Jacob Jones

Argumentative essay

Should Halloween be big business? Me and my family got together and looked through the

costumes that we had left. We picked out different costumes that we had never been before but I

did not have a costume. I went to the store the day before Halloween. I tried to find something to

wear but I could not find anything left on the shelf. I went further down and found something

new. It was different but not scary. It was the latest thing so I went with it the very next day right

after school and we got ready for halloween. We waited for my mom to get home so we could

go to the main street before it got too late because Me and my brothers and sisters had school the

very next day.halloween should be big business halloween has been around for more than a

thousand years. Halloween is still for kids but that is changing.

Halloween has been around thousands of years originally a religious observance; it became

increasingly secular over the centuries until its religious trappings all but disappear in the United

States in the early 20th century as Irish and Scottish communities revived the Old World custom

of “guising,” in which a person would dress in costume and tell a joke, recite a poem, or perform

some other trick in exchange for a piece of fruit or other treat. By 1950, trick-or-treating for

candy had become one of Halloween’s most popular activities. Today, Halloween is one of the

biggest holidays for candy sales in the United States, estimated to be more than $3 billion,

according to the National Reared.Today Halloween is considered a holiday for dress-up and fun,

especially for children.The custom of trick-or-treating, in which children dress up in costume and

solicit treats from neighbors, became retail Federation.

Halloween just for kids is changing “it used to be adjusted for kids and then it was for college

kids and now we get people in their 50s, 60s and 70s here getting a costume because they are

going to a party, `` said Koble .

Over the ages, the holiday evolved, taking on Christian influences, European myth and American

consumerism. Today, Halloween is celebrated with trick-or-treating, costumes, jack-o-lanterns

and scary movies—all things which would likely be unrecognizable to those who took part in the

holiday's earliest formsTrick-or-treating skyrocketed in popularity by the 1950s, when

Halloween became a true national event. Today, over 179 million Americans celebrate the

holiday — and spend about $9.1 billion annually in the process, according to the National Retail

Federation.

Employment and Commercial Activity. Many retail stores open only for Halloween and, when November

arrives, these shops close and wait patiently for the next season. Some industries expect and plan for large

increases during the late-October holiday, including pumpkin growers and candy production

companies."The climate impact of Halloween goes beyond your organics waste side of it," Hiday said. On

top of excessive pumpkin, costume packaging and candy wrapper waste, most consumers buy a new

costume, or a new pail, versus just recycling items from the previous year, Hiday added.According to a

study by environmental group Hubbub, 83% of Halloween costumes are made using non-recyclable

oil-based plastics; meaning they are set for landfill. That means that for just one day of use, close to 2,000

tonnes of plastic waste is generated – which equates to 83 million plastic bottles being thrown away.
“It is an escape from reality for a day,” says Kelly David, spokesperson for Spirit Halloween, the largest

seasonal Halloween retailer in the country. “For adults, you can put on a Halloween costume and forget

about work, the bad economy, and other pressures.”Not just for kids anymore, Halloween has shifted into

a celebration for adults looking for an escape from the everyday, and with this shift, the Halloween

industry is booming.