At Friday's meeting, Tim Benoy served as Greeter and his fun and frolics was on Halloween - its origins as a Celtic celebration Samhain through today where Americans spend $13b on costumes, candy and decorations (including $750m on pet costumes.) The two most popular costumes in the past few years are Spiderman and Princess.
This year, Myles and I tracked the costumes that came to the door - the two leading costumes were a shark and vampire at three each, while there was just one Spiderman and one Princess. The Justice League came as a unity, there were two Kylo Ren although their grandfather Darth Vader came separately. There were old school horror characters - Michael Myers, Chucky and The Bride of Chucky.
And one young man did not know what he was dressed as - it was what his mom made him wear. We categorized that as "Parent's Choice."
In addition to the traditional candy - Hershey's, Reeces, gummy bears - we gave out 30 packets of ramen, 20 single serve cans of Pringles and almost 10 pounds of potatoes.
All in all, Myles and I contributed about $70 to the $13b spent this year - including the three pumpkins I bought a couple weeks ago.
Onto the Thanksgiving.