Comments on: The Mindset of Halloween https://thepaulagcompany.com/the-mindset-of-halloween/ Helping you simplify and streamline your small business Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:50:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Heather Cook https://thepaulagcompany.com/the-mindset-of-halloween/#comment-188 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:50:47 +0000 http://www.coaching4lesbians.com/blog/2007/11/01/the-mindset-of-halloween/#comment-188 I am so thankful that my Halloween night was quite innocent and fun. My son is 6, my daughter 15 months. My son carried his sister's bag for her and he didn't once complain about the type or amount of candy. He marveled at how full the bags were getting, but it was just pure happiness, not greed. Then after about 45 minutes he decided it was time to go home. Of course we're in Canada so the weather 'encourages' us to head home early.

Then he spent the rest of the evening helping to hand out candy.

]]> By: Queercents » Blog Archive » The Economics and Psychonomics of Halloween https://thepaulagcompany.com/the-mindset-of-halloween/#comment-187 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:34:13 +0000 http://www.coaching4lesbians.com/blog/2007/11/01/the-mindset-of-halloween/#comment-187 […] While I amused myself coining the term Psychonomics (or at least taking credit for thinking of it) as we wandered the streets, I was amazed at just how rich the insights could be if you just took a look around at how people were acting and what they were saying. I wrote about my observations on The Mindset of Halloween on my blog today. The part that most applies to money, though is the mindset of scarcity. I’ve written about it before http://www.queercents.com/2007/08/09/what-if-money-is-just-like-water/ and I’m sure I’ll do so again, but last night was like watching scarcity and desperate consumption on a movie screen and it was scary… I couldn’t find a better example of scarcity mindset and the unrelenting drive for more more more than Halloween (well, maybe Christmas). Here you’ve got kids, many of them older kids schlepping from house to house begging for candy. No longer is one treat sufficient. Oh no. Now it is two, three, or a handful. And, they walk around with multiple bags filled so full that they drag on the ground like a thin plastic grocery bag filled with several gallons of milk. Still…. they want more. Scurrying faster toward houses with lights and then complaining loudly about houses without candy or lights saying “another Dud that sucks.” […]

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