Been awhile since I've posted. I just can't believe how hectic my life has ben the past few weeks! Anyway, I'm looking through the ads for the grocery store and saw all of the candy ads. I've decided that we're NOT handing out candy this year, for a few reasons...
1) If I buy candy now, between my husband and son, it will be gone. Even if I hide it. They have a way of sniffing it out.
2) In my developement, the way the houses are set up, I'd have to sit outside for a few hours to hand it out. (my living room is upstairs and you walk into the foyer downstairs)
3) I'm an elementary teacher, Halloween is on a Monday. The kids will be soooo wound that day. (Halloween is worse that Christmas for pure hyper -ness)
4) I just don't feel like it...
I'm sure I'm being the not-so-great-pumpkin this year, but oh well.
Anyone else not participating in halloween this year?
I"m not. All lights will be off except for a tiny little one in the bedroom which will allow me to spend the evening reading. Humbug.
Probably will. WEll, my wife and next door neighbor will do it together. I'll be watching Monday Night Football.
And nice to hear from you again Sleepyhead.
Used to when we lived in a house.
Our condominium is not accessable to the general public and there are no children in any of the units.
Nope not here either. We live a mile down a dirt road with 6 houses on it. Maybe only one house has kids of an age to trick or treat.
giving candy to who and for why?
bah! A Christian country celebrating a pagan festival, or something.
"Think about what you're doing!!"
Mrs Servalan tells me day of the dead is the same day, tho. Cool.
"Cut some capers!"
of course its all fun for the kids, and people that make rubber pumpkins.
leave me alone. evil twisted
don't get me started on Christmas wink
Not us .
we discussed why in a ealier thread
Wow what a bunch of stooges!!! :lol: :roll:
Yes, we're doing Halloween this year - like we did last year. Why not? I guess if you live in an area that has 1000's of kids and you'd go broke buying candy for ALL of them - I can understand it.......but we live in a regular neighborhood and maybe get 20-30 kids at the door every year.
Also - around here - they have a habit of going trick-or-treating on a weekend night as opposed to a weekday night - so we will have to be ready for Sat, Sun and Mon night - just in case. As we don't have kids ourselves - we won't hear through the grapevine exactly WHEN they're all intending on going out.
I just keep thinking back to when I was a kid in my small hometown in Perthshire, Scotland - when my dad used to take me around the doors in the dark and I'd get SOOO excited and freak myself out even though in my heart of hearts I knew there's probably really not any real ghosts out there. I think I'd be a bit disappointed if everybody had decided they weren't "doing" Halloween when I was going around.
Halloween is also, in my opinion, a great way to enjoy the end of a relentless summer and the coming of cold weather and changing of the seasons. Carving a pumpkin and lighting it with candles, warm food, candy - just everything that reminds me that our horrible Oklahoman summer is gone is worth it for me!
KR
last year I had 200 kids. that is a usual number. I'm in a townhouse mega developement, and people actually drive their kids here from other areas. We watched a van full of kids empty out last year. too many kids, too much candy (and I don't buy crap candy either), too much money, too cold.
bah humbug! twisted
No.
However, two of our children like to celebrate Halloween so they usually go with their friends and they want to put candy out. But they will pay for it out of their own pockets and put it out the front so I don't have to answer the door )
Karen, it has nothing to do with being a scrooge - I don't believe in Halloween and feel it is wrong to celebrate it as a Christian. However, as you can see from above, now my children are older, they can make up their own minde )
Wow what a bunch of stooges!!! :lol: :roll:
Why does not buying candy for kids that aren't going to come to the door make me a stooge?
Where we lived 4 years ago we had lots of kids in the neighbourhood and my own kids would go out. We gave out candy and brought home nearly as much.
Please don't judge me by where you live and what you do.
Well - at least Vegas got the idea of what I was trying to convey, oh well.....
Y'all need to chill out a bit more on here, folks! I get enough strife on other forums I belong to - I thought this place was pretty easy-going. I'm looong past the bitchy stage of posting on forums.
Anyhoo - I WAS only joking. I understand that everybody lives in different circumstances and sure - if you don't want to or don't have kids that come round - then it's totally OK not to participate in Halloween - and also if it's against your beliefs.
I was just raised as a commoner - I am from a poor family and loved Halloween because of the charity aspect of it........with me as the charity!!! lol
KR
We shall be celebrating Samhein/Celtic New Year instead of handing out candy to the local kids who are now teens or close, don't dress up and come round with pillowcases.
Nope, we shall devour lamb, roast vegies, fine liqour and no one under the age of consent will be allowed in.
Candlelit regards, scrooge to the nth wink
We shall be celebrating Samhein/Celtic New Year instead of handing out candy to the local kids who are now teens or close, don't dress up and come round with pillowcases.
Nope, we shall devour lamb, roast vegies, fine liqour and no one under the age of consent will be allowed in.
Candlelit regards, scrooge to the nth :wink:
Let me in oh holy one!