To not get why so many adults love Hallowe'en

[Bananabread123]

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

Because:

• It's an excuse for a party
• Dressing up is fun
• Decorating the house is fun
• Having all the little kids come over dressed up and politely ask for sweets is endearing and it's nice to meet and chat with other people in the community and do something nice (have sweets in and be nice to their kids)

I do think that some people are a tiny bit miserable....life is short and much better if you can find the fun and joy in things happening around you instead of having a moan!

No grotesque or blood soaked zombies here. We celebrate it because we're Wiccan. We have people round, we eat and we celebrate.

Its something to look forward to which is good for my mental health. I lile the colour orange. I love dressing up the kids. I like lighting candles. Its very hyggelig. Oh and the decorations at legoland are beautiful. Pumpkins and heather everywhere.

Because I can buy home decor so much easier

I don't hate it, I'm just not fussed about it. Lots of the adults who hate Halloween are the sort who criticise anyone who enjoys Christmas/gets excited for Christmas before December 24th so I'm always a little when they say "lighten up! have fun!" before reverting back into miserable bah humbugs after November 1st.

There's plenty of time left in the year for misery....

I don't like it either, I can see others do though, live and let live and all that

I am with you op. I really don't like Halloween. I can see how it's great fun for children but I really don't get how it is for an adult.

The opportunity to troll my boss by putting plastic spiders and other random shit all over his office without getting into trouble.
/pure evil/

Dressed up for the first time this Halloween as it's our beaver scouts party tonight. I'm so excited

Some miseries on MN.

Just because some people don't enjoy something that you do. It doesn't make them 'miseries'.

I love it. It's good clean fun with sweets and screaming.
I'm excited to take dd trick or treating and then to scare myself shitless watching some classic horror.
My kind of night

Yep I love it. We're having a huge party on Saturday and it's going to be blood soaked and scary as fuck. Why? Because it's FUN.

Topsy44

Why can't you see that some adults might quite enjoy dressing up and having a bit of fun? I love horror films, so Halloween is a great time for me.

Why can't you see that some adults might quite enjoy dressing up and having a bit of fun?
Why can't you see that dressing up is not a prerequisite for fun, in fact precludes it for some of us, and that not wanting to dress up doesn't mean you don't like having fun?

Lumpylumperson I'm sorry but you can't call off a whole holiday just because a few people are triggered by it. Sucks that halloween is hard for your friend but it's just something she will have to avoid. You can force a world to stop something.

'Why can't you see that dressing up is not a prerequisite for fun, in fact precludes it for some of us, and that not wanting to dress up doesn't mean you don't like having fun?'

Er, she never said that though did she? She said 'Why can't you see that some adults might quite enjoy dressing up and having a bit of fun?'.

It's the one time of the year you can just take a corpse through the middle of town to the woods without having to disguise it.

I used to love Halloween, but then my little boy died 2.5 years ago and we buried him.....now Halloween makes me feel sick. And it is really difficult to avoid, the first Halloween after he died Tesco had child sized skeletons suspended from the ceiling, that really upset me. I've since had 2 little girls, I do them pumpkins (and do one for my son too which we put on his grave) but right now that's as far as I can take it. I did used to go all out for it but don't think I'll ever be able to again.

My dc are growing up fast and Halloween is just s lovely time for us all to be a bit silly. I always decorate the house, invite trick or treaters and have friends round. They always look forward to it. My DD is 14 and still loves it. And there is nothing better than a four year old zombie knocking your door and being delighted with a lolly. Nobody is forced to celebrate but i really don't get the grumpiness about it. Where I live it's always really fun.

Nobody is forced to celebrate but i really don't get the grumpiness about it.

Maybe because they actually don't like it.

People are allowed to you know

It is making me grumpy this year - but that's because it's a Monday I think and DD has been moaning for ages about us not doing anything this year (Monday is her 'worst' club and homework day).

I did offer to take her to a party on Friday but 'it's a babyish one' and I think going ToTing on Saturday is taking the piss. So we have reached a very grumpy sulky stalemate.

I hate it. The original festival, I can respect. How it has become a 'thing' with children begging door-to-door and grim costumes, I can't. It has become a celebration of evil and the macabre. It is not 'a bit of fun'. It seems nurseries and schools all 'celebrate ' it too now, which I cannot fathom.

And for those saying you can avoid it, you can't really. Not if you leave you house.

And we went to a children's petting zoo place at the weekend - adult staff in terrifying costumes, decomposing bodies hanging from farm equipment, dismembered bloodied limbs. Trying to explain that to my terrified two year old who just wanted to stroke a few goats was challenging. And she was completely freaked out by the spooky music being piped throughout the place.

dexterjamesmummy, I am so sorry.