To be fair, I have always recognized August 1st as the start of the Halloween season.
But at this stage it's about ghost stories and scary movies, not CANDY.
Also to me, Halloween itself is dated too late. If I got to choose, it'd be about two weeks earlier. Too often October 31st has an "early winter" feel moreso than the autumn feel that Halloween demands. At least in the Northeast it does.
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Black Turtle spilled my diet soda!