Do you get really into Halloween?

[EsmeraldaX]

Do you LOVE Halloween? Do you look forward to it? Do you go to/ or have a party? Do you dress up?

I have to say, I love it when fall comes around. Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love everything about this time of year, the sights, scents, the way the air feels.

I love getting dressed up, going to costume parties, seeing all the little trick or treaters, visiting Salem, MA on Halloween itself. I love deciding what I'm "going to be this year". I love indulging in some candy. I even put out a little doggie dish with Halloween dog cookies in it for the neighborhood dogs who join their humans trick or treating.

I wish I was going to WDW for Halloween this year. I'm going next year and I already can't wait! This year, I think we'll just have some people over and maybe go to Salem with Monty. I'll probably be a fairy again. Chris is either going to be a pirate again or a cowboy. Monty Dog has a little pirate costume. We'll take him to Salem with us.

Does anyone else just get really excited about this time of year??

 

[QueenTrident]

Halloween and Christmas are my favorites! I get tons of candy and decorate the outside of my house as much as possible. I love watching all the kids come to the door and seeing what they are. Don't like the older kids so much - never get a thank you, but the little ones are the best. I haven't dressed up in years, but love getting my DD ready and taking her trick or treating.

 

[KM2004]

Fiance and I once went to a halloween party. After being told that everyone would be dressed up, we followed suit. Turns out no one dressed up (except the one host, who was able to change into normal clothes) and we were the only ones in costumes. Very embarssing.

Last halloween, no one came to our door. The two of us had to eat all the candy...darn it

I have no luck with Halloween

 

[EsmeraldaX]

You should check out the happenings in Salem, Kevin, if you can.

Everyone who goes to Salem on Halloween dresses up and gets really into the fun! It's the next best thing to being at WDW for Halloween.

Chris and I started going there, since a lot of our friends don't get as into it as we do.

 

[KM2004]

you see, I would. BUT, with all the history Salem has...during that day, that's the last place I want to be

i'm afraid of things that go bump in the night

 

[ThAnswr]

Yes, I love Halloween. Right now, I'm making tombstones for the outside "cemetary".

Tomorrow, I'm going to start putting up the Dept. 56 halloween display.

I love dressing up and I just love the whole atmosphere of Halloween.

 

[AZKathy]

Nope, not me. I just let my kiddos go trick or treating; I have not been to a Halloween party for 20 years.

 

[skiwee1]

Halloween is low on my list of exciting holidays. We do decorate about 2 weeks beforehand. I out out scarecrows, spiderwebs, and gravestones. I buy 1000 lbs of candy for all the little monsters that come to my house. My neighbor across from me goes all out. He has $1000 of gruesome dummies, smoke machines, coffins with dead bloody babies in them. Really gross stuff! He just loves Halloween. I find that it is a relief to get Halloween out of the way so I can concentrate on better holidays like Thanksgiving and the Christmas. I love fall too but don't feel like it really starts until after Halloween.

 

[lucysdad]

My favorite time of year begins Sept. 1 and ends Jan. 1. Just love autumn and early winter. My DD's birthday and my birthday are in Sept., Halloween in Oct., Thanksgiving in Nov. and then Christmas and New Year's. Autumn color and snow, Christmas lights and Christmas movies. In Boise, we have a street that's about two miles long that's nothing but old Victorian homes and Cape Cod's, and they all get together and decorate for Halloween, and 100s of kids trick or treat there. A lot of the houses, the families dress in costume and hang out in their yards, the Red Cross has warming booths and free coffee, the girl scouts and boy scouts act as crossing guards. last year there were over 10,000 people there. It's awesome. Just like Halloween when I was a kid (early 60s) when we kids could go out and trick or treat by ourselves cuz it was safe. Too much fun, glad I can experience this with my little girl. Great post, EsmeraldaX

 

[mommytotwo]

I am already getting into the Halloween spirit. I bought a few gifts, candies, and other things. I can't wait to get my daughter a jack-o-lantern and hear her say the words-oooohhhhh pretty.
I had gotten her a princess costume when we had gone to Disneyland several months ago, along with the accessories.

