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From: MaryW
Date: 08-24-2005, 07:46 PM (1 of 14)
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I know I am early, but hey, my grandson is already talking costumes. http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hall/halloween.html MaryW
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 08-24-2005, 09:50 PM (2 of 14)
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They've had Halloweeen stuff in the stores for 3 wks already..... I don't know whether to buy Halloween or hurricane supplies... 
Chrys
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 08-24-2005, 10:50 PM (3 of 14)
Halloween, oh don't get me going  This to me is the only holiday worth its day. It is a big day at my house and we go all out. I have a basement full of Halloween costumes and add more every year. I love making them. We have a Halloween party every year and a costume is a must. The ages range from my kids friends to my friends. We do up the yard with all kinds of Halloween stuff, change it around each year. The pumpkins my YD takes care of and she does the art work on them so they look like one of the stenciled ones. My whole family enjoys Halloween more than any other holiday.
Summer
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 08-24-2005, 11:23 PM (4 of 14)
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I LOVE Halloween too...I and my sister exchange gifts. I used to carve jack-o-lanterns (the more elaborate the better)(but I live in the bible belt and they keep changing Halloween and making it more, uh...religious..and NO I don't wanna hear it, so keep it to yourselves....so I've quit celebrating, outside my home) I DO however set up my Halloween Village and decorate my house inside... I sometimes dress up just for myself and treat myself to chocolate !!!!!!! My neighbors come over and we have fun amongst ourselves...or just stand out in the street and talk....making sure no one steals anything. Chrys
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 08-25-2005, 01:15 AM (5 of 14)
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What does having to live in the Bible Belt have to do with Halloween? I mean the way it is celebrated here in the states has nothing to do with religion? Just asking cause I don't understand it.
Summer
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 08-25-2005, 01:39 AM (6 of 14)
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well it seems the local religious people here, don't like Halloween. (it's Satanic you know...hahahahahahaha....if they bothered to learn the truth, they'd scare themselves.) So if Halloween is on Sunday or Wednesday we're not allowed to celebrate Halloween (no trick or treating, no dressing up, NOTHING). They either change the day and not tell anyone. (truly) or they cancel it all together, thats BIG news in the paper. People are URGED NOT to dress up in 'certain' costumes, to only go out in the daylight to trick or treat. Or better yet, only go to fellow church goers houses or the Mall. We are given a specific time to trick or treat. (the police or sheriff's dept WILL stop you if they see you out and about). I know and you know Halloween has NOTHING to do with religion..... But thats why they call it the bible belt..religion ( Southern Baptists in particular rule the towns/cities/schools, whatever...They go to services on Sundays and Wednesdays...NOTHING is done on Sundays and Wednesdays. (that concerns schools, children, sports, anything that interferes with Church).(working on those days seems to be Ok....now....a couple of yrs ago it was STILL illegal to sell liquor or cars on Sundays...that changed)(I guess they wanted to be able to drink and drive 7 days a week....  )I find it weird...most of 'us' who didn't grow up here or believe in their religion find it weird...and (dare I say it...) stupid... But thats the way it is....in 1805...err 1905...sorry....2005
Chrys
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From: DorothyL
Date: 08-25-2005, 08:26 AM (7 of 14)
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Chrys -- It's not just the Bible belt that had the Sunday selling booze thing. That law was just changed here last year -- or maybe it was just this year. You could go out and drink but not buy a bottle and take it home. Unless you went to the winery. You could buy it there. I can understand, although I don't necessarily agree with the no booze on Sunday thing -- but the car thing? Do you know the reason for that? Dorothy |
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From: Magot
Date: 08-25-2005, 02:20 PM (8 of 14)
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Don't do halloween - it's a Yank thing. Home owners around here are told to contact the police if people come to the door beggng for chocolate and threatening to egg your house/slash your tyres if you don't. Seems to me like blackmail but then we don't have the whole cultural history thing and the only kids who go trick ot treating around here don't dress up and are the rough element. I have more sympathy with the Bible belters - being a practicing Christian an' all - but then my beloved daughter is a practicing pagan and will no doubt be jumping over a bonfire on that day and we seem to be able to share a house OK....maybe it's because I believe in freedom of choice. I may not like her choices but that doesn't make less valid than mine. love and kisses, Jan
