The Halloween thread

[gealach]

For those who like, love, and can't get enough of Halloween...

How do you celebrate? How do you decorate? What are your ideas, or links to ideas?

Post your pics.

30 days, 11 hours, 46 minutes until Halloween

 

[Survivor3]

I don't celebrate Halloween but I love seeing other people's candlelit pumpkins and decorations. ???

 

[Changing4Best]

I celebrate Harvest Festival. I have some scarecrow decorations, an uncarved pumpkin and fall colored flowers. I love to go out and enjoy the crisp fall air and see the leaves turning.

 

[somerandomguy]

I was never allowed to go trick or treating when I was a kid for reasons that still remain unclear even today. I've always been kind of angry about that. But the first time I took my kid trick or treating, I got really angry - it was amazingly fun! My parents truly were morons.

Now it looks like trick or treating is going to be cancelled, and it makes me so, so sad for my kids. I wonder my 13-year-old will ever get to go trick or treating again. And I wonder if my 3-year-old will even get to go trick or treating at all ever.

Sorry to be Danny Downer but this has really been on my mind lately.

 

[bellbird]

I wonder my 13-year-old will ever get to go trick or treating again. And I wonder if my 3-year-old will even get to go trick or treating at all ever.

I would caution against catastrophising / black and white thinking.

We certainly have no indication that the pandemic will continue for an entire lifetime. Eventually it will subside; enough people will have immunity to the virus (either naturally-acquired or through a future vaccine) that it is no longer able to circulate the way it is at the moment.

Maybe it will end up largely restricted to the cooler months of the year as the influenza virus currently is, or maybe it will end up as a largely non-issue due to vaccine administration.

We don't know at this stage.

But put it this way -- your youngest is 3. I don't know what age kids trick-or-treat till over there -- 16? Let's just say she has at least 10 years of trick or treating left.

If I had to place a bet on whether she would either
a) never be able to go trick or treating in the next 10+ years due to Covid-19, or
b) be able to go trick or treating in the next 10+ years,

I know which one I would bet on, and it wouldn't be the same as Danny.

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@gealach , I have never carved a pumpkin before and am very intrigued by it. Will you share a photo of yours here when they are done? I would love to see them.

 

[gealach]

I was never allowed to go trick or treating when I was a kid

That is horrifying!!!!! I'm glad you got to experience it with SRK, and hopefully next year with half pint

I remember taking my niece when she was 2, and she just did not understand the whole candy thing. She went from house to house and gave everyone hugs, literally everyone, while I collected the candy for her.

I have never carved a pumpkin before and am very intrigued by it. Will you share a photo of yours here when they are done?

How have you never carved a pumpkin????? Is it because it's spring for you there vs fall here?

I will for sure share some photos but I'm not creating the cemetery and all the decorations outside this year. Apparently we can do trick or treating here, I'm not sure it's the healthiest idea this year though. That really disappoints me, because halloween is my favorite and I usually go BIG and get lots of kids.

 

[gealach]

I said this last year and then completely forgot...

I want to start 3D sculpting of the pumpkins, but I need to practice on something first. I'm going to get some clay and practice, and then hopefully next year I'll be able to do some basic 3D sculptures without completely F-ing up a bunch of pumpkins.

 

[Changing4Best]

I bought some individually wrapped candies for the children, in case they come trick or treating. I do this every year.

 

[bellbird]

it because it's spring for you there vs fall here?

I guess so.

I've seen photos of people over in Northern America going pumpkin picking?? Which is just not a thing here. The whole concept seems so bemusingly quaint to me.

We also don't really get those stereotypical orange-skinned pumpkins here.
Common pumpkins in the supermarket typically have either grey skin (crown pumpkin), dark green skin (buttercup pumpkin), or very pale orange skin but in funky elongated shapes (butternut squash).

 

[TruthSeeker]

I was never allowed to go trick or treating when I was a kid for reasons that still remain unclear even today. I've always been kind of angry about that. But the first time I took my kid trick or treating, I got really angry - it was amazingly fun! My parents truly were morons.

Now it looks like trick or treating is going to be cancelled, and it makes me so, so sad for my kids. I wonder my 13-year-old will ever get to go trick or treating again. And I wonder if my 3-year-old will even get to go trick or treating at all ever.

Sorry to be Danny Downer but this has really been on my mind lately.

You can get some neighbors together and have a safe distance trick or treat, a back yard bon fire....wash your hands.....put on gloves...... and put the candy in baggies, kids gotta wear some kind of mask to come close enough to get it (it's Halloween, right?) that covers their nose and mouth and they got to have on gloves (winter gloves are fine).....you hand it to them....no mask....no candy. I'd work around that one, be creative, and create a fun day of it.

 

[Lionheart]

My roomies and I are having a small gathering of friends for classic Halloween movies and stories and such, on the night of Halloween. It will be a blue moon (2nd full moon in a calendar month) which is also known as a "wishing" moon. I am excited.

There will be a new kitten coming to live with us that night as well and I will enjoy playing with her. I will be eating chocolate, having some cafe-style coffee, and relaxing with friends. Who knows we may even have some witches brew.

 

[Friday]

Halloween is my faaaaaaaavourite holiday!!! ? ? ?

Sadly, this is going to be yet another year it’s canceled. Brick wall. Bang head. Aaaaaargh. I’ve been wanting to go as a modern-Viking (an excuse to buy new riding leathers with Miguel Caballero linings); or Tim Burton’s Alice... but with the red rags dress in blues & corseted* & a lot more draped/a helluva lot warmer. Which is a giant benefit of corsets, you can really pile on the skirts and not look homeless.

* ((not waist training... practical as hell & pretty as sin...I don’t have an image of my favourite type, which is cut in 3 pieces; bust & 2 middles, it’s acrobat worthy, but my second fave type is below))

Spoiler: Linked Pics take up too much space! Hid behind this curtain.

My last Halloween costume was Chell, from Portal2... I used blue and orange glow stick poi to spin circles & amuse myself as I waited in the street (as the kids ran up and down the baaaaazillion stairs to the houses). The neighborhood we trick’o’treated in closed off 8 or 10 blocks square to cars... but even so? I would have been hard to accidentally flatten wih giant glowing rings of light & a freaking prison orange jumpsuit & white tank.

More often when trick’o’treating with kids (brrrrrrrr, so much standing and waiting, in the c-c-cold) I went as “warm” by wearing a sleeping bag.