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Post by shep on Oct 5, 2007 15:47:49 GMT -5
How do you celebrate Halloween in your country? Is there lots of planning involved, parties etc? I am especially keen to know from the americans
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Post by gerry on Oct 5, 2007 16:57:44 GMT -5
I turn off all the lights and hide from the kids that are begging for candy
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Post by shep on Oct 5, 2007 18:12:45 GMT -5
I dont blame you
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Post by Girl Power on Oct 5, 2007 22:43:55 GMT -5
Halloween is a big holiday here in America. Personally, I love it because we can dress up as anything we want to. No one thinks we're weird if we show up at work or school in a bizarre costume. It's great!
I have tons of costumes. I also have lots of Halloween decorations. Usually people have Halloween parties. But there are also amusement parks and special "haunted houses" put on for the month of October. You can go to these and have all kinds of monsters and ghouls jumping out at you. There are creepy horror decorations and spooky lights.
Halloween stores crop up for a couple of months before Halloween. They temprarily rent out big retail spaces that are empty. Then everything goes on sale at 75% off the day after Halloween.
Halloween colors are orange and black. There are already lots of orange and black decorations and lights up everywhere. It's kind of a kitschy, fun time, IMO.
It doesn't seem like people have their kids trick or treat much anymore in most urban areas. A lot of times, they trick or treat at malls or they go to parent or school sponsored parties.
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Post by shep on Oct 6, 2007 3:26:58 GMT -5
You can wear costumes at work? How fun!
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Post by SlayerLV on Oct 6, 2007 3:33:09 GMT -5
Yea it's so cool, I'm going to a friends party this year and I still don't have a costume picked out.
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Post by madvicks on Oct 7, 2007 11:08:32 GMT -5
See, I think the expectation for Halloween in the UK is wrong. Instead of doing it the correct way as in the US, in the UK you tend to get a bunch of 4/5 older teenage yobs hammering on your door expecting a £5 note each minimum and they think if one sticks a mask on then they are in fancy dress. Do you get that Ali or is it a Birmingham thing? I tend to hang some pumpkin lights I got in the front bedroom window and occassionally have a candle burning in my spooky Halloween burner so he looks gruesome from outside. LOL! As far as dressing up, do Halloween spooky ear rings count?
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Post by shep on Oct 7, 2007 15:15:49 GMT -5
Yes you are right Vicks. They think a mask that costs £1 is costume! I tend to only answer the door to the kiddies who are chaporoned (sp?) by an adult.
The same thing happens at Christmas when they come around carol singing.
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Post by stakey on Oct 10, 2007 11:38:04 GMT -5
i freakin' love halloween..which is strange as its not usually a big thing in the uk. i love fancy dress...its so funny to see all your friends all dressed up.
last year i went to a big 6th form party and everyone took it really seriously costume wise...it was awesome. me and my friends all went as the mafia so a group of like 8 of us all strolled in in matching suits and glasses and guns and stuff....reservoir dogs style. haha.
i havent a clue what im gnna dress up as this year but theres a massive uni student union party going on where tons of people are going so im so excited. i want to do something rather original costume wise....i cant think of anything though.
