Halloween is celebrated in many different cultures.

I love Halloween. It's the one day of the year where everything is dark. I don't really celebrate it anymore because I am getting older but I still like it. People set up haunted houses or woods and I love it. Everything is just awesome. When I was younger I would go trick or treating but as I got older I liked to go out and scare people. Now, since I am older I enjoy staying at home at drinking and partying.

I love Halloween and don't think that it will change even as I get older. I still love to decorate and am very excited as I haven't been able to do much decorating in the past few years. I will finally get to this year and am on count down, only 5 more days. I don't decorate until October 1st, that is the offical day for Halloween celebrating to begin. (according to me, LOL) I still dress up and my kids loved this when they were young. I still have a young one at home and she gets a kick out of mom getting dressed up. This will be her first Halloween that she will remember the decorating of the house. She is excited to get started. We are still deciding on costumes for this year, she wants to be the bride of chuckie, I want her to be a queen bee. Let you know who wins. As for me not sure yet, I would like to be a fairy or a belly dancer, lol.

WE just went trick and treating and I know being part English that they had Guy Fawkes Day. Since Halloween is from the old Celtic pagan days ( not the new Pagans, but the old before Christianity) I do not like to celebrate it, so I celebrate Reformation Day because that is when Martin Luther first made his views known.

oh i used to so love Halloween. especially when my late husband was alive. We would dress up and hand out the best candy and toys to the little kids. then, we'd have an adult party with the grown ups. we made a fun time of it all

I think I did write something about Halloween in your other post. For us, chileans, Halloween came as a cultural import along with MacDonalds, and Valentine´s Day. We celebrate some religious Holidays (on All Saits day many people go the the cemetary to place flowers where their loved ones are buried), we have our Independence Day, and we sort of celebrate a Saint that is supposed to help out spinsters to get a husband. In small towns there are carnivals that honor Virgins and there are some of them that are very important here. I think that many of our cultural celebrations have to do with the Spanish conquest mixed with the native rites. Now, as I told you, globalization has changed many things, some for good, some for worse.

Pp in my country hv been celebrating Halloween only in recent yrs. But I don't and so I can't comment. In my country, just as in some other countries, the Chinese honour their ancestors during Qingming, which falls in the mth of April Some of the Chinese here hv their ancestors' tablets placed at home and they wld place food and other stuff in front of the tablets.

I have heard so many different things regarding the celebration for Halloween. I used to go trick or treating when I was younger. That was the main part of it. Dressing up and getting candy. But today I am not so keen on this. So I dont take my kids and never have. I let them dress up at school only because they are looked at as if something is wrong with them. And the other kids would pick on them. I know thats sorta silly to worry about, but kids can be so mean. And I let the kids play dress up all year.

I always loved Halloween growing up and still do up to a point but the last 5 or 6 years the day has changed so much and I don't enjoy it as I once did. It has gone way too commercial over here and the American influence of Halloween has a stranglehold. It is a totally different atmosphere than I remember when I was growing up

I was born and raised in the US and as a child it was simply a happy day to go and collect candy. Same as my culture, which is Puerto Rico, pretty much the same where they all dress up in costumes, collect candy, and have parties. This has really been my favorite holiday as I really enjoy seeing the children having a wonderful time on this day. As an adult, I still love Halloween and do enjoy wearing a costume and attending Adult costume parties.

I was a room mother for all 5 of my children. So back then Kindergarten to 6th grade were elementary. Thank goodness we got to bake our goods still. I had to think up games and do cupcakes and cookies. We always had best and worst costume for prizes for Halloween. I also remember making up a big bowl of lime jello. The kids had to stick their hands in it to find eyeballs, and spiders. There was always one unusual prize. Whoever got that one got a special prize. My kids went trick or treating. when the mall started theirs it made it easier for the kids to enjoy showing off their costumes as they went shop to shop for their candy. It is pretty much a kid and candy day. But now with all the people handing out stuff in candy you don't get to enjoy the kids like we used to so I no longer hand out candy. Years I have they don't show up and i am stuck with all kinds of candy. when I have not had candy seems they show up. One year my kids had a Halloween Party at our house. We played the Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie and we moved all the furniture out of the living room and acted out the movie they had a great time umbrellas, bread etc. it was awesome.

In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, America, we have BOTH 'trick-or-treat'ing ... (which I think is common knowledge, but--just in case--that's 'when all the kids dress-up in costumes and go around all the houses, ringing the doorbells and saying 'trick or treat!' when the people living there open the door to give them candy (in olden times, "trick" was actually an option---if the children weren't given a treat, they would 'pull a prank' on the house---usually graffiti or something else that's now 'illegal') AND we have the Ghouls Gone Wild parade (for the past several years), where a bunch of artists--led by a famous Oklahoma City musician--get into scary costumes and ... I dunno, 'parade' around (I've never been to it myself)

Yeah! Halloween is still celebrated in my country just not as much as they use to. I always dread Halloween because there's always creepy little kids hanging around my door. There were two boys who refused to leave my house door until I gave them something so I gave them rice bubbles. I don't like how they threaten to do tricks though. It's fun when little kids go trick or treating as long as it doesn't go out of hand. I reckon Halloween is fun! Full of fun and scares!

Hello Stary, I am from Philippines. we usually celebrated halloween by cooking and preparing foods, usually native foods to take in the cemetery. We clean the tomb and the surroundings, bring flowers and light candle there then pray. After prayer, we all eat together...