i USED to enjoy it...a bit...but now i cant be arsed
Meant to mention this on an earlier thread, but seeing as we're here now...
I used to enjoy Halloween too, and as a kid this was always one of my favourite times of the year: in quick succession you had an Autumn Break, Halloween, Bonfire Night, and then you were starting to look forward to Christmas.
However the thing is that I - like quite a few other FMs - was brought up with a "guising" tradition, and I really can't be bothered with "trick or treating". This isn't romanticised memories of the past: it's a very different thing with a completely different mindset.
My mum's father was a policeman, and he wouldn't let her go guising as he considered it begging, but I always felt that was rather unfair because at least you had to perform a "turn". It was never a case of "something for nothing", whereas "trick or treating" is - with the added, menacing, threat of a "trick" if you don't cough up...