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Our favorite October things

October is here! 🐇🐇

A Reddit thread yesterday asked: “What’s your favorite thing about October?”

Some of the answers included:

  • Halloween
  • Being able to cover up in more clothing
  • The woods are beautiful, the skeeters have died
  • Bonfires
  • The anticipation of the fun holidays to come
  • Zombie movies hit differently this time of year
  • Sweater weather
  • Hot chocolate
  • The smell of burning leaves
  • Playoff baseball
  • The smell of the cool air smells
  • Oktoberfest
  • The leaves changing colors (and raking them)
  • Putting up my Halloween and Day of the Dead decorations with my kids
  • Hot apple cider
  • Hoodie season!

What’s yours?

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