Do you prefer Halloween or Bonfire Night?

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YABU - Halloween 🎃
YANBU - Bonfire Night💥

Halloween 100%, I love decorating the house & still do pumpkin carving with my now adult children.
We usually have a party but this year we held it closer to my birthday, in mid October.
I love a bonfire, but hate fireworks, not the public displays so much as the sudden random ones let off nearby.

Bonfire night. Used to be you could goto fireworks in so many places. All the sports clubs, loads of people had them. All gone by the wayside. Most of the big council ones don't run anymore.

Halloween wasn't a thing at all when I was younger and I still find it really weird it is at all for my children. We did trick or treating for the first time this year because they'd begged to. I'm still bemused by how big that's got and found it really odd doing it.

Bonfire Night because my kids aren't into it so I can just sit at my window with a glass of wine watching the fireworks over the river.

@Costacoffeeplease Bonfire Night is a British festival so if you live in another country of course it will be ignored.

Bonfire Night - i love fireworks

I would prefer it that fireworks were only sold to those with a license and not sold in supermarkets to any Tom, Dick and Sally
and all displays were organised ones.

Well I'm Irish catholic background, so Halloween 😂

Having said that, I had some enjoyable bonfire nights when I lived in London. We used to go round to a friends house for fireworks, bonfire, bangers and mash and that was a fun evening. But now I'm back in Dublin, it's not celebrated.

Love this 😂

I didn't grow up in the UK so both of them are newish to me. I have to say though that after having kids Halloween is really growing on me. I love festivals that have fixed traditions l, ie pumpkin carving, Halloween decorations, dressing up and trick or treating.

The history of bon fire night is very interesting but apart from that it just seems to be standing around in the cold waiting for fire works to start. Or is there anything else that I'm missing?

My birthday is on bonfire night, it also used to be a great night - big bonfire and fireworks in the garden, staying up late with the grown ups, jacket potatoes cooked in foil in the fire

Nowadays noone would have a fire like that in their normal size garden, it wouldn't be safe - not let off fireworks themselves in such a confined space. Or I suppose some people do, but I wouldn't risk it with my kids. Which is a shame because it was so much fun! But times have changed... We retried going to the big events but it's always a nightmare, too crowded, food and drink too expensive, too much waiting around, the long walk home after - no fun for the kids or us really. I wish I had a massive garden so we could do our own thing safely!

Mine too

@Needmorelego Exactly, and thank goodness for it

Love both, I really enjoy this week of the year, more than any other holiday tbh. I spend both Halloween and bonfire night with my kids in our local community. It's fun and exciting, but also not too overwhelming. Christmas gets so overhyped I spend most of December managing meltdowns and by the time it comes around I just want it over. I do like NYE though, as again it's self contained and I love fireworks.

I prefer halloween as you can opt in. Where as others celebrating bonfire night and letting off fireworks is something you can't avoid.

The organised displays are so shit though ☹️ always just such a hassle, too many people and hanging around, which given its meant to be for kids (not patient people as a rule) seems a bit pointless really. Maybe there are events in smaller places that are nicer, but in the city it's always huge and horrible. And there is almost never an actual bonfire! Which I know is for good environmental reasons but ☹️ still I miss it.

Sparklers in the back yard is as good as it gets now! Halloween is great for the kids, massive ballache for the grownups. But worth it for their giggles I suppose!

Bonfire night- marks the start of my favourite time of year

I don't like either of them. Roll on Monday.

Halloween. Bonfire night always feels like a chore I do for the kids. Like fully can't be bothered to pay money to stand in a muddy field with fair ground rides to watch fireworks tbh but feel like a bad mum if we don't 😂

It’s not an execution as such though… the conspirators were hung, drawn and quartered, not burned at the stake.

And to be honest (watched C5 documentary last night) the extent of the blast should it have happened would have been felt outside Houses of Parliament, killing and burning innocent people.

Yes this completely.

Halloween. When young it's an activity, and when older you still feel involved. Unless going to a fireworks display Bonfire night is just annoying as people let off random fireworks that annoy my dogs and me. Wouldn't ban it or anything though, perhaps private sales though. Leave it to organised experts.

Bonfire Night. Not fussed about fireworks but have many happy memories of having a bonfire as a child, eating sausages, tomato soup from a mug and parkin outside in the dark. Did it use to be a lot colder though?- I remember always being wrapped up in hats and gloves which seems crazy now.

Halloween

Whilst I like fireworks the anti catholic origin of Bonfire night makes me uneasy

Halloween!

Bonfire night doesn't exist outside the UK, so I remember reading about it in Secret Seven books and thinking that was what British people called Halloween.

Bonfire night

Wish I had a quid every time somebody says, 'Bet you came out with a bang!' 🎆 🙄🤣