Halloween or Christmas? Which is your favorite?

@whywiki (6066)
Canada
December 9, 2007 8:54pm CST
I love Halloween. I love to decorate the house and yard and it feels like my holiday. Christmas stresses me out. You think about the gifts to buy then you have to find the gifts wrap the gifts and give the gifts. Then there is all the parties and staff parties and family get togethers and I am having a tough time getting excited about it at all. I am already looking forward to next Halloween. Am I alone or does anyone else prefer Halloween?
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@RAANARON (194)
• India
10 Dec 07
i am from different community...that's why i don't like neither halloween nor the christmas...i love only Durga puja...
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@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I work with a lot of Indians and they sure do know how to celebrate in style!
@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I love Halloween more. All the way. I used to hate Halloween as a child but since I became a parent I just love it. I decorate and watch scary movies which are my favorite. We just plain out have fun! But with Christmas it is way more costly and busier and way more work. The cooking cleaning and calling everyone. With Halloween we can just get silly and have fun. "I just can't wait until next Halloween, cause I got some new ideas that will really make them scream..." From my favorite movie HEHEHE
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@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I think Halloween is a lot easier and less stressful than Christmas and I love to scare and shock!
@BuffMom (2206)
• United States
13 Dec 07
I love Halloween too! It's my favorite holiday. so many cool things to do. and I really love to spend it with my kids. we go all out. Yea I agree Christmas is alot more stressful, with Halloween I can be a kid again, and enjoy my horror movie collection with my family, lol.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
13 Dec 07
I had a great time on Halloween just standing on the porch and watching the kids go by.
• Saint Lucia
10 Dec 07
where i live we don't celebrate Halloween even if we did i still would like Christmas the most. afterall it is the birth of Jesus Christ and it is a time of the year for sharing and to spend time with your family.
• Saint Lucia
11 Dec 07
yeah it definitely is.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I will admit that it is nice to be with family at Christmas it is almost magical.
• United States
10 Dec 07
halloween - definitely. my boyfriend and i both really love halloween. i love the decorations and all - not the cheesy ones, but the really good ones. right now our living room is decorated for both halloween and christmas! haha. we've got a white tree up for christmas.. then a big, fake black crow on it. and we've got tombstones on the walls and 3grim reapers hanging from the ceiling - two small ones [one having a black gown, the other red] by the window and a big one with by our chair. and we've just got other halloween-inspired decor up in there too. it's pretty great.
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@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I just took the last of our Halloween decorations down yesterday, it was sad. I like the idea of having both decorations up.
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@bridc1 (28)
• United States
16 Dec 07
Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. For the past 6 years I've been setting up a haunt in my front yard. My friend and I build all our own props, and we've started getting pretty elaborate. We've built everything from rotating heads, to bleeding tombstones, to fogging cauldrons. This past year we had over 1300 people from around town come out to our haunt. I'm constantly on the look out for something that I can make a new prop out of. Halloween is a year round thing for me. I'll have to upload some pics from it...
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
17 Dec 07
I confess I am already thinking about next Halloween and I haven't even started my Christmas shopping or cooking. I think this year I want to go all out at Halloween and try to build some props like you. Boo!
@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
10 Dec 07
I love both, but Halloween is a bigger deal for our family. We have two family birthdays on the 28th and 29th of October, so we make it one big Halloween/birthday bash. It has become a family tradition. I love Christmas but despise the commercialization of the holy day. It isn't supposed to be about the parties, carousing, and gifts, but about the birth of our Lord and Savior. I am not buying many gifts this year. We are going to have the grandkids help us make cookies and candies for gift baskets, so they can learn that Christmas isn't just about getting stuff, but about taking time for other people.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I am tired of the commercialization and have thought of home cooking gift baskets this year too, something from the heart not the store. It would be nice to have something at Halloween to celebrate other that just Halloween.
• Australia
10 Dec 07
Here is Australia, Halloween isn't really celebrated. In fact, the only people that really celebrate and take part in Halloween festives are overseas people (mainly Americans) as well as a few shops hoping to cash in on the period. So Christmas would have to be my pick. Even though I follow a religion that doesn't have anything to do with Christmas in it, it is still an enjoyable occasion of giving and receiving items. Although all the Christmas turkey and stuff doesn't exist in my household, there is still room for the Christmas tree to appear.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
11 Dec 07
My Aussie hubby was a little blown away by Halloween when he got here as it is a little bigger than Guy Fawkes day. We are Atheists but I still celebrate the Christmas season as I like the goodwill to all men aspect of it all.
