Halloween thread. Costumes/Deco/Pumpkin discussion
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If only this kind of stuff was around in 87-89.
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I see some 'CCTV' signs that come out for the week every year around this time. Gets rid of most of the trick or treat troubles, though i don't suffer from the issues as my road is a bit busy for children and my house a fair bit from the road.
I enjoy Halloween because its always a good night out and it really only is Halloween for a day or two, where Christmas seems to start from September (for the retail side of the companies i have worked for) and Easter from Valentines day (which starts in the last two weeks of Jan when all the Xmas crap they couldn't sell goes on the cheap.
No wonder people are sick of some of these holidays.
I enjoy Halloween because its always a good night out and it really only is Halloween for a day or two, where Christmas seems to start from September (for the retail side of the companies i have worked for) and Easter from Valentines day (which starts in the last two weeks of Jan when all the Xmas crap they couldn't sell goes on the cheap.
No wonder people are sick of some of these holidays.
Ours are all well behaved and are accompanied by parents who wait on the pavement. There's little point in being horrible to them so we just won't bother opening the door.
i go with my son, make sure he says thank you and wait at the top of the path. he also makes a effort and dresses up otherwise there is no point lol
rule for us is that if they have Halloween decorations outside\on display we will knock if they don't then we don't bother as not showing any interest in Halloween
rule for us is that if they have Halloween decorations outside\on display we will knock if they don't then we don't bother as not showing any interest in Halloween
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Many come out not for the money or the sweets but because they think Halloween is the time of year they can get away with egging houses, keying cars and throwing stuff at windows because other kids do it. It is just another way to pass the time while socialising with the other little demons.
A shame that you cant give em a clip round the ear and an aggressive shouting to. If i looked like i was about to throw an egg as a kid i would have been made to eat it raw egg shell and all, followed by a swift but light smack round my head.
A shame that you cant give em a clip round the ear and an aggressive shouting to. If i looked like i was about to throw an egg as a kid i would have been made to eat it raw egg shell and all, followed by a swift but light smack round my head.
If I liked Christmas and was Santa you would go on the nice list.
lol, i know what its like when you don't want people knocking as i never bothered with Halloween before my son decided he wanted to go trickle treating so now do pumpkins and put then outside etc
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Halloween is for the yanks. It's a horrible horrible and stupid past time
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Dress up as a giant bottom?
'cept y'know it's a pagan tradition...
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Going to Thorpe Park on Halloween for their fright night event. Going to dress up and have a laugh, looking forward to riding the stealth at night in a costume lol.
Regarding pumpkin carving, you can go online and get some awesome stencils to help with the design, we had an amazing jack o lantern last year.
Regarding pumpkin carving, you can go online and get some awesome stencils to help with the design, we had an amazing jack o lantern last year.
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Where my family is from, it is a three day thing to honour and celebrate the memories of your ancestors and family members who have died. It involves going to public greens near/next to or sometimes on cemeteries and socialising with people you are close with through picnic like bbqs and stuff. You light candles and clean their graves from ivy, dust and whatever. People rarely do it for all three days now so its usually on Halloween night and day that its done. The kids of course do some trick or treating but it is a far more family orientated country and the trick or treating is usually kept between family and friends that you know rather than strangers.
Holidays are as stupid and as horrible as you make it. It is not as commercialised as any other holiday and is imo far less stupid than the Christmas gift rush, where people ask for what they want guilt free (basically an excuse to treat yourself without the guilt of wastefulness or selfishness cause you are giving to someone else and you 'have' to do it).
Your attitude strikes me as funny as Halloween is no more stupid than many every day things like going to a pub and screaming at a flat screen or going to a field and knocking a ball around till it falls in a hole with a flag in it. Att he end of the day it is a bit of fun and an excuse to socialise/let loose/be creative and your level of participation is totally up to you. It is one of the few holidays where people dont judge you for taking part or not taking part.
When i tell people i am not a fan of Christmas or Easter, i find people look at me like I'm some sort of animal or that i must be from a country where they eat monkey brains. If i told someone i am not doing Halloween, it wouldn't be worth a second thought but if i told someone i was the biggest reaction i would get is curiosity.
