Anyone else hate Halloween??

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The anti social teenagers, the horrible creepy pictures everywhere that I think are far too scary to be in public view given 4 year olds can see them...
Just had to call the police because a gang of teenagers were throwing fireworks into my garden and I'm on my own tonight as DH away visiting his parents with the kids.

Oh how I wish it was back to the good old days of handmade costumes, bobbing for apples and a few sweets.

Anyone else hate Halloween? Everyone I know seems to love it 

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I don't really like it. Halloween was never really a thing in our house when I was younger and I still couldn't care less about it. Hate trick or treating though and I know that'll cause problems with my DC when they are older.
Hope the teenager problem is sorted for you soon.

That doesn’t happen around here thank god. Just lots of pumpkins and Juan red tree hunts etc. It’s really fun. I love the pumpkin carving and all the randomly flavoured cakes and things you can get. I loved Halloween as a child but it wasn’t a big thing back then. I’m happy for my kids that they get to make a bigger deal of it. I do really want to take them to spend it with our Americans relatives one year though.

Racecardriver that sounds really nice.

It's a pain in the arse. Get home from work, pick kids up from after school club, get in, have tea, do two sets of make up, go out knocking on people's doors, which I hate, usually in the pissing rain, get home, get them both showered and into bed. And we're up again at 6am the next morning.

And now they want to decorate the house. No, this isn't TV America.

I'm in your camp, OP. There's nothing about Halloween that I like. It's the start of dark evenings and cold weather. I can't be bothered with the scary stuff, and I don't really like any of the food (apart from apple tart). I'm a Halloween Grinch.

I’m ambivalent about Halloween, though I’m enjoying it this year as 4-year-old DS is outrageously excited so we have decorated .

But I did enjoy the irony of the ad at the bottom of this thread:

I once had a bereavement close to Halloween, it was awful having to deal with questions from DC about what ghosts and skeletons are when they were struggling to understand what dying means. I do celebrate a bit now for the kids, but I am very careful about not involving or upsetting other people who might not see it as fun.

I agree with you OP. I hate it , DD hates it. You can’t avoid horrible creepy sights. People think it’s funny, but no one thinks of the small children. There are no boundaries.

I'v always loved it, and am enjoying it all over again with my six year old, but then we live in a village where the closest to anti-social behaviour is someone not picking up their dog's crap (and that's once in a blue moon, and denounced in the village newspaper). Here the single street is alive with accompanied smallies dressed as zombies and mini-vampires high on Haribo, and people decorate their houses and the local pub always has skeletons sitting at the bar, and even the vicar drapes fake cobwebs over the churchyard gate and last year changed the floodlighting on the church to green -- it's all very cosy, and everyone respects the 'no decorations, no ringing at the door' rule.

The most horrifying thing I saw last year was a very nice neighbour's small dog wearing a spider costume, which, given there's not much streetlighting, was vaguely gruesome.

I suspect if I were dealing with nasty stuff from teenagers I'd feel the same as you, OP.

It just seems to have become much more sinister. Pictures of horror movies on the sides of buses etc that I don't want to see and don't think young kids should see...

Sorry to hear that Livininabox 

That sounds rubbish, OP! Such a shame, as I think Halloween in a great autumn festival. I do agree about all the horrror stuff, and in fact, for all the sneering towards how American Halloween is, they seem to go for anything with their costumes, not just horror ones.

However, I’m not keen on Bonfire Night and wish that fireworks weren’t for sale. We go to a nice bonfire and BBQ with no fireworks as DD not keen, and I personally love a good display, but can’t stand them in people’s gardens for a week.

I hate it, I usually go for the hiding in the house in darkness to avoid it! Still didn't stop people knocking though

Loathe it - feral teenagers throwing eggs at doors and cars if no answer from doors. And general anti social behaviour. No cute kids dressing up.

I sit in out in darkness, entering the house from work only when no feral,teenagers are in sight

Halloween is lovely in our village. Lots of polite children knocking on the door. All keeping to the system of only knocking if you have your outside light on. Last year had some teenagers knock to tell me how cool our pumpkin was. My DP was very proud 😂

I feel like such a killjoy as DS1 is obsessed with it (I blame youtube) and keeps going on about how it's a holiday :o is it fuck. DH is being much more of a killjoy than me though and keeps going on about Christmas

I do admit to getting a weeny bit excited at putting the baby in a tiny Harry Potter costume though, especially as DS1 decided to dress as HP as well. DS1 has dark brown hair and green eyes and the baby is ginger so we will legitimately have a Harry and Ron.

I've just never bothered with it. It was banned on religious grounds when I was growing up so I have no sense of tradition attached to it. DS2 has seen a lot about it and is vaguely interested but I'm happy to leave it and do bonfire night instead.

Urgh can't bear it. A family member says that she constanrly reinforces, "don't accept sweets from strangers" , only to spend one night of the year, knocking on strangers doors and ACCEPTING SWEETS

Loathe it have done for years, the Americanised version anyway.
It's begging and at no other time would you knock on strangers doors and expect nay demand they give your DC free sweets.

Also cheeky late teens trying it on etc

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Not fond of it, as you have to wash eggs and flour off everything the next day. One year it triggered a feud on the estate that resulted in evictions.

I hate it. As do my 2 Autistic children.. We can't go anywhere in October half term without my kids freaking out it's really pissing me off! Even our local shopping center has gone ott with decorations. When did it get so big?

Yes! No pumpkins will be in my window!