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I’m kind of surprised by how many people don’t celebrate it for religious reasons; I've never known anyone who didn't celebrate for religous reasons before HB. I guess I’ve always looked at the Halloween celebration of today as more of a secular holiday; then again I think Christmas has also become a rather secular holiday. I love seeing all the little kids dressed up in the costumes; some are really original!
We don’t go all-out for any holiday, but I do love horror movies (year ‘round though) and look forward to taking LO trick-or-treating. I HATE all the sexy costumes; especially for little girls, but I’ve got no issue with the rest of it.
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Let me follow up my post by saying that I've actually seen my mother being cremated, so when I see skulls and the like it brings back memories of actual dead people for me.
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I loved Halloween as a kid, so I definitely plan to celebrate it with my future LO. DH never celebrated growing up, so I always think he missed out
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I knew families growing up that did not celebrate Halloween, due to religious reasons. Sometimes one of the churches in our town would put on a "Harvest Festival" on Halloween night as an alternative for those families (no costumes, focused on harvesting/pumpkins/apples/fall instead of horror, a big party/potluck instead of candy, etc...), but most of the time, those families just went out so they could avoid the Trick-or-Treating crowd (going bowling or to the movies, usually).
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I love Halloween, and am hoping we get trick or treaters this year as last year we lived in an apartment and only got one
I'm going to a costume party next weekend and my kids will absolutely go trick or treating.
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I grew up going to Church " Hallelujah" parties or " Fall Festivals" so I still dressed up but didn't do the door to door stuff or really get into the dark stuff of "Halloween"
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I personally love Halloween! I guess it's because I don't think about the religious/occult aspects, and I just see it as a fun day for kids to dress up and meet their neighbors. My parents don't really like it (because of religious reasons) and DH isn't a big fan either.
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We don't celebrate Halloween. I don't want to get into all the reasons, but basically I'm not comfortable with the history and roots of the holiday.
However, we've decided that we will throw (non-scary, just fun fall-themed) costume parties for our kids so they still get a chance to dress up in fun costumes and get special treats.
I don't believe in taking things away from children without providing a healthy replacement, and this is our way of giving them something special of their own so they don't feel like they are missing out.
We'll probably do it in September.
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We always get pumpkins and get lo a costume to go trick or treating but we don't let her dress up in the more "traditional" costumes like witch, ghost or anything like that.
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