October, Fall, and Spooky Season are here!

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Sassycakes said:
I started loving Halloween the year my son was born on Halloween. Until my son was born I hated Halloween, I hated trick or treating because I didn't like candy. Since he was born I LOVE Halloween
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I love Halloween and candy! I used to really love seeing the kids come trick or treating, I don't know about this year, but I can try to handle the oxygen and kids.
 
Supernatural said:
I've come to know about the significance of "All Hallows Eve" . I now understand why a few members of my family growing up were weary of celebrating this blessed holiday.

Bypassing the commercialisation of the day, the undertone aka the religious side of it, is a time of reflection and thanking our ancestors and dearly departed. I consider it similar to the Mexican's Day of the Dead.

It's a way to remember them and thank them for what they brought to our lives.

On the funny side of it, there's candies to eat, great spooky films to watch and more. We'll be having a buffet of finger foods and special punch after writing our "letters to ancestors" thanking them profoundly for having help us once more through thick and thin, within a ritual.

The possibility of snow showing up this early in the autumn meant that in the past, you'd find yourself wearing thermal underwear under your Halloween costumes 😁😁😁.

Sadly, the area I'd live in at one time meant that I never got to enjoy the harvest of goodies I'd collected that time. Some nasty people (which were eventually arrested) had tainted everything they've distributed.

After that year, we were no longer allowed to trick or treat. I had to wait until I was 18 to even get a costume and attend a friend's party.

Until recently, we'd been able to give to children who came to our door. Our new place doesn't have young children anymore, so we just party indoors quietly with food and good films.

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Thank you for the reminder of where this holiday comes from...so easy to forget!

We don't have children where I live either, however, I will still spend the day celebrating in my own way...reflecting, etc.
 
Supernatural said:
The possibility of snow showing up this early in the autumn meant that in the past, you'd find yourself wearing thermal underwear under your Halloween costumes 😁😁😁.
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Back in the 80s, it hit 100F here in the afternoon on Halloween one year so it was still in the 90s when the trick r treaters were coming to the door (all perspiring in their costumes. I hate it here.)
 
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