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Post by Girl Power on Oct 10, 2007 22:06:25 GMT -5
See, I think the expectation for Halloween in the UK is wrong. Instead of doing it the correct way as in the US, in the UK you tend to get a bunch of 4/5 older teenage yobs hammering on your door expecting a £5 note each minimum and they think if one sticks a mask on then they are in fancy dress. Do you get that Ali or is it a Birmingham thing? I tend to hang some pumpkin lights I got in the front bedroom window and occassionally have a candle burning in my spooky Halloween burner so he looks gruesome from outside. LOL! As far as dressing up, do Halloween spooky ear rings count? Teenagers expect you to give them money on Halloween?!?!? That's crazy. That wouldn't go over here at all. In fact, a lot of people get mad if teenagers come to the door on Halloween. They tell them they're too old. It's considered a kid's activity to trick or treat. I loved Halloween when I was a kid. But I went out again when I was 13, because I still loved it and felt like a kid. Everyone hassled me for being too old. Sad to have to grow up! But it's definitely about how cool your costume is. Kids talk about what they're going to be from the beginning of September. They get very excited about it and often want to wear their costumes for weeks before and/or after Halloween. And, yes, you can often wear your costumes at work. Some stores have the check out people dressed up, if they want to be. When I was a counselor, the manager of our facility told us we could dress up. I asked my clients if it would freak them out if I dressed as something evil (since I always dress as something evil). They said that would freak them out, so I went as an angel. But going as a vampire, sorceress, or Disney villian is always much more fun! Here's when I was Cruella de Ville: Here's some bad costume I wore a lot as a kid. It was a party dress of my mom's from the 50s. I'd wear it and be a princess. That's me on the lefthand side with the white mask on: As a vampire As Winnie the Pooh
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Post by shep on Oct 11, 2007 13:04:03 GMT -5
Thanks for the pics. Bad girls are soooo much more fun! What will you be wearing this year?
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Post by madvicks on Oct 11, 2007 14:10:14 GMT -5
Sadly, Maria, this is how England is. I agree though, it is a kiddie thing, or should be. It is one of the occassions the US does very well. Whole streets, kids escorted, you get a set period of interruption and then over with. We usually hit Floirda around Halloween and it is so fun with universal Studious doing specials and all the shops and people's homes, love it! Sadly, not for a few years now. I love the photos, I am sorry but I have to say Pooh is my favourite, you look so cute. LOL! The other costumes are cool though... You are so svelte! (*Adds Maria to most hated list. *) As Ali said, what this year?
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Post by xndr on Oct 12, 2007 7:35:34 GMT -5
I love the Halloween season. The decorations, the costumes, carving jack-o-lanterns, horror movies. Halloween parties are fun, though I'll be out of town this year during the weekend. I think teens are problem here too (actually teens are always just a problem, aren't they ). They don't come asking for money but there's always some roving band of teens looking to get into trouble. Actually some do it the night before Halloween which is called Mischief Night (or Devil's Night) which is just what it sounds like. Its great when kids can dress up and go house to house though for treats. Its really lame when they don't dress up, but most of them seem to around me. I had so much fun on Halloween when I was a kid.
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Post by Girl Power on Oct 24, 2007 13:59:05 GMT -5
I love the Halloween season. The decorations, the costumes, carving jack-o-lanterns, horror movies. Halloween parties are fun, though I'll be out of town this year during the weekend. I think teens are problem here too (actually teens are always just a problem, aren't they ). They don't come asking for money but there's always some roving band of teens looking to get into trouble. Actually some do it the night before Halloween which is called Mischief Night (or Devil's Night) which is just what it sounds like. Its great when kids can dress up and go house to house though for treats. Its really lame when they don't dress up, but most of them seem to around me. I had so much fun on Halloween when I was a kid. Yes, there's always some teenagers, usually boys, causing trouble. I remember how heartbreaking it was when I was a kid to wake up the day after Halloween and find the Jack 'O Lantern I'd spent so much time carving smashed in the middle of the street. I was even traumatized when I'd hear the name of that damn band "Smashing Pumpkins"! I'm not doing anything or dressing up this Halloween. I think with so much going on with the fires in San Diego, there won't be too many Halloween celebrations around here. Vicks, thanks for the compliment. But the Cruella costume was taken 14 years ago when I was 23. It's been awhile! But the Winnie the Pooh costume has padding in the tummy.
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Post by Girl Power on Nov 1, 2007 11:29:27 GMT -5
I hadn't planned to dress for Halloween, but a friend asked me to come along trick-or-treating with her and her two kids. They were dressing like Pirates of the Caribbean, so I went as Elizabeth Swann. I had this dress in my costume closet. My eyebrows aren't usually that bushy. I was trying to copy her makeup from the movie, even though she's far blonder than I am.
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