It used to be a hollowed out pumpkin with a candle.
Now we have to buy into yet another craze!
2007-09-05 02:20:38 · 43 answers · asked by BLUE MOON 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Your imagination is too limited, bumpkin.
You don't deserve Halloween. So you're not getting any this year.
Save your tears! My fellow demons and I have spoken...
2007-09-06 17:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Dear Carlos 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hallowe'en is NOT a craze...party pooper. It began in Scotland and was called geising. It is a fesitval that is celebrated by pagans all over the world and is many centuries old. And your hollowed out pumpkin is only a reminder of those times. But let the children have their fun...and don't forget. Tricks are played all year round by one child or another, don't single out Hallowe'en as an excuse.
2007-09-05 02:54:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Halloween ought to be fun, but as others have said it can and often is taken too far.
After all, it is All Soul's Eve in ancient traditions, and to the extent old traditions are honoured and celebrated in a spirit of merrymaking is it may be today there is no harm. The harm comes in the few who ruin it by tricks or who get waaay too far into the commercialism.
Alas, back to the carved pumpkin, rather than those (to me, not charming) electric ones.
--That Cheeky Lad "Always up for a bit of fun--as long as no one or anything is harmed!"
2007-09-06 14:51:27 · answer #3 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trick or treating is a lot of fun-as long as the children are supervised by adults. Sadly,here in the UK it's not been embraced as well. As a child growing up in America,we had so much fun getting our costumes together,trick or treating,and then to the haunted house at the rec centre.
By the way,Jamand,Trick or Treating is actually a BRITISH tradition imported to America when the British immigrants came to America. Check your history books!
2007-09-05 02:35:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you're just a boring old fart aren't you. Halloween is fantastic, I just wish people would celebrate it more in the UK. Hardly anyone does here anymore. Parents are afraid to let their kid go trick or treating on their own or even with a friend. There should be halloween parties for adults and trick or treating for the kids. Fair enough if the elderly are afraid, however they shouldn't be rude and not answer their doors, but have a simple notice on the outside of their door 'No Trick or Treaters'.
2007-09-06 03:58:34 · answer #5 · answered by Katrina 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
NO. Halloween is my favorite holiday! This year should be the best yet. We go get 30-40 pumpkins on 6 Oct 07...then have a pumpkin carving party on 25 Oct. I have friends bring over their kids and we go out in the garage/driveway and carve up the pumpkins and eat hot chili and hot apple cide (with rum for the adults). on 27 Oct I host a costume party for adults and then on 31 Oct we decorate our entire front lawn and have smoke and flashing lights and give out candy. The kids have such a good time. I can hardly wait for the holiday each year.
2007-09-05 02:34:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Look, you can't stop trick or treat whatever you do. If you don't like it then tough luck. I'm a kid myself, I do trick and treat and its great fun. Personally I hate the violent part of it because you have to clean the mess up but its great fun. If you don't like people ringing constantly on your doorbell then turn you lights off, disconnect the doorbell and head in for an early night because that is the best way you can avoid it.
2007-09-05 02:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by >o_OStarry Eyed>VandazZ 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I grew up in the USA where Halloween involved dressing up and going round your own neighbourhood calling at houses and being offered small amounts of candy by each neighbour. However, these days it is spoilt in two ways - malicious people planting razors and pins in sweets and greedy kids expecting more than a couple of sweets.
2007-09-05 02:35:13 · answer #8 · answered by BEVIEC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO I DONT...we were all kids once,and its nice to see a tradition like this kept going,especially when a few kids really put the effort into there costumes. what i do dislike is the boxing day sales advertised before Christmas has even come,to me it takes all the spirit out of Christmas,to be replaced by money making commercialism.
2007-09-05 02:34:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I hate it. When we were young it was a scooped out swede with a candle inside it sat on the window sill. I was most upset when my mother (she is 75 and poorly) didn't answer the door as she lives on her own , had her windows pelted with eggs. This is what a I disapprove of.
2007-09-05 07:44:03 · answer #10 · answered by Moon Maid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't mind the little kids. I buy candy, and pass it out to them, etc.
But if you are older than 15, get the hell off my porch.
I hate it when not kids, but THUGS as old as I am (mid-20s) come to my house at 11 at night, not even in costume, and DEMAND candy. That *hit pisses me off.
I am usually drunk by then, and give them a piece of my mind.
2007-09-05 04:53:33 · answer #11 · answered by HooliganGrrl 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