@dreamy1 (3811)
• United States
10 Dec 07
Halloween! I love Halloween. I don't care much for Xmas it's just another day to me. I don't celebrate it anymore since I grew up it's not the same as when I was a kid. My parents divorced when I was 11 and after that we really didn't do anything. I still got presents but we never decorated for it and stopped putting up a tree. I think halloween is much more fun.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I think Christmas means much more as a young kid, my memories of that time were of a magical time, too bad I had to grow up. I love Halloween as it makes me feel a little younger.
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
10 Dec 07
Christmas is definitely my holiday! I love shopping and I love giving gifts. This is the time of year that I usually get to be with my whole family at once. Christmas stresses my husband out though. If he could sleep through December and wake up in January he would be happy. Halloween is his all-time favorite holiday. He loves it. He loves anything scary and many years he has even dressed up. He completely enjoyed taking our daughter trick or treating this year.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I think with each passing year Halloween gets bigger, I hope it doesn't become over commercialized like Christmas.
@megumiart (3771)
• United States
10 Dec 07
I relly love dressing up, and candy, but i think i like Christmas better. i like the holiday spirit/family time.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I have to admit that even though my family drives me crazy it is nice to see them over the holidays.
@star2453 (129)
• United States
10 Dec 07
I think i'll have to go with halloween. it's not to cold yet and the temp. is still comfortable.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
We had a nice warm evening this year for Halloween and I hate snow so that was nice.
10 Dec 07
well i belong to india so both halloween and christmas. so i dont know much about both however i have know about halloween from one of my friend who are staying there in US so i found them colorful and very beautiful. but Christmas has its own relevance and then cakes and chocolates are always attracts and await me for christmas
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
Ahh chocolate my best friend. That is why I love Halloween around here. I buy more that there is kids at my door then of course have to eat the leftovers, but then again Christmas brings some pretty good food too!
@maxcheng (33)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
Halloween all the way. for me christmas is to commercialized. Im not big on the family get togethers, and halloween is just a day to have fun, nothing serious, and the weather is relatively ok, depending on where u live.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I think that is one of the things I like best too, it is just fun, nothing serious just plain old fun!
• United States
10 Dec 07
I love both holidays. Its great to see kids dressed up for halloween. I dont really stress over christmas. I think i prefer christmas over halloween. I think its a great pleasure to see the joy on children's faces when they open their gifts.
@Sushicook (690)
• Sweden
10 Dec 07
I'm sort of undecided on this... I really really love Halloween and the atmosphere, but on the other hand... Christmas makes me just as giddy. It's really a hard choice! XD Halloween got better movies though.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
Halloween certainly does have better movies but I have to give it to Christmas on the songs.
@irene_27 (542)
• Philippines
10 Dec 07
For me it would be Christmas, Here in our country we Halloween is not really a big deal to us, it is mostly kids that get excited celebrating it. But Christmas is something that we all anticipate here both young and old. Everybody is excited with all the gifts and most especially for this special occasion we look forward to seeing family members living or working abroad. It is the time when most overseas workers go home and be with family. Yes, there are tons of things to do come Christmas holiday but i guess the stress and effort are all worth the time spent with our loved- ones.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
how true that is, sometimes I forget that at the end of it all I do get to spend time with family I only see once or twice a year.
• United States
10 Dec 07
If I had to chose between Halloween or Christmas, I would have to pick Christmas. Everyone seems to be in a better mood during the Christmas season and I'm able to spend time with my family. I don't mind shopping for gifts and wrapping them, I actually enjoy it. Halloween this year was different than many that I have experienced. I felt a weird negative vibe during the entire day and night.. something I never felt before. Am I the only one that felt it?
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Dec 07
I usually like the wrapping and shopping and family, I can't figure out why I feel so bah humbuggy this year. I had a great Halloween this year but it wasn't as good as other years since they took away our fireworks...
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
10 Dec 07
Halloween would be my 1st choice. We have alot more fun, and much less stress. Christmas is where, when, what to buy for who. How much? Casual dress, formal dress. Church on Eve or day. Are we tired yet? Whew. Halloween some candy, some costumes a skeleton in the yard, and your off. I am with you.