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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Are you the kind of person that goes all out and decorates the house, The kids and the dog and eagerlyawaits the trick or treaters?

Or are you like me and tammer lights off and pretend not to be in?

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By *rLothbrokMan
over a year ago

Lancs

I’m in between. Not fussed about decorations, but I won’t hide and pretend to be out. I just ignore the door

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

Not a Halloween person.

Trick or treat.. yet another American import...

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

I am a ghoul 24/7

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

No. Not at all. Never liked it

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Delightful Bliss

I'm a go out and go to a Halloween party person. If I'm staying in I'd hate the distractions of halloween visitors

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No not at all. Never have.

Lights off and act like I'm not home.

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

Yes, we do go a little ott

We have most of the tacky big decs up for trick or treaters but the tasteful autumn wreath and pumpkins are there all month

We both get dressed up, the dog has a new spider costume this year.

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By *ixieAndHerKingCouple
over a year ago

Debauchery

When the kids were young I did the whole shebang! We had amazing Halloween open house parties and took great pleasure terrifying the neighbourhood children!

Now though I like to be the grumpy house that put a sign on the door saying feck off, shut the blinds and ignore it all

Cherry x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Great excuse to dress up and go to a party

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No. I am not a Halloween person. Although I do get into watching the horror films around this time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going all out this month & hosting a party!

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By *D of funCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

No, not into Halloween

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll go to a party and or do the trick or treating with mu kid but I don't do the decorating or have sweets at the door.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All year round, have you seen my ugly mug? LOL.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love Halloween! Even now that my sons are older, I still dress and have a party. It’s just a bit of fun x

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

I’m not into Halloween, the only concession this year is that I decided this weeks book would be a more horror type book, when I don’t really tend to read that kind of stuff.

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By *inAndTonic21Couple
over a year ago

Merseyside

We love Halloween

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

I absolutely love Halloween. You might not know this. So there's a whole weekend for me to celebrate this year, going to do some pumpkin carving, watch Halloween episodes of various things, read spooky things, pay over the odds for vaguely themed food. Can't wait.

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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth

No never have been

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Are you the kind of person that goes all out and decorates the house, The kids and the dog and eagerlyawaits the trick or treaters?

Or are you like me and tammer lights off and pretend not to be in?"

I am like you. Great to see others like me here, OP! Thought I was the only non-Halloween swinger!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

halloween is my birthday so no choice lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love Halloween , and the dress up n party thing

not into decorating n all that . I not even have a house .

I have great ideas tho ^^ maybe one day I do something cool for the locals …

Trick or treats with daughter that’s about it

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

Loved it when the kids were small & would dress up but now we close the curtains & don’t answer the door

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its my Christmas. From the 1st of October I wear my "Halloween jumpers" at work and earrings. The kids love it. Usually I have a Halloween tree decorated with skulls, spiders and other tacky themed crap. My windows are draped with faux Autumn leaves and fairy lights and I have more glass and ceramic pumpkins than I could ever need. I'll have four dress up events before the end of the spooky season.

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

found a great halloween mix on s/c

https://soundcloud.com/ted-nindo/the-nuggitz-stales-from-the-crypt

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

I have no interest.. probably because everyday is Halloween for me..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Enjoyed it with the children but never saw the appeal as an adult. Seems to have become a weird hybrid of influences now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loved it when my kids were younger now I hate it.

I work in a nursing home and most of the staff are all "what you doing for Halloween" and I say "well I've asked the residents what they want to do it and apart from a couple, the rest aren't bothered or agree with it, so not much!" Is always my reply! It's their home, I shouldn't be forcing something they never did when they were younger down their throat and some get scared easily.

Anyway, happy Friday!

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By *nked_coupleCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Love it! Decorating the house and hosting a party tomorrow night

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By *ussieChrisMan
over a year ago

Walsall

Personally, not overly worried about the whole trick or treat thing or the decorations etc. I love Halloween, but only cause I celebrate for a different reason, although thats starting to wear off each year.

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

I have never been a Halloween person I have no problem with kids with accompanying adults dressed up and asking trick or treat and giving sweets.In 2018 3-4 big kids and 2 little kids knocked on my mums door who at the time was a few weeks away from her 70th birthday and snatched the sweets out of her hands as well as punching her in the arm and stomach and trying to get into the house.I hope you can understand my reluctance to appreciate Halloween like others but to those that do still enjoy Halloween enjoy.

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By *lephantisMan
over a year ago

Oxford

I loathe Halloween for all the tiresome reasons everyone has already heard about. I don't claim they are original. And trick or treating in particular seems tantamount to demanding with menaces.

But in particular, I loathe it because it is such a thin, bastardised import. We have such a rich tradition of ghost stories and horror in Britain, and it's crushed underneath an avalanche of inedible pumpkins and 9 year olds dressed in Chinese plastic.

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By *estinyIsAllCouple
over a year ago

Staffordshire

I'd do it but the Hubs isn't keen. He doesn't see the point for Halloween so Christmas is our compromise lol. We still carve pumpkins for the kids and our youngest goes trick or treating. Our eldest still would too if we'd let him!!

D x

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By *orphia2003Woman
over a year ago

Tonypandy.

Not bothered about Halloween

Do celebrate the Samhain festival though.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Not bothered about Halloween

Do celebrate the Samhain festival though."

See, that’s more like it.

It’s not an American holiday. It’s a pagan festival that the US borrowed, put glitter on, and sold back to us. A bit like they did with rock & roll …

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I still remember a halloween disco we had at primary school and in those days it was all dressing up as binbag witches

so celebrating halloween has been around a while.

I do like a few pumpkins and candles around the place. I always have plenty of cobwebs, and cardboard cutouts of bats swinging from the ceilings never hurt.

