what you think of halloween?

[adam7485]

. ok. halloween can be a fantastic time for all people kids and everyone, but am i the only person to think it brings the worst out of people? 2019 before covid i got a taxi to a local pub who were having a halloween party and we almost had a nasty accident as some kids threw something in front of the car. how we didn't have an accident was probably more luck than judgement. to think that a good celebration and fun has become tainted by the actions of a certain group of people?

It is fun for the younger DC.
Not so good with drunken adults and teenagers.

I should add that my DS could never cope with people dressed up wearing masks, or models/ effergies of people, hence no sentiment towards the costume side.

If all involved are willing participants, great, little ones could certainly do with some cheer after the time they’ve had.

We used to put a note on the door saying babies sleeping, please don’t knock, happy Halloween with a big bowl of sweets.
What was really nice was that almost everyone took just a few

I don't like it. Not keen on seeing children dressing up as dead people or children having fake injuries/scars etc as a "scary" thing.

Nothing whatsoever to get excited or otherwise about. It’s a non-event.

I also think it brings out contrary attitudes in parents; my ex-p wouldn’t let his DC walk to/from school “in case he gets kidnapped”, but was fine with him walking around knocking on strangers doors in the dark with just another primary-age kid for company “because it’s hallowe’en”.

Kids loved going trick or treating with me when younger but now at a age not cool to be out with their mam I'm not too keen on them going out on their own. They usually play out in late with friends but Halloween teenagers find it funny to jump out on them ( aged just turned11 and 9). So bought sweets and gonna sit in room at back off house do no one knows we are in and watch Simpsons Halloween and eat sweets and pizza. Cant be bothered opening door and handing sweets out. Feel bad for younger kids that come but more teenagers that are very rowdy and kick my garden plants and gnomes!!! So front lights are off for me this year!

i like all the mythology around it, and the horror themed aspects of it all, yes its a pity that some will spoil it via wasting food products, but overall its very halloweeny.

Halloween is fun for those who want to participate. My kids loved dressing up and trick or treating when they were little. It's Bonfire Night I find a complete and utter waste of time, and the 2/3 weeks of unending fireworks we have to endure on either side of it.

I love Halloween. It gives me a glimpse of what Christmas could be without all the stress of present buying and family angst. Costumes, meeting friends after dark. Sweets. Job done, magical for the kids and a real sense of community where we live. I honestly think if my kids had to choose between Halloween and Christmas they'd choose Halloween. We're on holiday this week and there was a choice between coming home on Friday or Sunday and I had to pick Friday so we were home for Halloween

Also love bonfire night! Always have. So cosy and exciting in one. Without those autumn would be pretty dreary.

Our area is bad for egging (not just houses or cars but people too) and for kids and teens messing with fireworks. I tend to stay inside Halloween evening.

Since I was a kid it's ballooned into this American-inspired monster. Trick or treating is a reasonably recent phenomenon.
When I was single I would go out to avoid it. Answering the door to complete strangers after dark, not knowing what to expect, not happening. . I hated it. I found it very intimidating.

I don't get it. Little children seem to be actively encouraged to dress up and take part in all things gory and bloody and dark and eat loads of sweets. I know it wasn't this big when I was a kid (1970s).

Something about it doesn't sit right with me and I'm a lover of horror fiction and true crime so I'm not easily offended.

We don’t do it. It was very low key when we were growing up - bobbing for apples, carving a pumpkin and my DGM would send us a toffee apple each and a witches hat to wear in the post.

DH and I are both Christian so we’re not keen. DS is a toddler so isn’t aware of it yet. When he’s older we’ll get a pumpkin if he wants to, and bob for apples, which I’m sure he’ll find hilarious, but I won’t be encouraging trick or treating etc unless he really wants to (and only then I’d only allow it if we went with him etc!) and I won’t be decorating the house for it.

Love it! My favourite holiday of the year. The scarier the better

Never been into it, not as a child and not now. Bonfire night can push off too. Thankfully I now live in a country which doesn’t traditionally celebrate either

Only caveat, I don't love the horror costumes. Ghosts, witches, vampires, pumpkins, bats, zombies. That's your repertoire really. Not serial killers and gore.

Tacky as hell. Yet another excuse to consume countless things that will all end up in landfill.

I'm not a huge fan, we live on a new-ish estate so lots of kids and even seen kids getting dropped off in cars. Means we get well over 100 kids and it's just constant knocking from 5pm-8pm. As fast as you close the door it's going again. We have stuff out as we have DC so have to get into the spirit for them.

Round here they just knock on every door though regardless of whether there's decorations, so that volume of kids must be so frustrating for people who don't want to be involved - by 7pm I've well and truly had enough of it myself! . There's never any bother though, so can put up with it for one night. I did enjoy the quiet Covid one last year though 😉

Same here @MrsAvocet it's just not really on my cultural radar at all and we don't bother with it. If other people want to it's up to them but it's not for us.

Middle class yummy mummies dress up their precious children and tout them round the neighbourhood, knocking on doors and begging for shite sweets when they wouldn't piss on you if you were in fire. Can't bear it

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

Halloween - work of the Devil.

So my Mum said.

That’s because Halloween is a Pagan Celtic festival and the only way Christianity could expand was to replace or demonise Paganism. That’s why all the Christian festivals fall at the same time as Pagain festivals; Christmas on Yule/Winter Solstice, Easter on Ostara etc.

This is also why the Devil took the image of Pan, the Pagan God of the wild/nature, to demonise it.

I think it’s sad that our usual celebration of bonfire night/Guy Fawkes has been sadly overtaken by Halloween -fireworks seem to last forever and it is so frightening for pets and also difficult for families with babies etc. I am in my 50’s though so have different memories to younger parents.

Love it. Most kids are morbid little monsters, and love fictional scares within a controlled context. The local neighbourhood association sets up a Halloween trail around the neighbourhood and I love carving a pumpkin, dressing up in a cape and fangs and saying Boo! to a stream of teeny witches and werewolves.

I remember spending hours as a small child in the 70's carving out a swede and doing a tour of the neighbourhood dressed as a witch. The best years were when I was allowed to go to the CofE Halloween party at the church hall, a proper Halloween party, not the weird alternative ones they do now.
I also remember mischief night being a thing in my childhood, its the day before Halloween I think ?