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Am I one of the only people around who hates halloween? I seriously don't see what purpose it serves, and over here in Liverpool it merely encourages crime and vandalism. We always here of old people being targeted by 'trick or treaters' and having their homes attacked if they don't answer the door. Many houses on my estate have been attacked, and it seems that halloween merely encourages anti-social behaviour amongst youths.

So is it like that over in the US of A or is it just a British thing? I am a firm anti-halloweenist as are many of my friends.

Good day,

Sebastien.
 
Liverpool is well known though for anti-social behaviour. Scousers have got a well deserved reputation it seems.
 
Here in the US, it isn't as bad. We still have our vandals that go around at Halloween, but in my area of the US (upper midwest), for the most part, it isn't too bad.

If you have all that bad stuff happening, I can see why you would hate Halloween! :o

Sean
 
Nope, I actually like the day. We dont have any real issues in my town or any in the state that I have heard of. Sorry you are not able to enjoy that time of year. Bet you really start looking forward to Christmas early dont ya?
 
I like Sean live in WI.
We haved lived here in our present house for 10 yrs and never had any sort of theft or vandelism.
We have a huge outside party every yr and I put up a 10x20 tent filled with halloween stuff. Also have pumpkins all over,and large graveyard in the yard and all my many things that go along with that , nothing has ever been touched ...
and i have only seen 1 pumpkin smashed in the road in those 10 yrs.
I guess it all depends where you live.
 
i like Halloween too... there doesn't seem anything going on in our small town.
 
i like Halloween too... there doesn't seem anything going on in our small town.
 
Nobody in my part of the country decorates for Halloween but the kids do go around trick or treating and my family does give out candy. Personally, I have never been trick or treating (not even when I was little) so it wouldn't be right for me to say I hated it or loved. The holiday doesn't excite me nor depress me. It just means Christmas is right around the corner!

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Halloween is definitely not a big success on this side of the Atlantic. It may even be wearing a bit thin in North America too. But that doesn't stop me enjoying it! I have several Wiccan friends so Samhain, as it is known to them, is a signficiant holiday on the calender.

But then, being a Canuck, any excuse to decorate and have a party will do! :boo:
 
My mom passed away a few years ago, but strangely enough I always think of her around Halloween.

My mom was years ahead of her time on decorating for Halloween. When I was a kid growing up in the late 60s and yearly 70s she would decorate the whole house and invite people in on Halloween. She would spend months creating tombstones out of cardboard boxes for the front yard with a clever limerick on each headstone. She took quilt batting and turned it into instant cobwebs and scoured every mail order catalog for rubber spiders, frogs, and eyeballs. Ketchup was not a suitable fake blood for her, so she invented her own concoction using a variety of food coloring (believe it or not it wasn't all red) and starch that would convince the best forensic investigators. To this day I have no idea how she made it. She turned our piano into a coffin with a guest lying in state and decorated each of us as a classic horror film monster. We recorded hours and hours of our own sound effects onto cassette tapes and played in the bushes. And all this was WAY before you could purchase Halloween decorations, supplies, or party essentials.

I sometimes wonder if she would like the fact that now you can purchase all of this stuff in the local Walmart down the road. But I suspect she would still prefer to make her own decorations.
 
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Wow, SC, sounds like Mom was a real party animal. I can see where your love for the holidays comes from with Mom being that into it.

It cracks me up to see people use Halloween as a means to get on their religious soap box. Halloween is simple fun around a simple theme. That's all, nothing more, nothing less.

Anciently it had more to do with bringing good luck into a home than it did any kind of connection to the occult. It is too bad that modern society has twisted perception of it or, worse, have used it as an excuse to vandalize or injure.

Of course, the same can be said of Christmas. Many go to excess at Christmas that is way beyond food -- abuse, murder, depression, even torture has been tied to the merry season.

It takes all sorts to make the world go around.

Kudos to Mom, SC and may you have great Halloween celebrations in the future in her honor!!
 
I like Halloween. I am getting more and more into it beacuse of the kids. Each year we decorate a bit more.
 
Jeff Westover said:
It cracks me up to see people use Halloween as a means to get on their religious soap box. Halloween is simple fun around a simple theme. That's all, nothing more, nothing less.
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I know what you mean. Before she decided to become a nurse, my mom was almost a nun. She was very Catholic. But she always saw Halloween for what it is simple fun.
 
Jeff Westover said:
It cracks me up to see people use Halloween as a means to get on their religious soap box. Halloween is simple fun around a simple theme. That's all, nothing more, nothing less.

Anciently it had more to do with bringing good luck into a home than it did any kind of connection to the occult. It is too bad that modern society has twisted perception of it or, worse, have used it as an excuse to vandalize or injure.
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have i told you lately that i love you?

xo
 
I think Halloween is what you make of it. It was always just a fun time to dress up in anything I wanted and eat junk food. I never thought about any "meaning" to it. I was never told any "meaning" about it. It wasn't until I got older and paid attention to the news media and all the controversy that I learned it was suppose to have a "meaning". I still treat Halloween the same way I did growing up.
 
You took the words right out of my mouth. I still treat Halloween as a day to be goofy, dress funny and eat way too much candy. I dress up every year and go to work in whatever tacky outfit I can come up with. I go trick or treating to my co-workers and pass out candy,

Just amazes me there is always someone out there that has to try and ruin it for everyone else.
 
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