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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 6, 2017 0:18:26 GMT
Just what the subject line says.
I live in the suburban United States. Treat or Treat ran from five until seven.
Kids dress in costumes (and teenagers dress in sports jerseys) and go door to door.
Is it similar in your part of the world? Has it changed significantly over the course of your lifetime?
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Post by sherlock on Nov 6, 2017 0:25:18 GMT
UK isn't much different. Kids dress up, go door-to-door though it does vary from place to place how many kids actually bother. I don't think Halloween's as big a deal as it is in the US, but the basic stuff is the same.
And then five days later we go a bit nuts with fireworks and bonfires to celebrate the foiling of a plot to blow up Parliament 400 years ago.
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Post by number13 on Nov 6, 2017 1:05:23 GMT
In England: When I was young in the 60s and 70s, nothing by way of Hallowe'en 'celebrations'. Maybe a little in the 80s, but not much. Then in the 90s and 00s the costumes started to appear in the shops and the trick-or-treaters appeared on the streets, but only in small numbers. Then the crash came and (at least in our area) seemed to take the Hallowe'eners with it and they never came back. The costumes are still in the shops but we haven't had to shout 'clear off before I release the T-Rex' through the letterbox for years...  Bonfire Night on November 5th is the big one here and there are large fireworks displays in most towns, many sports clubs, etc. Now here's an amazing English custom (now extinct) which was still going in the 1970s. It wasn't something I did personally, but many did. Little gangs of kids made unconvincing stuffed dummies with papier-mache 'Guy Fawkes' masks on and took them door-to-door demanding hard cash! "Penny for the Guy!" was the traditional cry. Then they took the collected cash and went to buy fireworks, which were sold loose in toy shops.  |
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Post by cr1980 on Nov 6, 2017 1:27:38 GMT
When I was growing up (in Australia), Halloween was something that happened only on American TV shows. That's changed...
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Post by jasonward on Nov 6, 2017 2:06:04 GMT
Now here's an amazing English custom (now extinct) which was still going in the 1970s. It wasn't something I did personally, but many did. Little gangs of kids made unconvincing stuffed dummies with papier-mache 'Guy Fawkes' masks on and took them door-to-door demanding hard cash! "Penny for the Guy!" was the traditional cry. Then they took the collected cash and went to buy fireworks, which were sold loose in toy shops. I never took a guy door to door, but we did a roaring trade standing on the corner where all the local shops were, I think we spent most of the money on sweets, but yeah, for sure we got fireworks too, normally "bangers"  Talk about bringing back memories. |
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 6, 2017 9:59:21 GMT
Halloween has really taken off here in Australia over the last ten-fifteen years, but was never a big thing prior to that. It's a pretty marmite kind of thing: a lot of people object to the "Americanisation" of our culture (but still enjoy the movies, fashions, music and fast foods from there, so go figure) and there's a smart-arse component who counter that with "but it's CELTIC..." We have it pretty well organised here: the local police stations take to social media and remind people to be safe and to only go to houses that are willing to take part (you can download or collect a notice that lets trick-or-treaters know that you are ok with visitors). I personally don't do Halloween but I love seeing people out and having fun in their community, getting to know others who live near them. And, as a parent and a teacher, it's nice to see kids playing outside.
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Post by number13 on Nov 6, 2017 10:16:42 GMT
Halloween has really taken off here in Australia over the last ten-fifteen years, but was never a big thing prior to that. It's a pretty marmite kind of thing: a lot of people object to the "Americanisation" of our culture (but still enjoy the movies, fashions, music and fast foods from there, so go figure) and there's a smart-arse component who counter that with "but it's CELTIC..." We have it pretty well organised here: the local police stations take to social media and remind people to be safe and to only go to houses that are willing to take part (you can download or collect a notice that lets trick-or-treaters know that you are ok with visitors). I personally don't do Halloween but I love seeing people out and having fun in their community, getting to know others who live near them. And, as a parent and a teacher, it's nice to see kids playing outside. And there's an even smarter-arse component who say it's Samhain...  Celtic fun facts (which no doubt many DUers know but here goes): the calendar was based around the four quarter days (midsummer, midwinter, start of spring, start of autumn) which is logical enough for famers, fishers and hunters who live by the seasons. Then their spirit world was based around the days halfway between those (the cross-quarter days) - a calendar like our living world, but 'offset' by about 6 weeks. Almost like the idea of a parallel dimension?? Samhain is the one in the autumn, and the reason I first read about this years ago is because of a certain learned lady named Miss Hawthorne mentioning the one in spring - Beltane, when as any Third Doctor fan knows, it is a very, very bad time to go digging up old mounds and barrows, especially in Devil's End... |
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Post by muckypup on Nov 6, 2017 10:35:40 GMT
In 70,s Halloween was nothing much, a just something you did as a party theme....no trick or treat, no special costumes.....in fact when I was about 7 I wore a bin bag, a home made axe from a garden cane and card board and covered myself in ketchup for the blood.