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 08-25-2005, 05:24 PM (9 of 14)
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Well I guess different strokes for different folks. We still have the right to go out trick and treatin, and most people go out between 6 and 8. Then everyone goes to the fire dept. or police dept and has their candy put through a metal detector. That is the sad part, but better safe than sorry. When my children were younger and we had devils night, of course they wanted to go out and soap windows and toliet paper houses. So the parents made a deal, soap and toliet paper only on their friends houses. We found out that a leaf blower can shoot toliet paper high over a 2 story house. It was all in good fun, and the kids had a ball, and we all helped to clean it up the next day. It was a honor to have your house toliet papered too. Showed you were popular. Summer
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From: Bama
Date: 08-25-2005, 05:50 PM (10 of 14)
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I grew up in the Bible belt and we've always celebrated Halloween. Things have changed in my area, however, in the past 10 or so years. Not as many people take their kids trick-or-treating now, or even celebrate Halloween for that matter. The ones that do usually have parties instead of trick-or-treating. My son likes to go rolling yards. He and his friends also think it's an honor to have your yard rolled. I've never taken them to do that.  One of his friend's mom/Sunday School teacher/School teacher takes them.  My daughter thought she was too old to trick-or-treat around age 9, so she usually has a party on Halloween. I haven't thought much about yet, but I probably should be getting some ideas. Her friends LOVED the kitty litter cake we did a couple of years ago. I'm sure she'll be asking me to make her costume soon. Last year she had a bunch of her friends over for a hot dog roast. They were all sitting around the fire outside and my son dressed up in camo and a ski mask and sneaked out to the edge of the yard and stared at them. Ever heard a bunch of 12 year olds girls screaming at once? I could have strangled him, but they thought it was fun. |
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From: Ann Made
Date: 08-25-2005, 07:03 PM (11 of 14)
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Where I have worked for the past 5 years and where I am going to teach starting this year, they don't celebrate Halloween. They are Old Colony Mennonites and Hutterites so that is where we will stop. When our children were growing up, the mothers would have a pumpkin carving contest, take the kids around the subdivision, and then have a bonfire and weiner roast. It was a lot of fun. When we moved onto a large ranch, we all did up treat bags, had a bonfire, weiner roast and fireworks. That was a lot of fun also. I think Halloween is what you yourself want to make it. I have become use to celebrating Harvest at the end of October due to living in the communities I work in. When we live in town, we celebrated with everyone else. Ann 
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From: MaryW
Date: 08-26-2005, 10:25 AM (12 of 14)
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Bama, that's a cute story. My grandson who is six foot went out dressed as the grim reaper with black robe, awful mask and scythe. The slower he moves, the scarier he is.
MaryW
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From: Magot
Date: 08-30-2005, 03:21 PM (13 of 14)
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That's true of many teenagers, Mary! I suppose Hallowween isn't so big as we have Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th with bonfires (burning effigies of that poor chap) and fireworks and baked potaoes etc etc Kids used to make guys and hawk them around the streets asking for a "penny for the guy" in order to buy fireworks thereby celebrating that Parliament did NOT get blown up. Have to be 18 now to buy fireworks..
love and kisses, Jan
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 08-30-2005, 06:33 PM (14 of 14)
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I'll be showing my age when I say this , for sure, but here goes.. When I was a kid we dressed in costumes and went out raking and scraping the streets, but nobody did the trick or treat thing.. That came in later, (in the 50's).. My sister did, she was born in 1949.. We always went to the carnival at the elementary school in our neighborhood.. That was THE EVENT.. All kind of games and contests, all with prizes.. That's where we got all our candy and stuff.A Local Policeman always made 5 or 6 cakes for the cakewalk and those were the ones everyone wanted to win..All the ladies were jealous of his cakes' popularity..My Mom dressed up like a gypsy and told fortunes for a fee.. She made tons of money for the school.. The girl next door would clue her in on who was next in line, so she told great fortunes.She wore a mask, so no one knew who she was. (including me the first year).LOL..
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