I have done trick or treating when the kids were little, and not so little but there is a code of only going to houses that are decorated or give some sort of bat signal that they are acceptable of little monsters at the door begging for sweets.

I like it because it marks the start of dark mysterious fog and mist season, long nights where the imagination turns to ghosts and spirits. I prefer bonfire night with the fire though. More powerful.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I don't take part.

Used to when I had children.

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By *lephantisMan
over a year ago

Oxford

"I prefer bonfire night with the fire though. More powerful. "

Bonfire Night is infinitely better. Darker, more dangerous, and more historical. Especially in Lewes.

I'd LOVE to go to Up-Helly-A some time, too.

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By *ociable-NottmCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham

We like it, going to Xtreme scream this weekend will be a good laugh

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

I don’t like the Americanisation of it. When I was young Bonfire Night was the main focus, Halloween was nowhere near what it is now. We will be celebrating Thanksgiving next.

Bonfire Night is part of our rich and varied history, Halloween has become a marketing tool. I get why kids love it but what we now have is as near near to the true meaning of Halloween as I am to my teens.

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

I am a Halloween person but because of my tastes my house is pretty much ready for it all year round

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"I loathe Halloween for all the tiresome reasons everyone has already heard about. I don't claim they are original. And trick or treating in particular seems tantamount to demanding with menaces.

What he very eloquently said

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Agree with those who feel it's gone American, trick or treat? Loved it when my kids were small and even more so when I was a child, we went 'guisin'... pumpkins... Wouldn't have known what to do with one. Where I live halloween falls on last Friday of Oct meaning as kids, we had 2 opportunities to go out, here and then to relatives in the next town who held it on 31st. Now I'd not open my door, I don't feel it's safe to do so now which is a shame.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

What happened to wheeling a guy around in a pram and penny for the guy?

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

No I hate it with a passion. Encouraging kids to knock on strangers doors and beg with menaces!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love Halloween, in the most haunted city in Europe to celebrate this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don’t like the Americanisation of it. When I was young Bonfire Night was the main focus, Halloween was nowhere near what it is now. We will be celebrating Thanksgiving next.

The Guy Fawkes night traditions have died off. Kids would do penny for the guy to buy fireworks - shops no longer sell to kids. They burned their guys on numerous bonfires which were everywhere - no longer a thing and there are only a few organised displays around. No sure if there are bon fires lit. I went yo Highbury fields and Shorditch Park as a kid. They had massive fires.

It's very different now. I don't care about people over commercialising Halloween. It's something silly and fun for the kids to look forward too and enjoy. Most people only knock on doors that have put pumpkins out of decorated for it.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

I ignore it.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I loved it when the kids were little, used to dress up and take them trick or treating and all that. My youngest is 16 and not bothered, I don't like my neighbours so this year there won't be a pumpkin at my front door. The gate and curtains will be firmly closed!

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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

Love Halloween! My house is half Halloween bedecked so far!

And I get to decorate work too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hate it

Never grew up celebrating it. Just want it to pass and then get ready for Christmas!

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"I loved it when the kids were little, used to dress up and take them trick or treating and all that. My youngest is 16 and not bothered, I don't like my neighbours so this year there won't be a pumpkin at my front door. The gate and curtains will be firmly closed!

Grumpy ladylick!

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By *moothforestMan
over a year ago

New Forest

Hate Halloween. Bloody beggars knocking on my door. Have taken to putting sign up 'No trick or treating '.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No choice, little lads birthday, so party time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never really got it.

Parents said it was begging.

So I've just grown up into a bit of a boring arse.

Still try to have the assorted junk ready, usually though there's so much left over I risk diabetic shock.

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By *orphia2003Woman
over a year ago

Tonypandy.

After the first few times opening the door to ' trick or treaters' in my Samhain robes, offering them spiced apple juice and fruit bats and asking them if they wanted to partake in the Samhain offerings, they tended not to come back.

All except my Sri Lankan neighbors kids who don't celebrate it, don't really understand it, but thought that standing on the garden throwing apple juice at the tree and having spicy veg pasties was a great adventure.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

I don't celebrate it in whatever manifestation it throws itself at me, be it costumes, food, partying and so forth.

I simply don't understand the concept of a parasitic tradition that seems to have leeched itself onto these shores.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I've always had treats ready but no one has not turned up for years. Some decent displays out and about though in my area.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

No I'm not.

If a small person came to our door dressed as a ghost I would pretend to be scared and find something to give them though

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

When I was a child trick or treat was something I only read about in books

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

No. I like the concept of how things may have been in centuries gone by but not the trashy event today

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

We usually go out or pretend we are not at home. We don't celebrate Halloween where I'm from so I am not bothered by it...I would rather have Christmas already!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's something I've got into the past few years. I was never really allowed to celebrate when I was younger and although I'm not a fan of dressing up myself now, I still like getting into the spirit of it by handing out sweets, carving a pumpkin, seeing all the costumes and stuff like that

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Not here ... I put a sign on my front door saying " Go away I'm Grumpy "

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"It's something I've got into the past few years. I was never really allowed to celebrate when I was younger and although I'm not a fan of dressing up myself now, I still like getting into the spirit of it by handing out sweets, carving a pumpkin, seeing all the costumes and stuff like that

Not to alarm you, but I think someone hacked your profile and changed your profile picture to a person dressed up for Halloween

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not to alarm you, but I think someone hacked your profile and changed your profile picture to a person dressed up for Halloween

no need to be alamred. This is for a party and an attempt to not look like a spoilsport

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By *moothshaftMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Can't stand the bloody event. And I'd do all sorts to fuck up someone's Halloween.

In fact, when the little cretins knock the door I'll get my fart gun out. Liiiiiight bulb!

Have a lovely day.

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