Is it only here in the UK...

HMonsterX

...where we hate Halloween?

Or is it simply in this area where i live?


It's a terrible time of year. Bunches of chavs going round in a sheet, demanding money or they'll slash your car tyres...

leilaphoenix

And its a wonderful excuse for people to dress up like sluts

um, a nurse costume is not HALLOWEEN.

GTI_Girl

how can you hate Halloween?! It is soo much fun! cheezy decor and candy and dressing up to act like a fool one night a year?

karenjoy

That doesn't happen here, but nobody DOES anything for halloween, it's a nothing day.

Tuffjourney

Love Love Halloween!!!!

Adrenaline_Queen

Where you live??

I dont like my children going out begging, but in our neighbourhood all the children go to each others houses, we leave stuff outside and go to parites where we open the door to people...

for us it is just a time for fun and dress up... My children love it, and it is the only time of the year they get sweets.. LOL

xx

Contrarian

Halloween is different in North America. It does suck in the UK.

Katherine1687

I dislike it.

I put a note on the door saying we have nothing for trick or treaters and refuse to answer the door.

I don't like the idea of celebrating anything evil and feel very intimidated during Halloween

Elizabeth_C34

I love Halloween. We have a lot of kids in our neighborhood, and it's usually one big neighborhood party. We usually do "grown up" halloween the day before.

LeeKetty1176

I agree

its just F£**K wits going round scaring old people and trying to get money.

a few years back some little gits threw eggs at my front widow.......until i caught the little git , lifted him up and wiped his face in in......


needless to say kids dont come to my house

justbustedmezip

I live in the UK, and I LOVE Halloween! One of my favourite nights of the year

karenjoy

it's not a big thing in the UK, not a major deal at all, getting built up now by retailers as an excuse to get people to buy crap, but all my life nobody ever did anything for halloween, never had anyone knock on the door for trick or treat and only ever saw people celebrate it in films

DannyMussels

We once gave some candy to a few native kids when i was in college...when the kids left, they egged our house.

So naturally we chased them down, caught the one who did, brought him back and wiped it all up with his hat.

Here's a photo we took:



It's actually even on video, really dark but you can hear one of us say 'throw another egg, and we'll take ya to the henhouse!'...no clue what that means.

rockerbabyy

halloween is one of my fav holidays, its fun seeing the kids dress up to go trick or treating and i love decorating with fake spiders and stuff

manderson27

Where I live (small village in Somerset UK) it is just little kids (with parents watching) coming around for sweeties. A bit irritating but not horrible. One year I dressed up as a witch, green face and all and scared the crap out of them when I opened the door.:devil:

My husband would ignore them all night but I usually get a great big tub of goodies and just dole it out all night. I don't mind too much.

GTI_Girl

I'm glad I grew up military. On post/base everyone is generally fun, younger adults who are open minded making Halloween fun for the kids. I have seen Halloween in civilian housing and it just seems different. So I guess Halloween level of enjoyment can depend on your community?

I still love it as an adult. no sexy costumes for me. last year I was a hot dog. It was silly and fun and everyone loved it.

Ritala1987

Its definatley an american thing...i have an american friend and every halloween she gets terribly homesick!
In NZ its not that big but its an excuse for a party...not many kids out and about either, and ive been in UK a couple of times for halloween and can honestly say i never saw or even noticed that it was halloween lol

karenjoy

OH MY GOD, that is NOT a child and it looks like you beat him up or something, jeez

mandasimba

I like the day after Halloween when candy goes on clerance!

I'm in the US, but the boyfriends bday is Halloween and he is pretty anti-holiday. I'm a nice girlfriend so I just chill with him and do birthday stuff so I don't notice too many Halloween going ons... except the plethora of skanky costumes... sexy Nemo? That was painful to see.

They have too many curfews and stuff around here too... I think last year it was 5pm! I don't even see kids out anymore It makes me sad.

mermx

So do you all give treats? Or does anyone trick? What do you do for a trick?

My trick is lock my gate don`t let the chavs near the door.

I agree with the OP

I think it is an American thing that has come to the UK in the last 10 years and been hijacked by scrounging kids

Ritala1987

We once gave some candy to a few native kids when i was in college...when the kids left, they egged our house.

