Changing Halloween Traditions?

Were you busy last night handing out treats at the door too? Or do you have younger kids at your house and you escorted them out to get their pillow-case full of candies and junk foods?

I was doing the first one, but I had some moments to think how - if I had a family, with a fine Christian husband, of course, I would suggest that we change our Halloween traditions.

(Now, this is not likely to happen in my lifetime, but it may become fodder for one of my novels if I can create a space in my life to work on the ones bouncing around in my head).

One of the first good ideas I had was that our kids would NOT go door-to-door for a bag full of over-sweet treats. Instead, we would throw a family party, and since it is not only kids that need to be taught the roots of Halloween are in the occult, but the parents also, as the kids would not be wanting to go out trick-or-treating if the parents didn't take them out in their strollers before they had any sense of what was happening. So we would have a short, simple teaching session for the kids, and then our kids would take their kids to a larger room for some games with prizes. My husband (?) and I would give the parents a more in-depth session on the roots, and better alternatives to the current way Halloween is celebrated.

Then we would take them to join all the kids whooping it up in the games room. In due time we would invite them all into a large dining area where they would enjoy 'Healthy party foods' along with cheerful visiting!

If you don't have the facilities or resources to throw a non-occult party, it might be a good time to prepare food hampers for poor families and make a friendly visit to their homes.

Okay. Your turn. What ideas would you suggest?

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How to Re-Purpose Websites or Letters/Essays?

Have you had to give up on a website for some reason, technical issues, or lack of time to keep it up-dated? Maybe you have a stash of old letters and essays and hesitate to throw them out as they have some great content, but... how can you turn them into something useful or even profitable?

Ah! How about turning that great content into an ebook? If you can put that into a book format in your Word Processing program (ie. LibreOffice, or Word in Windows, etc.) insert some good images or photos to illustrate it well, then save it as a document, and then save it again as a PDF file - you have an ebook.

Some people rush off to submit it to Amazon, and they may accept it - if you jump through a few hoops first, and of course they want their percentage of the profits. But if you can get it up on a website and you can write up a good sales page to encourage people to buy it, then you can sell it that way.

You can get a free account at Stripe and/or at PayPal to take payments, and since it is an ebook you don't have to do any shipping. Just send the customer an email after the sale is complete with the download link.

In fact, there is a company that will help you set up a free mini-site to sell up to 10 products all for free. (Mind you, some of the better features are only for the paid versions) But you could check it out for yourself. They provide a lot of explanatory pages for you to see how it would work. Ecwid.com

I'm trying it out right now with my Genealogy website where I have 5 ebooks for sale. Just a couple of lines of code and presto, I have a shopping cart for my ebooks on my own site. eBooks-Shop

My mind is full of ideas now, for how to re-use old photo stories and Garden Tours, etc. for ebook ideas. Some I might offer as give-aways, but some should be of a quality that I will charge for them.

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