When do you put up your Halloween decs?

[Greenbutterlfy566]

When do you put up your Halloween decs?

Guising?! not sure what that is and it's certainly not something we did in N Ireland. We went around the doors...is guising maybe what the Scots do? Is it connected to Guy Fawkes?

No its what kids do at Halloween. Going round the doors but they have to do something like tell jokes or sing a song for their sweets.

It doesn't. You are free to do what you like. Why is it so important that we all think your plastic decorations are fabulous?
Don't be ridiculous nobody has said that.
The loint is that just because some people don't do it doesn't give them carte blanche to slag off those of us who do enjoy Halloween.

Murdetofgoths
Every thread gets hyjacked by the usual posts about it being the devil's work American, not British, etc etc.

Its really rather tedious when it's origins are explained every sodding year😀

I literally don't care about it, it's just another day. If people want to go to the supermarket and spend their money on crap then who am I to stop them. All benefits the economy I suppose.

is guising maybe what the Scots do? Is it connected to Guy Fawkes?

Guising is the Scots name for the door to door visiting, where you do a joke song etc and get a sweet in return on Halloween.
It is nothing to do with bonfire night which was much smaller growing up.

I literally don't care about it, it's just another day. You have posted a lot on this thread for someone who doesn't care.

Guising is the Scots name for the door to door visiting, where you do a joke song etc and get a sweet in return on Halloween.
It is nothing to do with bonfire night which was much smaller growing up. So Guising is the Scot's name, Trick or Treat is the American name and the Irish just stuck with "going around the doors" - not quite as catchy is it? - I can see why they adopted the "trick or treat" descriptor.

I didn’t know it was a ‘thing’- I thought it was just put a pumpkin in your window on actual Halloween night. I’ve seen all the stuff in shops, which I assumed was for parties, but it seems some people decorate their house just because. Fair enough, each to their own! I have neither enough time nor headspace to do anything of the sort, and fortunately DC don’t seem to think it’s a thing. Although one of them is going to a Halloween party this year.

but it seems some people decorate their house just because

Wtf is this 'just because' that keeps being trotted out?

People decorate for birthdays and Xmas and other events/festivals is that 'just because' too?
We do it because we enjoy it because we want to, because it's a community thing where local kids and adults like looking at the decorations.
I have neither enough time nor headspace to do anything of the sort
Great bit of blowing your own trumpet there.
Well that's your business if the rest of us make time then does that make us somehow less perfect than you? Because your so much more busy and have so many more important things to think about than others?
I make time it might be a rush getting it all done but it's worth it. It's really not that difficult to think about either tbh.

It's 'just a thing' for some cultures in the same way that any other festival is.
There is no compulsion to celebrate any festival, no one festival is more worthy or more real than any other.
Depending on your culture different festivals will have different meanings and value for you.

Never

This year I'll be putting them up on the evening of the 24th.

DS has a Halloween party at preschool the next day and then I'm thinking of having a little Halloween party that night.

1st October for the 'tasteful' ones (I can imagine the MN hive cat bum facing at that, but Halloween people will know what I mean!) and the more in-your-face ones a week before

Blimey, chip on your shoulder much there Willow?!

Good grief.

I have nothing but admiration for people who can manage to do this type of thing. I am unsure how I am blowing my own trumpet by saying it’s not something I could manage. Same as I admire people who can bake cakes for birthdays rather than chucking a Colin caterpillar in a basket which is the extent of my domestic goddesshood.

But whatever, if you want to get chippy for reasons beyond my understanding, again, each to their own!

Yeah Willow that was uncalled for.

I think you must have spectacularly misread my tone tbh. Must be exhausting and stressful looking for offence in things like that.

Tasteful done yesterday only because I was away the first week of October. Going to pick out my pumpkin today, trying to decide white, green or orange? I picked up nice potted mum’s on sale.

I meant “just because it’s Halloween”, nothing more. As opposed to decorating for a party.

I'd love my garden to be decorated up the week before but sadly I think the local feral kids would be off with my zombies and gravestones before the first night is over so I don't decorate up until actual Halloween night. It's a shame because I'm one of the very few houses to go to any effort at all (and I go overboard) and the kids (both the nice ones and those feral ones) do love it. It's just a shame that even though they love it they're also willing to ruin it.

Yeah Willow that was uncalled for

Yes Willow overstepped the mark whereas all the other posters who think people only celebrate Halloween because its an American thing & the opportunity to buy plastic tat are fine?

Soggypizza guising is what we do. Not trick or treating

I think on lots of these threads when posters call it an American import, it's the "trick or treating" they're referring to, not actual Hallloween

"just because it’s Halloween"

Why is it just because" though? If Halloween means something to someone it isn't 'just because ' that's damm dismissive of other people who do things differently to you.

People decorate for birthdays, special occasions and Xmas but nobody says "We are decorating just because". Never seen this applied to any other topic.

Yep I must have a chip on my shoulder 'just because'.😞 Nothing to do with all the feigned surprise, and derogatory remarks directed at people who are following ancient traditions and tweaking them for the time we are in now if they want to. We can honour ancient traditions privately or publicly but still have fun with modern things too.

Do people think Xmas has stayed the same for hundreds of years? Ts changed beyond recognition. I don't hear much complaining about all the food and drink consumed and presents given.

I think on lots of these threads when posters call it an American import, it's the "trick or treating" they're referring to, not actual Hallloween
You would be wrong. I have seen posts incredulous that Halloween has ever been celebrated in UK at all before 'trick or treat came over here'.
Apparently USA invented Halloween in some people's opinion. It's quite depressing.

Flowery
If I misread then fine I apologise but all this using 'just because' as a dismissive phrase is getting tedious.

I didn’t mean it dismissively at all, I meant ‘just because it’s that time of years as opposed to ‘for a specific event like a party.‘

You’ve said “just because” more than anyone else on the thread. Two posters used the phrase

I’ll rephrase my post if it makes you happier.

I assumed all the decorations in the shops were for people having parties. Genuinely had no idea that people decorated their homes because it’s Halloween. Not a single person I know does this.

@flowery that’s how I meant it too.