I’m just not up for it this year. I didn’t put up any decorations, didn’t buy a pumpkin or candy. I’m going to watch a DVD or get on the computer and leave the front light off.
How about you?
I haven’t participated in anything Halloween for years - just don’t see the point. I’m happy others get a kick out of it, though!
I dressed up and scared the kids at the library the last two years but yeah, I’m blowing it off today. I didn’t have a good costume idea and I just am not up for it.
Halloween is cool, but my kid will be with their mother this year so I really don’t see the point in doing anything. I’ll probably work on my motorcycle and play computer games (World in Conflict most likely.)
Nah, I’m not doing anything. When I was at Target last night for something else I looked to see if they had any cat ears or little wings or something to wear to work, but they didn’t - looked like a tornado had been through. Nobody else wore anything either, unless you count librarian holiday sweaters, which were indeed in abundance.
I’ve always turned my light out because in my neighborhood I know I’d get all the thuggish teenagers with no costumes, and I don’t feel up to it. Anyway, I wouldn’t do it here without somebody else around, 'cause some of those “kids” is pretty big and pretty mean.
Yes, but that’s what I do every year.
I’ll be giving candy to the kids who stop by tonight but that’s about it.
I’ve not done anything Halloween related for close to a decade, probably. Since my mid-teens.
I had Alice Cooper tickets for tonight, but I couldn’t find anyone to go with me. 
Dang. If I didn’t live 2,200 miles away I might take you up on that. I’ve heard his shows are…interesting.
We don’t do hallowe’en, either. One year after we moved to this neighborhood, we bought $50 worth of candy and it was gone inside an hour. I resented that there were uncostumed teenagers still coming around after 9PM, expecting to get free goodies. So we turn out the lights now. If anybody wants to know where we are during that time, I’m getting my nostrils recalibrated.
For the most part yeah, we are blowing it off. One of my kids is grounded and the other just wants to hand out candy. In my neighborhood the trick-or-treating is about done in less than an hour after sunset though so we’ll just end up sitting on the couch and eating the leftovers.
I used to volunteer at a haunted house. Building the sets was fun for me.
We live way out in the cold scary mountains, never have had a trick or treater.
I’m going out with the nieces and nephews, but that’s it. The lights will be out here.
-Lil
Yes, but not by choice. Things just kind of fell apart this year. The party I was going to go to was cancelled and my costume was too involved to make it through the multitude of train transfers I make on the way to and from work so I didn’t dress up today. I also have to confess that I have eaten most of the halloween candy I purchased for trick or treaters. I will do laundry and then watch a scary movie and that is about it for me.
Nope. I’m a Halloween Grinch. In my neighborhood, the adults are supposed to sit on their porches and hand out candy to the lazy little devils who can’t be bothered to walk the extra ten paces to the door and yell “trick or treat.”
Eff that entitlement.
I like Halloween, but my costumes are all still packed somewhere, probably in the attic or the basement.
Yep, blowing it off. I had planned on not doing anything anyway, but the fact that I woke up with a bad cold this morning kind of cemented my plans.
That, and the general feeling in my neighborhood is to forget Halloween, since the Castro thing has been cancelled here in SF.
Eric
My husband and I are doing our traditional Halloween celebration – turn off all the lights, lock all the doors, and spend the early evening in some local joint drinking beers and eating greasy pub food.
They cancelled Halloween in the Castro? Why?
I may or may not celebrate. I have to be on campus for thirteen hours straight tomorrow, I may have to fend of a returning ex soon, and the friend I’m supposed to go to a party with is working a double shift last I heard. I may just lock the doors and watch television.
I’m turning my lights off too. Between the dog going nuts at the doorbell, and having to push kids off our tiny front stoop so I can open the door, it’s a pain. Only a small pain, but a pain.
Besides, Kid Nation is on.