# I will be so glad when November is here. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729 "2015-09-27T17:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/1 "2015-09-27T17:59:03Z")
I really hate the gross, scary and disgusting stuff for Halloween. Please! no more kitty litter cake, zombie anything, rodents, blood and gore etc. give me hobos, princesses, and ghosts. Candy apples, popcorn balls and candy corn (although I don’t eat any of those things). Please stop trying to be the grossest thing around or make the grossest consumable. I fully recognize I am probably the only one who feels this way. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/2 "2015-09-27T18:17:32Z")
And… this year Halloween rolled out in mid-August. Not a little. Full-out aisle-clogging candy skyscrapers and more, in summer. I guess they still can’t figure out a good way to merchandise H’ween, so extending it to three months and selling probably twice as much overpriced candy is their klever solushun. But I’ll take that over… Everything Fuggin’ Pink Month. Here it is again, and breast cancer is running scared, I tell ya. (You’ve heard of breast cancer, right? Maybe not, since we need a month of **BREAST CANCER AWARENESS!** every year to fill in the ignorance gap.) ETA: But yeah, I’d go for a more innocent and “friendly” Halloween - you know, for kids! - than the Wes Craven one. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/3 "2015-09-27T18:23:40Z")
I’m with you. Halloween is the worst day. A “holiday” about death? Yuk. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/4 "2015-09-27T18:31:11Z")
yeah, I never really thought about it much but now that you point that out… ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/5 "2015-09-27T18:41:47Z")
I love Halloween, but hate the blood and gore that’s become associated with it in recent years. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/6 "2015-09-27T18:45:51Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > ETA: But yeah, I’d go for a more innocent and “friendly” Halloween - you know, for kids! - than the Wes Craven one. I hear that. I’m so over sexy drunken Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/7 "2015-09-27T19:12:34Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > give me hobos, princesses, and ghosts. … hobos? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/8 "2015-09-27T19:28:10Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > … hobos? Hey, I won TWO costume contests as a hobo! When, uh, LBJ was prez… But I second the “drunken sexy slut” moratorium. CFM outfits in little-kid sizes is just sick on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/9 "2015-09-27T19:44:27Z")
I hate all the rushing the holidays bullshit. Bad enough when the Christmas stuff starts in September, now the Halloween stuff starts in August. Why does everybody want to rush everything? Then they rush onto the next thing. I have one friend who started the countdown to Halloween in August and I have come damn close to blocking her on FB. By the time the actual holiday comes around I’m already sick of it. Anticipation used to be part of the fun, now we’re saturated before it gets here. What ever happened to living in the moment and stopping to smell the roses? I agree slutty costumes for kids is just gross, on so many levels. Now get off my lawn! and take your damn ghosts, witches, reindeer, and candy canes (and that pukie candy corn) with you ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/10 "2015-09-28T20:57:00Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > I’m with you. Halloween is the worst day. A “holiday” about death? Yuk. It’s not about death, silly, it’s about the dead! Death is a process, dead is a state of (not) being. We never get trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood, haven’t had a single one in the last 10 years. I still buy candy, though. You know, just in case. And I make sure it’s my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/11 "2015-09-28T21:39:57Z")
Cue Ministry “Everyday is Halloween!” That will be in my head all day now. Which is fine by me. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/12 "2015-09-29T01:26:54Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Cue Ministry “Everyday is Halloween!” > > That will be in my head all day now. Which is fine by me. Now you’ve done it. I can’t get that tune out of my head now either. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/13 "2015-09-29T15:07:07Z")
I love Halloween (and refuse to do “sexy” costumes), but I’m with you on the grossness of kitty litter cake. I have 3 cats, and, ugh, no. Never. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-so-glad-when-november-is-here/732729/14 "2015-09-29T16:46:53Z")
Benny Hill ripped this off from someone: No birds, no bees No leaves on the trees No wonder November