Shel Horowitz's Monthly Frugal Fun Tips -- Volume 3, #6, October 1999
DON'T FORGET...TOMORROW, OCTOBER 2, IS INTERNATIONAL FRUGAL FUN DAY. DO AT LEAST ONE FUN THING THAT COSTS 0-$5! Need ideas? Visit https://www.frugalfun.com/frugalfundayideas.html for over 100 brain-starters. What a delightfully scary time. For those of you too young to remember the days when children scampered from door-to-door in eerie costumes...oh, do they still do that? Halloween and Purim* are two times when children get to dress, play with abandon and break out of their shells. Little pranks are OK, maybe even expected. And adults who still have a childish streak enjoy the heck out of these times. One big difference though. On Halloween, children come and beg for treats. On Purim, traditionally, children come and bring gifts to you! (*Purim is a Jewish holiday that usually occurs in March, celebrating Queen Esther miraculously saving all the Jews in Persia from a scheduled genocide.) Unfortunately, though, Halloween has become dangerous because of a few malicious, evil misfits. They put razors or poison or other harmful things into the 'treats.' Gone are the days when parents would let their children open, much less eat, anything prepared lovingly by a neighbor - like caramel or candied apples, colored pop-corn balls, home-baked cookies,...Oh, stop drooling! But that doesn't mean you can't put a personal spin on Halloween. A few years ago, we tried an experiment. The Chief Ghoul said it wouldn't work. We had just moved and not yet unpacked. But we found some boxes of assorted books. They included Grisham, Kellerman (both Jon & Faye), Heinlein, Asimov, Robbins, how-to books, Poe, Shakespeare, transcendental meditation or yoga, textbooks, computer books, magazines (like Asimov's Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Fantasy and Science Fiction), misc. books we didn't even recognize as ours. So we gave the trick or treaters a choice: Pick a book from the box.... OR take some candy from the basket. Result: Except for the smallest children in Mom's or Dad's arms, they ALL went for the books. We had to drag out another box. The parents, hiding at the end of the driveway came, rushing up, asking if they could pick out a book too! Moral of the story: Get creative. Candy isn't the only alternative. Kids today really are a lot brighter and more interesting than people give them credit for! (oh, oh, ending a sentence with a preposition?!) Give them a chance, just watch, you'll like what you see. Halloween Treats: Give the kids first crack - some may really need them...or can use them to create more costumes. � Copyright Eva Rosenberg 1999
Eva Rosenberg, MBA, EA, known as the TaxMama, has an extensive portfolio of
books and articles about taxes, networking and promotion. Her tax and business experience spans 25 years. She writes a popular free weekly newsletter for folks interested in reducing their tax burden - Ask TaxMama https://taxmama.com/AskTaxMama and she is secretly, in another guise, The Original GiftSurfer, publisher of GiftSurfer's Digest https://giftsurf.com , a monthly E-zine with gift ideas you won't find anywhere else. She always includes at least one or articles about clever gifts you can give people for under $25.00
Using this background, and believing in people, that they want to help each other, Rosenberg created and now moderates one of the most popular daily digests on the Internet, the I-Sales Help Desk, https://www.audettemedia.com/I-help , a resource for about 6,000 people worldwide to get answers to their electronic commerce and World-Wide-Web questions.
Her awards include being named to Who's Who in California, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Writers, Editors and Poets, and the Who's Who of Women Executives.
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