My daughter is 10 so we usually get a bunch of candy but she doesnt like chocolate so the only thing she really eats is like the sweet tarts and Lollypops she usually picks out the stuff she doesnt like and i put it in a bowl on the table for any company that comes over.

I usually let her have a couple pieces on Halloween and then a couple till she gets bored with it and I throw it away


That really sucks that you guys dont really have Halloween in AUS its not just for the kids We go to a party every year and get dressed up in costumes too as Adults.

I have 3 children so god kows how much candy we are going to get. Well the youngest is 6months so i dont think he will be eating candy.

But my others love candy but i do limit them, they all put the chocolate in the middle of the room and pick what they like and dont like and what they leave over me and they're father eat.

I also think its to bad that they dont celebrate Halloween in Austriala because my birthday is the day after Halloween so I have had several Halloween birthday parties on Halloween and completly decorated the house as a hunted house. It was so much fun. But now im a mom I doubt I will have anymore parties like that especially when he gets older because im sure he will want to get trick or treating

some people do go trick or treating (i know one person that does) but when she knocked on peoples doors she got a door in her face (we really are freindly just dont like people door knocking). the only people she got lollies from was her grandparents coz they knew she was coming. yeah i know you have big parties or whatever for adults (ive seen it in movies, Hocus Pocus etc.). it sounds like fun anyway oh and i was just wondering what is it all about?? i mean what is it that your celebrating??

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Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: from the Old Irish samain).[1] The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes [2] regarded as the "Celtic New Year".[3] Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.[4][5]



History of name
The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' Even (both "even" and "eve" are abbreviations of "evening", but "Halloween" gets its "n" from "even" as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day",[6] which is now also known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions,[3] until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.


theres a history lesson for you...halloween in ireland was a real experience

thanx Puck. that was very informative. i now know what halloween is

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