Just Not a Halloween Fan

I tried. Went through all the motions every year when the kids were growing up. As much as I'd love to just dress up and be silly for the night I just never caught the bug. DSIL's mother is crazy about it and starts sewing costumes for herself, DSIL and DD1 sometime in July! The three of them take it all the way to Hollywood levels of dress and makeup. Then I have to hear about how they did in the contest at this bar or that bar for weeks. Maybe I'm just jealous? Not this time, I just think its dumb. Also harmless enough, I guess. Fortunately DW's not into it either so we will hang out at home and help the cute little kids find their place on the road to diabetes and maybe give apples to the teenagers.

You are allowed this feeling. :)

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

You are allowed this feeling. :)

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I liked Halloween better when it was a one-day holiday. Now I get Halloween-themed catalogs in September. Halloween lights, curtains, tablecloths...we just stick with the jack-o-lantern and bags of candy. I do enjoy all the trick-or-treaters!

I prefer the one or two day holiday it used to be. I much prefer natural decorations. Does anyone still do up their front door or porch posts with corn stalks? Growing up I had some neighbors who did their houses very nicely for Halloween and the fall.

I think Halloween should be extended to include el Dia de los Muertos, a day to honor and celebrate the dead. I enjoy the costumes and macabre thrills of the holiday; the begging urchins not so much.:devil:

I really liked it more (1 day etc.) ... and then it became ..... and I got as sick of it as I am of basically every single other thing in this culture.

Massive opening of temporary costume stores in every abandoned shop that exists was probably the turning point, there were costume stores before, yea one or two that actually did other business much of the year as well.

But I think if one avoids all that it might still be possible to have some fun with it.

I love the kids coming to the door. I dress up & I dress up all my dogs. Then I put up a gate so the kids can see the dogs but they can't get out.

I don't get all the 1-2 month hoopla, the Halloween specific stores, the massive front yard displays, aisles and aisles of Halloween trinkets in stores, the movies, etc.. I like the one night dress up, trick or treating for the kids. I dress up, dress up my cats and dogs and hand out candy. By kids, mean little kids, not teens and college kids which we get around here. Fall/autumn decorations throughout the season; cider, donuts, cornstalks, pumpkins and other yard decorations celebrating the harvest season are signs of gratefulness for the abundance we enjoy. Halloween is a day not a season.

When I was growing up, kids would only go around their block (walking distance). By the time I was a working teen, it was getting shocking to see grown up teens, out driving around from block to block to go for candy.
When I was around 14-15, was the last big Halloween thing. We dressed up as undead soldiers and went out to scare some kids. I can say I think the makeup probably saved our lives as well (before replica weopons had to have orange in the barrell, cops freak seeing kids with war era machine guns).

Yes it is ok to feel this way.
I have zero participation in the event. The idea of sending kids door to door to strangers and asking for candy, how weird is that in todays world? Even the trunk or treat, all the candy is that what we are bringing to the attention of the public today all the junk and candy consumed by kids. . Just do not turn the lights on.