Thread: Share Your Frustration About Having Nothing To Do on Halloween

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Do you live in an area where there's just nothing special going on on October 31? Maybe the only things happening at all are parties at bars, but you don't drink or don't want to waste your Halloween hanging out with drunk people. Or the only events are for children and you're not even a parent.

Do you have no local friends who are interested in Halloween, and you know that if you threw a party or a haunt, no one would come, or appreciate it even if they did come?

Do you spend the few months leading up to Halloween asking Google for any ideas of what to do when the big night arrives, just so you won't be stuck at home, all dressed up with nowhere to go, or waiting for trick-or-treaters who never come?

It can be extremely frustrating and depressing. If you feel this way, post about it here to reassure yourself that there are others who feel your pain.

Well, it used to be like that when I lived in Mi, but I have to see what it's like at my new house. But yeh, it sucks when you are like the only person who likes Halloween, so you feel kind of lonely, but traveling outside of your local area can let you find some amazing things. Still, the Halloween season comforts me in some of those situations, because they are not all the time. Like at Halloween stores, people look at stuff, and buy it, and even though they get stuff, it makes you feel like you are one of few people who are passionate about it.

i would rather spend Halloween all alone than with a bunch of jerks who use the holiday to dress up like a tramp and/or get drunk or high or just to party. i have been alone plenty of times on Halloween and the mere fact that it is Halloween, and the month/time leading up to it gives me happiness and comfort. even when i have been out on Halloween for whatever reason, i always come home and light a carved jack-o-lantern on the porch before i hit the sheets like a one last time thing just to honor the day of Oct. 31st. i do it also if i have been home alone all night.

Originally Posted by Zombiebxrs

i would rather spend Halloween all alone than with a bunch of jerks who use the holiday to dress up like a tramp and/or get drunk or high or just to party.

Well, I agree with that, which is why I mentioned in my original post not wanting to waste your Halloween at a bar with drunk people. I don't mind being alone (although I would rather spend it with like-minded people, being alone is better than with the sort of people you mentioned), but I don't want to spend the whole thing at home listening to music because I do that everyday. I want to CELEBRATE Halloween.

Yep. We only have one haunted house now(the other, BETTER one moved, of course) we have a corn maze with a bunch of douchebag teenagers(the scarecrow we walked by was texting), and we have a couple of "fall" festivals, but they're really just craft fairs with nothing to do with fall except for the time of the year they're held.

Other than that, what little it is, we've got nothing.

Memphis sucks.

Well this is off topic a little bit but I would like to share my Halloween frustration, we all know how Halloween is the greatest holiday. so every year I go all out in the month of Oct. I have a party the weekend before Halloween and decorate the outside and inside of my house..... with my wife not caring about the holiday (which sucks) but on Halloween night my wife drags me to my brothers house to take the kids trick/treating in his neighborhood. leaving all of my displays unplugged and left alone. It's like I do all of this for nothing every year.

Originally Posted by acfink

.....with my wife not caring about the holiday (which sucks) but on Halloween night my wife drags me to my brothers house to take the kids trick/treating in his neighborhood. leaving all of my displays unplugged and left alone. It's like I do all of this for nothing every year.

That is terrible, acfink. Sorry. I couldn't put up with that. I definitely give you credit.


I really don't have many friends, and none of them are anywhere near as into Halloween as I am, so that makes it difficult to find someone to go places with. I love haunted houses and hayrides, but I won't go by myself. Heck, I'd gladly attend a costume party if I had somebody to accompany me; I love dressing up, anyhow, and that is a great excuse

I used to have friends come over when I was younger for a Halloween party, but I've lost touch with/dropped many of them over the years. If I were to host a party and had a large enough place, I would love to invite the members of this fabulous forum

I'm another who isn't keen on bars. I have quite a bit of patience most times, but if anyone pushes me enough, look out I'd rather be home passing out candy to TOTers than dealing with a bunch of trash.

Well, if you're looking specifically at the 31st...then I can't offer much help. All the folks I know that love Halloween have their own haunts to take care of. We do have some quality professional haunts in the area and the standard parties at the bars and fall festivals trying to avoid the evil of Halloween.

We also have a Halloween 1/2 Marathon the Saturday before, and Undead Race (5K) where the Humans get a 2 minute headstart on the Zombies. There's also have a Zombie Prom for Juvenile Diabetes in September and then Thriller, a Halloween themed dance performance (really ggod stuff) by the local dance company plays throughout October.

Originally Posted by Garthgoyle

That is terrible, acfink. Sorry. I couldn't put up with that. I definitely give you credit.

Seconded, except I don't give ya credit for taking that. Just because the Mrs doesn't like Halloween, doesn't mean she can't support you for a night. That's probably why I remain single

Originally Posted by acfink

Well this is off topic a little bit but I would like to share my Halloween frustration, we all know how Halloween is the greatest holiday. so every year I go all out in the month of Oct. I have a party the weekend before Halloween and decorate the outside and inside of my house..... with my wife not caring about the holiday (which sucks) but on Halloween night my wife drags me to my brothers house to take the kids trick/treating in his neighborhood. leaving all of my displays unplugged and left alone. It's like I do all of this for nothing every year.

I'm glad you at least get to have the party and decorate... But personally, if I were you, I would tell the wife that she's taking the kids trick-or-treating by herself because I'm staying home to do my own thing whether she likes it or not. You can always spend time with the children when they get home, if you're worried they'll feel neglected because you don't want to come with them.