How do you celebrate Halloween?

Question

In my Family its a big deal! I would like to know what traditions do you keep from childhood and your most favorite expirience of that day..

Answer 1

One thing I always loved is candy trading/selling with my dad lol......

my dad loves candies, and he's a sucker for two things, hard candies and reeses o.O;;;

so at the end of my candy looting, i'd empty my bag on the floor and sit there with my dad, and i'd pick out all the hard candies , (jolly ranchers, jawbreakers, butterscotch toffee etc...) and i'd put them in a bag, and he would give me money for them, o.O;;; then getting so excited, looking at all the candy i'd have, and the money i just got, i'd start counting out how many reeses i'd be able to sacrifice . along with other candies....

in the end i ended up with a few dollars, (yay!) and just a little bit of my favorite candies, this way I didnt have to eat too much candy, (and they didnt have to lecture, or limit me on it even!) and i didnt feel like i was being cheated, in fact i thought i had gotten the better deal with the few dollars i had.......

my worst experience i'll happily share, though it could be funny.... o.O;;; for some reason i was at walmart and saw a cute pumpkin costume, basically it was just two pieces of *large* foam sewn together and decorated to look like a pumpkin, it was completely round, so like as wide as 3 of me lol........ and for some reason i actually thought that would be cute to wear.......

to make a long story short, i ended up falling, crashing into things, people, i'd turn a corner and no matter what something came falling down, i think i was the most annoying pumpkin in school that year lol..........


one year, it was like a night before halloween and i was just little, and my brother came out and scared me so bad, i had gotten up to get a drink of water in the middle of the night and he jumped around the corner and yelled, i was terrified and started crying, sad to say i was too afraid to go trick or treating the next day, my parents told me i didnt have to go if i was too afraid, and they'd let me pick out some candy at the store if i wanted, i accepted, o.O;; and i remember looking out the window at everyone else trick or treating, and regretting i was such a fraidy cat......... that was the last time i let something like that scare me before halloween ^_~

Answer 2

As someone has already said, in Australia it's not as big of a deal. Which I think is a total shame. I love Halloween. It is easily my favourite day of the year. Usually I will throw a party for my friends, it the perfect excuse to get dressed up. We don't go trick or treating because no one in our neighbourhood would have any sweets anyway.

However this year I will be spending it in Toowong Cemetary. Somehow I got employed doing ghost tours for a local tour company, so my Halloween will be taken up working. Not that that's a bad thing. Helping others get into the spirit of Halloween by telling ghost tours in one of Queenslands oldest cemetaries sounds fine to me.

If you live around Brisbane (Aus) why not come along.

Answer 3

I love Halloween. It's my favorite holiday and it being in Fall makes it even better.When I was younger I'd dress in a costume and go out the night of Halloween with my girlfriends to different parties. That's always a blast. Usually I decorate the house now and go to fall craft shows and fairs and things like that. On Halloween night I pass candy. I don't have any children but if I did I'd probably have more fun with it.

Answer 4

Halloween is a relatively new trend in Australia . When I was a kid , in the seveties , we all new about halloween , but there was no erge to Trick or Treat , as it was an American custom not an Australian custon .
Now my children however have caught on , to Trick or Treat , and it is hard to convince them otherwise .
In my opinion , Halloween is a rude custom. As by knocking on every bodies doors you are not allowing people to choose weather or not they wish to patricipate .It is also unsafe for children to be accepting lollies from strangers .
So what we do on Halloween is , I buy a heap of lollies , we hire a vidio , and sit as a family and watch it , and the kids get into the lollies .
If anyone knocks at the door we share our sweets with them .
My kids have done this every year for a while now , and they all look forward to Haloween , and have never been Trick or Treating in their life .
Anyway , Happy halloween

Answer 5

Me and my family don't celebrate halloween due to religious reasons, but we do have a Thanksgiving and Christmas tradition of having dinner at one persons home a year, and a different persons home the next. Our family isn't that large, but when we get together for the holidays it feels like a family reunion! I really enjoy the 'movie' hour, and after that we eat and talk and just have a tremendous amount of fun!

Answer 6

We visit haunted houses. We go to Conner Prairie and participate in their activities...ghost story telling, pumpkin carving, a hay wagon ride during which a headless horseman rides toward you and scares the kids.

We decorate the house and the front yard. On the night, the kids dress up, we go over to my youngest son's house, my daughter-in-law makes a big pot of chili for us, all of them go trick or treating while I sit on the porch and pass out treats to the hobgoblins that stop to "scare" me.

It's our favorite time of the year. We don't put any religious significance on that day. That's an observance only for Wiccans and those narrow minded people who don't want us to have fun.

Answer 7

sense having kids my family tradition is to make sure the kids don't repeat a costume. we make our own instead of buy them, my brothers church as activities that day so we go to his church for some fun.

but the month of October bring a better feeling that the fun of Halloween for me. so we added a new direction in my family. we give thanks for the fact that my dad can walk without pain. he had surgery a few years back to replace his hips. while also at the same time my daughter a year before his hip replacement was in the hospital for pneumonia. could have died. so we also take a time to thank god for what he has helped us thru each year. pagans and wiccan use this time to remember the dead. i take the time to remember that we are living better.

Answer 8

My favorite part of Halloween is taking my kids trick or treating. It's the one night a year that we get to see all of our neighbors.

Does the act of trick or treating have any religious significance for you?

Answer 9

When our oldest children were small (they are now fathers and husbands), we had a big festival at our country home: Hay rides, bobbing for marshmallows (apples are too difficult), bon fire, pinata, wienie roasts, sack races and such. It was all such a grand time!

We now have expanded with our younger children to include pony rides, a pool and other fun things. It is such a blast for all of us!

Answer 10

We buy 5-8 big bags of candy, I put pumpkins, candelabras with burning candles on the porch, then put scary make-up on face and then answer door-bell 150 times....till candy runs out.