Halloween Fun

[MyFiveSenses]

:dance: I love Halloween time. No one to celebrate it with, so I thought I would bring it up here.

I love watching old black and white classic horror movies. I have a costume, but not sure if I'll be wearing it or have anywhere to wear it to, rather.

I did buy some glow sticks to give out, if any kids come by.
What about others? Do you like Halloween? What do you like to do for it?

 

[Butterfly_Lady]

I love Halloween. It's my favorite holiday. I love getting dressed up but haven't done it in a while since i never get invited to parties and have no other place to wear my costume so i stopped buying/making them. I did see a costume that i would love to get my hands on but don't have the $30 to spend on it. I have yet to have any kids come by for trick or treating so last year we just decided to not buy anything for them. probably the same for this year.

 

[Cerulean]

I go over to my best friend's house. We carve pumpkins, have pizza and beer, and watch scary movies. It's my favorite day of the year. This year though we've been not getting along as wonderfully as usual so I don't have my hopes up for Best Night Ever. But it will be fun.

 

[Pandorum]

Not many people really do Halloween here in Aus, and barely anyone in my area.

A few kids do come around, most without a costume though, so pretty much just freeloaders.

 

[MyFiveSenses]

If you guys lived in my town, we could have the best party on Earth! Dress up, scarey movies all night, food and drinks, and what ever other Halloween adventures came along; which would be many! I have the best costume of my life, and no where to wear it or no one to wear it with. I wish you guys could come over!

 

[Megan]

I love Halloween. There are a fair amount of trick-or-treaters in my town. I would trick-or-treat if I had somebody to go with. I love chocolate. I've never been to a Halloween party before.

 

[WildCat]

I'll admit, it's nice to have one day out of the year where you won't get ostracized for dressing up and looking like a complete loon...as for plans, I MIGHT be attending a themed party (of which will involve drinking, laughs and stupidity) if work doesn't stand in my way. It's themed and I'm not fond of that particular theme, so I's probably gonna skip the get-up this year, or if I do it'll be for any lurking trick or treaters around the block and given my current location, it seems unlikely. There you go I guess.

 

[Soup]

I like to give out the candy to the kids. Every year, I buy a big box of little bags of chips as well as bags of small chocolate bars. Some kids really go all out with the costumes! I just go as Soup the Aspie: a hoodie with the hood up, my neutral face & Aspie stare. I've had people think I was disguised as everything from a witch, to the grim reaper, to one of those sand people from Star Wars! There are many kids in the area for whom it is their 1st Halloween since they come from countries & cultures where it isn't celebrated. You can always tell these kids because, even through their costumes, they seem completely astonished that people they don't even know are giving them free candy. The last time I went our myself was when my son was small & I had to take him. Since I'm so short & slight, I wore a Petit Chaperon Rouge costume with the red hood up. Nobody saw my face in the dark & I got a pretty good haul of chips, Mars Bars & other goodies to rot my teeth out with over The X Files later that night.

 

[Arashi222]

Samhain is actually a holiday for me. It is a day of celebration and kinship. The harvest. So normally I would have gone to a halloween doll meet and then spend the night at my ex-friends house. We used to have a big feast. This year....i don't know. I might go to my friends house after Halloween is over. I might be able to hang out with her for a bit. But usually if I have to stay home I don't get to celebrate and so I watch Hocus Pocus and or Harry Potter.

 

[Kelly]

Halloween is our wedding anniversary so we will be exchanging gifts, I've got my husband some awesome things this year, he's obsessed with the game left 4 dead and keeps going on about buying it for the pc (we have the xbox version) so I got him it for the pc, I also got him a t-shirt and a mug with his gamertag and real name on it. For our daughter (long story short we don't celebrate xmas so we exchange gifts on all anniversaries/birthdays) I found a custom made monster high shopping mall, can't wait to see her face when she opens that.

We've been growing some pumpkins so I'll be making pumpkin pie and we'll carve monster high faces on the empty pumpkin and I'm sure our daughter will want to go trick or treating and then to the halloween disco dressed as a monster high character. We don't tend to get trick or treaters to our home, most of the neighbours are elderly so it's more or less a no go zone, everyone knows the best place is the american housing estates (we have an air base nearby) so they are always full of people. It was really weird last year we got invited in to several homes which I thought was odd, why would you invite strangers in regardless of what day it is (I became a bit paranoid and insisted the little one did not eat anything that wasn't pre-packaged) one of the mums from school made aikido cookies as she knew we would be stopping by(my husband is an instructor). The little one had one heck of a haul but she's not really a lover of sweets(candy) so gave most of it away to us, grandparents, friends etc she just enjoyed the fun of it all.

