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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 23:39:55 GMT -5
The witching hour has passed in my time zone, so Happy Halloween/Merry Samhain/blessed Dia de Muertos to all.
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 30, 2017 23:49:19 GMT -5
Des Moines celebrates Halloween as Beggar's Night on the 30th
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 23:57:48 GMT -5
Des Moines celebrates Halloween as Beggar's Night on the 30th our county does Beggar's Night on the Saturday before Halloween every year, but Halloween is Halloween, not just Beggar's Night. -M
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 31, 2017 2:29:42 GMT -5
We celebrated Halloween as kids. I think that's the best way, but I understand parents wanting a safer separate day for the kiddies.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 4:16:00 GMT -5
I've live in a Condo Environment and every year - I donate undisclosed amount of monies to Candy Fund and they take that monies and have a Halloween Party at Condo Cabana from 7pm to 9pm so that the kids can get Candies and Stuff to eat that's safe and gives the Parents relief that their children don't have to go far to trick and treat.
We been doing this for 20 years now and it's works out great for everyone.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 31, 2017 9:14:20 GMT -5
Des Moines celebrates Halloween as Beggar's Night on the 30th our county does Beggar's Night on the Saturday before Halloween every year, but Halloween is Halloween, not just Beggar's Night. -M We called it Mischief Night in Jersey. Time for pranks and minor vandalism.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 9:37:05 GMT -5
our county does Beggar's Night on the Saturday before Halloween every year, but Halloween is Halloween, not just Beggar's Night. -M We called it Mischief Night in Jersey. Time for pranks and minor vandalism. In CT, that was Devil's Night and it was usually the night before Halloween, so while trick or treating on Halloween you saw the remnants of a lot of smashed pumpkins and such people had left out the night before. Of course, with my strict parents, I was barely allowed to go trick or treating (only to houses of people they knew and chaperoned by them or a friend's parent, if I went to a house of someone they didn't know all the candy I got was thrown away as "too dangerous" to eat) and never allowed out on Devil's Night as a kid. By the time I was in jr. high I was told I was too old for it anyways, so I never did much in the way to celebrate Halloween as a kid outside of school activities. I enjoy exploring the horror genre in movies, comics and books now, but as a kid I was never big on Halloween because I never got to enjoy it really. -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 31, 2017 9:46:54 GMT -5
We called it Mischief Night in Jersey. Time for pranks and minor vandalism. In CT, that was Devil's Night and it was usually the night before Halloween, so while trick or treating on Halloween you saw the remnants of a lot of smashed pumpkins and such people had left out the night before. Of course, with my strict parents, I was barely allowed to go trick or treating (only to houses of people they knew and chaperoned by them or a friend's parent, if I went to a house of someone they didn't know all the candy I got was thrown away as "too dangerous" to eat) and never allowed out on Devil's Night as a kid. By the time I was in jr. high I was told I was too old for it anyways, so I never did much in the way to celebrate Halloween as a kid outside of school activities. I enjoy exploring the horror genre in movies, comics and books now, but as a kid I was never big on Halloween because I never got to enjoy it really. -M My parents didn't let us out for Mischief Night, either, but to be honest, I ddin't mind. I actually hated to see smashed pumpkins. Never got the point. TP hanging in trees and soaped-up windows were usually the extent of the damage, but still, somebody else had to clean it all up. We did go out on Hallowe'en, though. The scares about candy hadn't begun when I was going out back in the Silver Age, but I have to say, I never got a huge charge out of it. Most of the candy you'd get was bottom-of-the-barrel stuff that you'd toss out ASAP (Mary Janes, Jujubes, etc.) and the whole notion of begging for cheap candy amidst a pack of grabby kids didn't do it for me. I liked the concept and the legends and the atmosphere of Hallowe'en more than the actual practice of it. BTW, m, have you ever read Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes? A Hallowe'en favorite of mine. You might enjoy it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 10:07:15 GMT -5
BTW, m, have you ever read Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes? A Hallowe'en favorite of mine. You might enjoy it. I know I saw the movie of it and I think I read it when I was a freshman (I had a goal of reading 30+ books a month freshman year and was plowing through stuff like Conan, Shanara, the Foundation trilogy, etc. at a rate of better than a book a day so a lot of it was blur and still is) and I think Something Wicked was among them. I am slowly revisiting a lot of stuff I haven't read since then and savoring them this time, and Something Wicked is on the will get to list for sure. -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 31, 2017 10:45:38 GMT -5
