I'm just not that into you..

...Halloween.  I try every year.  Really I do.  I even dressed up at work today (as an Angel). But I'm just faking it.  For the children's sake. 

Am I the only one?

Comments

[Holly]

You are definitely not the only one. Costumes - fine. Candy - fine. Halloween in general? Eh. Not so much. I think anthropologists thousands of years from now will be mystified by our Halloween observances. Dressing up in the scariest, most grotesque costumes imaginable; watching movies that depict horrific violence, both realistic and unrealistic; a celebration of horror and scariness? I don't quite get it. But the kids are cute and look forward to the trick-or-treating. We just don't do scary or creepy at our house. Now fall...that's different. Let's celebrate fall!

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Agree, I dressed today as a cowgirl, being a pediatric nurse, I like to make the kids smile, and any excuse to wear a hat I will take. Wishing we could dump halloween and call it fall festival everywhere. Isn't that what happened to Christmas?

[UK lass in US]

Nope. Maybe it's because I didn't trick or treat growing up, so it doesn't bring back childhood memories. This year the kid's costumes are just easy peasy ones and we haven't even got a pumpkin yet...

[Courtney]

You are NOT the only one -- and I'm so glad to know that *I* am not the only one :-)

I'm like the Halloween grinch. I just don't like any of it ... the candy, the decorating, the costumes. Yawn.

I love fall so much, and I find that I look forward to getting Halloween out of the way each year so I can embrace fall to its fullest.

But in the meantime, for my kids, I'll carve a jack-o-lantern, participate in countless costume discussions, and make the best of it.

[Imene]

Yipee! I am not the only freak in town. I do it for the sake of my children and just because they think it's awesome.

[tracey petersen]

I don't get it at all. A complete and utter mystery to me. Should we form a club?

[dottycookie]

I like the costumes and the pumpkin carving but we don't do trick or treating here - the kids are off to a party tonight but it's a non scary, very cute one. For me it's a good way to stave off their Christmas obsession for a bit longer, so I'm pretty keen on it!

[Emma]

I'm with you, Lina, and so is my tot. She will be going to a party in the village hall tonight but she will be determinedly dressed as a fairy. She is anti- the 'w' word. Her pumpkin has flowers pushed into it.

[domesticali]

But the sweets are good, no? And the pumpkins.

[April]

I so feel the same way. I make the costumes for my girls, we do pumpkins and pass out candy, and we do Halloween crafts in October. I try. Really, I do. But I am definitely just not that into it.

It's nice to read all the other posts and know that I'm not the only one....and there are probably lots of others as well.

[Ransacked Goods]

I was ready for it to be over weeks ago. I'm exhausted with the hoo-ha too!

[driftwood]

we went to a neighbours halloween party tonight, and I was the ONLY parent who'd dressed up (as Captain Jack Sparrow)............ ba humbug..........

[Selena Cate]

I do love Hallowe'en but I tend to make it up as I go along. Costumes are from thrift stores and thrown together as we find them. I think Hallowe'en marks a time of the season changing and a chance for adults to kind of act like kids.

[Lucy Locket-Pocket]

Oh no, you are not the only one! I've never really liked Halloween and only got into going to a party because one of my closest friends has a lovely party for the children and grownups each year.

Part of the problem was that the children were always fairly scared of the whole nasty costume business so I remember one year when Daisy dressed in her pinkest fairy costume and, although we didn't actually go trick or treating (and never had) we were ready-prepared to call "Kiss or Treat" because it was kinder and most likely to scare the scary boys away!!!

Lucy x

[Lesley]

I like the pumpkins and playing scary games in the dark with the children but could happily do without the trick or treating side of things. Mind you, it was spookily quiet here this year - only three knocks on the door all evening.
I could also do without weeks of pestering every time we go into a shop and see piles of plastic Halloween c**p!

xxx

[Heather]

I am so much more into the holiday for the children. I remember being a bit weary of Halloween as a child, and now I just think of it as a terrible commercialized holiday. I do, however, love to see my children get so into it, use their imagination, and enjoy just laughing at one another (in a good way)

[kirstencan]

oh, i love it - but not the gory/gross stuff. just the cute/cool stuff.

i put my hair in pippi longstocking braids - i wish i had more time to do a costume for myself!