>Oh yes really spoilt. We have pumpkins outside, a ghostly figure thing that we’ve hung up for the last 8 years with a sign too. I’ve hung fake cobwebs on over the outside door, my kids are getting dressed soon to go out, we have a big bowl of sweet for the visitors to our house. Yeah totally spoiled for them.<

If it makes you and yours happy mate – absolutely fine by me:-)

As I said, I personally find it sad that rampant commercialism and the ever encroaching U.S kulchur has all but subsumed what was (in Scotland at least)a great tradition.

all done for the evening.. pumpkin having a rest until next year.. looking forward to celebrating thanksgiving sometime in the future.. Agree with the OTT commercialism and encroaching crappy americanisms.

encroaching crappy americanisms.

But you’re “looking forward to celebrating thanksgiving sometime in the future”.

Do they still dook for apples these days?

We have the Apple Game – bucket full of apples and the kids have to drop a big carving fork to try to skewer an apple. If they manage it (3 tries for the lil’uns) then they win the coin stuck in the back of it, which varies between a star prize of two quid and a bogie prize of 2p.

The kids love it. We must have had about forty round tonight. (All nice well-behaved good kids. No tricks or eggings here).

The house opposite has done the full works, gates covered in cobwebs, fairy lights, life size skeleton, and to finish it off, various head/tomb stones installed in the front lawn, some of them are even set at a spooky angle 🙂

Looks pretty good from someone who doesn’t bother with halloween 🙂

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I take it none of miserable gits went trick or treating yourself then??

never went trick or treating in my puff. Went out round the doors for my Halloween though! usual get up was black bin bag with stars and moons cardboard cutout stuck to it and a pointy hat.. 😆

Early to mid 80s BTW, must have been about 5 to 8/9 year old. Used to come back with 2 bags worth of fruit and monkey nuts for my trouble. Some houses would have ye dunking for apples.

After 9 yo I reckon you was more interesting in collecting bonny wood than Halloween.

IME, kids going out round the doors has always been the case, actually happens much less these days.

Adults taking part was a late nineties early 00s development when Halloween became part of the social calendar. Don’t join in myself but I don’t see anything wrong with it, just a bit of fun.

Do they still dook for apples these days?

Apples? In my day you had to dook for chips in a pan of hot fat.

Those that think having a pumpkin in the window is an agreed sign are deluded.