# Do you like Halloween?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 21, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502 "2010-09-21T02:55:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/61 "2010-09-23T02:16:18Z")
The only problem now is that we can’t pass out candy – our dog just goes APESHIT when someone comes to the door, and absolutely freaks. Rather than restraining her to the kitchen all night, my mother just turned the light off, and gave candy to our neighbor to hand out. He specifically told everyone it was from us.
(And count me as another who HATES the teenagers who go around without costumes asking for candy. If you want candy, fine. WEAR A FUCKING COSTUME, DAMMIT!!!)
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/62 "2010-09-23T02:20:32Z")
Did anyone ever have to dig their treat out of a tub of cold spaghetti with fake eyes as meatballs? People used to come up with some weird ways to give out their candy!
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/63 "2010-09-23T03:56:19Z")
> [@MLS](#):
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> I hate it. Hate. Hate. Hate.
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> It’s a “holiday” about death, for cripes’ sake! As someone else says, 364 days a year kids are (or should be) told not to beg for stuff and not to take treats from strangers.
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> And October is an AWFUL month. Everything is dying. Summer is 100% over. It’s getting cold. And dark. Yuk.
Weird. I’ve always loved fall for this reason. I love the weather–it’s cooling down but not too cold. It’s getting darker. Everything feels spookier.
The weird thing is I always associate fall with something new starting. Maybe it’s because I think of the school year? And it just makes me want to cuddle up with a blanket and watch scary or vaguely creepy movies and reminisce about being a kid again.
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### Author:  [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/64 "2010-09-23T11:25:41Z")
Love Halloween. Costumes, putting weird shit in the yard, scary movies! Taking the kid trick or treating, carving jack-o-lanterns and making pumpkin soup from the scrapings and roasting the seeds, seeing tiny kids in cute costumes and older ones in scary costumes…just love everything about it.
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/65 "2010-09-23T11:54:26Z")
I could just about agree word for word with the OP’s thoughts regarding Halloween. One thing that I would add though is that I have a special disdain for asshats and vandals that use the holiday as an excuse for destruction and mayhem. A few years ago we had a bunch of high school kids riding around in the back of a truck and throwing pumpkins at mailboxes and parked cars. In their minds, this was just pure harmless fun and the only people who might suggest otherwise were people that wanted to buy a new mailbox or windshield the next day. I want to make it clear, I’m not blaming the holiday. I’m blaming the pricks who use the holiday as an excuse.
I can appreciate the difference between childlike and juvenile behavior and I have no tolerance for the latter.
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/66 "2010-09-23T12:25:58Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> Halloween is the best holiday by far and it can be treated as a season around here rather than just a day or two and that is a great thing. What’s not to like? The only reason I ever want to get in any position of power is just so I can abolish Thanksgiving and expand Halloween into that whole calendar period.
If I vote for you will you make decorating, selling, advertising or otherwise even mentioning Christmas before December 1st a hanging offense? There’s already Christmas shit for sale.
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/67 "2010-09-23T13:33:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Of course I like Halloween!
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> Quick! Someone invite me to a party!
You’re invited!
and since I spend thousands of dollars on my costume and my halloween party and I love fall and its almost bigger than Christmas to me, I guess the answer is yes, I do,
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### Author:  [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/68 "2010-09-23T13:40:42Z")
I liked it well enough as a kid, then it was a non-event for me until friends of ours started throwing Halloween parties several years ago. Now that we have a party to go to and have moved to a neighborhood where people actually trick or treat, I love it! I don’t wear a costume to work or anything, but I love coming up with costumes for parties and decorating the house for trick or treaters.
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### Author:  [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/69 "2010-09-23T15:15:03Z")
I will never understand people who think of Trick Or Treating as begging. Anyone who hands out candy that night is _participating_. They’re not being solicited, they’re offering. It’s more like a country-wide party, thrown by the grownups for little kids, and if you don’t want to come to the party, don’t turn on your porch light. Easy.
