[Karoo]

I like Halloween. It is my birthday.

So every yr I go to town and everyone is dressed up celebrating me!

I like Halloween.

[ZagFan]

I LOVE Halloween.

Whoever thought of carving a pumpkin was a creative genius.

Trick-or-treating is the same tonight as it was 50 years ago. Every kid has been polite, in a costume and happy.

[Daffynition]

The History Channel had a good program about the origins of Halloween.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=history+channel+origins+of+halloween&view=detail&mid=AE83E5E24C3AFBD9E352AE83E5E24C3AFBD9E352&FORM=VIRE

By the early 20th C kids pranks and fun started to get out of hand [at about 41 mins.] In 1933, cities saw the rise of serious, destruction by trick-or-treaters] 1933 was called Black Halloween; people saw that if H. was to survive changes needed to be made.

The Dennison Manufacturing Company of Massachusetts began fabricating paper costumes in 1910. Much changed by then. Dennison saw the commercial value in H.

https://www.daytranslations.com/blog/2016/10/history-halloween-costume-wearing-8012

Happy Halloween!

[wtd]

There are those of us, like you, who celebrate a 'costumed holiday' not once, but twice a year. Halloween is the most recognized universally here on this continent. Perhaps Purim is more your style.

We've raised four children (all adults now) with home-made costumes and festive decorations with jack-o-lanterns and spider webs clinging to door posts. Innocent fun with pretend costumes/makeup, spooky but harmless pranks, and of course lots of treats (not all necessarily sugar) has been enjoyed for decades in this household.

We have, in the past, had neighbors whose religious beliefs did not accept Halloween as 'harmless fun' - as also witnessed in a few comments to this thread. They would lock their house up tight and spend the evening in bible class with their four children. As a concession to these families, the local schools altered the long established Halloween festival to the "Harvest festival" ...allowing a separate area for costume parades and such. No harm, no foul.

It's how one chooses to interpret it. Our family opts to enjoy the time to dress up and pretend to be someone or something else for a few hours. Treats are like prizes for participation . . .polite participation...as you said, a good time to set a good example for proper manners by setting expectations for Please and Thank you ...as well as "Trick or Treat".

Happy Halloween to all!

BTW...my neighborhood is apparently aging out...we had only a handful of kiddies this year. In recent years we've had as many as 600 trick-or-treaters ring my doorbell. The weather is fairly good tonight - so I'm surprised at how few stopped by. I just hope the decline has nothing to do with the recent reports of PC limits on costumes - what with accusations of cultural appropriation and crazy clowns on the loose. Aye yay yay, I could go on...but you get the picture.

[JoeProBono]

[waterhill]

Well, I love Halloween. Friday night the gf and I went to Vinnie Abbot’s bash at the Gas Monkey in Dallas, complete with an Alice Cooper cover band. We were homemade and a hit. Saturday was Deep Ellum, different costumes and we were a hit. Home made. Store bought is plain cheese.

[discostu]

All the kids I got last night were having fun. You just live in a sad neighborhood.