There’s only two months left until the start of 2027.
Yes, you read that correctly. That means the clock is ticking fast on any end-of-year projects that are in progress or to-be started. Some people also take this opportunity to clean out storage spaces while the decorations are on the house. It is the perfect time to clean up and clean out that space you’ve talked about for years, maybe even decades.
Usually the first step is the hardest. Just think of the first step as being the removal of the decorations. Make the second step ordering a rental dumpster for the junk that has little or no value. Now, you’re well on your way to completing the job.
Contact BlueBox for your rental dumpster
Click here to order your rental dumpster for the end of 2026. Click on this link if you have questions about their dumpster rental services. If you want to talk to our staff, call our Hagerstown, MD office at 301-331-4117.
Hagerstown is the “Hub City.” It’s also the hub of BlueBox Rental‘s service area for dumpster delivery. Their drivers serve the Tri-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In Maryland they deliver within the greater Washington County area and to parts of Frederick County. In Pennsylvania, they serve Greencastle, Waynesboro, Mercersburg and the small towns in between. The team also delivers and picks up rental dumpsters in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, including Inwood and Martinsburg.
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Halloween and All Saints Day celebrations this weekend
Trick-or-treaters are getting ready to head out to gather a bag full of goodies. Most of them will do so without any knowledge of the annual October 31st ritual. Even more so, they not aware of the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, which includes Halloween, All Saints Day and All Sous Day.
Though the original roots of Halloween — or All Hallow’s Eve — aren’t certain. However, it has been traced back to Ireland, Britain, and France. To mark the end of Summer, the Celts of Ireland held a harvest festival known as Samhain. The festival was steeped in superstition and fear of evil. It is celebrated on 
the 31st of October beginning at sunset and ending at sunset on November 1.
Following the Roman conquest of Britain, British Celts adopted the Julian calendar and fixed the date of observance to November 1. The holiday was Christianized as Halloween by the early church. It has evolved into a day of activities like making jack-o-lanterns from pumpkins, bobbing for apples, trick-or-treating and other festivities. In other countries as well as in Catholicism, one attends church services.
What is All Saints Day?
Pope Boniface IV reconsecrated the Pantheon in Rome around the year 609 A.D. He renamed it the Church of St. Mary and the Martyrs. He established the anniversary celebrating the remembrance for all of the Church’s martyrs. Years later, Pope Gregory III changed the date to November 1 during the dedication of St. Peter’s Basilica to “all saints,” in an effort to combat pagan worship.
November 1 became All Saints Day, otherwise known as All Hallow’s Day. Christians would come together on this day to ask for God’s protection from evil in the world as well as blessings from God. Patrons would dress up in costumes of evil spirits or saints in order to depict the battle between good and evil.
What is All Souls Day?
All Souls Day commemorates the faithful who have died. This day is observed in the Catholic Church as well as the Eastern Orthodox churches. It was believed, based on certain books of the Catholic Bible, that these souls, trapped between heaven and hell, could be helped by prayer. They could then be cleansed of their sins and receive full sanctification to gain entrance to heaven. The custom of setting apart this day for intercession was established by Saint Odilio of Cluny. This practice then spread throughout Europe and eventually to the Western Church.
As Christianity spread throughout the world, pagan holidays were either Christianized or swept away.
NOTE: Much of the information was taken from a Christianity.com article.