celebrating Halloween?
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Sounds like you have a lot of cool Halloween things in your store. I'm sure the pumpkin stuff could also be used for Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteI have purchased my favorite candy to hand out to the trick-or-treaters who never seem to come. Whatever shall I do with my favorite candy?
ReplyDeleteWe had cut out designs that we'd put on our bedroom doors at this time of year when I was a kid. Now, I see so many houses bedecked in creepy tableaux. There's one place that's covered in clowns. In the scary way.
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