Thread: Weird!? Why like Halloween so much??

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My Fellow Haunters...

I thought I would throw this question out there. I personally am asked this a LOT!! When the subject comes up on what holiday do you like best (and trust me this comes up when meeting new people quite a bit). People always ask what holiday you like the best and my answer is always Halloween. It's quite surprising the reaction I get, especially when I tell them how much I actually do to celebrate the holiday (haunted lawn, tons of pumpkins carved, lots of enthusiasm for the night) most of the time unfortunately they think I'm crazy. I just don't understand why...tons of folks go all out with Christmas but nobody (including the Christmas enthusiasts) understand why I love Halloween as much as I do. I thought I would start a thread on why I love this special holiday as much as do....

My personal ( and VERY personal reasons are);

1)Halloween and everything about it has always made me happy (ever since I was a little girl), from the sights and even the smells of the fall night have made me feel very at home

2) The most important reason for me now...My late brother absolutely loved the holiday, just as I do. The last precious moment I have seeing him alive was heading out the door with some horrible green goop on his face while heading out to a Halloween party asking me how he looked with the most silly look on his face. I will forever have this image imprinted on my mind.

For those reasons you willl never see a dark house or an unlit jack o lantern, in my home. I will always be the one on my block doing my best and giving out the treats to the goblins that come to my door. Long live Halloween!!

Boo...

For me it has to be the fun of Halloween. Unlike decorating for Christmas, you can go all out with your decorations throughout the whole lawn and house, and it wont look to gaudy, like alot of Christmas decorations tend to be. Fall is also my favorite season, perfect weather. And Halloween is just fun, it has such a great atmosphere to it. The cool autumn days, all the different colors of the leaves, and watching scaring movies on TV all throughout October. Its hard to explain, but Halloween is just it, its the holiday.

thanks for sharing Boo Baby!! that's a very touching reason. My brother also got me into decorating but even before that it was a list topper for my favorite holiday. The memories of trick-or-treating with friends as a kid and now being able to scare and entertain the kids and parents that come by on Halloween. And fall has been my favorite season for a while now. All the leaves changing color and snow not too far away (yes, I'm a snow and cold weather nut )

I also have loved Halloween since a little girl as well. Just looking at a jack-o-latern makes me smile. My in-laws thinks I'm crazy. I just wish I had all you guys close so we could hang out and talk halloween all the time.

Instead of a long, drawn-out explanation, I'll put it quite simply: I've always been drawn to the darker side and find enjoyment in scaring people

I just like building stuff, and christmas is so over played. How many people will actually approach you about your decorations on christmas. Now on halloween we have 1000's of ToT'ers come through our neighbourhood. I always enjoyed the holiday as a kid, and I am still a kid only to old to Tot. So the next best thing is to give what back all I have gotten. All the memories and fun I had being little, running around with friends. Being able to stay up till 2am even on a school night. It was embedded into my blood and who I am. Now I get to give back, treat the next generation Tot'ers. Give them the feeling I once loved and cherished, and I am lucky to still have friends who love the holiday too. We have just stepped up from receiving to giving, And in reality that is such a better feeling to me. Also I have an outlet of creativity when I have props to build. Better hobby than my gaming IMHO, and did I mention the giving back part.

You better believe when I have kids they are going to be little goblins in the fall season too.

I think a lot of my love for the holiday has to do with our family and how I was raised. I have so many fond memories of Halloween and the season as a whole that it will always, always, always remain my favourite time of year. I'm sure this group shares many of them.
The smells of wet, musty leaves and the chill air, latex masks, slimey pumpkin guts through your fingers, jackos flickering on porch stoops, smoke beginning to rise from chimneys, home cooking and of long walks around the neighborhood shuffling through gutters of thick shed foliage...the mystery, adventure, and homey warmth of the season that for some reason I do not feel as strongly in the winter time or even around Christmas. etc., etc..

PLUS...jackos, bats, ghosts and everything else Halloween-associated are infinitely more awesome than reindeer, glittery ornaments and candycanes.

It's not weird.

There are dozens of reasons to like halloween, but it mostly stems from my childhood memories. I'm 57 years old and can still remember what I dressed up as for our first grade party at school. Can't beat memories or halloween. It don't get any better.

I aswell always enjoyed it when I was a little girl.
Everything about it makes me smile, even if some things do actually scare me!

The idea of getting to build up so much, just for a couple of hours of trick-or-treaters,
it makes me happy. Really, really happy.

i like to believe i'm helping create memories for the younger generations just as those who haunted thier homes and gave me candy when i was a little ghoul and helped shape my love of halloween. That and i love the holiday, it's my Christmas. I told a cashier at a store that it's my christmas yesterday and she looked at me like i was green and had a third eye but i don't care.