What does Halloween means to you?

[TinyFroggy]

For someone who've never celebrated Halloween, I wonder what people really feel during Halloween celebration. I mean like, I can understand some other events even though I've never celebrate it such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. Christmas usually related to joy, gifts and reunion between people while Thanksgiving is most likely about appreciation to the goodness in your life. But Halloween? Movies about it usually just show scare and creepy monsters and I don't really know what most of you who celebrate actually do feels about it. Anyone wanna share?

[lucyecc]

I like the candy that the kids get when they dress up, its a fun time of the year for them. I don't do party or anything but I usually go round to a friends house and watch goosebumps or hocus pocus. lol

[-:Undertaker:-]

Halloween for me means the coming of winter, the final harvest of the year and the celebration of British/western mythology, fairytales and stories such as witches, wizards, ghosts, vampires and so on. When I think of Halloween I think of the smell of pumpkin, autumn leaves and those cold, humid autumn nights.

[Neversoft]

Halloween means nothing to me. I feel like Bonfire Night is a much bigger event in the UK.

[lawrawrrr]

I have never celebrated Halloween at all. I’ve gone out a couple times when I was at uni but not really a bit thing at all.

Even when I was a kid my family didn’t like Halloween, we never went trick or treating, only did pumpkins 1 year IIRC


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[-:Undertaker:-]

lawrawrrr;

Are your family religious? Specifically Catholic?

[lawrawrrr]

lawrawrrr;

Are your family religious? Specifically Catholic?

Not even a bit!

I think it was more a hatred of commercialisation and pointless imports from America [emoji23]


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[Sian]

Literally nothing. I enjoy it's history and pagan beginnings. But my parents never ever celebrated it so it never had any meaning to me.

[FlyingJesus]

Never been trick or treating, mum is strongly Christian so she never liked it but I'm not bothered about that since the prospect of knocking on a stranger's door asking them for free shit seems TERRIFYING and rude. I do love dressing up though so for me Halloween is just a fab time for costume parties and also some decent tunez

[Ekelektra]

Halloween is usually not very big here, this year we had the most people knock on our door than ever before but we had put decorations out a few days before. We always are prepared with lollies but end up eating them all ourselves, one year we didn’t have anything and my dad gave some kids a muesli bar. Another year my brother went with some family friends and a guy almost gave them a can of beer because he hadn’t been expecting anyone to actually come.

My brothers went trick or treating a couple of times but I never did, going to random people at houses is also not my kind of thing

[TinyFroggy]

I guess Halloween isn't a big thing in UK then from most of your responds. Hurm.