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[Crankin]

This is total thread drift; I really want to post this on Facebook, but don't particularly want the nasty responses.
Since when did Halloween become a real holiday? I mean, I have fond memories of dressing up in simple store bought costumes, trick or treating, and going to a party at school, run by the PTA, on Halloween night. I stopped dressing up after 6th grade. After I moved to AZ, I thought maybe it was a regional thing that adults dressed up at work and "celebrated" Halloween. Now, I see that it's not, and people are talking about Halloween weekend, like it's Thanksgiving.
I don't like scary stuff and I'm OK with this as a kid's thing, but really, it just seems silly to me. I know it's just my opinion, and it's not hurting me, but sometimes I think my idea of fun is radically different than a lot of others!

[Helene2013]

I don't care at all for Halloween. Maybe because we have no kids. And stores are already into xmas trees, etc....and we're 2 months away, and Halloween is not even over! We live in a crazy world I think....all to make you spend! hihi

[shootingstar]

I'm actually amazed how different things are in the workplace ....nowadays compared a few decades ago where adults in the workplace,not necessarily a lot, love dressing up. There's a woman in our dept. who brought a whole box of Hallowe'en decorations and went around during her lunch hr. with another colleague to decorate our cubicles.So I have lots of funky mini witch hats festooning my cubicle.

Much to my surprise, 1 of my sisters and her husband really get into Hallowe'en festivities with their 2 young children (under 6 yrs. old) ...they decorate inside and outside of their house several wks. before Hallowe'en which also includes several of their own home carved pumpkins. I was not aware of this because I live in another province. They rent a local community centre rm. and throw a largish Hallowe'en party for parent-friends and their children with games, food (+some stuff that people bring), everyone in costumes.. this is 60+ people. She corrals teen nephews and niece to help out with the party. The neighbourhood is very popular trick or treating area..300 children showed up last year at their door, in the evening for candy... The older teens who help out, find it fun.

This is completely foreign to her other family members, because we never grew up with much emphasis on Hallowe'en at all.