Write An Informative Essay On Halloween

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Halloween is the holiday of spooky, it’s scary and mysterious. We go dress up in our favorite costume and either go, trick or treat, pass candy out, or scare and prank people, it’s pretty fun. We decorate our houses creatively and some people even have a halloween parties. Not all see halloween like that. I’m also going to show you the money spent on halloween which if insane if you add them up.

Jack O’ lanterns are very popular. People clean then from the inside and make drawings on the front then carve the drawing then they put a candle in the pumpkin. My family blows out the candle when we have no more candy to pass out on halloween. Ideas for what you can carve on a pumkin is scary face, heart, writing, you can even put a ghost. A long time ago people will use turnips for jack o’ lanterns. Jack has been a general term for a boy since the 16th century, and the British can prove ownership of the original use of the phrase jack o’ lantern. In the 17th century, it meant a night watchman, a man who literally carried a lantern. They ended up being just rumors.(http://www.history.com/)

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I mostly see moms down the aissles trying to find a costume fot their kids. They found out that the average money spent on costumes is 2.5 million dollars. Candy is every kids desire on halloween. They go trick-or-treating and try to get to every house in there niegborhood. When they get home they trade with other kids. It’s a happy holiday but a lot of money is spent. The average money spent on candy is 6 million dollars. Now if you put that together is would be 8.5 million dollars anad that unbelivable and that makes stores happy getting all that