The clocks go back an hour tonight in England, so I have a choice.
I either have an extra hours sleep or an extra hour of drinking - guess which one I decided on?
shareYou are fortunate. In North America we have another week of this Daylight Savings Time nonsense. In 2007, the U.S. Congress extended it into November, and Canada followed suit. This ruined Halloween.
There were rumors that the big candy manufacturers were pushing for this, believing it would increase the sales of holiday treats. They forgot one important point: Halloween events take place after dark. With the clocks set incorrectly, the kids lost a whole hour of trick-or-treating time, especially when the holiday fell during the week with school the next day.
Once again another holiday has been destroyed by corporate greed. These companies must have lost a lot of sales in October because we are now seeing Halloween candy displays up in stores as early as July.
Save the holiday season.
It’s not something we pay much attention to in the UK.
shareInteresting. I thought a lot of the Halloween traditions had their origins in the U.K. and Ireland. Is the U.K. also experiencing the trend where an increasing number of people no longer care about holidays, and see them solely as a money-grabbing opportunity?
Save the holiday season.
I meant the daylight saving thing - we’re kinda meh about it here.
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