 

[Tink&SquirtsMom]

I do love Halloween. Before we had kids dh and I would dress up and hit the Castro in San Francisco. That is a WILD Halloween party. The streets are closed to driving and are just mobbed wall to wall with thousands of people in outrageous costumes. Quite fun. Now we are a bit more tame. Taking the kids trick or treating, etc. But we still get into it. We put out lots of decorations (not gory but spooky), make a trip to the big pumpkin patch to do a hay maze and see a haunted house, go to Halloween parties and of course trick or treating. We were actually bummed our neighbor is hosting a Halloween party, because we'd always hoped to hold the neighborhood party for all the kids, but our neighbor already started that tradition last year before we moved in. Oh well I guess that makes it easier on us to just enjoy the party and not have to host it. DH and I still dress up too. One year the four of us went as the Wiggles, another year when dd was going through her Bear in the Big Blue House Phase, dh was Bear. Not sure yet what we'll be this year. But my dd is going back and forth between Sleeping Beauty and Tink (she has both) and ds will be Captain Hook with our little dog being the Crocodile. If dd decides to be Tink it'll be fitting for dh to go as Peter Pan (he is the boy who never grew up, lol) and I would go as Wendy.

 

[Mamu]

One of my favorite holidays. Grandchildren and I have been decorating the yard for years, even before it was popular. Now a trip to the store and you can find all kinds of decorations.

I still stick with my homemade decorations. Inverted tomato cages make the best stands for ghost, witches, reapers or other ghoulish figures.

I'm adding to my collection of yard haunts this year, a wooden frame wrapped with dirty sheet strips. Return of the Mummy scene.

All those Saturday's spent watching Creature Double Feature, are alive in my yard.

We also do a pumpkin carving party the week before.

 

[newholiday]

3 wks from tonight we're going to:

Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party

 

[Margie J]

I LOVE Halloween. It's my favorite Holiday, way before Christmas, Thanksgiving and the rest.

I adore the costumes, always have. My Mom used to make costumes for me when I was a kid. I was everything from Snoopy to Lily Munster. Now I make them. It's creative and fun. Of all, I love monster costumes and makeup. After I could no longer trick or treat I would dress in costume to answer the door.

I've gone to Orlando several times during the Halloween season, especially for the parties and events. HHN is "to die for" . Been to the PI bash a few times too, although it's not the same anymore (budget cuts maybe).

Salem MA on Halloween night is a blast also. I did that once with a friend. It was so much fun walking the streets and having everyone and everything totally into the spirit of the night. I paid my respects to George J and his GD (who shares my name) while there too.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I say go to Salem. WE go every year and take another ghost tour. Any of you Mass people remember the year they had all the pumpkins on the common? If you look at this thread you will find quite a few people who responded are from Mass. Do you think that more of us are into Halloween because of our close proximity to Salem and the erroneous reputation it has for those who do not understand the Witchcraft Trials?

The best tour I took was the one that meets on the common right across from the Hawthorn hotel. Do not know the name but it is easy to find. Do not take the one that meets beside the visitor's center it is not good.
I suggest you pick up a book by Robert Ellis Cahill that will tell you all the haunted places in Salem and then have an idea before you go.
If you want to take a tour, you should go the second or third week before Halloween since that is the time it is the least crowded.

Salem is a great place to go when it is NOT Halloween too. Tons of history and things to do.

 

[barbeml]

DH and I LOVE Halloween and the whole month of October! He was born 10/12, I was born 10/19, our wedding was on 10/24 and we have a pizza party every Halloween. We even had Halloween favors at our wedding reception.

For our party, the house is filled with candles--no electric lights, and I have tons of cool decorations. It gets more festive each year!

 

[tnkrbell]

My Hubby LOVES Halloween!!He starts planning in July!!! Here is a wall he has done for this year. He is going to make a walk thru haunted house

 

[chrissyk]

My sister LOVES Halloween...to the point where she left her Halloween Mickey antenna topper on for the entire year Believe me, I wasn't crying when he got eaten by the car wash. I did buy her another one last week though, LOL!

Have any of you MA people gone to Six Flags New England right before Halloween? They decorate the entire place...it's really neat! My sis always wants to take our annual Six Flags daytrip right before Halloween.

We're in FL right now, so DH and I are going to go to the big Disney store in DTD to buy sis's dog a costume today. We saw the costumes there last year, but we didn't think to buy one then. Her dog apparently wants to be Cinderella (LOL!), but DH thinks that she'd look better as Tinkerbell

 

[gr8tpanther]

I LOVE Halloween, but sadly, I can't participate as I once did. I rent the other half of my mother's house and she forbids me to decorate!

And our town... grrr... NOBODY gives out candy anymore. They are either too cheap or just don't want to do it. My kids have to walk miles to get candy (not that they mind) which also means that I can't give out candy cause there is NO way that they are walking MILES alone, so I have to walk MILES as well... lol, do you KNOW what walking that much in one night does to a person who sits on her butt tapping on a keyboard all day does to a person?

So Es-X, what is Salem? Saw Salem's Lot, just thought that it was JUST a movie... is there more to it? Oh do tell, I LOVE ghosties

 

[shortbun]

We decorate like crazy. Our neighbors do too. On trick or treat
night, the grownups all dress up around here. It's fun!