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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Celebrating Halloween During A Pandemic

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Halloween signals the first of the fall/winter holidays that we’re navigating for the first time amidst a global pandemic. There’s a palpable sense of loss for many families, yet it’s also possible to have a fun, silly holiday while prioritizing safety. Christine and Asha share their thoughts on celebrating Halloween during COVID-19 and maintaining touchpoints with holiday normalcy in a safe, simple way. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.

0:09.7

And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:16.6

We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

0:26.6

Good morning, Christine. Good morning, Ayesha. How's it going? Oh, you know, I'm a little sleepy

0:34.9

this morning, but I think that's just because fall really is in the air around

0:38.5

here. Like the leaves are falling the whole thing. And it, you know, it makes it a little harder to get out of

0:45.0

the bed. I get it. I'm actually, I don't, didn't think I would say this, but I'm kind of like

0:50.3

excited for the change, the time change, just because I think it'll make it a little easier

0:54.9

in the morning it's pretty hard well and also you know of course I'm on Pacific time so it's

1:01.6

pretty darn early over here it's early well listen you know speaking of fall Halloween is right

1:08.7

around the corner and I thought it would be a good thing to talk about it.

1:14.8

You know, let's talk about how to have a fun holiday while, you know, keeping within our sort of

1:24.1

new pandemic lifestyle and also keeping things simple. I think that's a really important

1:29.4

part of this conversation. I was inspired by an article that I was recently interviewed for

1:35.4

by Jill Cohen Martin. She wrote it and it's called Halloween isn't canceled expert tips for

1:42.1

celebrating during COVID-19. And it just got me really thinking about tips, but also the bigger picture of Halloween

1:48.8

this year.

1:51.5

Yeah.

1:52.1

And I would love to just chat about it.

1:54.1

I feel like, I feel like there's a lot to, there's, there's a lot more than just

1:57.5

candy and trick-or-treating.

1:59.3

Yeah.

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