Well you might as well, as there’s no food on the shelves… yet there is plenty of Halloween tack!
Is Halloween something you celebrate and look forward to? To see those little scary creatures on your doorstep, eggs in hands ready to chuck at you, if you don’t give them any sweets!
Maybe you welcome Halloween and dress up yourself and maybe celebrate by taking your cat on the back of your broomstick for a nice little spin to the moon and back!
Seriously, what are your views on this special day of the year?
I loathe Halloween. Thankfully I have a door entry system which means nobody comes round. The other problem is that the dog always finds chocolate and other stuff in the grass that the kids have thrown away. So its a nightmare trying to find a safe place to walk her for a few days.
That aside, I suppose if you have young children it can be fun.
Have a word with Boris. As London mayor, he brought some which he could not legally use & then had to see them for scrap costing London ratepayers a fortune. He might also have a spare garden bridge that was never built, but cost London ratepayers several million. If you ask nicely.
My American friends are very into Halloween, goodness knows why, but it seems to be an American thing. They have carved pumpkins, ghosts & ghoulies, witches & all manor of nasties in & around their front porch & they have lots of sweets for the horrible kids that visit on that evening.They do live near Salem so perhaps that’s the reason.
Personally I can’t see the attraction & as our hill is steep & no young kids around here any more we do nowt about it, but I do usually have sweets, just in case, but if I’m down stairs in the sun lounge when any call, I don’t hear them anyway & I eat the sweets myself.
Hey kids whatever you do do not speak to strangers.
Halloween
Off you go kids and knock at the doors of strangers houses and ask for sweets.
Anyone else see the irony here?
I’ve always loved it, a good bit of fun for everyone in between going back to school and Christmas
My mum always celebrated it too when we were kids, unusual back then but she always was a bit fey and a witch!
I remember pumpkins were unusual then and we used to hollow out big turnips for lanterns, very hard to cut and a very distinctive smell when they got hot
I always did a little party for my children and their friends, home made costumes, green jelly with sweetie eyeballs in it, chocolate apples, hot dogs etc And we’d go trick or treating, not to strangers, just to family and friends who knew we were coming Now the my kids are grown, they still come back for chocolate apples and cake!
Covid rather put a stop to trick or treaters last year, I wonder if they’ll be back this year?
Just in case, there will be a pumpkin lantern in my window to let them know they’re OK to knock and I’ll answer the door to dish out sweets wearing my witches hat
The americans have turned ‘All Hallows’ into a cheap and nasty, trashy event. I am thankful the parents round here have better taste than to allow their children to go out begging.
Yes, I have my goodies ready to hand out to the kids. Americans have always celebrated Halloween, and for the most part we enjoy it. As to children, they get to pick out a costume of the character they see on cartoons or a super hero, don the outfit, put on a mask, and knock on the doors of their neighbors.
As grown ups, we quite like to see the neighborhood kids, have a quick chat, admire their costumes, and are able to give them some treats. Most times, the parents escort them round, and it’s nice to see it be a “family night”.
At the elementary schools, they set aside an hour for a march of the classes, a quick parade, so the kiddies can show off whatever character they’ve chosen to become for Halloween. It is a bonding of school age classmates.
It is not begging for candy, it is a night for meet and greet your neighbors, keeping in touch, and showing the children that those of us over 50 are not all grumpy and mean!
Halloween really is the biggest load of old tosh imported from the good ol’ US of A, and nothing more than just another huge marketing opportunity for the shops to flog tat.
Why oh why do we do it?
Oh, and no empty shelves at Tesco or Asda near me, seems like the MSM are just winding the public up for yet another panic, just so they can fill their newsprint with yet more lies again…
You are both right. Whatever are Americans thinking to try and add good times to their children’s lives when we could be sending them to bed terrified of ghosts and goblins?! Yep, just more tosh (whatever that means) from the US.
Hopefully we can curb all these small happy times, and revert to grumbling over every little quirk. I will work on it.
Right after I enjoy a candy bar.
I think that the turning of Haloween into a big business celebration might have been popularised and even imported in current times by the good ol’ US of A but actually it was celebrated in Scotland way back in the 16th century with it’s roots coming earlier than that in a Gaelic festival called Samhain, with the rise of Christianity causing the change.
That festival celebrated the arrival of winter after summer’s harvests which is why Haloween was also treated as a festival, and so it looks like Haloween was a Scottish import into the Americas some centuries ago and developed fom that.
So for those that don’t like Haloween I’m sorry, but blame my Scots ancestors.
, but I don’t really have any views on it. 
