I hate Halloween

[Candlesandrust]

I hate Halloween, I can't wait for it to be over every year. Tacky costumes, gangs of teenagers hanging around, having to hide in the house from kids and their parents banging on the door. Pumpkins are food of the devil.

This is lighthearted and I am a grumpy old cow. Anyone else with me?

We love celebrating Halloween! It’s just a nice little distraction as the days are getting colder and something to get excited about. We make lots of decorations (nothing scary, just with fallen leaves/ pumpkins/ berries/ flowers sort of thing), bake, do crafts projects, pumpkin picking and then we’re having a little party tomorrow. They’re going to make witches brews with different ingredients and we’ll all have food. It’s sweet and pleasant in our house. We will open the door for trick and treaters until bedtime only, the kids enjoy handing out sweets.

Miserable lot ;-)

I love halowe'en - but like some other posters on this thread grew up with/influenced by guising in Scotland. We always decorate the house and have troops of polite little people turn up. I run a strict 'one sweet only' policy as some of them can get grabby, but thats just excitement. My kids are teens so not allowed to go t&t anymore - which they are fine with as they remember teens being somewhat scary when they were little - but both are going to be celebrating with friends and dressing up to answer the door. The house is decorated and pumpkins made today: one scary, one cute!

It mostly manages to pass me by every year. Never had anyone knock on the door, hardly ever seen any houses decorated or seen children in costume on the streets. If it wasnt for the acres of that in the supermarkets I don't think I'd clock it at all.

Don't you start me on adult parties Si the house on the corner has an annual one.
Oh how I judge.

Yeah. I mean God forbid adults do something fun, amirite? 🙄

Define fun NotA?
First year I lived back here I attended.
I thought it would be sociable to go, maybe make a couple of friends.
It was a cross between the school leavers disco and a seedy vicars and tarts party. More spats/fights/secret shagging/Anne Summers S&M gear.

I had gone as a plump stormtrooper.

They didn't even have a buffet.

I love it.

I’m Irish. We celebrate in the same way I did as a child. Bobbing for apples, barmbrack with a ring hidden in it, money in the apple tart.

The whole neighbour hood has decorated their houses, my kids will go trick or treating tomorrow and have a blast. They’ve learnt Halloween songs and poems in school. I have Halloween crafts coming out of my ears.

We talk about the origins of Sahmain, the legends of the Puca. It’s a hugely evocative and fun time of year.

I love Halloween but not the way it is celebrated. Agree it is becoming very childish. I love scary films and books, especially ghost stories, folklore etc. I don't get the idea of dressing up as Batman and wandering the streets.

I don't know if its just because I was brought up not celebrating it or allowed to trick or treat but I just find the whole thing naff and annoying. I have seen on social media some really cool events for it abroad though

"They didn't even have a buffet" just killed me

Im with Blobby-Mischief night can kiss my arse. I work in a school and live in town-I may as well have a big fuck off neon arrow saying "Mrs Fuckery lives here". Me and dd came out of our house tonight and a big gang of them were just behind us. Of course the house got egged. Big brave boys in masks. Except two used their real names. So if they dare come round tomorrow, dh can answer the door. The worst was one year when they mixed snowpake in the eggs and it froze on the window. Fuckers.

It’s the one day in the year when we do the only-on-mumsnet thing of not answering the door unless we know someone is coming.

It's an unwritten "law" in our village that you only knock on houses that have pumpkins outside, not sure how widespread that is.

I'll be taking 10 year old DS but we only go round the block (as fast as possible because it's cold)