When a Halloween Person Loves a Christmas Person

How can you love Christmas when you hate capitalism?

Photo by Ben Lei on Unsplash

I love love love Halloween. My birthday falls on October 27th and I spent most of my childhood (and some of my adulthood) having costumed birthday parties in my parents’ creepy, unfinished basement, full of concrete floors and dark, dusty corners. As children, we’d make toilet paper mummies of…