HALLOWEEN: trick or treat..do you celebrate it? how?

Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
February 6, 2007 11:22am CST
Halloween is becoming a global celebration worldwide nowadays, but it's still a bigger event in certain places of the world like the USA or England. Do you celebrate it with your kids? is Halloween a big thing over there where you live? I am waiting for your replies :)
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
6 Feb 07
Halloween is also huge in Canada as well. Personally i quit trick or treating myself when i was about 11 or 12 years old! I matured too fast to really get into it after that! I have been active and back in the trick or treating business for the past 5 years now as my youngest has had 5 years worth of trick or treating under her belt ... LOL! My baby came with us this year and wow was she heavy to carry around especially in her snow suit! It was fun though taking my daughters out and i know that i will enjoy every other Halloween with them just the same!!!
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
that sounds so cute. I think it's a pity that Halloween is not that important here...kids would love it.
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@classy56 (2880)
• United States
6 Feb 07
i live in the u.s an we celebrate halloween by decorateing my home an yard with scary stuff.an we dress up in scary costumes an hand out candy to the kids,its funny to see the kids scream an holler when a something spooky jumps out at them.sometimes i even get scared when i see someone else that scary looking..
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
hahaha...well it is like a black christmas...don't you think? i mean, sometimes christmas are so white....so "good" that halloween is like the dark side of the children's parties...and i love it..not everything can be white and pure ;) It has a bit of transgression that I love.
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@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
6 Feb 07
Oh yes we celebrate halloween too and the kids get lots of candy and I eat it all. So then I can get big and fat.heheheheh
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• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
hahaha...then it seems that halloween is really profitable for you terryZ....you get all that candy for free....should think about it myself!! lol thanks for the post. Yours is rated.
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@XxAngelxX (2830)
• Canada
6 Feb 07
My family always celebrates Halloween. We dress up and take the kids door to door where they are giving out candy. And we also give candy out at our house. We carve pumpkins every year, usually the kids will each do one of their own and I do one as well. I love Halloween but my kids always end up getting so much junk food I end up throwing some away by the end of November.
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• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
Sounds awesome to have such a big event, and mainly for kids. Is Halloween also big in Canada then Angel? here in Spain where i live it is not, unfortunately, even though nowadays you can at least see some pumpkins and witches on pubs and such lol. Thank you for the post.
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@Sasselle (698)
• Australia
7 Feb 07
It's really not celebrated here at all - except for a few kids who see it on TV and want to do it. Mind you over the last 2 years or so, the shops have been putting out a little bit of halloween stuff ... obviously hoping we'll jump on the bandwagon!
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• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
7 Feb 07
yeah, its basically the same here, but not really a halloween background at all.
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• United States
7 Feb 07
When my kids were smaller, i would take them trick-or-treating. As they got older, we would just have a party at the house which usually involved water balloon fights and cake fights. Every holiday and birthday i would get two cakes.. one to eat and one for a cake fight. The cake fight of course was done outside so the animals could take care of the cleanup. i have some wonderful pictures of my kids with cake in their hair and all over their faces. Nothing that a little soap and water didn't clean up and a lot of precious memories.
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• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
7 Feb 07
great memories to share...thank you dear brat.
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
7 Feb 07
Oh yes, Halloween is a very big celebration in Kentucky, USA. Adults are just as thrilled as the children to dress up in costumes go to costume parties. Adults take their children (who are in costumes) trick-or-treating, which is going from door to door for candy. Pumpkins are carved into jack-o-lanterns and festive Fall decorations abound!
@Ishkhara (22)
• Romania
6 Feb 07
In my country Haloween isn't an actual holiday, but some celebrate it : parties in clubs or home. It is not like the Americans have it but it is another reason to be happy. :)
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• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
hehe, thanks for sharing ishkhara...it's true, if something is an excuse to be happy, why not?
• Canada
23 Feb 07
i celebrate holloween. it's fun to get dressed up and get free candy for it. my daughter and i went out last holloween as the candy m&m's. she was green and i was brown. we allready have our costumes for next year picked out. i'm going to be little bo peep and she will be my little sheep.
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• United States
26 Feb 07
I have three grandchildren but no children at home. My son doesn't let them go out trick or treating but does let them dress up in their costumes and give out the candy. Either him or his wife opens the door and then lets the children give out the candy. I think what would be better is instead of letting the kids go from door to door I think one big Halloween party at the school should be the way Halloween should be celebrated. There are so many weird people out there that want to do harm to children. I am glad I don't have any children at home.