This morning I ran around with a friend looking for Halloween costumes. We do go trick or treating with our kids and have costumes but we don't allow them to dress in demonic clothing in any way. It's just a day we dress up and get candy. It's the only day of the year we can all dress up and knock on people's door for candy. Any other day of the year they would call the cops on us so Halloween is our excuse. Tee hee. Anyway, we first went to a regular halloween store and it about made me choke because it was really expensive. I already ordered Ryan's online because it was on sale and had free shipping. I used a 25% off coupon for Kyle's at the halloween store but we just couldn't find anything else that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Does anyone else notice that halloween stuff is way overpriced AND poor quality? Then we head to a thrift shop and it was like we walked into savings heaven. Tons and tons of new and used costumes. I ignored the new ones because they were still expensive and found the rest of the costumes for my kids for about $5 a piece.
My friend and I took all 9 kids to run around at McDonalds and try to get their energy out but it did not work at all. Haha. I babysat the rest them the rest of the day but had to head out later to the store eventually. I left my poor husband on his week off with 9 kids but we sorely needed groceries so I had to go. :(
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There are articles on Halloween at libertytothecaptives.net and jesus-is-lord.com(in the Believers' Corner). lasttrumpetministries.org has online tracts. Christian Light has a Halloween tract. Everyone feels differently but they are worth reading. Vision Forum also has an article/comments concerning Halloween on their blog. We never did Halloween or costumes/masks. We did give out chocolate and Christian tracts on Halloween. Our Baptist church does not acknowledge Halloween(no harvest parties). We believe KJ Scripture(Luke 1,etc.) shows Jesus was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles-this year that's sundown Oct. 12/13(it's usually in Sept.) so my mind is on that.
I totally understand people's thoughts on it. ;) My church puts out a huuuuge outreach each year and plays to win over people to Christ during the halloween time. Then the kids are dressed in fun costumes and playing games in a different room.
I guess everyone is different in their opinion about it. Actually, it's how we feel about all the holidays but we've learned to put a clean, Godly spin on all the holidays. We still go Easter egg hunting but my kids know the Easter bunny is not real and they know it's about Jesus' resurrection. We buy presents and get a Christmas tree and teach the kids the real meaning of Christmas. Yet, we still love all the fun songs and exchange gifts. Same with the other holidays. We have fun with them but they always knows the real meaning behind all of them and we keep it Godly.
Hopefully this lady learnt to at least pretend to be nice when she is on the clock. Well, hopefully.
Going to a thrift store is definitely a much better alternative than heading to a Halloween store wherein the costumes might cost you a lot.
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