Bonfire night was our thing.
It wasn’t until the 80,s and ET that we did anything like the US version of Halloween.
Now a days Halloween is a theme for tv shows, never seen any trick or treaters for years,
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Nov 6, 2017 12:37:01 GMT
No Trick or Treaters where i live. Mostly students in skimpy costumes heading on nights out |
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Post by sherlock on Nov 6, 2017 12:44:14 GMT
No Trick or Treaters where i live. Mostly students in skimpy costumes heading on nights out Halloween's as good an excuse as any for a night out. The amount of effort some students put into their costumes was bizarre, I just put on dark coloured hoodie. |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Nov 6, 2017 13:14:26 GMT
No Trick or Treaters where i live. Mostly students in skimpy costumes heading on nights out Halloween's as good an excuse as any for a night out. The amount of effort some students put into their costumes was bizarre, I just put on dark coloured hoodie. One Halloween at Uni i just got a Death Robe. I planned to go to bus stops and scare old people, but i got dragged to a party instead lol |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2017 14:37:42 GMT
Halloween has really taken off here in Australia over the last ten-fifteen years, but was never a big thing prior to that. It's a pretty marmite kind of thing: a lot of people object to the "Americanisation" of our culture (but still enjoy the movies, fashions, music and fast foods from there, so go figure) and there's a smart-arse component who counter that with "but it's CELTIC..."And there's an even smarter-arse component who say it's Samhain... They are only smart-arses if they can say Samhain properly though!  |
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Post by fingersmash on Nov 6, 2017 15:03:15 GMT
Retirement town so absolutely no trick or treaters or Halloween.
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Post by number13 on Nov 6, 2017 15:03:26 GMT
And there's an even smarter-arse component who say it's Samhain... They are only smart-arses if they can say Samhain properly though! So not sam-hane then? Not quite sure how to type this phonetically - what do you think of "saowun", where the 'sao' comes out as halfway between the 'sa' of salmon and the 'so' of sow and the 'un' is like the 'on' of salmon? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2017 19:14:59 GMT
They are only smart-arses if they can say Samhain properly though! So not sam-hane then? If you say sah-win with a bit of a brogue, you'd be close enough! But definitely not sam-hane... unless of course you are Glenn Danzig. |
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Post by omega on Nov 7, 2017 4:00:21 GMT
Retailers put in more of an effort to sell Halloweeny themed stuff. The Christmas decorations have already gone up at the supermarket in town.
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Post by Ela on Nov 7, 2017 18:16:12 GMT
No trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood, either. And not much visible Halloween celebration. Many of the people who live in my neighborhood don't celebrate Halloween. We bought candy for trick-or-treaters the first year we lived here and not one person rang the doorbell. So we haven't bothered since then. Though the house down the block decorated for Halloween - they still have some "ghosts" hanging in front of their house.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 12:04:46 GMT
Annoyingly on the rise here, thanks to a determined (and self serving) retailer push over the last few years. I despise Halloween. Other people's devil spawn banging on my door all night demanding that I help pay for their future diabetes. No thanks, I opt out. |
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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 8, 2017 13:10:00 GMT
Though the house down the block decorated for Halloween - they still have some "ghosts" hanging in front of their house.
I'd gladly trade your neighbor for the five houses on my block already decorated fro Christmas
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