I said Spooktober, not DepressiontoberOctober is cancelled due to the pandemic.
No parties, no trick or treating, no haunted houses or mazes. What's the point?
It's a good excuse to buy candy for yourself? To watch cheesy "Halloween" flicks like Rocky Horror Picture Show, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Arsenic and Old Lace (a personal favorite)? Share autumnal recipes with the forums in the Escapist Cookbook thread?October is cancelled due to the pandemic.
No parties, no trick or treating, no haunted houses or mazes. What's the point?
People can video conference while all watching the same horror movie. Play a horror game together..It's a good excuse to buy candy for yourself? To watch cheesy "Halloween" flicks like Rocky Horror Picture Show, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Arsenic and Old Lace (a personal favorite)? Share autumnal recipes with the forums in the Escapist Cookbook thread?
I find a global pandemic pretty spooky.I said Spooktober, not Depressiontober
I was never really big on halloween either, even as a kid. as an adult, for years i've had zero investment in it. then I got a cluster of god daughters, and it became very fun to watch their mom dress them up in costumes, and follow them around while they play creepy dressup. Plus it was fun for me to go around dressed up goofily with them, as it was always fun to watch them laugh at my antics, and plus I have like zero issue with making a fool of myself if it means others will be amused.Eh, not big on Halloween in Australia.
Course, where I live, covid has been kept mostly under control, so people can still do things, with precautions.
Why would you hate Halloween?! What sort of torture did they inflict upon you for you to not love Halloween?! You never put fake blood over yourself as a kid and laid on the side of the road making people stop and freak out?! You never came home and changed 10 times to just retrick or treat the lawyers house over and over again who was giving out money?!Did you not tell the little kids down the road that you were burying dead bodies under the house when they heard/ saw your family replacing the floors? Frighten them with scary stories so they ran home screaming at the top of their lungs? Grab all the pumpkins you could find and throw them at the houses who didn't have treats?! How could someone survive childhood without all of these wonderful joys?! Halloween was one of my favorite holidays, you get to cosplay and not get strange looks for it and go around while people give you candy and money for FREE! How could that be bad?!Never liked Halloween. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever when I was 6. Day of the Dead is much more meaningful. But right now it looks like lots of people are just doing Halloween stuff to keep their minds of from the plandemic.
I was 6 and dressed as ninja. I thought I HAD to do it and didn't realize there was a choice. I don't like most murican candy since it doesn't use real sugar, unlike Mexican candy. The whole thing just looked like a giant waste of time and money with most people wearing crappy costumes. I'm more into Dia de los Muertos, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. It was just weird for me to ask strangers for candy when everyone repeastedly told me that's how they kidnap children.Why would you hate Halloween?! What sort of torture did they inflict upon you for you to not love Halloween?! You never put fake blood over yourself as a kid and laid on the side of the road making people stop and freak out?! You never came home and changed 10 times to just retrick or treat the lawyers house over and over again who was giving out money?!Did you not tell the little kids down the road that you were burying dead bodies under the house when they heard/ saw your family replacing the floors? Frighten them with scary stories so they ran home screaming at the top of their lungs? Grab all the pumpkins you could find and throw them at the houses who didn't have treats?! How could someone survive childhood without all of these wonderful joys?! Halloween was one of my favorite holidays, you get to cosplay and not get strange looks for it and go around while people give you candy and money for FREE! How could that be bad?!
A lot of people here give out Mexican candy too. We didn't eat MOST the candy, I am pretty picky and only like a few types, instead we used candy like money for the rich Christian kids whose parents wouldn't let them do Halloween because they thought it was evil and they didn't want their kids ruining their teeth and getting all sugared up so the rich kids were willing to pay big for Halloween candy.. LOL I used to sell all sorts of crap at school when I was kid.. They bought everything off me from light up jewelry, candy, cokes.. Halloween was a cash cow for me. Kids here even dress up all the way through Highschool.I was 6 and dressed as ninja. I thought I HAD to do it and didn't realize there was a choice. I don't like most murican candy since it doesn't use real sugar, unlike Mexican candy. The whole thing just looked like a giant waste of time and money with most people wearing crappy costumes. I'm more into Dia de los Muertos, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. It was just weird for me to ask strangers for candy when everyone repeastedly told me that's how they kidnap children.
We can always decorate and just randomly put out skeletons or a spooky tree with candy tied on and a sign that says " take one" throughout the entire month though. That way kids can still social distance and it will still be fun to them. Not the masses in the streets like usual, but not having nothing at all happen in October. It was always my favorite holiday too growing up I would hate for the kids to have nothing going on. Hopefully people can still figure out how to make it fun.SPOOKY!!!!!!!
This year is mostly ruined due to outside influences but whatchagonnado?
Sucks cause Halloween is honestly my favorite holiday but with my own shit going on and then COVID kind of ruining thoughts of parties or Trick or Treating (very curious to see how many kids will actually show up this year, my porch light will be on for them but it wouldn't shock me if the numbers plummeted from last year), Halloween in general is just kind of in a pit of sadness this year.
You had a lawyer that gave out money?? Best we had was the dentist who was giving out full size candy bars! Don't get me wrong, we loved him for it, but still, candy vs money...You never came home and changed 10 times to just retrick or treat the lawyers house over and over again who was giving out money?!
Yes and to make it better, when we ran him out of $1 bills he started handing out $5's and $10's until he finally turned off the lights and stopped answering the door. XDYou had a lawyer that gave out money?? Best we had was the dentist who was giving out full size candy bars! Don't get me wrong, we loved him for it, but still, candy vs money...