Halloween has always been, a superficial holiday in Australia. It is bad enough in the US, let alone here. I never went trick-or-treating as a child and hence never had much interest in it.
However the previous two Halloweens in Sydney, have opened my opinion on the subject.
Last year I went to the extent, of creating a somewhat plausible giant spiders web enclosing the whole on my front entrance.
There was a fake spider,eggs, fingers, toes, active background noises (screams,shouts from computer aided sound etc.), and a scary costume.
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The night before Halloween last year some inventive little girl, was obviously having a conversation with her parents, on the fact that Halloween is not a celebrated event here, yet she still wanted to go.
She went around the immediate streets and put flyers in everyone's letter boxs. They read-
"Happy Haloween! We realise not everyone celebrates this event and we would like you to put out some orange, to let the kids know whom not to bother.
Thankyou."
Needless to say my orange went out straight away, so did ever other house on the street. Even the old grouch across the road put out orange.
The community spirit was amazing that night. I have never met many if any of my neighbours. That night I did. Not only was is a great bonding experience, it was something out of the ordinary.
The fathers of the children obviously got to take them after work and you could see how happy they were trying to convince their young ones to venture into the webbed trap.
So I was wondering, are you doing anything? Will you hand out candy? Will you avoid the whole event? Do you think, we need our own national event, in which we as a neighbourhood can interact?
What are your thoughts?
As much as I dispise Halloween US style, kids simply want to have some fun. I am not going to take that from them.
I am off to think of a last minute costume (I am good at that), not doin' the house up this year, so the costume needs to be scary good and big... I am thinking a giant paper-mache spider that I can get inside and move..
Thanks Guys and Gals, look forward to your thoughts.
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