I fucking hate carving pumpkins

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Who ever decided this was fun?
It's messy, sticky, fiddly, sweaty and really really fucking hard

And now it's something else that's become a competition, so a traditional scary face isn't good enough, oh no we need Spiderman and Darth Vader and Mona Lisa and the fucking Taj Mahal

Plus!
The kids can't even do it and inevitably get bored of watching me hack at a pumpkin muttering about "fucking Halloween" so they tootle off playing and I'm sat alone in the kitchen surrounded by innards trying to create a piece of art on a fucking vegetable wondering what the hell happened to my life

I fucking hate carving fucking bastard pumpkins

Never carved a pumpkin in my life and don't intend to ever attempt it.

I've not even bought one and normally do 2 intricate carvings but i just can't be arsed this year

Same here :(

Try carving a turnip! Adults never did the carving when I was little - always the kids!

I put down a bin liner and do it on the outside table. Not sticky, no mess, no trouble.
But I only do a basic design. Nothing glamorous.

Me too! The pumpkin flesh makes my hands sore !!!!

I declared today the last year I'm ever doing pumpkins. Kids whinging that it's gross scooping the inside out, refusing to listen to instructions and losing interest half way through.

I haven’t bothered this year. No one has so far noticed

The smell.

We've done 1 because we grew some for carving. The rest have been palmed off on other people/had faces drawn on them.

I remember carving turnips. We did potatoes too.

I'm sat here with 2 of the bastards that still need to degunked. Can't be arsed but since I bought them I suppose I should. Pffffffft. DS doesn't seem that bothered either. I usually love pumpkin carving but I've got a cold and with the clocks changing I just want to curl up in my bed.

Fucking hate it. We're in Scotland and Halloween is a biggish deal. DD is 5 and DS1 is massively dyspraxic so I had to do it. DS2 managed his ok and the guinea pigs like the innards.
I swear DH has planned tomorrow's work trip so he doesn't have to get involved.

Draw on the face with a sharpie .
It's a shit job I agree.

Don't bother.

I heard a tip on R2 yesterday that you’re meant to cut the bottom off - not the top to stop it all sinking in. My kids are all grown up so I do not need to try this out!
Use a metal table spoon to scoop the guts out - the plastic scoops that come with the kits are rubbish. Also try to scape some flesh away with the seeds as it’s less slimy to scoop out. You have my sympathy- this is one stage I am happy to be past!

Just tripped over the two orange twat twinkies that are lying in my sewing room
Asked DD2 if she fancied doing them tonight and got a distinct....can be bothered.
Was it more fun as kids being left up to it ourselves with turnips like concrete. No adults barging in?
i think I'll get done up tomorrow night to answer the door cos I reckon the DD will be engrossed in soemthing else entirely.
Or not bother. Leave the doorstep undecorated and ignore any random knocks.
Sad, cos I love Halloween but no point playing on my own.

I don't find it hard. But then again, I don't volunteer to do it if someone else looks willing!

There's worse jobs. Like Christmas dinner. And wrapping Santa presents, now that I hate. 😤😡

I just go with the traditional goofy pumpkin faces. I can't be do with etching an elaborate carving just to fling it in the bin afterwards.

I bought a mini pie pumpkin this year which was much easier to carve. Took me 15 minutes total- I had the oven timer on cooking a pizza whilst I did it.

I've also used a drill to do patterns out of dots before which worked well but I had to draw out the design beforehand.

Haha, friend of mine used to have a hallowe’en party every year for all of our DCs. She’d ask every year who would like to supervise (ie Do) the pumpkin carving, no ta. Luckily I’m quite arty so I just used to park myself in the corner with a bucket of wine and do the face painting. Have to admit my masterpieces got a little less precise towards the end of the party

I hate them. Unfortunately dh got one last week and it's festering in the kitchen.
He's just informed me that he's got a simpsons stencil. Great. He'll do that and either carve himself or leave a sink full of innards n seeds. Or both.
He's decorating front of house for tomorrow.......but when they go tricking i disconnect doorbell and hide in my room.

I hate it, too, especially as we’re all growled up here. Done this instead tonight to mark Hallowe’en.

DS2 is moaning about a pumpkin and DH is doing a neep old school

Canny beat the smell of burnt turnip to take you back to your 70's childhood

Me and dd just did a spewing one.

Took 15 minutes max.

Are you doing elaborate ones?

Oh yes the pumpkins. I hate the smell and how slimy they are and this year dm decided to be at Lidl first thing to buy they're monster sized ones which have been sat in my garden for a month waiting to make their grand entrance. It took me 2 hours to scoop out and carve them. Luckily dm also bought the pumpkin carving sets so I had proper tools this year and stencils!