When I asked about Halloween costumes last year, I was told that Halloween costumes are a US tradition. But some people posted they did various things for Halloween, and the traditions are changing.
It’s only 6 weeks away.
Anything planned for Halloween? Apple bobbing? Costume parties? Telling ghost stories around a campfire? Sitting in the dark and pretending it’s not happening?
Well …to get the truly horrifying effect of gruesome ugliness I confess it’s the one day in the year when I don’t wear any make up.
Aha. The au unnaturale look?
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Putting some lights outside the front door and two tins of chocolates.
@swimfeeders …whole tins! Really? I love Roses …tell me your address and I’ll be there …hunched over to look like a cute kid. (All kids have text neck these days)
I might put 2 tins of cat food out and a picture of Truss.
Only? That’s quite a long time to me.AND as someone once said:
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
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In addition to the local pillocks, we do have some genuinely nice kids and parents locally.
The littlies love dressing up and going round with parents watching and I do not want to be a miserable old get,
I’m not at all interested in Halloween.
I didn’t think old people were bothered about it.
It’s just a tradition from America that I don’t hold with. We have our own Guy Fawkes night a few days after & I don’t mind giving ‘A penny for the Guy’
I will try my best to ignore it.
However it is a granddaughter’s birthday, I have no intention of ignoring her. 
It`s an American thing which i will never buy into.
Not much…sitting with the lights off hoping nobody comes to the door! I didn’t even enjoy it when I was a kid and had to be virtually shoved outside in some strange garb to go knocking on doors asking for stuff. No thanks!
Me too … 
That’s me about Halloween also. Not my favorite holiday.
I’m already hearing about people sewing their costume or planning their event.
Halloween didn’t used to be a thing here but the $2 Shops seem to be making it a bit of a thing.
Some years ago I had a couple of kids call for Halloween I had no idea what they were there for until the parent explained so I gave them a banana each (I don’t think they were very impressed). No one has called since.
It is funny that it is 6 weeks away because Mince Pies for Christmas have appeared in the supermarkets but nothing for Halloween yet.
My son’s way grown out out of leaving pumpkins outside of the front door and handing out sweets under my watchful eye.
We still make Jack o lanterns for the front room, there’s something very seasonal about it and the roasted seeds make pretty decent nibbles 
The shops are full of halloween rubbish .Still I supose the children like it.
Not a damn thing. 
When the kids were small we always decorated the house and had a party, with apple bobbing etc and mum and me dressed up as witches to dole out the treats, it was fun!
But now we’re down to just making a pumpkin, a bag of fun size and 20p coins for trick or treaters
And I always make chocolate apples and toffee apples for those of us with good teeth, my children always call in to get the theirs still
And I read the cards and tea leaves for those that ask me, sorry to those that offends
And my husband and I do a thing that his old mum taught us from Ireland which is to hold hands together with a sprig of mint in your palms, without speaking. It’s supposed to bind you together and deepen your love and the smell of the mint on your hand afterwards is a lovely reminder 
I will be trying very hard to ignore it.
