When do you put up your Halloween decs?

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When do you put up your Halloween decs?

I'm not snobby - I just hate it. It's creepy - skeletons and spiders- ugh no. In Asda ATM they've got skeleton spiders - the two things I hate the most combined! When DS was little we did the pumpkin carving and in junior school he did trick and treating with his friends - so considering my child was put and about knocking on doors I bought the multipack haribo and joined in. Thankfully I'm now back to ignoring it.

the fact you rate Halloween as being not proper and Christmas as being so it really just your individual outlook on the world
Yup.

I usually carve a pumpkin which gets put outside the front door at dusk on 31st and then forgotten about for a week until it starts to decompose

When dc were smaller, I'd decorate the dining room in the afternoon. Late evening I'd take it down again.

I love Halloween and I decorate my house. I have 3 boxes of decorations and usually add some more each year.
We also do a family pumpkin carving evening even though my kids are older teens.
I am making a Halloween costume too, just got to decide whether to have a party at home or go out.
Onesailwait can I come round to your house? 😊

Am I fuck having that task added to my list
Who.said you had to?

It's not christmas
No.its Halloween! You do realise a xmas isnt compulsory either? Half the world doesn't celebrate it.

Christmas is a religious festival and a national holiday. It's worth celebrating

Yep a date picked because it could be used to convert pagans from their own celebrations of Yule. It has no more to do with an actual event than Easter has. Actually Samhain is a religious festival so by your logic it must be worth celebrating to? And don't talk of rampant consumerism when shops have had Xmas stuff out for a bloody month! It's months away. 2 weeks of Halloween stuff and every one is throwing up their hands in horror yet 3 months of Xmas rip offs are Ok!

It is not ‘snobby’ to opt out of some of the endless succession of commercialised ‘events’ foisted on us by a retail industry which actively creates, promotes and perpetuates such things to maximise their own profits.

Like I said upthread I celebrate Halloween because i'm Irish.

Oh I'm hugely snobby about it. The day you find me in Asda, loading my trolley with orange tinsel and plastic skeletons you'll know I've given up on life.

I have never ever shopped in Asda in my life, I get my tat in John Lewis!

I'm just going to sit here, enjoying Halloween, which is far more fun than Christmas. My plans are to decorate the little cubby hole at the front of the house, hang out there, dress up as Professor Snape and scare the local kids while handing out sweeties. (I need to practice my scowl.) My costume is made from mostly natural fibres so that's not an issue.

PS, I get all my tat from Poundland. I have an army of Halloween rubber ducks, some tinsel and some fairylights, as well as ceramic candle holders that I use as ornaments all year round. All my stuff doubles as Christmas decorations too! And I have Halloween stuffed toys which I collect and put on display.

I still remember my favourite halloween costume almost 40 years ago - a piece of material my mum stapled feathers cut out of card and made me an owl mask. I've loved hallowèen since then.... I don't do super scary gore, more pumpkins owls bats cauldrons etc. We do talk about things that scare us and why. It's also another great opportunity to do crafts.... like everything I suppose it's how you approach it.

Halloween decs! Never!

I'm not even that keen on Christmas decs, although I put up with them for a week or so.

SapphireSeptember that does sound awesome to be fair.

I hope all the posters talking about commercialised plastic tatt apply the same sentiment to Christmas!

Totally

I hope all the posters talking about commercialised plastic tatt apply the same sentiment to Christmas!

I do as a matter of fact. Beautiful decorations that are years old. Ive never seen glass or beautifully made halloween decs as its surely just for one day so completely ephemeral. A carved pumpkin is ok.

Why on earth would I want to do two lots of decorating?

Maybe if I had kids that were hyped up by coloured plastic then I would have been more likely to get sucked in.

The day of and they get taken down when Dd goes to bed. I hate having them around the house!

AgeLikeWine Fri 11-Oct-19 22:02:48
It is not ‘snobby’ to opt out of some of the endless succession of commercialised ‘events’ foisted on us by a retail industry which actively creates, promotes and perpetuates such things to maximise their own profits.

Yes it is snobby. It's also ill-informed.

Hallowe'en wasn't created by the retail industry.

It was originally a Pagan feast that was co-opted into Christianity, with a similar theme superimposed on the older feast (life/death, the meeting of two realms).

I live in the benighted US (actually in a neighbourhood that is aglow with orange lights right now) and put up my Hallowe'en decorations yesterday - one ribbon/jingly ball thing in purple for my front door, one little ghost made by one of the DCs when they were about 5, some glow in the dark bat shapes for my windows, and a lantern for the mantelpiece. Plus a trolleyfull of funny looking gourds out on my front steps. A big fat 'Bah humbug' to those who assume Hallowe'en decorations are all plastic tat.

I will be making a traditional Irish barm brack to enjoy on the day.

• And yes, I do know what the word 'benighted' means.

Oh I'm in no doubt that I'm snobby about it! 🤣

That would also.apply to the people who pontificate about Halloween never existing in UK until it was miraculously imported from USA last year or in the last couple of years. Maybe finding out for themselves would be better than regurgitating the same old crap they heard somewhere else?

Come on, you must understand why people cite the US during a Halloween. Everybody knows Halloween was a marked event historically in Britian. Traditionally a bit of apple bobbing, bit of trick or treating and a carved pumpkin.
What was “miraculously imported“ was the idea that people need to have tons of theming, throw a party ( with tons of theming), everyone dressing up regardless of age and generally just commercialise the shit out of it.

Yes leflic

Hallowe'en wasn't created by the retail industry.

But has been completely taken over by it.
Hence the mass production of plastic tat.

What was “miraculously imported“ was the idea that people need to have tons of theming, throw a party ( with tons of theming), everyone dressing up regardless of age and generally just commercialise the shit out of it. You could say the same thing about Christmas - the change came from Germany didn't it, in Victorian times and then again in the 1970's, Christmas has been completely commercialised in recent times, oranges and toothbrushes and a bit of fruit cake has long been left behind. It really does feel like it's one standard applied for Hallowe'en and another for Christmas. That's fine - if you don't like Hallowe'en you don't have to do it but why the argument, I don't celebrate many festivals - I don't spend my time objecting to them.

mathanxiety so if it’s not created by the retail industry, why are you and others putting up decorations two weeks early?

It was never more than a day and a night. Whatever origins you come from where the living and dead are closer than ever, the end of the harvest and the start of winter, it starts on the 31st October and ends of the 1st November.

But this thread isn't about Christmas.

I love the costume parades that take place in Ireland & NI, for me dressing up my dc reminds me of my childhood. Once the youngest dc is a bit older I will take them over there.

You could say the same thing about Christmas

We do! The specialness that is Christmas has been diluted because it starts too early, too much expectation and too commeralised. The difference is really noticeable if you go to Europe. So much calmer and more enjoyable at that time of year.

Yes I hate the over commercialism at Christmas too. It could be a lovely three day holiday with a few lights, good food and family and friends. I find the bludgeoning insistence of all the Christmas bedding, tableware etc utterly mind numbing.