To not understand

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Why the hell grown adults get excited about Halloween and dress up?

I can't stand Halloween. Avoid it like the plague. We tell our kids all year not to accept sweets from strangers and then encourage them to go an knock on strangers' doors at the end of October and ask for sweets . It's basically an American import and bears no resemblance to anything except a shop fest.

It's not an American import. Began with Celts in the UK and Ireland. Was adopted by Americans.

How can you post that then call someone else sour 😂 @chrisinthesun. Surely I can have an opinion something without the vandal accusation

Well I can’t stand all the Americanised supermarket plastic tat. Won’t someone think of the baby whales?

Only being slightly sarcastic. All the good old fashioned fun of apple bobbing and pumpkin carving fun of yesteryear has given way to sweat shop produced Chinese Walmart/Asda rubbish that’ll be in landfill in 3 years time. Plastic pumpkins this year as well so you don’t even have to carve your own. WTF?

Not really keen on the new thing of dragging it out for a couple of weeks with people decorating their houses a couple of weeks before. That’s a bit odd. The Christmas period includes Advent so I can understand houses being decorated before Christmas.

I don’t like the commercial tat of Easter either. Plastic eggs. Yuck.

However costume making for adults: I can see the fun creativity and skill in that. Better than a bin bag and a black paper witch’s hat. I’m mid-40s so I’ve grown out of the idea of dressing up in costumes a long time ago but I do like seeing other peope’s inventive Costumes. They make me smile. I can’t see the harm in it really, even if you’re an adult. Call me boring for no longer wanting to do it and it will grate, though.

You get to know your neighbours when you take your kids round your local street trick or treating which is all good.

Because I am.Scottish and its been part of my culture for hundreds of years.

Because although i dont go out dressed up now i love seeing other peoples costumes.

Because i am.an adult and can.like whatever i want and it doesnt affect anyone else.

Roll on 31st i love guisers at the door.

I'd don't personally do anything but my children go trick or treating. I never get why people call it 'begging' or 'demanding' things. Obviously you only knock at the decorated houses where people have bought sweets that they choose to give to trick or treaters. Just a bit of fun among neighbours!

My eldest is going with some friends and then having a sleepover and the youngest is going with her dad and then she also has a 'pumpkin disco' at school.

People of any age having fun is no bad thing in my opinion! 🎃👻

I don't 'get' it either. It was never a thing when I was growing up. More focus on bommie night and mischief night on 4th Nov. But, y'know, live and let live, pwahhahahaha.

Well, I don't understand how people like pastel colours or are fussed about new year celebrations, but I don't think it's strange they do. Halloween is fun!

My friends & I love fancy dress, Halloween is just another excuse to dress up & meet up! I feel much more comfortable in fancy dress rather than trying to look pretty.

And the thing about 'we tell children not to take sweets from strangers all year...' is wierd too. Maybe if you got involved in festivals in your community they wouldn't be strangers?!

We are all within the age range of late 20-early 40s so we drag the kids into it too...

I didn't say it was strange

It's a chance to dress up and be silly. We have such depressing lives now that anything we can do to lighten things has to be good!

Also it's great to wear things you wouldn't normally. I always wanted 5o be an actress so I could wear period dresses shame I'm rubbish. This is a variant on that.

I decorate my porch and dress up for the trick or treaters because it's fun.

Btw what on earth does Celebrating their slutty dead teacher loved ones mean OP?

A doorbell that bites, ghosts that jump out howling as you come down the path (motion sensor) limbs everywhere, a mat that yells at you, a bowl that leaps when you get the sweets. Giant spider web, complete with a disgusting huge spider, tomb stones. Bloody hand prints everywhere & a psycho with a bloody apron doning a bloody carving knife... YEP I love Halloween , may have gone a little overboard again this year 😂😂

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Our village Halloween party is something we all look forward to all year! Any excuse to dress up!

There is no demanding of stuff either. You teach kids to knock on the doors clearly displaying Halloween stuff showing they are into the fun of it, and don’t go to the ones in darkness.

I once nearly wet myself laughing when taking my kids trick or treating. A lady answered the door at one house, loud spooky music playing. She was dressed up as Vampira or some such. Accent to match. Offered me a tray of shot glasses filled with blood. Then I heard a chain clanking. She looked behind her and told Igor to behave himself and that she realised he could smell children but she would feed him later. “Igor” (her teenaged son) crawled to the front door from inside the house with a dog collar round his neck, on a chain, snarling. My 2 kids were like this 😲. I was like this 😂. Made my night.

They weren’t even having a party or anything, they’d just had this idea to be a bit more exciting than usual when opening the door. I told her how fab it was and everyone had a good laugh. Was very memorable. I really can’t see how people can hate a bit of creative fun like that. No plastic tat in sight. Just a bit of inventiveness, some shot glasses of tomato juice and a bit of good acting!

Why not

My dad hated it when I was young

Now I get to enjoy it. I decorate the house and love giving out sweets

I agree OP, it's total crap to me.

For me, it's a bit of fun with family and friends. Every year, my spouse and I and our kids dress up as some sort of skeletons. I have some very pretty half masks in my growing collection that I like to use with my skeleton costume. It feels fun to take a step out of normal day-to-day to be a masked skeleton lady.

We dress up, decorate the house with skeletons and pumpkins, put out special framed photos and drawings of our passed loved alongside their favourite treats, marigolds, and candles. We go to events or host them here, have some special meals where we discuss our ancestors and thoughts on death, go for an evening walk and sprinkle the marigolds. As a family who has lost 5 close relatives and dealing with a terminal diagnosis in family in the last 3ish years, it's been a way balance the loss and feeling out of control with connecting memories.

You're not being unreasonable to not understand it - I really don't get the appeal of Christmas, especially spending months prepping for it in a way that seems to excite others but just sounds exhausting to me, I don't get adults wanting to spend weeks on a beach and I know others don't get how I can spend hours walking in the woods quite happily on my own or with people. We all find our own joys and ways to connect together.

Wow - you are getting a hard time on here OP

I'm going out on a fancy dress fun run.

I can't wait!

(if you see a veteran witch running a 10k, that!0's me!!)

And any Haribo I scoop up in passing is all mine!!!!!

I get excited because it is a massive event in our community. Those who want to decorate their houses, inviting Trick or Treaters to come along. Loads of us do! I get around 170 kids to my door and I love that. Kids from all over that I might not see from one year to another, but love to see.

The high lights for me have been my friends DS, age 12, reluctant to leave home, to go to school, but deciding he can do this, rocking up, covering his ginger hair with an orange wig and my friends DD, who has Downs syndrome, coming dressed as a witch, as I was, and us having our pic taken together.

Yanbu. I don't generally get excited about it, but will admit that I am this year. Dc are 3 and nearly 2 and I have made them outfits. We at having a Halloween tea at my parents with sone relatives and friends, then going round the neighbours houses (who all take part) for trick or treat.