So naturally we chased them down, caught the one who did, brought him back and wiped it all up with his hat.

Here's a photo we took:



It's actually even on video, really dark but you can hear one of us say 'throw another egg, and we'll take ya to the henhouse!'...no clue what that means.

Whats a native kid? lol

mandemonious

In the states here...I've always loved Halloween. Every few years I get into it and dress. I usually go for the scarier, gorier type costumes over the ones people get a lingerie stores. Silly...

I've never heard of begging for money. Here its candy and silly cheap toys and the occasional granola bar :grumble: (Don't get me wrong, love em..just not for halloween when chocolate and peanut butter rule!)

Fun times

mrsgrumpypants

I don't like it and never let my children go out begging (UK) but we used to put a candle in the window and give out sweets and satsumas. We would get students round looking for cash, but they still got a finger of fudge and a satsuma.

california_peach

I have a confession to make. I am an American and I really don't like Halloween. Sure, now that I have kids it is more exciting because they love dressing up and going trick or treating. But frick, I don't like the decorations. Glow in the dark spiders....that is the **** nightmares of made of. I don't like passing out candy. Can't I just watch It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown in peace and quiet. Actually have to chase of egg throwing teens might spice things up. The teens that come to my door are always pleasant and polite. Although the little ****s call me ma'am. I guess I am the grinch of Halloween. Bah!!!

manderson27

We once gave some candy to a few native kids when i was in college...when the kids left, they egged our house.

So naturally we chased them down, caught the one who did, brought him back and wiped it all up with his hat.

Here's a photo we took:



It's actually even on video, really dark but you can hear one of us say 'throw another egg, and we'll take ya to the henhouse!'...no clue what that means.

Ha ha I thought this was a picture of grown ups trick or treating dressed as boy scouts, Sorry :laugh:

billsica

We don't have chaves in the US, we call the D-bags.
Also you never know who here might have a gun.

lazyspice

Trick or Treaters stopped coming to us years ago :laugh:

ET's got a lot to answer for - I swear nobody did it round our way before that film came out! It's just an excuse to blag free sweets and there's no way I'm encouraging kids to eat MORE rubbish!

DannyMussels

Ha ha I thought this was a picture of grown ups trick or treating dressed as boy scouts, Sorry :laugh:

No, super troopers.

Whats a native kid? lol

A native american, or indian.

He looks like a 40yr old mexican with that painted on beard and mustache though.

kyle4jem

...where we hate Halloween?

Or is it simply in this area where i live?

It's a terrible time of year. Bunches of chavs going round in a sheet, demanding money or they'll slash your car tyres...

Hallowe'en used to be great when I was a kid in Scotland. We all got dressed up (made home-made costumes, not store-bought) and we all had to do a party piece... sing a song, recite a poem, tell some jokes. We only went round the local neighbours and never to strangers. Some folks made us bob for apples which was fun and we were usually rewarded with some sweets, some fruit and sometimes home-made toffee apples

Nowadays, the spirit of Hallowe'en has been forgotten and more and more kids and more worryingly older youths call it Trick or Treat, but they see it as a licence to misbehave and demand money for menaces. :grumble: Some don't even get dressed up! :mad:

Thankfully we live in a quiet cul-de-sac and there are some nice young kids who come round and we give them some sweets, but last year we had so many left over that our friends' kids all got goody-bags from the leftovers at Christmas. :happy:

meerkat70

We love Halloween. We make a fabulous halloween dinner (bloody soup, garlic bread to ward off vampires, witches fingers... you get the idea!). My daughter takes a fair bit of care with her costume. Our whole village pretty much gets involved, and the kids tend to look great. There's a lovely old couple who do baked goods for all the kids, and thoroughly enjoy them all trooping round to say hello...

So nope, in this part of the UK, halloween is pretty cool. I also loved it as a kid. Bobbing for apples....

HMonsterX

Yeah, if they are little kids, parents in tow, then fair enough. I'm no scrooge.

But, lately it's been PURELY 16-18 year olds. Little candy bars wont work. It's either cash or spliffs only.

I just make sure I'm out that night...