 

[AGXStarseed]

I loved Halloween when I was younger - going out with my siblings trick-or-treating. The only thing I didn't like about it was when you had someone whose house you'd gone to just slamming the door in your face. If they'd said something like "I'm sorry but I don't have any sweets/candy", that would have been fine but just slamming the door is really rude.
Now I'm older, I'm technically not allowed to go trick-or-treating because apparently that activity is 'just for the kids'.
I've only ever been to one Halloween party that my uncle did - that was okay. Since then, I just mainly spend Halloween at home watching films like Carrie, The Dead Zone, Jeepers Creepers or something like that.

 

[Sylar]

I have an entire Halloween month. Every day in October I watch at least one horror film. Tonight is either the tunnel or Apartment 143. Trick 'r' Treat is always saved for Halloween though, just a perfect film for the day.

 

[Nolan1971]

I love Halloween though it's not my favorite holiday. I never really had anyone growing up to enjoy it with so
after about 8 yrs old I stopped dressing up and usually spent it watching horror movies.
I am really excited that my beloved Butterfly Lady loves it and really hope to dress up in costume and hopefully watch something scary together.
I can't wait till we can afford to visit haunted places especially spend the night in haunted hotels!

 

[Nolan1971]

What are some of your favorite horror movies? Any that really scared you as a child?
Some of my favorites are: Carrie ( I dreamed I had her powers and being very angry in those days scared myself with the terrible things I did)
Jeepers Creepers ( Had nightmares being chased down the highway by that van)
My bloody valentine (Gave me some bad nightmares) I was only 8 yrs old.
The Excorcist ( Had a bad nightmare after that) I was only 7 yrs old.

 

[Sparticus]

Halloween was a very BIG holiday growing up. :skull::alien2: acs_foe: :mask2::ninja2: layfull: We'd go out trick and treating for hours; anyone who gave out a nickel we'd return as many times rearranging our costume :giggle2: till they caught us, walked up to patios with spooky music on & the ocassional adult dressed up who liked to scare us, returned home to dump out our harvest, eat candy, rest & go back out for more when it was dark outside returning home late at night. By ourselves...no one bothered us during our "job" of collecting candy.

Felt like a job... :running: free candy! We would have candy for months. My mom went thru all the candy, threw out all the apples [rumored to have razor blades in em] & threw out all the unwrapped candy. As kids my brother & I had no money so we dressed as bums. As teenagers & in our 20s we dressed up, went to parties etc. One year my brother dressed up as a mummy & looked terrific! :skull: Great parties & the women looked fabulous & edible. :angel:

Still a cool holiday but today it reminds me of my brother & that makes me sad. I have orange lights & a purple one up, a lit pumpkin-orange bulb, other pumpkins & a few other things hanging around. About 10 years ago or so I decorated my whole place with a flying bat, moving spider, thunder noise maker...spider webs, a graveyard & lots of other things.

Invited my female friend over-the spider startled her, she shrieked at the flying bat & wasn't amused...we just talked about that time a few nights ago.

 

[Axeman52]

I've never really been a big fan of halloween, i was never allowed to go trick or treating and it's not really welcomed by anyone around where i live anyway. Everyone puts up signs saying "No trick or treat", and i mean, everyone, and most kids don't bother anymore.

a few kids used to come to my door when i was younger and my brother used to prank them, and i used to enjoy my brother's pranks. But that's about the only way i was ever really able to enjoy halloween.

 

[Explosition_Rooster]

October, along with December and July, is my favorite month with Halloween being my favorite holiday. Sadly in recent years it's been hard to partake in the festives, but I still like it.

 

[76054Pluto]

I've always loved Halloween since my early childhood and I still enjoy it now that I'm in my 40s. I don't have any kids of my own but my niece and nephew always come round to visit and I carve out a turnip lantern for them and we have a big family celebration. I also love watching old horror films by my log fire as its often windy and cold at this time of year. I would say that Halloween is like Christmas in that it it has a magic all of its own.

 

[Explosition_Rooster]

I've always loved Halloween since my early childhood and I still enjoy it now that I'm in my 40s. I don't have any kids of my own but my niece and nephew always come round to visit and I carve out a turnip lantern for them and we have a big family celebration. I also love watching old horror films by my log fire as its often windy and cold at this time of year. I would say that Halloween is like Christmas in that it it has a magic all of its own.

So I take it that you know the true story about Jack O Lanterns?

 

[CJinherPJs]

I don't do much for Halloween any more. The last time I went trick or treating was when I was about 9, and all my family has done since is give sweets or chocolate to kids who trick or treat at our house. There's a student's Halloween party for my university at one of the clubs in the city, but I don't want to go; parties aren't really my thing, and I never bothered going to the ones in the sixth form. I might give blood on the day though; the blood service are coming near where I live, and I think I'm about due to make another donation.