Holidays and Finance | Wall Street Oasis

Halloween, one of my favorite holidays, is right around the corner.

Come on, what could be better than Halloween? An excuse to dress up in any costume your imagination desires, go out to bars, get drunk, and have (hopefully) many attractive women ask you what your costume is all about or where you got the idea. It's a win.

But Halloween is, unfortunately, one of those holidays that gets eclipsed pretty quickly by the "adult life". People of all ages are involved in Thanksgiving, Christmas, grilling for Memorial Day, etc. -- Halloween, on the other hand, caters to two major groups: little kids, and 18 to 26-year-olds looking to act like little kids but with booze.

For Halloween 2009, I dressed up as an investment banker. It was pretty fun. I took Monopoly money and taped it to my dress shirt, gave myself a super over the top hair style, and smudged my shirt with dirt to make me look like a transplant from the Depression (this was October of 2009, after all). I was in school at a feeder into lots of investment banks at the time, so everyone thought it was hilarious. Oh, Halloween.

Anyway, I digress, what I'm really interested is hearing about your experiences -- that's right, you finance dudes -- with respect to holidays since joining the "real world". Is Halloween still on your radar for this year? Going home for Thanksgiving? Planning on seeing your parents for Christmas, or planning on having some late nights in the office while all of your MDs are on vacation?

How do your long hours affect holidays? Is it as bad as people on WSO make it out to be (working on Xmas day), or are most folks exaggerating just because it's popular to "spin" everything?

What are your Halloween plans?

And here are some hilarious pictures of bros scared in a haunted house. Apparently they were all looking at what appeared to be a car speeding right at them as they turned a corner...hysterical!

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