How do you celebrate Halloween?

Post Reply New Topic

Almost as popular as Christmas, Halloween has become an anticipated holiday event for many people.

How do you like celebrating it?

I'm too old for it.

I watch my Blu-ray copies of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and "Hocus Pocus."

I like Halloween. I used to dress up and pass out candy. I'd go all out with costumes and face painting. My all time favorite thing to do is a day of the dead thing. I've been known to spend hours painting my face up. I hate the way costume makeup feels, but I will soooo suck it up for one night to do that. I also used to go all out carving pumpkins. People would stop and take pictures of them. I could spend days carving all of those things. So much fun.

Neighborhood traffic for kids is not what it used to be now though, so we stopped passing out candy a few years back. No one comes down my road anymore, they stay on the main drag. Mostly now I only do a few pumpkins for my one daughter to take and make up a few little bags of goodies for some neighbor kids and relatives. My spouse and I are content just holing up at home, munching candy and relaxing on the couch. I do, however get a kick out of walking around town this time of year to see the 'spooky' set ups that some people put up. I prefer halloween decorations over christmas ones. They seem more fun and interesting to me.

when I was a kid I went trick or treating. These days I buy my own candy at the store and eat it. At times I have gone out to take younger relatives, such as some of my cousins trick or treating.

For me, every day is Halloween. hehe

I make a pumpkin lantern and put it either at my window or at our garden entrance and prepare some candies in hope some kids will do trick or treat this year. I also dress up.
Halloween isn't popular in my country so if 1 or 2 groups of kids comes it is the max and often noone shows up at all.

Sometimes I will invite my 2 friends to my house or we met somewhere in the city to have beer and talk. Me and my best friend dress up but the other friend never does.

I prefer Halloween to Christmas.

Actually I have Christmas because in my family it is all about cooking, cleaning and a huge abuse when everything isn't just right. It never is because dad has very rigid idea of Christmas - a lot of food must be done and the house must be perfectly clean but gifts are non existent - at least he never gives us any gifts, we only share gifts with mom and give him gifts. And we have to spend Christmas dinner just the 3 of us instead of visiting any of my grandmas or aunts. Sometimes we even escape the house to have dinner with grandma and dad spends Christmas home alone, as punishment for his abusive behavior.

Halloween is not a tradition in Poland so he doesn't have set rules how it should be done and I can do whatever I like.

However after Halloween the All Saints' Day(1st November) comes so I have to make sure I hide my pumpkin lantern before morning comes - All Saints' Day is a tradition where you have to visit family graves (cemeteries are very crowded on that day and it's hard to find a parking space) and dress up like for funeral. My dad is very rigid about this. Although sometimes I will argue with him saying that if I needed to visit family graves I would do it during the year, not once a year when the tradition says so and everyone does, pretend I am sick or convince him to go to the cemetery on see All Souls' Day(2nd November) instead because the crowd is not so huge anymore.

Watching a scary movie with my mom and my sister.

Me and my family celebrate by putting up decorations around the home and watching scary movies. Also, even though I don't trick or treat anymore, I will still dress up as something scary just so I can terrorize the trick or treaters that come to my house.

I'm too old to trick or treat now but I still want to have fun with it. When I lived with my parents I'd help decorate and put out candy. I live in an apartment now so I don't really have anywhere to put a bowl of candy (except outside on the floor where someone might step on it).

I'll probably treat myself and look for a scary movie to watch.

Have a camp-like dinner with my relatives after dusk...... In the cemetery.


That is, IF, the weather allows it.

I never EVER been in a trick-or-treat before, but I sort of know how it goes.

Gained Number Post Count (1).
Lose Time (n).

Lose more time here - Updates at least once a week.

On October 1st I put out my little Halloween decorations -- nothing elaborate, just my ceramic pumpkin candle holder, pumpkin and ghost shaped votive candles, a light up ghost lamp, a red eyed crow, stuff like that. And I make a point of watching more scary movies during October than usual. I will look around the TV guide for them and for spooky programming in general.

The trick or treaters only go around their own friends and neighbors and don't come to apartment buildings, so none come by here, but that means...more candy for me! I line up a few good scary movies and enjoy the evening. This year I want to have another viewing of "It Follows," and I'm not sure what else yet.

I celebrate Hallowe'en the same way I celebrate Christmas.

I don't.

Both holidays are nothing more than crass commercialism.

I'm way too much Puritan than I care to admit.

I don't really celebrate it but will buy in sweets ( candy ) just in case any trick or treaters call. I then pray that no one calls so I can pig out on the sweets.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and this time of year, I get completely obsessed with it. I always put together a costume (or two or three) and go out for a walk with friends on Halloween evening. I try to find local events where I can wear a costume too, because I'm much more confident in a costume than I am in normal clothes. This year, I am planning a small get together with a few friends to just play some card games and eat candy