Who bothers with Halloween?

[tigercub50]

I have friends who make a really big deal of Halloween ( big party, loads of decorations etc) but we have never done much apart from trick or treating. I make pumpkin lanterns. I prefer Bonfire Night. Anyone do much?

Halloween has always been celebrated in my family and I'm in my 30s. I have memories of my Mum making witches brew (irn Bru with gobstopper eyes floating in it) and dragons blood ( tizer with chopped apples I think). Dressing up, pumpkin/turnip carving, dooking for apples. I love it

I was never allowed to celebrate it growing up, and now I feel like the magic has passed..

Me, in my own way. I like to dress up and go somewhere. This Halloween I'm planning on going to Oxford to see the witchcraft exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, and I'm going to dress up as Professor Snape, (although I'm not planning on traveling there like that!) I have robes, a cloak and a wand. It was never really celebrated in my family either but as an adult it's my favourite time of the year. (Much better than Christmas which just stresses me out.)

Me!! I love Halloween. I don't celebrate Bonfire night at all.

I start by putting up my Halloween decorations at the beginning of October. Then on Halloween we go to a local Halloween party, do trick or treating in the neighborhood and have a special Halloween-themed dinner.

Love Halloween, I've already got my special mug out 🎃🎃🎃

I reckon some of you will want to take a look at these.

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We prefer it to Christmas in this house.

We don't decorate the house apart from a couple of pumpkins but my children dress up and we go out trick or treating. The sweets they get from just going up and down our street are enough to last several weeks! We also buy a big tub of Haribo or similar and hand them out to visiting children/teens.
We don't do anything for bonfire night unfortunately - my children don't like the fireworks and crowds and neither does my husband. I used to love bonfire night as a child and I still like the toffee apples, the parkin, the bonfire toffee, the sparklers and the colours. I might go by myself this year and try to take some fireworks photos.

We love Halloween in our house. I have several boxes of decorations i put out each year although we have just moved house and dont think i will be able to use half of them now😔
Hoping that we get as many guisers as we did at our old house. Love seeing all the kids dresed up and telling jokes etc.

I spend hours carving pumpkins in my favourite 'theme'.😀 and kids do more traditional ones to.
I miss our local primary school haloween party now my two are at high school it was a great night. Dooking for apples, syrup pancakes, lots of games and spooky food😀

Kids come home with carrier bags full of sweets after being out guising😀 a real community night for us all.

Bonfire night used to be much bigger years ago. We used to.go.round getting 'A penny for the guy' and collecting stuff for the village bonfire. These days there are few organised bonfires but its all an insurance nightmare and very safety conscience so small bonfire and nobody within 100 feet of it. Although the fireworks are good.

This year i dont have anywhere to let off fireworks as no proper garden now (fecking lying Housing
Association 😐)

Awaits someone coming along to say halloween is a terrible american import

We go all out at Halloween,my DH loves Halloween and I love Christmas.

Every halloween we put up lots of decorations in the house and in the garden and each year we have a different theme for the garden,last year my DH did a zombie's cemetery.

We all dress up and take the DC trick or treating and I make up Halloween goody bags for all of the trick or treaters,we usually get over 100 of them.

We've had lots of Halloween party's in the past and we always play Halloween games and I make a massive Halloween cake and we have lots of spooky looking food and drinks.

I'm going to a Halloween Ball, every year I go to a Halloween party. Looking forward to it

So pleased to see this thread isn't filled with the usual "No way it's American" shit. I live in Scotland it's well celebrated here and always has been. We'll dress up, go guising, dook for apples, carve pumpkins etc. I absolutely love it, possibly more than Christmas

I do a pumpkin, and get the sweets in. Trick or treaters make me feel part of a community!

Me! I always trim the house up and have a party. Autumn is my favourite time of year and Halloween/bonfire night are the best bits!

Grew up in Northern Ireland in the 80s and my parents would host a Halloween party for our neighbours - costumes, Apple pies, sparklers, trick or treating etc etc. So much fun.

My DC are still a bit small but this year I'm going to take DD to choose a pumpkin at a farm, help decorate it, put a spooky web on the door, pop her and DS in a costume and have sweets in for our local trick or treaters.

We go pumpkin picking, usually go to a Halloween party at a local family friendly pub and trick or treating. Don't decorate my own house though.

All this is purely for DS though, I'm not bothered about Halloween myself and I do NOT dress up (hate it )

We put pumpkins out, kids dress up, go out, we have quite a lot of trick or treaters that call. We have sparklers. It's right in the middle of the kids midterm break so there's no school. Am in NI.

It wasn’t celebrated in my family when i was a child, we were welcome to dress up, of go to a Halloween party, but no decorations or trick or treaters. I’m not organised enough to decorate the house, however we carve pumpkins, and I’ll make costumes for my DCs and they will go trick or treating with DH and PILs. I love the magic of it, Autumn is beautiful!

DD (18) loves Halloween. Unfortunately she doesn't have anyone to celebrate it with this year as nearly all of her friends are at university and she isn't. I have advised her to lower her expectations.

OH and I don't "do" Halloween.

Yes apart from a few years when I was too old to trick or treat I've always celebrated it. We usually do a kids party and then go trick or treating on the estate where my sister lives. Everyone goes to town there with decorations it's like an 80s teen movie level of decor! Really good fun. The kids love dressing up. This year its in the middle of half term so I'd like to make lots of decorations and have a but if fun with it.

Me. I'm pagan and a witch,so it's an important time in my calendar. I'm more excited for it than Dec 25th. Bonfire night is a no no in my house.

I love the food for Bonfire Night and always remember Blue Peter’s very creepy Bonfire Night special!

We go all out decorating the outside of the house, we also have lights, projection, sound effects and smoke machines. I wouldn’t describe it as us celebrating Halloween though, it’s a show for the trick or treaters.

What’s the reason bonfire is no no Grumpy, just out of interest?

We live it. Our fav time of the year. Dds adore it.

We've moved from a flat to a house and I'm looking forward to decorating the house this year. I might even have a Halloween party. P