Halloween

Does everyone celebrate Halloween? I understand in some countries they dont know what it is.Do you celebrate Halloween? If so what are you dressing up as?

I teach preschool so I will be dressing up as a baseball player at work.

I know Australia doesn't...it has gained some popularity recently but we don't have people coming to our door and what not. Halloween usually goes by un-noticed over here. We've got Labor Day instead.

Halloween is more like a kid's holiday in Colombia. You don't really see anyone past 12 dressing up.

Heh, Halloween always makes me think of the Halloween episode (funny that) on the Simpsons where Marge sees Homer in a tatty outfit complete with broken stovepipe hat and says 'Homer, you're not going as a hobo again?' to which Homer replies 'Going where?'

I love it.

Plus I'd dress up a carton of milk with a missing person on the side.

I stopped trick or treating years ago, but every other Halloween or so I decide to dress up when handing out candy. But, this year a friend of mine is forcing me to go trick or treating with her, LOL. I'm either going to be a thing wearing a monk's rob with a random monster mask, a vampire, a hippy, or a vampire-hippy. :-P

i love halloween! This year im going as alex from a clockwork orange

Awesome. Going to be killing old ladies with large ceramic penises? Or kicking a woman to death while yodelling 'Singing in the Rain'? :D

I'm going to have a little costume party with my friends, so I need to prepare materials for it( i.e. the ones we could find out around not to spend much money). Oh yes, we'll have sweets and snacks and anything we like...
p.s. in my country we don't have custom of "trick or treat" nor celebrate Halloween in general. So, if some people want to do anything, they usually do it among them.

I'm going as Zorro! Woot!

I'm going as a cowboy and this topic just reminded me that i need to go and buy a cowboy hat!

seeing as i am 16, ill be 17 the next day, i still "trick- or treat" because i like getting stuff from strangers....:D im going as a roadie i think...unless i find something...

*grinds teeth*
Hallowe'en (I insist on the apostrophe) is another Pagan tradition taken on by the marketing arsehats to make money. I don't like the idea that 364 days of the year it isn't okay to take sweets from strangers but on this one day it's all right, and I also don't like that you're encouraged to go round strangers' houses demanding treats just because it's Hallowe'en.
And it may have some sort of American traditional/cultural significance but it sure as buggery doesn't here, however said marketing arsehats try to make it so. I don't like NZ becoming so Americanised (not to say anything against all of you!).
Thank the Goddess we live down a back section with a long, dark, tree-lined driveway so we hardly ever get them. Maybe this year I'll withhold the sweets unless they can tell me what Hallowe'en's really about. That'll show 'em :-)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]dragonzflame wrote: [/QUOTENAME]*grinds teeth*
Maybe this year I'll withhold the sweets unless they can tell me what Hallowe'en's really about. That'll show 'em :-)[/QUOTE]

do that! see what their responses are!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]iGSM wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Awesome. Going to be killing old ladies with large ceramic penises? Or kicking a woman to death while yodelling 'Singing in the Rain'? :D[/QUOTE]
actually this will be one night that i WONT be doing that ;)