Thread: Halloween Anticipation vs Halloween Day

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I love this time of year, when summer is in its final days and fall is sitting just off the horizon, so close you can almost smell it. The anticipation of the coming season and all that it brings is just so delicious that I wonder at times if I love the anticipation more than the actual event itself, especially for Halloween and Christmas. What do you think?

It seems that the anticipation is perhaps more exciting than the event in some ways. I love it when the stores begin putting out their Halloween merchandise, hayrides and haunted houses start up, etc. Halloween (to most people, anyway) is only one day, so dragging out as much as possible is so much fun...

i completely agree. the months leading up to these days are much more fun and exciting. Christmas day is usually a disspointment. but i do love halloween day.

makes the season so much sweeter...
I get really geared up in July and by August am elbows deep in builds for the yard and planning work travel with haunted house tours in mind.

you really have to think of Halloween as the season from Labor day to Oct 31...

Don't get me wrong, I do love Halloween day (and of course, the night!!) but I find the anticipation much more exciting, especially as because when the actual day arrives, you know once it's over, it's going to be the longest possible time til next Halloween!

i love building props and animatronics and halloween gives me a reason to do that so i love all the time working on stuff up to the day, and then seeing all the people having fun on my fave holiday is great. i love fall, that kind of movie fall lol

I completely agree. The anticipation of shopping for and adding to my haunted house every year is so much more fun than the one day I let people in it. By the time I spend the entire night on a search and rescue mission for scared teenage girls, I am beat. Don't get me wrong I love to scare 'em but the months leading up to that are a blast!

There's nothing quite like Halloween as the afternoon shadows lengthen until the sunset fades to twilight. The "edge" and excitement are thrilling and quicken the blood. And the anticipation of those few, fleeting hours is so sweet. I think there is a lot of nostalgia associated with Halloween, both personal and cultural. So, I'd say both are equally, but differently, delightful. You can dream and scheme your way to the actual night and then immerse yourself in the pure experience. Don't you just love it.

Oh I think its the anticipation of the season too! I use to be excited from August thru April with all the holidays that filled those months, especially when we had the diner cause we decorated like crazy & had specials on our menus & entertained our customers in some way.

Halloween we had a customer that use to come to the diner at night & we were out in the country so it was pretty dark in our parking lot......he use to come dressed every night as a werewolf & peer in the window of the diner & scare customers to death, they were afraid to go outside after eating. Halloween night we had hayrides & we always had some kind of music playing.

Xmas we decorated like crazy with oil lamps on all our tables, and we cut trees & made miles of real garland and hung it outside along with a 4x4 ft. wreath I made every year. When you came to the diner during the 2 weeks prior to xmas all our waitresses & waitors dressed as Santa Clauses & we had this huge tree in there.

Valentines we gave our customers a little 2pc. box of candy & decorated like crazy. Our waitor wore a blonde pageboy wig & a full size heart with frilly lace on it. It covered his neck to below his knees & he had white tights on. That was the month of our best lips contest. Our customers all kissed a sheet of paper & like coloring contests we hung them on the wall till the day they were judged.

St. Patricks Day the staff all dressed as leprechauns & the feast was on. We played irish music & decorated the place out in green. During that time we always had the annual scanvenger day hunt of the clans.

For Easter it was the egg hunt & the Easter Bunny came to visit on easter day.

Mothers Day was our busiest day of the year so each year we did something different. The best one by far was when the staff all dressed as ELVIS & handed out flowers to the moms.

We use to video tape all the activities at the diner & the more we did the better we got so then our video taping was acted out like a segment on the evening news.....like this is so & so reporting to you from the annual over the rainbow party here in wellfleet ne.........I treasure those tapes. Oh we had such fun & the anticiaption was there for our customers too as they looked forward to all the activities during those holidays.

Man I was in high gear planning for all those holidays every year it was a blast. Now with health issues at hand I'm lucky I have Jer to help me make it thru halloween & xmas.......that just takes the wind out me anymore so we don't decorate anymore for the other holidays, kills me to see all my decorations sitting in boxes from the old days.

My advice to you youngsters is to do as much as you can when you are young & for those of you still going strong in the over 50's group>>>>>>>I"M JEALOUS!!!LOL

I love the actual holiday itself but all the work & planning that go into getting ready is way more fun. Like yesterday here we were all working on halloween projects & its was great!
Also the feeling tingles after halloween for me when I post all my TOT's pictures that I took on halloween night. I stay up on halloween night working on them between reading peoples entries on the board here. I'm so excited that its impossible to sleep after that night is over.
When I look at all the happy faces in those pictures it helps me realize what an enjoyable evening I made for these families & that is the most gratifying thing for me!

Muffy

Muffy, your post brought tears to my eyes! You're one special lady