Every year, I am shocked at Shelly's face and a load of pumpkins on the shelves all precut according to style.

Then there are the trick or treaters. Cute little children in a cheap one pound make over with costumes that look more rediculous every year.
The other element is, the safety aspect. Allowing your children to go to strangers houses all by themselves. Kids from as young as five years of age. you can only imagine the delight of a potential child snatcher.

Well the time has come around on cue and no doubt there will be the pumpkins with candles glowing the pumpkin with a gruelly face.

Pumpkins make good juices and soups, yet people don't treat them as food, but as inedible objects when poor people could have had a taste of luxury for once in their life. The shops make a fortune. They rip off the kids and the parents struggle with bags and bags of treats. I think that Halloween has become a spleen cruncher in terms of boring and hassle. My grandmother who is best described as a sensitive person gets very afraid of people in masks and fake blood stained clothes calling at the door screaming with delight and chanting trick or treat and we are coming to get ya. When my grandmother opened the door once, she fainted. Got rushed to hospital and then decided to sell up, release the capitol tied up in house for a place in retirement home and some for her own children.

Grandmother misses the house aswell as the dog who continues to escape and sit next to her old gate whining away. I tried to explain these things to the dog but it just went back to its original spot. beside the gate. Know how he feels. I miss the house too.


Your views please.

We don't get that much happening in Australia.
When we do, the parents usually pre-arrange, or are waiting by the gate.

You are more likely to get needless vandalism out here rather than anything else.
Last year I had some numbnuts throw an egg at my car as I went past. Almost caused me to crash. At 100kph, an egg quickly becomes a lot deadlier.

The security guard at the supermarket got held down and spraypainted in the eyes. Lovely!

"The store where I work part-time is selling carveable fake pumpkins for $9.99 to $19.99 apiece. Oh, and they're marked "flammable"

some advice dont set it on fire in your kitchen bcuz they r realy flamible trust me

I guess I agree with the point that Halloween's too commercialized, just like every other holiday it seems.

Pumpkin makes good bread and pies.

The wiccans and other pagans call this "samhain", it's a big cross-quarter day to them, a time to divine the future.

I live out in the sticks, I have to go to Halloween, it doesn't come to me, but I have heard of vandalism being rampant in suburbia.

I might put rat poison inside the treats and see how the kids react to it

To be honest i love haloween got 30pound last time i went tricker treating to old now =-(

Bit harsh

I suppose that is respectful, but I enjoy being able to run my errands on Sundays.

I used to work through the night at a Super Wal-Mart (Super WM's are open 24-7). It was odd seeing couples bring their young children to buy groceries at 2 or 3 in the morning.

Back to topic: the stores are becoming stuffed with Christmas merchandise! It is hard to enjoy Halloween when retailers are thinking two holidays ahead.

To be honest I cant see the point in halloween. Its more of a kiddie's holiday anyway. To me halloween is just another normal day. Why do people fuss over it? Whats the point?