Tomorrow is the beginning of St Chocoton's Feast, so I thought I'd sare a bit about celebrating it and the virtues of our dearest fat opossum St. Chocoton: generosity, frugality, opportunism, prudence, and indulging your brief life to some good gorbage (you can also see all my other Chocoton info/art here!)

This holiday is officially after Valentine's (but also occurs after any holiday with a deluge of cheap, unwanted treats), and lasts vaguely for a week - intentionally flexible for you to find a day/days that best suit you to celebrate and time to find the best sales. Aside from buying a bunch of cheap sale treats, we also make a space and some time to indulge ourselves dress in comfy, scruffy clothes - perhaps with an additional necklace or crown of crumpled colorful paper wads, like Chocoton's own crown.

Keep all your treats in Chocoton's Opossum Pouch - a bag that can add an element of surprise when you go to grab your treats, as well as keep them neatly in one place. Consider giving some small pouches of treats for others, too!

Make a nice fluffy space to chill in! Decorations can just be pillows and blankets, or you can add lights, colorful paper wad strings/paper chains, or cut outs of your fav scavenger critters. Save them for next year to avoid unnecessary waste (I keep mine in my Chocoton pouch). Common themes of St Chocoton's Feast to inspire some decorative ideas: opossums and other scavengers, inverted hearts (the symbol of Chocoton, reclaimed from the unwanted holiday treats), the moon/night, and of course chocolate and garbage.

Remember to keep your space tidy! (Unwanted) trash in your comfy places/environment in general can be harmful to health and add to stress. Opossums are very particular about being clean, groom extremely frequently, and reduce trash and pests in our shared environments. Be like possum!

If you’re feeling especially goofy and into it:
HISS!
Hiss at your friends!
Hiss at strangers!
Hiss at the moon! Hiss at that bright nighttime dingdong! What does he even think he’s doing up there?!

Of course, feel free to come up with your own activities and traditions that celebrate St Chocoton's virtues. May all your sales be great and blessed be thine trash!