BTW, m, have you ever read Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes? A Hallowe'en favorite of mine. You might enjoy it. I know I saw the movie of it and I think I read it when I was a freshman (I had a goal of reading 30+ books a month freshman year and was plowing through stuff like Conan, Shanara, the Foundation trilogy, etc. at a rate of better than a book a day so a lot of it was blur and still is) and I think Something Wicked was among them. I am slowly revisiting a lot of stuff I haven't read since then and savoring them this time, and Something Wicked is on the will get to list for sure. -M That's when I first read it. Then I taught it to freshmen many times. I think you'll like it. Purplish Bradbury prose, but never pretentious. He knows he's writing that way. Many tender moments, many chilling moments. The movie was a noble effort, but it was the victim of the implosion of the early 80s at Disney. Would love to see a faithful version, either as a film or a mini-series. Think a scarier "Stranger Things" set in the 30s.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 11:04:58 GMT -5
As a kid the draw for me on Halloween wasn't the candy. It was getting to "pretend" I was someone else for a few hours. I preferred Halloween parties over the actual trick or treat activity. Fortunately I have awesome parents who let me host several Halloween parties. The best one was one time I greeted everyone in a Lone Ranger costume & then snuck out the back door, changed into an Underdog costume & rang the front doorbell. Everyone was wondering who this kid was dressed as Underdog.
My wife & I have hosted many Halloween parties for our daughters when they were teens. They usually had a theme. My favorite one was the 50's when I dressed as the Fonz!
I work in the medical field & one year I dressed up as one of my colleagues. He was so pleased he kept taking me in to show his patients his "twin". Several years later I was sitting with him as he lay dying from cancer. He told me that me dressing up as him pleased him. He knew I wasn't mocking him. I was showing him the respect I felt for him. He was my mentor & he knew how important he was in my professional career. I still miss him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 15:08:36 GMT -5
Looks like Linus gave up on the Great Pumpkin after one too many disappointments... -M
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Post by The Captain on Oct 31, 2017 15:40:53 GMT -5
I went trick-or-treating until I was 13, at which point my parents said I was too old and had to stop. We lived in a middle-class neighborhood, so the candy was usually OK: no full-size bars but usually no handfuls of Smarties and Bit'O Honey either. We lived right by a popular (in our area) dairy farm known for its chocolate milk, orange drink, and iced tea, so a lot of folks gave out the school-lunch-sized containers of those; only drawback was your bag got real heavy carting them around.
Always enjoyed costume parties in HS and college, as well as dressing up to go out to the bars after I turned 21.
Now, my kids are really into it with their friends, which is cool to see, and it remains my favorite holiday outside of Christmas and Easter, which are more important to me for the religious aspect.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 16:17:04 GMT -5
Now, my kids are really into it with their friends, which is cool to see, and it remains my favorite holiday outside of Christmas and Easter, which are more important to me for the religious aspect. Christmas, Easter & Halloween are the 3 holidays my wife redecorates the entire house.
Jan & Feb: She has a winter theme with snowmen. Mar & Apr: Spring theme with Easter decorations (eggs, rabbits, pastels) for 2 weeks before Easter. May-Aug: Summer/patriotic theme. Sept-Nov: Fall theme with Halloween decorations the month of Oct. Dec: Christmas. Ever see a Hallmark Christmas movie? That is our home that month!
My wife is awesome making our home a special place. Seriously she could be the decorator for Hallmark movies.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 1, 2017 9:22:41 GMT -5
Now, my kids are really into it with their friends, which is cool to see, and it remains my favorite holiday outside of Christmas and Easter, which are more important to me for the religious aspect. Christmas, Easter & Halloween are the 3 holidays my wife redecorates the entire house.
Jan & Feb: She has a winter theme with snowmen. Mar & Apr: Spring theme with Easter decorations (eggs, rabbits, pastels) for 2 weeks before Easter. May-Aug: Summer/patriotic theme. Sept-Nov: Fall theme with Halloween decorations the month of Oct. Dec: Christmas. Ever see a Hallmark Christmas movie? That is our home that month!
My wife is awesome making our home a special place. Seriously she could be the decorator for Hallmark movies.
Maybe you could grace us with a picture this year.
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