Plans for Halloween or Other Celebrations of the Season?

[Rab]

My little lass will be dressing up, as a witch i think. Her wee pals coming round so we might do some dooking for apples and the thing where you try to eat scones hanging from a string without touching them. When i was a kid we used to make lanterns out of turnips but its pretty tough hollowing out a turnip, so this year i might try a pumpkin.

I've a workmates stag doo on guy fawks night (5 nov) but i'll probably do some fireworks round about then too.

[TurboKittie]

I'll be dressing up our daughter, who even though she's a little old she loves going door to door in costume. She's autistic too...and adores holidays that are different. We'll be Vikings again.

CGR is planning to be Braveheart if he gets invited to any parties.

I finally got Mickey a costume he will wear, while he stays home and passes out candy to the neighborhood ghoulies.

[LANCER1562]

My neighborhood Applebees is ahving costume contests. The little ghoolie with the best costume wins a kid's meal and the adult ghoolie with the best costume wins an appetizer. I may go as a Highlander, I realize a kilt is not a costume but it can be incorporated into one. My Ren faire garb might be a bit much with a great kilt, doublet, tam and baldrick. The sword will definitely have to stay home, I don't want to have to explain to the local police why I'm carrying it. My dirk is peace tied and shouldn't pose a problem.

[Mike in Dayton]

I live on a busy street so there are no kids that come to the door on Halloween. At work nobody dresses in costume. I wear a kilt almost daily for some part of the day. Unfortunately on Halloween weekend everyone that see the kilt assumes it is a costume and I am off to some party. I am attending a Halloween event put on by the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO). They are showing the movie
Bride of Frankenstein with the DPO playing the music. I always wear a kilt to the DPO performances so this will be no exception. I am sure many will assume the kilt is my costume. Other than that it will just be a weekend like the rest of the month.

Should I ever need a costume one I want to make is the Borg face mask and upper body paraphernalia paired with a kilt. Figuring out how to make the face mask has me stuck. I want something that hugs the head and one side of the face. From there I can attach all the electro-mechanical things that make it look Borg like.

Mike

[Cynthia]

I'll be turning a year older on Halloween, and my hubby and I usually celebrate by cuddling up at home with some good food, something nice to drink, and Ghost Hunters Live (I hate scary/gory movies, so that's as far as I go with "spooky" shows on Halloween). We don't get trick-or-treaters in my area (the past few places I've lived we've rarely seen them... so sad).

I'd love to dress up, but none of our friends really do costume parties anymore so I'm not sure if I'll get the chance any time soon. I'm not sure if I'll be finished with Christopher's costume by then anyway. I'll probably have another dinner at my mother-in-law's the weekend before Halloween.

[O'Searcaigh]

The one day each year I am inclined not to be seen in public in a kilt (don't want anyone to think its just a costume).

[Nighthawk]

Ah, the Zombi Crawl, and Witches' Ball.

I forgot to mention that that weekend is a steam-up event at the Colorado Railroad Museum- it's their Trick Or Treat Train weekend. I will also be going to that on Saturday, in my Renaissance Scots garb, of course. You spend over a grand on historical reenactment garb, and it's really hard to justify buying more costuming to wear just once.

[Meggers]

Halloween pretty much goes one way for me: watch scary movies in the dark with my parents while we wait for little kids to knock on our door for candies

This whole month is my favorite month, though. I've been in the autumn zone since September and I have been enjoying the season. Parents, me, and the man all went out to an apple orchard and got apples, cider, etc. We also still have pumpkins to carve.

Im debating whether or not I want to experience one halloween in Madison while I'm here, though. Halloween on State Street in Madison is one of the biggest parties in this city and we are the #1 party school in the country. People have died on State Street during Halloween before just from being trampled by so many people. I probably wont go...I dont drink and I would have nothing to do but stand around trying not to get trampled. Staying home and watching scary movies sounds so much more appealing

[sevenoaks]

I recall that as child growing up in Ireby close to Carlisle the night was called All Hallows Eve. We carved turnips out and placed a candle in it then all the kids would walk through the village singing songs. There were no Candy given out but some people would give a small warm bun.
I did not know the tradition behind that but it was not like the ghosts and goblins knocking on doors asking for candy like they do in Canada.

[Laird_M]

It not just Canada, almost all of the UK seem to do it now from chatting to people.

We do take part - the protocol around here says a lit pumpkin outside says knock, and we're now known as the 'vewy, vewy scawy house', but we do generally get through a LOT of sweets.