Halloween

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Do you celebrate Halloween where you live and if so, how?
 
Nope :headshake:

Some people take their kids trick or treating but the past few years it has been quieter than normal.
 
Yep, being in the US, Halloween is a big (commercial) deal. However, I grew up in a fairly stringently religious household, so I was never allowed to participate as a kid. No trick-or-treating and when our class at school would have a little Halloween party, I was made to sit out in the hallway until it was over.

Nowadays, though, we both love Halloween, especially all the scary stuff on TV, but we don't go to parties or make scary-themed foods - just lots of apple cider and other Fall favorites.
 
Its not something that I've ever celebrated but we do get 'trick or treat' kids coming round sometimes and as epicuric says elsewhere its rife in the shops and mainly aimed at kids.
 
Halloween was done for the local kids. We did it up big time.

Graveyard with the crypt and our flying crank ghost, Marie.
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Front entrance to the house.
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Unfinished garage during the day.
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A few jack'o'lanterns.
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Nope, even if many kids have started to celebrate it, wearing spooky costumes and saying “treat or trick” by now. It’s not something about our tradition, but kids having fun, so why not.
But what scared me a lot are adults saying “treat or trick?” ... that’s soooo spooky.
About Halloween, I like horror films marathon on TV
 
There is a recent significant post about Halloween from epicuric in another thread - I can't move it here because it pre-dates this thread but see here: #9
Yes, I read that. We do have to be polite and civil here, don't we?
 
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Its not something that I've ever celebrated but we do get 'trick or treat' kids coming round sometimes and as epicuric says elsewhere its rife in the shops and mainly aimed at kids.
EVERY holiday, celebration is the same. But if the kids have fun and look forward to it, big deal. So the candy and costume makers make money. Unfortunately that is the way things are today. Pretty soon, the grocery stores are going to make a fortune selling turkeys, pumpkins, cranberries, etc. So what do we do. Discontinue Thanksgiving? How about Christmas? And the list goes on and on and.........
 
EVERY holiday, celebration is the same. But if the kids have fun and look forward to it, big deal. So the candy and costume makers make money. Unfortunately that is the way things are today. Pretty soon, the grocery stores are going to make a fortune selling turkeys, pumpkins, cranberries, etc. So what do we do. Discontinue Thanksgiving? How about Christmas? And the list goes on and on and.........

I think many of us regret the commercialisation of Christmas as much as Halloween. No-one is suggesting discontinuing these celebrations - its the commercialisation and the use of cheap disposable gimmicks which are simply thrown away afterwards which is objectionable. Plus the pressure on those who can't afford it to buy lots of toys for their kids.
 
Some of the really young kids refused to come in the driveway/then garage. We got labeled "The Halloween House". I was sorely tempted to make some anamitronics, but even older kids might pass on them.
 
Some years ago, DH started handing out chilled bottles of water to the kids, (yes, it is that hot here some years) in addition to the candy. Word spread and we had a lot of kids. Last year, not one kid came to the door, but the tub of bottled water was empty. Found out the Halloween door buzzer was not working. So hope we still will get a lot of kids this year, else we will have to eat all the candy like we did last year. lol
 
We used to do the intricately carved pumpkins, but we knocked that in the head after my hand started up with my tendon issues.
Even though we haven't had a single kid in the last 10 years, the wife still insists on buying a bag of mixed sweets "just in case" - just so happens to be the mix that contains her favorites...
I don't bemoan the commercialization of any holiday. I like seeing all the stuff on offer in the shops, and I certainly don't feel any pressure to buy anything I don't want. Never have.
One thing I do get a hoot out of are the adult "sexy" costumes - everything can be "sexified" and every year I look forward to what objectionable or ridiculous thing will get the sexy treatment. Sexy Nurse, Sexy Farmer's Daughter, Sexy Zombie Girl, those are easy to imagine, but this years winner for weirdest one has to be "Sexy Nice Neighbor," which is in reality a female version of a Mr. Roger's get-up: Grey knit hot pants, and a little knit cardigan that just happens to be cropped just above the belly button. I'm supposing "Sexy Charity Nun" will be next, and that'll be a thinly-disguised Mother Theresa! :laugh:
 
I sometimes go out to a local bar to people-watch. I used to meet some friends from LA in Las Vegas for Halloween. Talk about good people-watching. :woot:

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