I hate Holidays

[jpiniero]

Halloween is definitely a dumb holiday. I guess it was cool as a kid mainly because of the candy... but I feel like candy is kind of over now.

 

[lxskllr]

You get off for halloween? Halloween's an amazing holiday! You get to wander around at night in cool air, and leaves crunching under your feet! Well, I used to anyway. Now I just think about it, but it's still cool.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm working this Halloween and candy is too freaking expensive now, so I'll be a party pooper and leave the light off. And I'll be at work.. so kinda have to. Maybe I can leave a bowl of mashed potatoes out or something. One handful per child only.

 

[brianmanahan]

Halloween is definitely a dumb holiday. I guess it was cool as a kid mainly because of the candy... but I feel like candy is kind of over now.

halloween is invading australia but some people are not so sure about it

 

[brianmanahan]

it seems trunk or treat has kind of replaced the door-to-door stuff where i live

 

[sdifox]

Halloween is definitely a dumb holiday. I guess it was cool as a kid mainly because of the candy... but I feel like candy is kind of over now.

You don't get Halloween off.

 

[sdifox]

I'm working this Halloween and candy is too freaking expensive now, so I'll be a party pooper and leave the light off. And I'll be at work.. so kinda have to. Maybe I can leave a bowl of mashed potatoes out or something. One handful per child only.

They are so going to trash your place.

 

[Kaido]

it seems trunk or treat has kind of replaced the door-to-door stuff where i live

Same here, we get like 4 groups of kids these days. I think COVID affected the holiday too.

Which is great because the price of a bag of candy is INSANE now!!

 

[IronWing]

The neighbors across the street totally deck out their house for Halloween and then go away for the evening, never handing out candy.

 

[Hoober]

The neighbors across the street totally deck out their house for Halloween and then go away for the evening, never handing out candy.

Candy's expensive.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The get off my lawn crowd doesn't like Halloween?



My best holiday memories were Halloweens. No parental escorts once I was about 9, just me and the squad on a TnT mission. Our elementary school had a carnival every year with haunted hayride, and teachers setting their rooms up with games and prizes. I remember that as well as the theme parks growing up.

Bunch of cheap bastages for the ATOT ballers club too. $15 for an 80 pack of little monster gummies made with fruit juice. $20 for a 30 pack of full sized candy bars = $35 to give kids the kickass memories I have, is a small price to pay. We won't get 30 on our street so we hook up the ones that do. The main parkway that connects the subdivision is madness though. Fire and Police will be there with lights on handing out treats and directing traffic. There are lines at every door participating. It's because of the trunk of treat cited above. Parents will drive the kids miles to be a part of the festivities.

 

[Shmee]

Halloween is pretty cool, but not as great as Thanksgiving/Xmas IMO. Also, pro-tip: buy candy right after when it is on sale.

 

[lxskllr]

Trunk or treat is bullshit. It's boring and lame. If you're gonna do that, you might as well just buy a bag of candy, give it to your kid, and don't bother leaving the house.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Trunk or treat is bullshit. It's boring and lame. If you're gonna do that, you might as well just buy a bag of candy, give it to your kid, and don't bother leaving the house.

How they do it here, is the kids walk door to door and the fat/lazy/disinterested adults follow in the car. If they weren't helicoptering so hard, they'd park and let the older kids walk "the strip". You can track them by phone, air tag, whateve.

 

[lxskllr]

It's still fairly old school in my neighborhood of ~1ac lots. Younger kids walk with parents and older kids walk themselves, though "older" seems older than it was when I was a kid.

I get ~50 kids a night. I give out fullsize premium canybars. Toblerone again this year. I gave out chocolate covered granola/nut bars last year, but they weren't so popular. I was trying to find a solution to having a bunch of candybars left over that need to be dealt with. I'll take a chocolate nut bar to work, but regular candybars linger too long.

 

[brianmanahan]

The get off my lawn crowd doesn't like Halloween?

My best holiday memories were Halloweens. No parental escorts once I was about 9, just me and the squad on a TnT mission. Our elementary school had a carnival every year with haunted hayride, and teachers setting their rooms up with games and prizes.

that sounds fun. i did a couple halloweens when i was 5 and 6, but when i was 7 there was a needle-in-the-candy scare that year. my parents decided that to be safe we would never do trick or treating again.

 

[Stopsignhank]

I hate trunk or treat. We used to love having all the kids come around to the house. I am sure we looked goofy crowded around the door seeing the kids in their costumes. Then they started truck or treat and we got 4 groups of kids last year. Many years ago I bought a blow up Minion and would have it on the porch. My wife noticed that it was life size for some of the kids and they loved it. Sometimes the kids took pictures standing next to the Minion. I also have some dueling banjo skeletons that I put at the edge of the walk for the parents while they wait for the kids. Now nobody sees that stuff. I am sad.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Here it's still done the traditional way. My neighbourhood doesn't get much kids though but there are some that get a lot, like 100's. I get maybe like 10 if that.

 

[sdifox]

Prepped 80 bag of candies. Kids can grab them. I ain't manning the door.

 

[Brainonska511]

Halloween is definitely a dumb holiday. I guess it was cool as a kid mainly because of the candy... but I feel like candy is kind of over now.

Halloween is the only thing holding the line against year-long Christmas.

 

[lxskllr]

It's also the last widely celebrated pagan day that hasn't been corrupted by christians.

 

[nakedfrog]

Looking forward to Halloween, as always, I got one of those goofy inflatable dinosaur costumes for the trick-or-treating itself, I'll be out with a slug (home-made costume) and a unicorn (I'm just there for moral support, not candy). We'll put a bowl of candy out for while we're knocking doors, then hand out candy until it's time for me to change into my cyberpunk costume and head down to the bar for a costume concert (this is the only time of year they have "cover bands" at this bar, it's local bands dressing up as some classic punk/grunge/metal/new wave etc bands and playing their songs).

 

[BonzaiDuck]

From my viewpoint, I now regret retiring when I did. Sure -- every day seems like a holiday, but despite a modicum of financial and health security, I have my worries with each day added to my life. If, for instance, there were no Thanksgiving holiday, I'd have less an excuse to visit my brother up north for a week or so. Christmas with the same end in mind just presents more 4WD and tire-chain prospects that present a bigger problem to an old man.

The worst thing I notice about holidays is the trash pickup. It is always delayed a day or so during a holiday week. I can live with that, surely.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Happy Halloween you filthy animals!

 

[Stopsignhank]

Happy Halloween you filthy animals!

Right back at you. No kids are going to see this thanks to trick or trunk so you guys might as well see it.