As someone who didn’t go to all that many parties growning up, I love the idea of a giant event where everyone in the country is invited, and all you need is a mask and a bag. In fact, when the “who works holidays” sheet came around, I scanned it, said, “don’t care, don’t care…where is Halloween, you didn’t put halloween on here! Give me that off, and the day after, and I’ll work Thanksgiving and Christmas, whatever!”
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### Author:  [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/70 "2010-09-23T15:20:09Z")
I like the slutty costumes women wear. And the wacky tights.
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### Author:  [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/71 "2010-09-23T17:04:40Z")
I’m in my 20’s. Women my age think slutty is “cute” on that day. I like Halloween.
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/72 "2010-09-23T17:08:31Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#):
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> I’m in my 20’s. Women my age think slutty is “cute” on that day. I like Halloween.
Lady, don’t get me started. Okay, once someone says that, they’ve already started, so I’ll keep this short. I, too, am a woman in my 20s, I like dressing up, but I don’t want to look like a total whore. The only costumes I can ever find that aren’t slutty are either plus-sized or are unbearably ugly. Um, it also doesn’t help that I procrastinate every single year.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/73 "2010-09-23T17:14:53Z")
I love Halloween. October is wonderful here, it’s finally cooling down and I’ve survived another summer by then, and I love to see the little kids all dressed up. The only thing I don’t like about Halloween is that even tiny little girls dress up slutty and that’s disconcerting.
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### Author:  [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/74 "2010-09-23T17:22:33Z")
Once you decide what your costume is, Halloween is awesome.
Before you do, it’s a tremendous burden.
So, for me right now, it’s a burden. I need to come up with a clever costume ASAP.
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### Author:  [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/75 "2010-09-23T19:45:35Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> > [@FordTaurusSHO94](#):
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> > I’m in my 20’s. Women my age think slutty is “cute” on that day. I like Halloween.
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> Lady, don’t get me started. Okay, once someone says that, they’ve already started, so I’ll keep this short. I, too, am a woman in my 20s, I like dressing up, but I don’t want to look like a total whore. The only costumes I can ever find that aren’t slutty are either plus-sized or are unbearably ugly. Um, it also doesn’t help that I procrastinate every single year.
Lady? All dude here, that’s why I like looking at the women. I do roll my eyes when they say it’s cute though, when any other day they would probably be arrested under the assumption that they’re a hooker.
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/76 "2010-09-23T20:00:49Z")
I knew that! Well _I_ roll my eyes when I see costumes that have no business being sexy, trying to be sexy. I swear to gods, I saw a sexy bumble bee costume. What is so sexy about a bumble bee?
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### Author:  [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/77 "2010-09-23T20:09:45Z")
Halloween is my absolutely favorite time of the year, and that goes for fall too. I love the crisp air, falling leaves, and somber atmosphere up north. Add that I get to be weird and make my house horrifying and I’m happy as a pig in shit. It’s pretty much halloween 24/7 around the AcidHouse, but it’s only in October that it is allowed outdoors to play.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/78 "2010-09-23T21:09:03Z")
The OP is exactly why I think Halloween is the best holiday, because it’s the only one that gets _better_ as you get older, and you can do exactly as much or as little as you want. Thanksgiving and Christmas come with too much baggage, and you have to visit relatives and buy stuff and clean up, and if you don’t participate, you’re a horrible person. Not so with Halloween! You can turn your entire house into Dr. Morbid’s Chainsaw Bloodstravaganza, or you can skip Halloween entirely and go to bed early, or anything in between; you can do no wrong.
Horror, awesome. Candy, awesome. Parties, awesome. Costumes, awesome. Pumpkin carving, awesome. Best holiday ever!
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### Author:  [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/79 "2010-09-24T13:10:38Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> I knew that! Well _I_ roll my eyes when I see costumes that have no business being sexy, trying to be sexy. I swear to gods, I saw a sexy bumble bee costume. What is so sexy about a bumble bee?
What’s not sexy? The males live only to fuck. 😃
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/80 "2010-09-24T13:42:35Z")
And what’s not to love about someone dressed in a bee costume? They’re saying, “Bee mine!” and there’s a picture of a bee.
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