Do You Do Much For Halloween?

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We didn’t do a lot when I was growing up but always carved a pumpkin & DBro & I went trick or treating with our friends. Sometimes we had a mini party with apple bobbing, ghost stories etc. DD16 has been trick or treating every year & will have a horror movie fest this year instead. I work in a well known store & folks are splashing out on all sorts. People decorate their houses inside & out. It seems to be as big a deal as Christmas.

Trick or treating isn't a thing in my country so we don't do that, but I decorate the house and make Halloween themed food, get my punch bowl out (the one time a year it comes out) and have a little party. Sometimes just with family, sometimes DD brings a friend, sometimes I invite friends, and we eat, play board games and maybe watch a film.

We have a few little traditions that we have done the last couple of years, but it’s definitely not near the scale that Christmas is. We don’t have lots of decorations indoor or outdoor or spend lots of money etc

We do a Halloween disco at home the evening before Halloween; as Halloween evening itself is too rushed after dh finishes work and then when he’s home the kids want to go out trick or treating all together, then when we get back it’s hot dogs for dinner, eat some sweets, bath then bed!

When I say Halloween disco it is just our household (3 dc, me and dh) and we do a little buffet for dinner (bits from the freezer, nothing super extravagant) and dance around the living room to Halloween themed music. We also do little games like bobbing for apples and musical statues etc.

They’re all young so they enjoy it but I can’t imagine they will want to do this still when they’re teenagers. It doesn’t really cost anything and it’s nice time together as a family.
we did try going to Halloween type events; like organised discos etc but the children didn’t enjoy them as much so it seemed like a waste of money when they preferred something more low-key at home.

We also watch hocus pocus or something similar for children together with some snacks one rainy cold afternoon in October when we need something to do indoors.

Absolutely nothing.
I never liked trick or treating as a child. Strangers banging on our front door used to really freak me out, along with my mum shrieking "go away!" at the top of her voice! Our front door got egg'd one year as well, when I was maybe about 12, and seeing my poor mum out in the dark, with the washing up bowl, washing egg off the door, just made me really sad.
I actually spend a night in a hotel quite often on Halloween, just to avoid it. But this year I am thinking of staying at home, just to see what happens. Fingers crossed it pours with rain that night!

No, as we do completely different thing but my grandkids did put up a fight to do something...trick and treating as long not nasty looking costumes could probably be fine but we never actually took them on such

Forgot actually. As we live on a street with a church at the other end, they used to do Light parties. We did few of them, it was really nice

We didn’t get a single knock on the door this evening! We didn’t have a pumpkin out but that was the same last year and still had a few knocks. Can only conclude that the howling rain put people off - perfect for me, no up and down to the door like a yoyo. Perfect for ds who now gets to eat the treats. But kind of sad for the dc who were planning on dressing up, and the parents who have parents who have no doubt spent time/money on costumes. Oh well!

I never allowed my now adult children to go trick or treating because my grandparents used to be terrified when people knocked on their door. Also back then there was Mischief Night, cars and houses would be egged, gates removed from hinges and left down the road or on top of the car etc etc. You could not get pumpkins and I bent many of my Mum's spoons trying to carve a swede! So that they did not feel they had missed out we had a party, fancy dress, party food and games. A little tradition I have kept up for my grandchildren, even though some of them go trick or treating. I decorate the inside of the house, but not the outside, although the interior decor is generally spooky all year round anyway.

both my children are adults but we still decorate (probably more than when they were children 🤣)
it’s a bit of a thing in our village

Nothing this year. DD met with friends earlier in the week. As a child 41ish years my mum never let me go trick or treating. Said you cant go out begging. I did take my child when she was younger. Was my mum just odd not letting me go?

Yep, they are popping up on every thread related to Halloween to inform us of their uneducated, anti anything American views. No doubt tbey will soon be on the Christmas threads telling us nobody in the UK calls him Santa. So predictable, every year.

I don’t decorate (dds are long grown up) but I put a lit-up pumpkin* in the front window. There aren’t many kids in our immediate area now, but I had about a dozen calling - mostly after the cats-and-dogs rain had stopped.

Dd and Sil, OTOH, go all out with decorations, masses of kids around their way, the Gdcs love it.

*tomorrow I’ll turn it into a Thai style soup. 😋

But all the supermarkets are filled with Halloween related tat. Most of it will go to landfill.
This is a new way to sell more plastic shit to consumers.

We did trick or treating with our 2 youngest but tbh I loathe the entire something for nothing culture so would not ever do it by choice.