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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Are you the kind of person that goes all out and decorates the house, The kids and the dog and eagerlyawaits the trick or treaters?
Or are you like me and tammer lights off and pretend not to be in? |
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Yes, we do go a little ott  We have most of the tacky big decs up for trick or treaters but the tasteful autumn wreath and pumpkins are there all month
We both get dressed up, the dog has a new spider costume this year.
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When the kids were young I did the whole shebang! We had amazing Halloween open house parties and took great pleasure terrifying the neighbourhood children!
Now though I like to be the grumpy house that put a sign on the door saying feck off, shut the blinds and ignore it all 
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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I absolutely love Halloween. You might not know this. So there's a whole weekend for me to celebrate this year, going to do some pumpkin carving, watch Halloween episodes of various things, read spooky things, pay over the odds for vaguely themed food. Can't wait.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Are you the kind of person that goes all out and decorates the house, The kids and the dog and eagerlyawaits the trick or treaters?
Or are you like me and tammer lights off and pretend not to be in?"
I am like you. Great to see others like me here, OP! Thought I was the only non-Halloween swinger!   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love Halloween , and the dress up n party thing
not into decorating n all that . I not even have a house .
I have great ideas tho ^^ maybe one day I do something cool for the locals …
Trick or treats with daughter that’s about it
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Its my Christmas. From the 1st of October I wear my "Halloween jumpers" at work and earrings. The kids love it. Usually I have a Halloween tree decorated with skulls, spiders and other tacky themed crap. My windows are draped with faux Autumn leaves and fairy lights and I have more glass and ceramic pumpkins than I could ever need. I'll have four dress up events before the end of the spooky season. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Loved it when my kids were younger now I hate it.
I work in a nursing home and most of the staff are all "what you doing for Halloween" and I say "well I've asked the residents what they want to do it and apart from a couple, the rest aren't bothered or agree with it, so not much!" Is always my reply! It's their home, I shouldn't be forcing something they never did when they were younger down their throat and some get scared easily.
Anyway, happy Friday! |
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Personally, not overly worried about the whole trick or treat thing or the decorations etc. I love Halloween, but only cause I celebrate for a different reason, although thats starting to wear off each year. |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
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I have never been a Halloween person I have no problem with kids with accompanying adults dressed up and asking trick or treat and giving sweets.In 2018 3-4 big kids and 2 little kids knocked on my mums door who at the time was a few weeks away from her 70th birthday and snatched the sweets out of her hands as well as punching her in the arm and stomach and trying to get into the house.I hope you can understand my reluctance to appreciate Halloween like others but to those that do still enjoy Halloween enjoy. |
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I loathe Halloween for all the tiresome reasons everyone has already heard about. I don't claim they are original. And trick or treating in particular seems tantamount to demanding with menaces.
But in particular, I loathe it because it is such a thin, bastardised import. We have such a rich tradition of ghost stories and horror in Britain, and it's crushed underneath an avalanche of inedible pumpkins and 9 year olds dressed in Chinese plastic. |
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I'd do it but the Hubs isn't keen. He doesn't see the point for Halloween so Christmas is our compromise lol. We still carve pumpkins for the kids and our youngest goes trick or treating. Our eldest still would too if we'd let him!!
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"Not bothered about Halloween
Do celebrate the Samhain festival though."
See, that’s more like it.
It’s not an American holiday. It’s a pagan festival that the US borrowed, put glitter on, and sold back to us. A bit like they did with rock & roll … |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I still remember a halloween disco we had at primary school and in those days it was all dressing up as binbag witches  so celebrating halloween has been around a while.
I do like a few pumpkins and candles around the place. I always have plenty of cobwebs, and cardboard cutouts of bats swinging from the ceilings never hurt.
I have done trick or treating when the kids were little, and not so little but there is a code of only going to houses that are decorated or give some sort of bat signal that they are acceptable of little monsters at the door begging for sweets.
I like it because it marks the start of dark mysterious fog and mist season, long nights where the imagination turns to ghosts and spirits. I prefer bonfire night with the fire though. More powerful. |
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"I prefer bonfire night with the fire though. More powerful. "
Bonfire Night is infinitely better. Darker, more dangerous, and more historical. Especially in Lewes.
