Do you pareotinate in it....my wife goes all out....sitting here with a pumpkin and a Halloween village as i light...some plumb pudding
Halloween
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Used to do Halloween, but I've rolled it back to what it traditionally was. That being All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.
We sure to do Halloween up Big Time!! Dress up in costumes, hand out candy by the handful, and have hot cider for adults.
I think that's actually the other way around. The fledgeling Christianity superimposed their holidays and traditions over the existing "pagan" holidays to convert and dissuade people into the new fangled mythology.
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Living in senior subdivision with more dogs than kids. No kids go around for Halloween here. But for crying out loud, it's not even Octoberfest yet!
I like the idea of Halloween. I don’t like participating in it. Walking my kids around in the dark all night just so they’ll be up all night hyper on candy isn’t fun to me. I do like stealing their snickers though.
Exactly this. If you want to go back to what Halloween traditionally was, you've got to go back to Samhain and other pagan festivals. Similar to Easter, Christmas etc... The newer cultures all borrow from the older.
Always one of my Favorite times with parties and passing out candy.
Moving to the rural outskirts of the city we only get one or two now days. They however make out like bandits for the effort of doing so!
Moving to the rural outskirts of the city we only get one or two now days. They however make out like bandits for the effort of doing so!
I got a tattoo of snoopy popping out of a jack o latern so yeah I really like Halloween.
My wife does up the house inside and out.....for all holidays.
Im forced to grow and turn pumkins all summer because she commands it.
If you've never grown a perfectly round pumpkin, you have no idea how time consuming it is.
Of course we live WAY out, so no halloweeners come.
But, I insist we have a HUGE bag of candy "just in case".
Its the one time a year I eat sugar like its my daily sustainance.
Candy for dessert with all meals for about a week.
Im forced to grow and turn pumkins all summer because she commands it.
If you've never grown a perfectly round pumpkin, you have no idea how time consuming it is.
Of course we live WAY out, so no halloweeners come.
But, I insist we have a HUGE bag of candy "just in case".
Its the one time a year I eat sugar like its my daily sustainance.
Candy for dessert with all meals for about a week.
So? It doesn't follow that just because a thing is older it doesn't mean that is more true, or pure, or whatever. That's just a logical fallacy.
Save watching horror movies throughout October, no. I haven't seen many kids out for several years now and many of the holidays are slowly going away.
The tradition of carving turnip lanterns, bonfires, and dressing up to frighten away spirits, Samhain, predates the modern religion's appropriations by centuries.
My wife does the whole house up.
My son is too old for trick or treat now, but when he was at that age we went out and collected tons of candy.
He'd go to sleep and my wife and I would rob him blind. Haha
My son is too old for trick or treat now, but when he was at that age we went out and collected tons of candy.
He'd go to sleep and my wife and I would rob him blind. Haha
It's the third harvest festival, the first being of wheat at Lammas and the second at Equinox, still celebrated. Lammas, 1st August, is the cross-quarter day when daylight hours start to rapidly dwindle, Samhain, 1st November, is the cross-quarter day when that decline slows to a crawl, although technically it's more like 7th August to 5th November.
*northern hemisphere, ofc.
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