Who loves Halloween?

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Who's stoked for Halloween? Halloween has been my favorite holiday from the time I remember. Everyone ribs me about it, I belong to Halloween forums, have a Halloween blog and people constantly post H'ween stuff to my FB because of how well they know this about me. I'm stoked and so are my kids.

I have always always loved the weird...and I think it's because I'm weird. All other times of the year I "stood out" for not being "normal" but on H'ween EVERYBODY was acting up, playacting, and wearing outlandish costumes so I actually fit in! Since then I have just loved every single thing about Halloween.

I love the eerie nighttime...when everyone is equal, everyone is a little spooked, and nothing is "too weird"...just absolutely nothing...and we can be who we feel like we are inside. Just for one night. I joke with everyone that the reason I started having kids again after my oldest son was 17 was so that I could take someone else trick-or-treating. (That really IS a joke, though...)

And I joke that after my youngest has grown up, if I don't have any grandchildren I'll just have to go borrow someone else's child to trick-or-treat. (Also a joke.)

I love the smells...pumpkin pie spice...leaves (I have to burn fallen leaf candles now that I'm in SoCal)...I love the excitement. I love the spookiness. The possibilities. And the one time of year that people CELEBRATE oddness!

Who else is excited for this fab holiday?

I have always really liked Halloween a lot. Last year I moved to a more small town kind of environment and it's something here whole neighborhoods really get into with decorations and harvest festival things. A couple of weeks ago I want to a farm with a huge pumpkin field and a corn field maze. So I really have a blast with it. Here's some video I took a couple of nights ago:

Ezra. That was wonderful! Thank you for sharing it! What an amazing neighborhood it looks like you live in. Very nice!

I don't really bother about it anymore but then it's not such of a big festival over here. Or it hasn't been until recent years anyway.

I used to love it as a kid...we'd go "door knocking" and stuff but back then it was just a kids thing and there was no real hype about it.

You either joined in or you didn't.

I'm obsessed with Halloween. I love everything about it and it has been my favorite holiday since I was a little kid. They have a lot of haunted houses where I live and I love going to them. Surprisingly, I never have found myself scared by them. We don't get a lot of trick-or-treaters, but that is mostly because the people in my neighborhood are older.

I used to love Halloween. I mean I still do, but I've gone from one culture to another that doesn't really celebrate it the same way or to the same extent. Halloween is sadly now dead. I want to decorate, but it feels like no point. I have Halloween cookie cutters and I love decorating cookies but I have no one to give them to and there are only so many cookies I can eat myself. I miss Halloween in the US I miss seeing all the kids in their costumes!

<--- Doesn't particularly love Halloween; however, he is enamored by the plethora of horror films made available during that time.

I've never been that interested in Halloween. But this year I've been invited to a Halloween party with my boyfriend at one of his relative's house. She likes to entertain, and is throwing a really cool party. I am pushing myself to go and trying not to let social anxiety get the better of me. Anyway, it's not going to be some rowdy youngster's drinking party. Apparently it's going to be a different type of party; dressing up all Halloweeny, so that the ''weirder'' you look, the better. And my boyfriend said if we stay late enough they're going to tell super creepy stories in candlelight. Sounds good to me.

I'm fine with Halloweens. Doing it in public seems fun. But that never happens here... Halloween here is usually celebrated privately.


Instead, we hang out with relatives in the cemetery all night. But I'm fine with that too.

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Halloween has never been one of my favorite holidays. I liked it well enough as a kid, but as an adult, there's absolutely nothing to do. I'm in the US, but Halloween just isn't a big thing in my town. There's trick-or-treating at 6:30 at the mall for little kids, and some older ones go out in neighborhoods until 9 or so, but no one really decorates (beyond maybe having a jack-o-lantern on their porch) or has big Halloween parties. Once in the great while a haunted house will pop up, but I've never gone.

My family and I always buy some candy in case we get any trick-or-treaters, but we usually don't. I actually think it's been about five years since we last got even one. Some years we just leave the candy on the porch with a note telling people to help themselves and go to the mall for dinner so we can see the kids in their costumes and at least feel like we've done something.

We don't do trick or treats. T.T But running around with white sheets in the cemetery and scare the crap out of people? That's plausible.

Halloween is technically not a holiday here. It's called All Souls Day here.

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Them pumpkins look nice when they're all lit up like a Christmas tree but I've never made one.

We used to do a similar thing with a swede when we was kids. I don't mean a Swedish person btw.