It’s one of my personality defects.
I hate Halloween.
I know. They should just blacklist me from Mom of the Year forever and in perpetuity. It’s not going to happen. Not to someone who hates Halloween.
But I do. Hate it. I hate the decorations, the bloody things and the crawling things and the creepy things and the dirty things and the undead things. It’s like Satan has his own holiday, and it’s bigger than Christmas. Also I hate the candy overload, but that is more related to my complete lack of self-control than to any moral objection.
My Kids love it. When Kid 3 was three years old, I got all the girls witch costumes and taught them some Macbeth lines. Want to see?
(I’m trying. I have video. It’s adorable. You might have to trust me. It’s a techno thing.)
So I get the cuteness, when it’s cute. I do. But I still hate it.
You know how some people think it’s some kind of brilliant to hate things just because everyone else loves them? Like Elmo, or kittens, or cake? It’s not like that. I love Elmo. And, well, it’s not that I hate kittens because I think it’s a “spur to one’s genius”* to hate them – but they grow into cats. And cake? Well, I’m happy to make it, I just don’t want to eat it. So I’m not really like that. I am not. I just don’t want to do Halloween.
So I tried to bribe the Kids out of it. With the promise of going out to dinner and a movie instead. Guess what? They all said no.
*sigh*
But I control the decorations around here, or the complete lack thereof. So, maybe I can still win.
Ha.
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I LOVE Halloween! But not the creepy stuff so much. I hate Elmo and I bought twelve cake mixes a few years ago, with the justification that if we had to dip into our food storage at least we could have a cake once a month. They’re all still there, so I guess that tells you I don’t love cake.
I have a friend that hates Halloween like you, and she did bribe her family a few years back, exactly like you tried to do. They went for it. So instead of trick or treating, they went to dinner and a movie.
Evil, evil, conniving mothers.
I LOVE Halloween! But not the creepy stuff so much. I hate Elmo and I bought twelve cake mixes a few years ago, with the justification that if we had to dip into our food storage at least we could have a cake once a month. They’re all still there, so I guess that tells you I don’t love cake.
I have a friend that hates Halloween like you, and she did bribe her family a few years back, exactly like you tried to do. They went for it. So instead of trick or treating, they went to dinner and a movie.
Evil, evil, conniving mothers.
I don’t hate it but there are things I hate about it. For my decor, I don’t do the bloody or creepy. (Okay, I do have spiders but they’re ridiculously fake and that’s as far as I go. Bats don’t bother me.) My kids love it and my hubby’s getting into it also. But the scary? The decorating itself? The orgy of candy? I don’t like those. =P
I don’t hate it but there are things I hate about it. For my decor, I don’t do the bloody or creepy. (Okay, I do have spiders but they’re ridiculously fake and that’s as far as I go. Bats don’t bother me.) My kids love it and my hubby’s getting into it also. But the scary? The decorating itself? The orgy of candy? I don’t like those. =P
I am so with you. It is totally satan’s holiday. So here’s what we do: It’s all about the cute fun costume, and that’s all. No scary activities or anything closely related. After trick-or-treating I offer to trade them all their candy for one whole organic dark chocolate bar, and they always are thrilled to do it.
No decorations here either. Besides the smiling pumpkins we grew ourselves:)
I am so with you. It is totally satan’s holiday. So here’s what we do: It’s all about the cute fun costume, and that’s all. No scary activities or anything closely related. After trick-or-treating I offer to trade them all their candy for one whole organic dark chocolate bar, and they always are thrilled to do it.
No decorations here either. Besides the smiling pumpkins we grew ourselves:)
I hate it too. But my hatred comes from living in a mortuary where we couldn’t decorate and no one ever wanted to come trick or treating, and not living in a neighborhood so we could trick or treat with our friends. Not to mention that we never got to choose what we would be for Halloween. Cheerleader for the annual dance recital? Cheerleader for Halloween.
I’m sure it didn’t help that my mom also lived in a mortuary growing up. We just didn’t get excited about Halloween. Of course, I’m the only emotionally scarred person in my family – sister and brother love it.
I hate it too. But my hatred comes from living in a mortuary where we couldn’t decorate and no one ever wanted to come trick or treating, and not living in a neighborhood so we could trick or treat with our friends. Not to mention that we never got to choose what we would be for Halloween. Cheerleader for the annual dance recital? Cheerleader for Halloween.
I’m sure it didn’t help that my mom also lived in a mortuary growing up. We just didn’t get excited about Halloween. Of course, I’m the only emotionally scarred person in my family – sister and brother love it.
