# 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:** 4
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/81 "2010-09-25T19:10:46Z")
My apartment is perpetually decorated for Halloween. There are bats and toy monsters everywhere.
I LOOOOOVVVVVEEEE wearing costumes. I’ve made my own costumes since I was twelve or so. I love the candy. I love the autumn. I love Halloween more than Hannukah or my birthday.
For 364 nights a year we are expected to be plain and ordinary. But for one night a year we are given a chance to be anything we can dream of.
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### Author:  [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/82 "2010-09-25T22:08:12Z")
In this old thread about Halloween Music a poster made this comment that has always stuck with me. I think this sums up my mood about Autumn in general and Halloween in particular.
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=243937&highlight=halloween+october+chill](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=243937&highlight=halloween+october+chill)
> [@InquisitiveIdiot](#):
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> I miss Halloween. Not the holiday itself, but the feeling of Halloween. I miss pumpkins, and bonfires. Crisp, clear nights when the moon is full and the bare trees rise up like the silouetted remains of some incredible monster. Feeling the world slowly brown and die all around you, as the heat of summer is replaced by the chill of winter. Reading October Country on a park bench at sunset. The feeling that you get near midnight, when you can almost swear this world and the supernatural one are mere inches apart, just for this one special time of the year.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/83 "2010-09-26T00:20:08Z")
> [@Icerigger](#):
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> In this old thread about Halloween Music a poster made this comment that has always stuck with me. I think this sums up my mood about Autumn in general and Halloween in particular.
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=243937&highlight=halloween+october+chill](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=243937&highlight=halloween+october+chill)
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> > [@InquisitiveIdiot](#):
> >
> > I miss Halloween. Not the holiday itself, but the feeling of Halloween. I miss pumpkins, and bonfires. Crisp, clear nights when the moon is full and the bare trees rise up like the silouetted remains of some incredible monster. Feeling the world slowly brown and die all around you, as the heat of summer is replaced by the chill of winter. Reading October Country on a park bench at sunset. The feeling that you get near midnight, when you can almost swear this world and the supernatural one are mere inches apart, just for this one special time of the year.
Yes, this! This is just exquisite, we need MORE of that kind of feeling, dammit! A full moon if you’re lucky, a cool night with the wind rattling the leaves through the street. The doorbell stops ringing at 9, and you have some spiked cider and a donut, watch something Halloweeny on TV, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. It’s not just a kids n’ candy thing, it’s a ‘feeling’ that has been going on in the world for probably longer than Christmas.
Costumes trying to be sexy that aren’t sexy? I saw a costume called “brown paper packages tied up with strings” (from the song. ‘My Favorite Things’.) Worn by a dude in Greenwich Village.
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### Author:  [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-halloween/554502/84 "2010-09-26T03:11:31Z")
Loved it as a kid- lots of candy and the day off school the next day (Catholic school, Holy Day of Obligation). Dislike it as an adult.
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