
A time of year focused on cheap, mass produced decorations, selling massive quantities of cheap mass produced candy, and dressing up in cheap mass produced costumes you wear once a year and completely replace the next year. The same thing happened with Christmas. It used to be 12 days. But as it got more and more monetized, companies needed more and more people to work. So in the Victorian era, it slowly got reduced to just being a single day, all so corporations could sell more