I dislike Halloween

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I've two young DC and I just dislike the waste and effort of Halloween. I don't mind doing other things with them but Halloween seems like a commercialised waste of time/money.

AIBU - Halloween is just a bit of fun

AINBU - it's rubbish

It’s just a bit of fun. You don’t have to celebrate it at all, just don’t bother if you don’t like it.

🙄 who cares what any of us think? If you don’t like it and don’t want to participate, don’t.

FYI it has a long and interesting history. It’s not a made up, commercialised waste of money.

It's only a waste of time and money if you make it so.

We have a box full of decorations we bought years ago in the sales and bring it out each year. We do a few halloween themed activities eg carving a pumpkin and this year we did a pumpkin collage for the window. Trick or treating is usually the most social of all festivals with the whole community out and about. Gives days out an exciting theme that the kids love.

I think its really awful too.

However when my kids were younger, they loved it.

Yabu. Its just a bit of fun, my 18 and 27 year old still has lots good memories guising and dressing up with their friends. Always someone moaning about something being "too commercialised". It isn't compulsory.

I am with you OP that it is rubbish. This year even more so, as going around people's houses in a time of Covid 19 is just wrong, and some people may be very unpleasant when answering the door.

It’s all just a bit of fun. It’s about as wasteful as Easter or Christmas. They have become a commercial thing far removed from their religious beginnings.

My Son loves Halloween, I loved it when I was a child. You can celebrate or not celebrate it any way you like.

I hate Christmas but love Halloween (less expectations, no shitty presents to buy for adults who are perfectly capable of buying things for themselves, no family politics) at Halloween you do you, however much, or little, you want to. YABVU.

It doesn't have to be wasteful. Just don't buy crappy plastic decorations! What's wasteful about it?

Ok

This again?

@thegreenlight

I hate Christmas but love Halloween (less expectations, no shitty presents to buy for adults who are perfectly capable of buying things for themselves, no family politics) at Halloween you do you, however much, or little, you want to. YABVU.

Me too. I go all out for Halloween doing up my garden. I love making up bags of treats for the kids. I love the whole Halloween fun thing.

Christmas though? I can't bear to even look at the decorations box. It's not fun, it's a chore. Give me polystyrene tombstones and furry giant spiders any day over fairly lights and baubles.

You could say exactly the same about Christmas. The expense and wastage there dwarfs that of Hallowe'en.

I don't mind it but don't decorate the outside of my house as I don't want trick or treaters. We are quite rural with older neighbors and huge security gates, so they don't come anyways. I do decorate the inside for the kids and take them "trick or treating" in the surrounding neighbourhoods. I don't buy plastic decorations as they're wasteful, I use wooden ones that last pretty much forever. Made by a lovely local lady as well, she's very talented.

I like Halloween, we don't buy any of the plastic decorations and stuff like that, we usually just get a pumpkin or 2 to carve and some sweets for trick and treaters and watch scary movies! It's what you make of it, you don't have to buy into the commercial side of it.

It’s whatever you want it to be.
This year, dd wants to do some halloween baking, we’ll buy some sweets and watch a spooky film.
Not much expense and still fun for the kids.

I hate Halloween and have never ever joined in with it. And I hate trick or treating even more, it's begging to me. I look forward to the 1st November when it's all over. But if other people like it and want to join in that's up to them.

@nosswith

I am with you OP that it is rubbish. This year even more so, as going around people's houses in a time of Covid 19 is just wrong, and some people may be very unpleasant when answering the door.

I love Halloween, but that doesn't mean I will be going trick or treating or encouraging it. Please don't conflate the two.

I won't be decorating the outside of the house this year and we are not answering the door, or going trick or treating with our dc. Nor am I leaving sweets outside or anything else.

I am going to decorate the inside of the house for my dc and we've got lots of glow sticks to play with. I'm making spooky food and later, we'll turn off all the lights and we'll have a mini rave. They will love it.

It's not too much effort for me because it's something I enjoy doing. Different people like different things.

I don’t mind it, quite enjoy it! The one I don’t like is NYE, but it’s all each to his own!

Oh yes I forgot about pumpkin carving too, Other than the mess it makes I love it!

Halloween and other holidays like Christmas, Valentines etc..... are only commercial and a waste of time and money if you treat them as such. Nobody is forcing you to celebrate, or to spend loads of money. We won't be going out guising this year due to covid, but are having a wee celebration in the house.

I hate it. Mainly cos the dc seem to expect it to be a big thing and I really couldn't give a shit.
Who has to end up carving the pumpkin? Me.
Who has to do costumes? Me.
Who has to get the sweets and shit? Me.
Who has to walk them round the streets? Me.
I'm knackered by October half term and have other work to do. I don't have time for Halloween bollocks too.

Its absolute rubbish. We need some worthy individual to tell us all to stop buying the plastic landfill and give £ 3.00 to Save the Chldren.

or, alternatively we could think for ourselves.

No one is forcing you to like it, op.

I'm a pagan and get fed up of people pissing on our holiday. Fine if you don't want to celebrate it but please stop calling it commercialised crap. Why not spend the day educating yourself and your kids on history instead?