I’m not a fan. At all. I refuse to do traditional Halloween decorations and I bring out the harvest looking, autumnal stuff instead. My one concession is blow up decorations in our yard – two huge eyeballs (which are strangely cute) for my Optometrist husband.
Mini chocolate bars are evil.
And there, that’s all I have to say about that.
I’m not a fan. At all. I refuse to do traditional Halloween decorations and I bring out the harvest looking, autumnal stuff instead. My one concession is blow up decorations in our yard – two huge eyeballs (which are strangely cute) for my Optometrist husband.
Mini chocolate bars are evil.
And there, that’s all I have to say about that.
I’m really not that into Halloween either…I HATE trick-or-treating…and anything horror related…or even slightly scary. and blood. and yicky evil things. I don’t like the spiderwebs, and tombstones, and undead creepy things poking out from around corners. and boatloads of sugary teeth rotting things.
But I LOVE fall. and fall food. and fall leaves. And so I decorate with those. But I’m every kid’s nightmare when it comes to candy – I’ve given out halloween pretzels since Ellie was 2.
And I have to admit….I really do like dressing up…and adding a raven to my fall foliage decor…and reading Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt….and carving pumpkins and eating the toasted pumpkin seeds….and watching silly ‘ghost story’ movies like Blackbeard’s Ghost…and making Dad’s caramel recipe with slices of apples.
So I guess I’m somewhere in between…and that’s fine with me.
I’m really not that into Halloween either…I HATE trick-or-treating…and anything horror related…or even slightly scary. and blood. and yicky evil things. I don’t like the spiderwebs, and tombstones, and undead creepy things poking out from around corners. and boatloads of sugary teeth rotting things.
But I LOVE fall. and fall food. and fall leaves. And so I decorate with those. But I’m every kid’s nightmare when it comes to candy – I’ve given out halloween pretzels since Ellie was 2.
And I have to admit….I really do like dressing up…and adding a raven to my fall foliage decor…and reading Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt….and carving pumpkins and eating the toasted pumpkin seeds….and watching silly ‘ghost story’ movies like Blackbeard’s Ghost…and making Dad’s caramel recipe with slices of apples.
So I guess I’m somewhere in between…and that’s fine with me.
Yeah, the kids love this stuff. 🙂
Yeah, the kids love this stuff. 🙂
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve found a comrade in arms, so to speak! Everyone around here loves Halloween. Not me! I claim November 1st as my favorite day of the year because Halloween is as far away as possible, plus the really great holidays are just around the corner, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, holidays that have meaning and are all about giving, not greed (you’ve seen the kids that take pillow cases for their candy, my kids included, and they try to get it as full as possible!) Ick, and ditto to everything everyone else put what they DON’T like about Halloween (R.I.P, skeletons, blood, too much candy etc). I wish we just celebrated the harvest. I love fall decor! Crisp apples, Indian corn, pumpkins (NOT jack-o-lanterns!) fall leaves, bales of straw.
BTW, Becca, LOVE your books! I just discovered them about 2 months ago. Brilliant. I can’t wait for your next one. I went to an LDSstorymakers writers conference in March of 2008, I think, and met some wonderful authors, so I wished I could have made it to the one you were presenting at (held at UVU in September, I think?) Good luck with your writing! And I love your blog!
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve found a comrade in arms, so to speak! Everyone around here loves Halloween. Not me! I claim November 1st as my favorite day of the year because Halloween is as far away as possible, plus the really great holidays are just around the corner, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, holidays that have meaning and are all about giving, not greed (you’ve seen the kids that take pillow cases for their candy, my kids included, and they try to get it as full as possible!) Ick, and ditto to everything everyone else put what they DON’T like about Halloween (R.I.P, skeletons, blood, too much candy etc). I wish we just celebrated the harvest. I love fall decor! Crisp apples, Indian corn, pumpkins (NOT jack-o-lanterns!) fall leaves, bales of straw.
BTW, Becca, LOVE your books! I just discovered them about 2 months ago. Brilliant. I can’t wait for your next one. I went to an LDSstorymakers writers conference in March of 2008, I think, and met some wonderful authors, so I wished I could have made it to the one you were presenting at (held at UVU in September, I think?) Good luck with your writing! And I love your blog!
Oh, I love your little MacBeth witch quoting Shakespeare – double, double, toil and trouble!! So adorable!!
Oh, I love your little MacBeth witch quoting Shakespeare – double, double, toil and trouble!! So adorable!!
Yeah, I’m not a fan either. I was going to blog about it but everybody beat me to it. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one that thinks this way.
Yeah, I’m not a fan either. I was going to blog about it but everybody beat me to it. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one that thinks this way.