Halloween

[Smithy]

Do you celebrate Halloween?
Do you put outside decorations?

I put out outside decorations as I get a few kids knocking on the door with there parents.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We do not celebrate Halloween at all, nor do we hand out candy to kids. There are very few kids that come around in this neighborhood anyway, and it is usually cold and rainy at this time of year. We turn off the porch lights and close the curtains, that way any people that are out with their kids know that we are not passing out any candy, and do not bother stopping here.

This has become such a dangerous event, since what it was like when I was a kid.
Back in the early 50’s, it was safe for kids to go out alone, or in small groups, and go trick-or-treating all across the little town where I lived. We got things like apples, oranges, home made cookies, and full size candy bars (which only cost a nickel back then), and no one would have ever put anything in any of it to harm children.
The people enjoyed seeing all of the kids with our home-designed costumes, and one older lady always gave us delicious cookies, that she made, but we had to sing a song of some kind to get the cookie.

The movie theater would have special scary movies for the kids. I think they were free on that night, but even if not, it was only about 25 cents to go to the theater anyway . After I got too old to go out myself, I still enjoyed dressing up in a costume that I made and answering the door for the little kids that came by.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Across the front of my house I have a row of hedge. I put out solar-powered lights for various events.

Patriotic and national days get red, white, and blue. Christmas gets multicolored. Halloween get orange and purple. Just a single string, weaving back and forth on two to three rows across the shrubbery.

I have other decorations in storage here yet, but I rarely put them out these days.

 

[Dead2009]

I couldnt decorate this year cause I simply didnt have the time to go out and get what I wanted to get. Next year though. I do watch horror movies during the month but then again I do that all year long.

 

[Joe Riley]

It is usually a quiet day and evening, as all the nearby children have grown up quite a few years back. We do have a Black crow decoy that we display aside a small ceramic pumpkin in the front hall. Very low key. A supply of candy corn is on the buffet in a chicken candy dish. some years we have cider, but so far no this year. The neighbors on the corner display enough lighting and props for everyone.

 

[Joe Riley]

"As Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is tasked with uncovering the mystery of a violent crime in the town of Sleepy Hollow, he must first understand what the locals believe is happening here. The story of the headless horseman (Christopher Walken) is one nobody can be prepared to believe."BOO!

Sleepy Hollow (1999) | Who is the Headless Horseman?

 

[Joe Riley]

 

[Joe Riley]

 

[MamaFrankie]

I don't 'do' Halloween. I don't understand the attraction and it is also too close to the day my mother died.

 

[Joe Riley]

I don't 'do' Halloween. I don't understand the attraction and it is also too close to the day my mother died.

It may have morphed from All Saints Day, (All Hallows' Day) a neighbor on the calendar . In Western Christianity, it is still celebrated on November 1st by the Western Catholic Church as well as by many Protestant churches, such as the Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions. On Sunday, we will light a candle for someone we know who died over the last year. Halloween "Lite", is a must when Children are in the Family, and even after they grow out of it, it remains and changes some.

 

[Nancy Hart]

In NE Ohio when I grew up, we had Beggar's Night. It was October 30th. That's when you went begging for candy. Yelling "Trick or Treat!" substituted for ringing a doorbell. On Halloween night you were supposed to go around and do nasty tricks to the houses that didn't provide candy. It was a regional thing, I guess.

 

[Marie Mallory]

In NE Ohio when I grew up, we had Beggar's Night. It was October 30th. That's when you went begging for candy. Yelling "Trick or Treat!" substituted for ringing a doorbell. On Halloween night you were supposed to go around and do nasty tricks to the houses that didn't provide candy. It was a regional thing, I guess.

We only had Trick or Treat down here, never heard of Beggars Night. So y'all got twice the candy, huh? cool

 

[Marie Mallory]

I don't 'do' Halloween. I don't understand the attraction and it is also too close to the day my mother died.

I don't do it now either, espcially with the sad memory.

 

[Nancy Hart]

We only had Trick or Treat down here, never heard of Beggars Night. So y'all got twice the candy, huh? cool

I edited original post to make it clearer. Only candy the first night. On Halloween you tricked the houses that didn't provide candy the night before.

 

[Joe Riley]

The first Halloween after we moved into our present house, in 1977, we got egged by Kids in passing cars. I'm guessing eggs were cheaper back then. It was a mess to clean off, even removing the paint on the siding.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

It may have morphed from All Saints Day, (All Hallows' Day) a neighbor on the calendar . In Western Christianity, it is still celebrated on November 1st by the Western Catholic Church as well as by many Protestant churches, such as the Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions. On Sunday, we will light a candle for someone we know who died over the last year. Halloween "Lite", is a must when Children are in the Family, and even after they grow out of it, it remains and changes some.

My mother-in-law, who was British, and also a Catholic , came to America as a war bride after WW2. She said she had never even heard of Halloween in England, but November 1st was All Saints Day, and the evening before that was called “All Hallows Eve”, (or “evening) which might be how it became Halloween, since it was the same evening, and the name is a contraction of hallowed evening.

She had never heard of people giving out candy to kids either, and when her son went out with some of his friends and came home with a grocery sack with candy in it, she thought he had somehow stolen it from a grocery store.
She had to ask the friend’s parents to find out that it was a tradition in America for kids to dress in costumes and go trick-or-treating on that day.

 

[Nancy Hart]

The first Halloween after we moved into our present house, in 1977, we got egged by Kids in passing cars. I'm guessing eggs were cheaper back then. It was a mess to clean off, even removing the paint on the siding.

I got eggs thrown against the house and roof from the back yard one year on Halloween. I think it was the next-door neighbor's two boys. They weren't too smart.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! That's my "Ghosts at a Concert that they don't like" imitation.