Trending topics and hashtags from X.com and Google for Thursday, November 5th, 2026.
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Zero Halloween
Today my blog is 52 days old. A few days ago was Halloween 2026. I didn’t spend a penny for the holiday. No candy and no decorations were bought. I think this is the first year that I skipped Halloween entirely due to prices on things. I will normally at least buy 1 or 2 bags of candy for myself to eat through the month, but the prices for candy has gotten outrageous. I won’t even buy it on sale now after the Halloween holiday. I know I’m not the only one. Videos on YouTube are showing people talking about the prices and how they didn’t buy anything either. $30 for a bag of candy? LOL get out of here. I hope retailers and manufacturers lose a lot of money for their shenanigans. The economy since Biden was elected in 2020 has been teaching me all the things that I don’t need to buy, especially in more recent months. It’s not just Halloween this year that I didn’t buy candy. For awhile over the last few years, up until about 6 months ago, I was buying at least one bag of chocolate candy each week. Then I stopped because of the prices. I just skip the candy isle now. I have also stopped buying fast food so much as I’ve mentioned before (I think), and I’ve cut down a lot on buying soda. I stopped buying chips so much as well, and buy microwave popcorn instead. My money is more important to me than my hunger for junk food, although I’m still getting my fair share in cakes and sugar cookies LOL. To celebrate not allowing myself to get ripped off on Halloween candy, I’m gonna go deposit $$$ in my savings and call the holiday a success for my future. I wonder if this year might have broken me from Halloween spending? Halloween has always been my favorite holiday out of them all because it is fun. These prices are not fun though. I know I’m not telling anyone anything they don’t already know about that.
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Lots Of Pizza
What’s a completely useless fact you love sharing?
On average, Americans eat a combined amount of 100 acres of pizza every day.
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The Exorcist
What’s a book or movie that genuinely scared you?
That 1970s movie, The Exorcist, got me. For years after I saw it on TV (didn’t see it in the theater) it made me cringe. I won’t watch it as an adult now. Funny thing though is the 2nd one was funny to me,and I saw that one in the theater when it came out. Something about that first film though is freaky as hell, and I ain’t the one!
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Get Real Quotes 009
10 more quotes for living a real life, part 9.
Real Words:
- Being valuable to a company is useful. Being valuable without the company is power.
- Believe in yourself, and you will be unstoppable. – Emily Guay
- Best mental reset I’ve learned: If your mind is loud – Write. If your mind is empty – Read. If your mind is racing – Walk. If your mind is tired – Sleep. If your mind is sharp – Build. Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.
- Beware of snakes in the grass. Gotta watch your step!
- Big dreams need big sacrifices.
- BITTER TRUTH: No matter how good you are, how nice you are, how kind you are, or how caring you are, if you are in the wrong place, you are never valued and appreciated.
- Boundaries are healthy. Establish yours, and enforce them!
- Bravely step up and claim your space.
- Brick by brick. Day by day. A win is a win.
- By the time the realize your worth, you’ll be worth more.
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Get Real Quotes 008
10 more quotes for living a real life, part 8.
Real Words:
- Become an advocate for losing people who can’t treat you right.
- Become someone no one thought you could be. Not even you.
- Become the mirror they don’t like to look at.
- Being able to identify, whip out, and masterfully set into place whatever boundary you require will help you cultivate the staying power that may have eluded you in your habit attempts in the past.
- Being alone is a power very few can handle.
- Being disliked by people with ugly energy is divine protection.
- Being hated by losers is the price you pay for not being one.
- Being nice without boundaries attracts exploitation. You are giving benefits without making behavior accountable. The other side learns they can receive your patience, forgiveness, attention, and effort without paying the price of respect. Kindness without structure becomes a subsidy for bad behavior.
- Being ready is a myth. You start. You suck. You figure it out. You get better.
- Being true to yourself may lead to loneliness, but it’s worth it.
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Get Real Quotes 007
10 more quotes for living a real life, part 7.
Real Words:
- Be kind, but don’t let people use you.
- Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
- Be patient. Sometimes the wait is longer because the blessing is bigger.
- Be smart enough to ask for advise, but be wise enough to know who to seek it from.
- Be so private they can’t do nothing but assume.
- Be teachable. You’re not always right.
- Be the reason why people believe in beautiful souls, kind hearts and good energy. Never stop being a good person.
- Be valuable, not available.
- Be what restores someone’s trust.
- Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them.
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Go To Museums
If you had a free round-trip ticket to anywhere, where would you go?
I would want to take a road trip across the USA and visit all of the largest museums in each state. I think that would be amazing.
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