I'd LOVE to go to Up-Helly-A some time, too. |
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I don’t like the Americanisation of it. When I was young Bonfire Night was the main focus, Halloween was nowhere near what it is now. We will be celebrating Thanksgiving next.
Bonfire Night is part of our rich and varied history, Halloween has become a marketing tool. I get why kids love it but what we now have is as near near to the true meaning of Halloween as I am to my teens. |
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"I loathe Halloween for all the tiresome reasons everyone has already heard about. I don't claim they are original. And trick or treating in particular seems tantamount to demanding with menaces.
But in particular, I loathe it because it is such a thin, bastardised import. We have such a rich tradition of ghost stories and horror in Britain, and it's crushed underneath an avalanche of inedible pumpkins and 9 year olds dressed in Chinese plastic."
What he very eloquently said |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Agree with those who feel it's gone American, trick or treat? Loved it when my kids were small and even more so when I was a child, we went 'guisin'... pumpkins... Wouldn't have known what to do with one. Where I live halloween falls on last Friday of Oct meaning as kids, we had 2 opportunities to go out, here and then to relatives in the next town who held it on 31st. Now I'd not open my door, I don't feel it's safe to do so now which is a shame. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don’t like the Americanisation of it. When I was young Bonfire Night was the main focus, Halloween was nowhere near what it is now. We will be celebrating Thanksgiving next.
Bonfire Night is part of our rich and varied history, Halloween has become a marketing tool. I get why kids love it but what we now have is as near near to the true meaning of Halloween as I am to my teens."
The Guy Fawkes night traditions have died off. Kids would do penny for the guy to buy fireworks - shops no longer sell to kids. They burned their guys on numerous bonfires which were everywhere - no longer a thing and there are only a few organised displays around. No sure if there are bon fires lit. I went yo Highbury fields and Shorditch Park as a kid. They had massive fires.
It's very different now. I don't care about people over commercialising Halloween. It's something silly and fun for the kids to look forward too and enjoy. Most people only knock on doors that have put pumpkins out of decorated for it. |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
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I loved it when the kids were little, used to dress up and take them trick or treating and all that. My youngest is 16 and not bothered, I don't like my neighbours so this year there won't be a pumpkin at my front door. The gate and curtains will be firmly closed!  |
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"I loved it when the kids were little, used to dress up and take them trick or treating and all that. My youngest is 16 and not bothered, I don't like my neighbours so this year there won't be a pumpkin at my front door. The gate and curtains will be firmly closed! "
Grumpy ladylick! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Never really got it.
Parents said it was begging.
So I've just grown up into a bit of a boring arse.
Still try to have the assorted junk ready, usually though there's so much left over I risk diabetic shock. |
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After the first few times opening the door to ' trick or treaters' in my Samhain robes, offering them spiced apple juice and fruit bats and asking them if they wanted to partake in the Samhain offerings, they tended not to come back.
All except my Sri Lankan neighbors kids who don't celebrate it, don't really understand it, but thought that standing on the garden throwing apple juice at the tree and having spicy veg pasties was a great adventure. |
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I don't celebrate it in whatever manifestation it throws itself at me, be it costumes, food, partying and so forth.
I simply don't understand the concept of a parasitic tradition that seems to have leeched itself onto these shores. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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It's something I've got into the past few years. I was never really allowed to celebrate when I was younger and although I'm not a fan of dressing up myself now, I still like getting into the spirit of it by handing out sweets, carving a pumpkin, seeing all the costumes and stuff like that  |
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"It's something I've got into the past few years. I was never really allowed to celebrate when I was younger and although I'm not a fan of dressing up myself now, I still like getting into the spirit of it by handing out sweets, carving a pumpkin, seeing all the costumes and stuff like that "
Not to alarm you, but I think someone hacked your profile and changed your profile picture to a person dressed up for Halloween 
K |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's something I've got into the past few years. I was never really allowed to celebrate when I was younger and although I'm not a fan of dressing up myself now, I still like getting into the spirit of it by handing out sweets, carving a pumpkin, seeing all the costumes and stuff like that
Not to alarm you, but I think someone hacked your profile and changed your profile picture to a person dressed up for Halloween
K"
no need to be alamred. This is for a party and an attempt to not look like a spoilsport |
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