I admit it - I just can’t get into Halloween. Even when I was a kid and was into getting the candy, I sort of knew in the back of my mind that it was a lame day.
I can’t see that we’re really celebrating anything. I suppose it’s fun for the kids, but as an adult I just can’t be bothered. Lots of my friends are all worked up about Halloween parties, and I just go “ugh”.
Anyone else care to 'fess up?
Nope. But you must have never done the Halloween prank thing as a kid/teenager. Or got drunk on Halloween and picked up a woman in costume.
I can’t get into it this year because I’m suddenly single, I’ll be traveling so I can’t go trick or treating with my godkids and I can’t get up the courage to put on a costume and go out alone.
But I share your holiday sentiment. I’ve never understood decorating for Thanksgiving and I could care less about Christmas (other than opening presents with kids.)
I’m into leftover candy, so yes.
As far as what we’re celebrating? Who knows. And the people I know will throw a party for any reason:
“Hey! There’s a “Charles In Charge” Marathon on TV tonight!! Par-teee!!”
Seriously though…YOU FREAK! How can you not like HALLOWEEN? Candy and dressing up! Black and orange! Shadowy and supernatural! Spooky and silly! Commercialized and delicious in its sugary goodness!
And people, we’re celebrating the night before All Saints Day- All Hallows Eve. Right? Someone back me up on this one. I believe it has to do with back-in-da-day peasants fearing the undead roaming the hills, and burning fires to frighten them away (and jack-o-lanterns have a story behind them, too). Here, look for yourself…
I hate it too. Don’t get me wrong. I love that other people have a good time with it, I just don’t want to participate. I really hate it when people at work dress up. I’m trying to get stuff done and I don’t have time to waste on dorks dressed up and talking in lame accents or making me guess what they are before they do their jobs. I am just a curmudgeon, I know.
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Hmm. I wonder what it means personality-wise if people don’t like celebrations, holidays, etc. I like them all, & really enjoyed Halloween most when I volunteered at a Halloween party for mentally ill people at a hospital psych ward, and also did volunteer work for very poor kids. Just seeing them laugh & smile & enjoy themselves was so touching & rewarding.
It’s not that I don’t like Halloween, but I hate how it’s become so overly commercialized (I’m the same way about Christmas). It’s not because I’m an overly religious person, but I understand the religious meanings behind the holidays and prefer to celebrate them more… quietly and with meaning.
I don’t care for the egg-throwing. I mean I loathe it. I heard a report of a guy who, after he had been hit by an egg, whipped out a shotgun and mowed down two of those miscreant teens. To me, he was a bigger hero than Bernhard Goetz ever should have been.
As discussed in the movie A Perfect World, Jehovah’s Witnesses do not “celebrate” Halloween. I have it on good authority that they don’t celebrate any major holidays (even Christmas) or the birthdays of non-Witnesses. My GF (Angie) is sort of a Reformed Jehova’s Witness, still doesn’t like Halloween but celebrates the some of the major holidays. She basically told the Witnesses to go to hell after they told her that her friends (all non-Witnesses) are “evil” and not to celebrate their birthdays.
I’ll be the one answering the door on Wednesday. Angie will probably spend the night in her room. 
I really hope you’re joking about this. I understand loathing the egg-throwing, but you think shooting two kids is an appropriate response?
I’m not a big fan of the party holidays in general, because I’m not a big party person. I’m extremely uncomfortable in large groups of people, no matter how well I know all of them. Out circle of friends used to do the big, themed, costume parties, but for the last two years we’ve been too busy to arrange anything.