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The Great 'How to have a spooky good free Halloween' Hunt
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Great 'How to have a spooky good free Halloween' Hunt
Why spend a frightening amount on Halloween when you can DIY for free? Granted, it's a bit late to start growing your own pumpkins, but there are loads of ways to beat the retailers and still have a spooktastic time. What are your top tips?
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Celebrating witches, !!!!!s, ghosts etc and things that go bump in the night??? BAH HUMBUG!
Christmas and something worthwhile to celebrate will do me (and many others) fine thank you!0 -
Celebrating witches, !!!!!s, ghosts etc and things that go bump in the night??? BAH HUMBUG!
Christmas and something worthwhile to celebrate will do me (and many others) fine thank you!
I'm with you on this one - Halloween antics are an unwanted import from the USA and amount to little more than begging so far as trick or treat is concerned. I am sure that most families could do without the extra expense (whether equipping their children with the plethora of costumes, etc., or buying in sweets for the children of neighbours). Halloween is based on a pagan rite and arrived from across the Atlantic as recently as the last part of the 20th century. It has no historical basis in the UK. :mad:0 -
... and arrived from across the Atlantic as recently as the last part of the 20th century. It has no historical basis in the UK. :mad:
Seriously? The concept of Halloween has been present in the UK for hundreds of years.
The part that has arrived from the US is the commercialsition, as much as has happened with Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and the various MOther's, Father's and everyone else's days.
As with these other "Calendar Events", you can elect to take part or not, but if the masses participate you can't expect to be unaffected.
Kids are educated these days (for the most part) to ignore houses which are not decorated, or have polite notices asking not to be disturbed.0 -
I LOVE Halloween. My flat looks like Halloween all year round.
Poundshops and 99p stores are great for decorations, and I made Halloween cup cakes last week for practice as my fellas birthday is on ol' hallows eve. Used orange-coloured chocolate and white chocolate and made Jack Skellington and pumpkin faces on the cakes.
And for the past 2 years The Range has put 70% off all its Halloween decs on the 30th October.0 -
For me the interesting bit, and what is an ancient part of our culture, is the pagan tradition- relating to nature, harvest and honouring the dead. so I like:
harvest decorations of dried leaves, fruits and flowers
making teaselmice
lighting a candle to remember the departed
playing conkers with the children
adults can play the game 'snap dragon'
making dishes from apples - as Halloween is just after the harvest0 -
We respect our neighbours enough not to knock on their doors in the dark, So we are doing a trick or treat treasure hunt in the garden for our little one and his friends. There will be apple bobbing and make a mummy compertition.0
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A trick we always used to do for Halloween decorations was to get a fresh and clean pair of rubber/plastic gloves and fill them with water/squash and freeze them. Once frozen peel the glove off and you've got a severed ice hand to pop in your punch bowl
This is probably a rarer money saving idea too and I did get lucky but a year ago we were browsing around Matalan for halloween decorations and came across some old New Year's Eve dangly decorations. They said 2008 on them but we just chopped the 2 off and hung them upside down so they said BOO
they only cost 20p for the lot and the flat looked really good 
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I don't understand the fuss around Halloween, it's an import from America and has been swooped upon by the supermarkets to extract yet more hard-earned cash from us. I have never taken my children trick or treating-it's akin to going begging in my opinion.My elderly mother is upset by it every year-last year kids threw eggs at her front door when she wouldn't answer.0
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Seriously? The concept of Halloween has been present in the UK for hundreds of years.
The part that has arrived from the US is the commercialsition, as much as has happened with Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and the various MOther's, Father's and everyone else's days.
As with these other "Calendar Events", you can elect to take part or not, but if the masses participate you can't expect to be unaffected.
Kids are educated these days (for the most part) to ignore houses which are not decorated, or have polite notices asking not to be disturbed.
We have always celebrated Halloween, an ancient Celtic festival.
This Trick or Treat rubbish imported from America really wind's me up :mad:0 -
I'm a big Halloween fan! I don't care about the commercialisation etc, as far as I'm concerned it's good clean fun! After weeks and weeks of nagging, my partner has finally relented and let me have a grown up halloween party. The agreement being that it is done on a budget. For a start, we're making our own costumes!
I've spent weeks trawling pound shops etc for cheap decorations - spider webbing etc is dead cheap to buy!
I'm going to make the room look spooky and abandoned by covering all furniture with dust sheets. A bit of red food colouring in a filled bath, and lipstick written on the bathroom mirror should add to the effect. I'm going to cut out bats from black card to hang from the celing, and use masking tape to mark out an outline of a body on the floor - like something out of CSI.
I saw online that if you save old toilet roll tubes and cut eye holes out of them, then put a glow stick inside and hide them in the bushes, it looks like glowing eyes looking out from the trees! So I'm going to try that too!!
I wanted to fill the house with pumpkins, but they aren't cheap, so I've asked everyone to bring a carved pumpkin for a carving competition!!
Can't wait can't wait can't wait!
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