To not get why so many adults love Hallowe'en

[Bananabread123]

What is there to love about grotesque skeletons and blood-soaked zombies?

I love Halloween. I also prefer Spooky and Witchy to horror. I just love this time of year all round, I need to find a good spooky book to read now.

Because I'm a goth and Halloween is the only time people dinner call me a freak for dressing how I dress, & I can buy home decor haaaaaaaaa

People don't call me a freak

Bloody autocorrect

Are you on the wind-up OP?

I think it's fun too. Kids tend to love it. We don't go over the top but might make Halloween cakes, dress up for the trick or treaters, watch a spooky film and I'll read them a spooky bedtime story (not too spooky. I still remember their terror when I read Tailypo )

oh another reason I like halloween, if the kids are in a new nursery or school its a good informal reason to invite over new friends and their parents to get to know a few of them. Its enough into their first term to have an idea of who they are gravitating towards and gives you a chance to meet the parents before arranging any 1:1 play dates.

I'ld personally feel a bit of a weirdo inviting an aquaintance for Christmas or Easter, but halloween is cool, you can have a fairly open house. I like that. People are open and welcoming, Christmas can be lonely in comparison as everyone's busy with their family and inner circle.

Because on an otherwise dark, cold and wet Scottish evening all the neighbourhood houses are fantastically decorated and lit up, we get to speak to all the neighbours and hundreds of brightly decorated, happy, excited, joke telling children come to my door.

What's not to like?

Halloween is better than Christmas
I hate Christmas with a passion
I love Halloween, always have done since I was a child and I'm 49

I do like christmas too but it's not as "open" as halloween. Christmas is about people's inner circle, halloween is open to neighbours and aquaintances as well as friends

My neighbour has just rolled my pumpkin over the road for us, he grows us one every year!

This used to be the new year back in days of yore, still an important festival for pagans.

Me and dh are big horror fans so we really go to town on our costumes, and decorating our home for our party

Our teens also love it and it keeps the smaller ones enetertained carving a pumpkin and doing some Halloween colouring. The little ones go trick or treating the neighbours give them sweets and I do the same when there neighbours dc come calling.

It's fine to be miserable and not join in but don't piss on anyone else's chips

We love it in this house we have a big party every year. And the DC love it, all the pumpkin carving, decorating the home, trick or treating and they love all the baking as well.

If you don't like it then you don't have to do anything. No need to piss on anyone else's chips

I know someone who suffers terrible PTSD and the fake gore really triggers her.

Maybe she should stay in at Halloween then?

I bloody love Halloween, it's a big thing in our village luckily and everyone joins in. I've already started decorating my house for it and the kids and dh are getting excited

Fit someone who follows a pagan path it is a very important part of the calendar. Plus it can be bloody good fun.

I love it too.

Especially the pumpkins with the silly grins. And little children are out and about and excited. That's always nice.

And supermarkets sell fake severed hands and other mad shit. Makes shopping less tedious.

I love Halloween.

My dad is American so growing up in our house Halloween was always a big thing. I am having a huge Halloween party this year, I will carve pumpkins 🎃, I will dress ds as a pumpkin and baby DD as a cat, I will bake a pumpkin pie, ghost and zombie cakes/biscuits, pumpkin soup. We will also take ds and DD to a little tots Halloween party at the village hall lunch time on Halloween.

If you don't like it fair enough but surely you can understand some people enjoy it because we all like different things

I agree with you OP. I don't like Halloween either, I don't decorate the house and I don't do trick or treating. I quite often stay in a holiday park and we join in with their activities, and therefore we don't do anything at home. I usually put a sign on the door to say no trick or treating, have a happy Halloween.

Each to their own, I don't criticize those who do celebrate Halloween and don't expect criticism because I don't. I grew up on a farm so we had nowhere to trick or treat, so it wasn't part of my childhood. By staying in a holiday park, DC gets to enjoy it without it being a huge thing, it's just part of the holiday.

You wouldn't like my house atm then op as it's full of skeletons, ghosts, zombies, spiders and a rat eating zombie head plus more 😁 as we are having a party Saturday and DH is working all week so only chance to do it just hope no one comes round before hand 👻💀🎃

Yeah and people with social anxiety should never go anywhere where there is people.

You can't blame the trigger for the PTSD, people with PTSD are triggered by all sorts, tannoy announcements, "stop" bells on busses, lots and lots of ordinary small things can trigger PTSD, that's what's so shit about it - an ordinary every day thing can cause a panic attack..

if a halloween item is someone's trigger, that is not the fault of anyone celebrating halloween any more than it's your fault if you press for a lift and the sound of it arriving at your floor triggers someone.

Eliminating all triggers has never been a logical or helpful solution to PTSD.

so don't act as if you care about PTSD if you don't understand the basics of it

Or do you think she should sit in her house in the dark hoping no one will knock?

yeah that… or.. y'know, just pop a sign on the door "no trick or treaters please" and then carry on as normal?

We love Halloween in this house.

Me and dp have always been huge fans of horror so we get to go all out on our costume. The teens put a lot of effort in to there costumes too.

We hav a big party every year
Grow and then carve our own pumpkins
Bake loads of Halloween goodies
Go trick or treating but for our 2 DDs (5) not the teens
The teens go to the over 12 disco in the village hall
DDs love the colouring books, and as a bonus keeps them entertained for a little while

Nobody is asking you to join in if you don't like it but surely you can understand it's something many of us enjoy

Because it's fun. Costumes, sweets and spooky stuff.

I prefer Halloween over Bonfire night.