You forgot about…
🦅🎇🇺🇸FREEDOM DAY🇺🇸🎇🦅
I’m assuming you’re not American? We still have another major holiday first, Independence day. Also smaller holidays, Memorial Day, Juneteenth and Labor Day. Though I do feel the sentiment. I married into a family that owns and runs a few fireworks stores, one of which converts into a Halloween store after the fireworks season ends. So it really is like that come July 5th every year. Time to rebuild the store for Spookums time!
The 4th of July is the biggest holiday of the year in my family because we’re heavily involved with the stores. I was just confused how we were skipping that.
It’s only celebrated in the US though, there are no big international holidays between now and Halloween in the west.
Halloween is an American/Canadian holiday. You can talk about Samhain and such if you want, but Halloween is descended from those traditions, they’re not the same thing.
It’s not, what we know as Halloween started in the year 400 as a Roman celebration based on the Celtic Samhain celebration.
The Roman empire was known for combining their culture with whatever new cultures they found.
If you want to be even more picky about the origina you could look forward to the year 800 or so and the Holy Roman Empire and that would make it both French and German in a way.
Sooo… It’s Ireland, Roman, French or German depending on how you want to look at it, all of them centuries before the US and Canada became a thing.
This took me 10 minutes to research…
I’m curious… Is Halloween not a big fireworks holiday there? Definitely the biggest day of fireworks in Ireland.
Or do they sell the fireworks and Halloween gear after the conversion?
We do continue to sell fireworks on one end of the store after the conversion. We have them available year round, even if we have to come and open the store for a single customer in the off-season. But, no, fireworks aren’t common for Halloween here. Halloween sales are primarily costumes, makeup, wigs, prosthetics, props, decorations, and fog machines. Independence Day/The Fourth of July is definitely the biggest fireworks day here, followed by Memorial Day, New Years, and Diwali, in that order.
Nordics: what about summer solstice? It’s so nice to see that big ball of heat in the sky stay for weeks, as a nice treat before the darkness starts to reclaim the world, as it will all things in the end…
There’s always Cinco de Mayo to get you through May.
Does Mother’s Day count as a big holiday?
