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Just a reminder, Halloween is the best holiday
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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Thanksgiving. It's literally just hanging out and eating food. What could possibly be better than that?
Halloween is just great tbh
- It has zero fireworks
- The season in my area is my favorite
- People are encouraged to dress up in fun costumes
- Zero fireworks
- Lots of fun community stuff for kids and adults (trick or treating, house decorations, etc)
- No greeting cards
- Best holiday movie sub-genre
Where do you live that Halloween is considered a major holiday and it's not in the fall? I'm not American myself but I'm from a Western country and they're trying to make it a thing, but they've been trying my whole life and it's still nothing like it is in the U.S.
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If I weren't American, Halloween is the only American Holiday I'd be cool with participating in. I think it's big in Canada too but I'm not 100% certain on that.
Eh, we stole Halloween from the Irish, Scottish and English. Granted it's evolved a lot since then, but it ain't ours
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True enough that it's not exactly ours in origin but we did sorta make it into our own thing and it's a lot bigger here than over there.
Yup. Nothing else like it. My fiancé and I have gone every year since we started dating, just a great time every year
Just as big in Canada, but it's also a thing I noticed that changes drastically depending on the neighborhood. As a kid it was huge, but that same neighborhood now is full of old poeple who's kids have moved and started families elsewhere.
Halloween is shit. Here in the UK it seems the kids don't even bother with it unless they're really young.
It's not even the best holiday in it season. That's 100% Thanksgiving.
Holidays don't exist for most people I know.
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If you're American sure I guess......but it never stops amusing me when Americans think Halloween is some huge holiday outside the USA when it isn't at all in a lot of places. I've never in my adult life had a single person do trick or treating at my house or seen anyone do so. At most there may be a party for some people these days where they dress up and stuff but it's a barely recognised thing here and that's more about just having a get together with others more than anything else. Despite stores trying to turn it into a thing every year to get in on that mass consumer spending train the usa ones are able to get in on. All that seems to happen is they buy a bunch of random chocolate and costumes etc that don't get sold and end up on deep discount every year even before the day is over because no one really buys them. Which is about the only good thing that comes from it, the fact I can buy a bunch of chocolate for discounts because of an attempt to make a manufactured holiday a big thing here.
It also doesn't help Halloween that people outright find the idea of people knocking on your door at night asking for stuff annoying as fuck, kids or otherwise, a lot of people here don't want people banging on their doors at night at any point. Also doesn't help that we have other occasions around the same date that are more widely celebrated here which other places don't celebrate so Halloween is just ignored for the most part and often seen as "an American thing" (origins or not it definitely is a more American thing now) when stores try and make it a huge deal over here. It's been 20+ years since I noticed them trying and it still isn't happening but they won't stop trying.
It also doesn't help Halloween that people outright find the idea of people knocking on your door at night asking for stuff annoying as fuck, kids or otherwise, a lot of people here don't want people banging on their doors at night at any point. Also doesn't help that we have other occasions around the same date that are more widely celebrated here which other places don't celebrate so Halloween is just ignored for the most part and often seen as "an American thing" (origins or not it definitely is a more American thing now) when stores try and make it a huge deal over here. It's been 20+ years since I noticed them trying and it still isn't happening but they won't stop trying.
Oh without a doubt I love Halloween. The movies, the parties, the costumes all of it. It actually originated here in Ireland too so that helps.
Halloween is incredible. Fun costumes, horror movies are amazing, goth clubs are at their best. Nothing but love for Halloween.
Oh also my wife and I got married on Halloween and it in itself was a costume party where we played goth music in a mansion we rented out.
Oh also my wife and I got married on Halloween and it in itself was a costume party where we played goth music in a mansion we rented out.
Seems fairly boring in the UK besides chocolate and hot x buns, the fertility stuff sounds good if you're a pagan.
Which places/countries go for it at easter?
It's a fun holiday. I don't know if I would say its the best but there's a nice atmosphere around that time of the year.
