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re: Who killed Halloween?
Posted on 11/1/16 at 10:59 am to Scoop
Posted on 11/1/16 at 10:59 am to Scoop
No one killed Halloween. It's just sadly not that big of a deal in the South, where the Bible thumpers rail against the evils of "Satan's Birthday."
I have several friends up North, like Maine, and Halloween is a month long celebrations with all neighbors decorating their yards and having huge parties. Just doesn't happen here that often.
If anything, blame your childhood memories. You'll never get the thrill of Trick or Treating back, unless you live through your child's experience. And even so, it's still not as awesome as it used to be.
I have several friends up North, like Maine, and Halloween is a month long celebrations with all neighbors decorating their yards and having huge parties. Just doesn't happen here that often.
If anything, blame your childhood memories. You'll never get the thrill of Trick or Treating back, unless you live through your child's experience. And even so, it's still not as awesome as it used to be.
This post was edited on 11/1/16 at 11:16 am
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Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:03 am to Pettifogger
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Too many people putting Halloween, a very minor holiday, on a pedestal.
That's laughable. It may be minor to you, but it's a huge holiday that generates a ton of money in costumes, candy, and haunted houses.
Also, like Christmas, it's a month long celebration.
Halloween
Christmas
Thanksgiving
Those are my rankings for the Big 3. No other holiday touches those three.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:15 am to LSUZombie
Mardi Gras is bugger than two of those are here.
Thanksgiving gets overshadowed by Christmas now. It's really just an excuse to have family dinner.
Thanksgiving gets overshadowed by Christmas now. It's really just an excuse to have family dinner.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:16 am to dshort_bruh
quote:well if people trick or treated at 11pm your point would stand. 6pm is hardly middle of the night and it's usually done by 8.
get candy from random strangers in the middle of the night..
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:17 am to Napoleon
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Mardi Gras is bugger than two of those are here.
Well yeah but I was going with national holidays and not one that's unique to mostly one city.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:18 am to Napoleon
its all family specific
Thanksgiving is easily the biggest holiday with my family
my Dad builds an elaborate obstacle course and a zipline that goes through the woods that gets longer and bigger every year
Thanksgiving is easily the biggest holiday with my family
my Dad builds an elaborate obstacle course and a zipline that goes through the woods that gets longer and bigger every year
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:18 am to dshort_bruh
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yea lets go to peoples houses and get candy from random strangers in the middle of the night.
How many kids knocked on your door in the "middle of the night"?
Unless that's 7:00 PM for you, your argument doesn't even make sense.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:25 am to Scoop
Daylight Savings Time
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:44 am to Scoop
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Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:52 am to Palo Gaucho
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Halloween was great in my neighborhood. Lots of kids having a good time, tons of houses participating, multiple haunted houses, lots of people cooking and giving out food and beer to the parents. Just an all American Halloween, and we're mostly all Baptists up here in God's Country.
Some houses had really good haunted houses. It's my second favorite holiday.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:57 am to RogerTheShrubber
I was with my kid Trick or treating last night. We had a blast . I was T-rex.
So many pictures with kids. Will do it again even though i lost 10 lbs. from sweating so bad.
So many pictures with kids. Will do it again even though i lost 10 lbs. from sweating so bad.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 11:59 am to meauxjeaux2
My plan was to go as King Kong. It was 85* yesterday so I pulled out some prosthetics and went as a zombie again. I'm getting pretty good at making myself look dead.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 12:01 pm to Scoop
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Trick or treating is dead.
News to me... SAD!
Posted on 11/1/16 at 12:17 pm to Scoop
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Who killed Halloween?
The fact that kids receive candy and junk food habitually throughout the calendar year no longer makes the holiday as rewarding or appealing as with past generations.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 12:19 pm to Ricardo
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I think people have just become jaded. There's hardly any enthusiasm about anything anymore.
It's not just Halloween. It's pretty much everything.
I believe it's just that the spirit of any particular event gets drowned out by the noise. There's so much out there competing for our attention - that it's easy to see how people aren't as community oriented as they once were. Everyone is wrapped up in their own little world.
I guess I'm saying that it seemed like people were more hive-minded in the past. They shopped locally, they dressed the same, ate the same foods, watched the same programs on television, went to local fairs and events.
Now it seems like a gargantuan effort just to get people to leave their homes.
Totally depressing, but it's the truth.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 2:27 pm to lsunurse
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I trick or treated my senior year in HS.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 2:31 pm to Scoop
All the hot skanky girls on my page growing up and now parading their kids around instead of their slutty costumes is what killed Halloween. Yea I'm mad.
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