O/T Halloween

[rolymiller]

I,m not fussed about halloween (always get sweets in just in case and eat any left missen) but I was thinking that as a kid in the 50s I used to go carol singing and penny for the guying which kids can,t or don,t do now so I don,t get worked up about it.

Its a shame about carol singing you just dont see em around anymore and I'm not religious! I think it must be down to when me and my big brother challenged my little brother to tell em em to bugger off when they came to the door as a wind up when we were kids!

[rileyev.the.third]

Im won over by it, some of the young kids go to a lot of effort with make up and costumes.

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This sums me up too gm. Most parents will be miles out of pocket in terms of the amount of sweets kids get compared to what they spend on their outfits. Add on that the kids love it which is basically what has won me over. I do understand why your text book grumpy B@stards hate it though but then again they hate most things lol.

[DaveyJohn]

Got to be honest I was never a fan of the whole trick or treat stuff, always thought it was an American culture almost forced on us by retail magnates etc. The way this event has grown though is staggering and it's getting bigger and bigger, second only to Christmas now in terms of what people spend.

It has grown on me a bit now though and actually had a party Saturday night. The village I now live in, Wooley Grange was absolutely rammed with kids trick or treating last night, we must have had at least a hundred kids knock our door and we gave away about £30 of sweets. Loads of houses were lit up with images of ghosts and ghouls lighting up the walls and every street name was changed for 2 nights, ours became Goblin Close!!

I reckon all told we must have spent a couple of hundred quid all told.

My kids love it and like I say I'm kind of won over.

What about you lot?

I'm with you on this Riley, it was a great laugh this year. Used to do trick or treating as a kid, when the costumes were an old bedsheet with eyes cut out (Ghost) or a bin liner (could be anything from a vampire to a wicked witch).

For a good few years it seemed as though no one was bothered about Halloween and it seemed to be swallowed up by the juggernaut of the three month countdown to Christmas. There was a lot of media and social media attention about the dark side of Halloween in that a lot of people felt intimidated and scared by trick or treaters.

Like with most things, it's more commercialised these days, but with that it's brought a bit of the magic back to it. I don't live far from you if you're up at Woolley Grange. The village where I live had loads of houses decorated and lit up with anything from carved pumpkins to all singing and dancing light projection displays featuring dancing ghosts and skeletons. The kids dressed up and were well excited and there were hundreds of kids out with their parents, all having a great time.

The rule we stuck to was that our kids only went to houses that had been decorated in Halloween stuff. This seemed to be the unwritten rule that everyone else in the village was following and I never saw any issues. The kids came home with two big buckets (couldrens) packed full of sweets. They loved it, they loved seeing their mates dressed up out and about, they loved seeing the decorated houses and the home owners in fancy dress.

All that sugar is probably not a great thing but the kids are looking at places they can donate the majority of the sweets to charities for kids who are less fortunate, just not sure how many places take that sort of thing as a donation.

[LincsMiller]

Is Halloween the replacement for " Mischievious Night" ? All I remember about halloween as a kid in the 50s was maybe an old ghost film on telly, but mischievous night, now that was fun, does it still exist?

[sickly_child]

Is Halloween the replacement for " Mischievious Night" ? All I remember about halloween as a kid in the 50s was maybe an old ghost film on telly, but mischievous night, now that was fun, does it still exist?

Now you're talking.