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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You’re either really cheap at christmas, or you have the greatest Halloween spread ever
Or they're broke like the rest of us and it's a short scale
I just don't value Christmas much any more ... I do give out gifts but at this point, I just hand out money to the people I want to gift to because I never know what people want, especially kids and teens ... and when you give them money, they know exactly what they want to do with it.
Halloween however, I do spend a lot more on. And I don't spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on big ugly props and blow up things or store bought crap .. I spend quite a bit of money building up a supply of candies, chocolates and chips. I take the month leading up to the holiday and steadily buy a little bit at a time. Then by Halloween, I'll hand out handfuls of stuff to every kid that comes to the door. This year I had 100 kids and they each got a bunch of stuff. Then I have a tradition at the end of the night of waiting as long as possible and then giving away whatever I have left to the last kid. This year, it was a couple of teen boys who looked to be about 15/16, I filled one guys bag by dumping my box of chocolates into his sack ... the other kid was just messing around and didn't even have a bag, so I gave him a supply of old pillow cases I had ready, handed him one and told him to open it up as I dumped the rest of my chocolates and chips ... those were two of the happiest guys I got that night ... the bonus was that I didn't end up with all that candy that would have made me sick anyway.
Ha! So you have the greatest Halloween spread ever! Nice work!