Like Clive, I wonder what it is about Hallowe’en that needs celebrating, and why kids need to go knocking on doors dressed up as witches and ghouls? Perhaps I’m just behind the times…
When I was a kid Halloween wasn’t an event we marked in any way. Here in the UK we were busy making our guys for the forthcoming Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night celebrations on 5th November, and hadn’t yet imported the commercialisation of Halloween from the US. So I’m sorry to say, American friends, that your celebration for tonight rather passes me by! That doesn’t mean that I don’t recognise its importance to you, but it does seem to me to be a little artificial for it to be ‘celebrated’ here. Of course, I have some treats ready in case I have some little visitors this evening, but this will be my 9th Halloween at my current address and I’ve yet to see any trick or treaters!
As retailers fall over themselves to make money from Halloween the boundaries of taste have often been forgotten. I recently reblogged a post I wrote…
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Stevie Turner 
we didn’t have Halloween back in the 1960s but we had ‘mischief night’ when children would knock on doors and run away, take garden gates off and swap them with next door etc etc
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I remember knocking on doors and running away, but not especially at Hallowe’en. One time I got caught, and it was the walk of shame back to the front door to apologise.
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🙂
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It’s the implied threat that I don’t like. And the knocking on people’s doors at night, many who might be elderly, alone, sick, disabled, coping with babies etc.
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Yes, my mother was always worried at Hallowe’en. I used to tell her not to answer the door.
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Many thanks for reblogging this 😊
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You’re welcome.
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