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Mom hot take

Is it just me or is halloween becoming less of a kids thing, I took my son n sister out trick or treating and some of the people we spoke to said that they did halloween last night? So then im like “ok we will just go to the mall and stuff” we get to the mall and someone from Great American Cookies was like “oh the mall had their halloween on Tuesday” like wym it was on Tuesday like girl????

Anyways mini rant over happy halloween mommas

2025/11/1 Edited to

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Yeah it’s rough. Like everyone does it different times, days and different things. It’s stressful.

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