Do you think of Halloween as a kid's holiday or for adults?

[El Fuego]

I LOVE Halloween. I love dressing up and going to clubs and parties. I always buy candy to hand out to the kids, but that's just an afterthought. I love Halloween as ADULT playtime.

It can be both, of course, but some parents seem to resent adults getting into Halloween. Where I live we have a huge Halloween street festival every year (on the street where the bars are) which is getting to be like Key West's Fantasy Fest. And every year you hear from angry mommies complaining that the festival is adult-oriented and that they can't take their kids. For some people, it's like they can't stand it if absolutely everything isn't about their kids. :eyes:

[BlueIris]

1. I used to love Halloween.

Love it.

But it's gotten boring as I've matured. In my mid-twenties, I feel like it's kind of silly to try to stay into it in the way I used to.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. You just haven't been to the right kinds of parties!

Example: ours!

I'd give you a link, but advanced search is down. Grrrrr.....
FSC

[BroadwayBrat]

2. I love Halloween..

My hubby and I try to have a huge party every year, and you have to dress up to attend...its a lot of fun!

[El Fuego]

3. Yes, I think it's the day to free your alter ego!

[BroadwayBrat]

20. Oh.... My alter ego is always free!!

[Graf Orlok]

4. I love it.

Here's what I'm going to be this year:



:)

I love it too because it drives the Christian fundies nuts. :evilgrin:

[El Fuego]

6. Always fun to mess with the fundies

This is what would scare me:



:scared:

[Graf Orlok]

18. AAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Damn! There needs to be some kind of warning on that!!!

:scared: :puke:

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. self delete- dupe!

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. No fair...

coming as yourself, Graf. You're supposed to dress up!

;)

[Initech]

5. We both have different ideas of Halloween

Kids - Trick or treating

Adults (males, anyway) - getting drunk and feeling up the girl wearing the nurse costume

[El Fuego]

11. .

[KitchenWitch]

7. Some of the resistance may be due in part to the fact that Halloween

is rooted in the pagan holiday, Samhain (pronounced sowwen)

[Midlodemocrat]

12. I love Halloween. We decorate our house from top to bottom

It is incredibly tacky. We have a giant frankenstein, a giant spider, fog machine, etc. Tons of lights, spooky things, but not too spooky because I want the little ones to come.

I play my boom box with a special recording I did with the theme from Halloween, Addams Family, Ghostbusters, etc.

A lot of fun.

[TimeChaser]

13. Well

I love Halloween for three main reasons:

1, I'm Pagan. It feels good when people arn't bugging me about why I'm wearing my Hello Kitty witch shirt. To see everyone getting ready and excited for Halloween just makes me happy, even if they arn't celebrating Samhaim.

2, I love cosplay, that is "costume play." And Halloween is the only time, outside of Anime Conventions, that I can dress up without getting strange looks from people.

3, Free candy = good

[Brewman_Jax]

14. My idea of fun

I love Halloween, and it's the only time I can dress up outside of the Renaissance Festivals or Sci-Fi conventions. Also the women's costumes can be rather...revealing. I have added tights to the costume collection this year. I may have to try them out this time.

[Greyhound]

15. Was for kids when I was one, but everybody's been so conditioned

to be afraid of everything and everyone, I haven't seen a kid trick or treating in years.
It is, and has been for a long time, my favorite holiday of the year. :party:

[xmas74]

16. Both.

I love taking my daughter out trick or treating. I love dressing up w/ her. I love planning silly little haunted houses for the neighborhood kids to attend and giving them candy afterward. I love the look of pure joy on a child's face at Halloween.

I also love it when the babysitter gets to my house about 8:30 and I get to go out. It's the one night of the year that I get to dress like a wh*re and no one comments about it.

[antigone382]

17. Both...I decided when I was a kid that I would ALWAYS dress up.

And I always have.

The great thing about Halloween is that it *allows* you to be like a child, totally into having a good time and not caring at all what other people think about it...you're SUPPOSED to draw attention to yourself, and even shy people feel comfortable doing it!

[skygazer]

19. Why can't it be both?

I loved Halloween as a kid and had a ton of fun when my kids were little. I loved carving jack o lanterns and decorating and finding a costume and trick or treating and I loved doing all that with my kids.

I also loved it when I hit my later teens and twenties when I'd go out to the bars and people would be in costume or go to adult parties. It's a fun holiday for both kids and adults, a time to let your hair down and play.

My hubby and I decorate elaborately every year - and we live out in the sticks and don't get any trick or treaters, nor is our driveway that we decorate visible from the road. It's just for us and the four other houses that share the driveway (none of whom have kids). Every year we buy something new to add to it - we have a cemetery with 8 or 10 "headstones" and real wrought iron fencing (scavenged from a job site by hubby), a hanging skeleton, a pair of life sized ghouls, a creature who crawls out from under the ground, several giant spiders who we set up on webs, rats, monsters, and a bunch of small stuff. It's a ball.

[Shell Beau]

21. Both! Kids love dressing up and the candy.

Adults love dressing up and the partying!