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Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:38 am**

Here in Germany Halloween isn't that important like in USA. Some people, like me, love Halloween, decorate with pumpkins, visit a Halloween party, knock on doors on Halloween's eve and collect candies. How do you spend your Halloween?

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:37 am**

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:05 pm**

Here in England Halloween is still a bit of an "emerging" holiday. It isn't celebrated on such a huge scale as in the US, but it's getting more and more popular each year. I always go totally over the top when it's Halloween - I absolutely love it and I've got my mum and my sister-in-law in on the obsession! Yay for converts!

I usually spend Halloween having a party and/or going to a friend's party. I also spend a couple of nights in the lead-up to Halloween watching Halloween-related movies and baking treats. I also make Jack O' Lanterns and make my costumes so I'm busy for pretty much the whole of October lol!

How do you usually celebrate?

Oh and Pennywise - you can never have too many photos!!!

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:48 pm**

I am always finding new things to do. It is not surprising that some people celebrate Halloween all year long, because there is an endless variety of activities. There's even an endless variety of movies to watch!

It's like a piece of artwork that can never be completed.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:36 pm**

Personally, my neighborhood is a low-traffic rural suburbia. But it is widely celebrated, but just not on my street. Last year i only got like 15 TOT's which was a disappointment, but the yard looked great anyway.

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:44 pm**

thanks for the many photos, Pennywise11. I will look at it in the next days.

Greetings

Silvia

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:06 pm**

Hey Silcrest, Thanks for sharing how you celebrate there. I live in Chilliwack British Columbia Canada, which is the farthest Western Province of Canada. Here in the city I live in, Halloween is gaining in popularity as our population grows. With our growth has come tolerance due to the increase in Multicultural people. It wasn't always this way. You see I live in our Provinces Largest Church belt "We were even in Genuis for the most churches per something"? Anyways, up until about 2000, Halloween was no where near what it is today, not that it wasn't celebrated, it was, but it came at a much higher price, there was a great deal of retaliation from Church Organizations, but now everyone celebrates so many different holidays that its pretty hard to Harass or attack others for celebrating what they want without getting charged, so its much better now, although I would say we still have a long way to go. Stores are still targets for many "meaning they threaten to boycott them if they keep selling Halloween stuff" but the stores don't listen anymore cause they realize times have changed, and the population is growing so much that it won't hurt them if a few boycott them anyways, good thing

I personally would say the two largest ways that Halloween is celebrated here is people decorating and handing out candy/little gifts to TOT's, and for adults its house parties if they want to be meek and quite "so not to have the cops called" or if they want to really let their hair down they go to any number of the Cabaret's "Bars". The Cabaret's here really get into the Halloween spirit! I worked for many years in 2 different Cabaret's here, and I tell you, it's always a great turn out and an absolute blast! Most Bar's on Halloween average a minimum of 300 plus people, they provide contests with prizes and large cash prizes, gifts, Cruises, and much more. They provide good entertainment, games, activities, food etc.
BUt the last number of years I've been staying home doing the TOT's thing, guess I just needed a break after working in the Bars for so many years.
But no matter how I spend Halloween my love for it keeps growing

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:09 pm**

Pennywise11, Thanks for posting those pictures, I just loved looking at them. I just adored the little fellow in the Black and White or Black and silver Spider costume. And I really got a chuckle out of the Nun drinking the Molson Canadian Beer, that was a great one!

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:47 pm**

Well Halloween isn't an official Holiday as such...it is more of an Observance but I think in the not too distant future we might just see Halloween turn into a national holiday. It will get my vote!

Personally I spend from the beginning of August onward preparing for Halloween. It starts with getting my web site ready which really get the Halloween spirit excited. I then patrol all the retail outlets looking for Halloween gak. Then the closer we get to that actual date I may get contracted to design and decorate theme related parties, attractions, or at the very least, I start planning for my own yard haunt.

However, I may just decide not to decorate and instead go Trick R' Treating door to door with a few friends... yes I am an adult but hey, if I am in costume I want candy- heheh. Wouldn't you give me candy if I showed up at your door looking like this ...

Funny thing is I actually had the door slam in my face a couple of times - must of been the grunting noise I was making

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:56 pm**

OMG Mr.Halloween, that costume soooo freakin Rocks! By the way, you got my vote on your site, think I was the second vote for Halloween to be declared a National Holiday.

I so wish I could afford to buy costume attire like that, WOW! I don't know if I will even be able to get what I am looking at now?? We'll see, things always happen as they should... What stores to you shop at for Halloween decor?
I just love how involved you are in Halloween, it's awesome! A Kindred Spirit you are

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:07 am**

That is ONE SCARY COSTUME!! Or is it a costume??

SEEMS like the board is getting more active, now that Halloween is actually much closer. Weird, huh?

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:20 am**

A lot of Canadians here today..I sense a trend..
Nice to have you back in town, Pennywise...
Okay I'm in London Ontario..almost a straight line across the great lakes from Cleveland...
It's been a big deal in our family for years. We are of Scotish/English/Irish decent. We invented it. It belongs to us. We own it.
First off..it's a costume party...sometimes a theme...
then you have to come WITH A TRICK..song, routine, story, magic trick...prizes awarded for the best...occasional karaoke..
Meal that night is hand food...burgers, Octoberfest sausage, fries, stuff like that...
Dry ice in the punch bowl...with a piece of ice frozen in a rubber glove so you have this HAND floating in it...
If it's the weekend and the kids are going to be around, you do a scavenger hunt..break them up into groups and send them out looking for weird or funny stuff...prizes given..
The t.v. has trailer tapes on...(the coming features attractions you see at the theatre or on t.v), but these are mostly for vintage horror movies...thus, the kids can see them and not be TOO freaked out..trailers have to be viewable by a pretty much general audience...music is rock and roll like WEREWOLVES OF LONDON mixed with vintage halloween stuff...PURPLE PEOPLE EATER/MONSTER MASH/...you get the idea..
We have SURPLUS of those orange plastic pumpkins around here, so we leave them at the door and have folks donate change to various groups..a couple of years ago, it was just New Orleans..
Outside we have the yard setup..hanging skelton...baby buggy holding a demon...(glowing eyes and mobile with shrunken heads) skeleton in stocks..and a mad scientist lab...coffin holding CReature from the Black lagoon..that's for starters...
Oh yeah...family tradiiton..most of it has to be taken down at midnight..we got that from the New Orleans side of the family...at midnight...Mardi Gras is OVER...

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:35 am**

Uncletor, Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London Soo Rocks! I use to drink one to many Tequila's to this song, I love him! Here's a you tube link to the song, hope it works, enjoy

Awesome song for Halloween by the way, or just to cut lose too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM

Let me know if the link worked or not ok.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:22 pm**

thanks for the link DoD...Zevon was always a fave of mine.
By the way, one thing I forgot to include..usually if I can find some Polaroid film, I photo each person as they come in and put the pics up and give them to them as they leave...
Silcrest, most folks over here don't do all this. It's usually just "hand the candy out and begone" like DoD writes about in her blog posting....and maybe a yard tombstone or two made of styrofoam...a sound effects CD tossed in, maybe...there are halloween parties you can go to for price, and right before and after Labor Day, the stores go nuts selling the candy and costumes..and props.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:08 am**

@Pennywise 11: I just took the time to look at your beautiful pics. Thanks again. It seems to me that your parties are a lot of fun every year.

@Magickbean: You have changed your Avatar. The new one is great. Where do you have it from?

@Duchess of Darkness: Thanks for your long and interesting answer. As is Germany Halloween isn't that popular, I have to learn a lot:-)

Creepy Greetings

Silvia

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