I was wondering how does other people in other parts of the world celebrate Halloween? if you do celebrate it or not.

We don't--although the shops are (of course) trying to push it, so for the last few years there has been halloween stuff in the shops around this time of year.  

Queensland, Australia.

I'm not big on Halloween.  It's just any other day to me.  I don't get dressed up or go to any parties.  It's just not much fun when you're not a kid anymore.

We didn't use to, but it's been becoming steadily more popular the last few years; mostly because the shops are pushing it. I remember some clubs or schools doing the occassional costume-party, but seeing pumpkins and bats as decoration in shops and bars is rather new.

aww i love halloween!! on sat i went to a halloween party n tonight i'm going round a mates for some drunk scary movie action lol

most of the time halloween is just a commercial event which is kinda sad espically when 12 year old knock at your door with no outfit on and are like 'give me sweets'

anyways i just love dressing up and when I dabbled with wiccan i remember samhain being my favourite time in like ever dressing in black and silver n wishing i had a black cat......*sigh*

anyways i just love it now its so fun!!

Madcow [UK]

We don't. I mean there's stuff in the shops but mostly Halloween is for kids. Thankfully I live in a quiet area where there's no trick or treaters.

I think it mostly depends on your family, whether you celebrate or not.

(England)

I was gonna celebrate it by being in the audience of Most Haunted Live, but its not loking good right now, im getting myhair done but it seems im the only one looking to do anything what so ever for a change. Oh well

We traditionally don't celebrate Halloween here, but like in Australia, the shops are pushing it. In my quiet little neighbourhood, the kids aren't trick & treating (yet?), but in the large cities, I think more and more people do.

I have a few friends who are into witchcraft, and I picked up a few traits from them. Like making a (small) feast with lots of apples and pumpkin, nothing big. I have one black, medieval-style dress (don't ask, it was a phase) and today is the one day a year I still wear it.

(Holland)

I think I live in one of the few neighborhoods in the US (midwest) where it really for real looks like the trick or treating scene from the movie ET.  Tons of kids (and parents) in elaborate costumes, ready to tell jokes or sing for their candy.  I bought over 200 pieces and it's almost all gone (admittedly some kids took more than one - but not most).  Even tho I'm just the candy giver, I still get a kick out of Halloween.

- Cas

I asked my mom and like Dia said, Germany didn't really do Halloween. I was surprised that the Americans on base didn't do anything apparently... hmm. She did say that her and an american neighbour, she took me over there and they brought their kid over like a candy exchange, hehe, so I didn't celebrate that until nearly three.

Here in Georgia, most counties have trick-or-treating on the town square but some big neighborhoods have some kids visiting from the neighbours, like my mom says she gets about 20 kids from the area. And in White County the kids came to our college where each hall had something. Our hall had a little room full of carnival games ^.^

Halloween kicks mad ass, period!  It's been my second-favorite holiday (after Independence Day) since I was a little kid.  I, too, hail from the midwest, so maybe that has something to do with it, but Halloween has remained quite popular.  You'll still see big groups of kids and adults roaming up and down sidewalks, stopping and getting candy at the houses with the porch lights on, groaning at the houses with the porch lights off, going through the occasional "haunted house" that an especially enthusiastic family has set up in their garage.  I remeber throwing a fit when my parents refused to let me continue trick-or-treating once I reached middle-school age.  But I still love to dress up and go to parties if I can.  It's when I can dress all trampy and not get ragged on for it! :-d

I grew up in a coastal New England suburb (high population density, lots of different neighborhoods), and Halloween was always a blast.  When I was younger I would go around the neighborhood with my brother and sister, and there were always lots of kids dressed up and lots of houses giving out good candy.  And we were always able to trade each other for our own favorites.  When I got older (middle school age), I went around with friends, sans parental chaperon, and we were able to go to each others neighborhoods, too.  But we always had to be wearing costumes; no one would give you candy if you weren't.

Halloween isn't huge over here in the UK. Where I am in Wiltshire, it actually causes a lot of trouble with teenagers around 15 egging houses etc. In fact in the run up to Halloween only peole over 18 are allowed to buy egga and fliur. However the student scene is pretty fun, they get really into it costume wise then go and get completely wasted.

Last nigh me and some of my girlfriends all dressed up and went to TGI Fridays then some pub in Bath. It was a good night :D

In Poland it's a bit different. We don't celebrate Halloween at all. We celebrate the 1st of  November, the All Saints' Day and then, but without such fuss, the 2nd of November... I don't know how to name it. In a free translation, it's a Day For Souls/Ghosts... All in all, for us it's a very serious holiday. A time of reflection and remembering our friends and family members, who are gone. Most of people are Catholics, so here it's a Church festival.

Although it's rather unpopular, some children and youngster are trying to celebrate Halloween just like Americans. They're going to parties, kids are asking 'treat or trick'... But well, personally, I don't like it. We're very different from Americans and British and our All Saint's may be considered sad and depressing, but it's ours. It's also a good occasion to reunite with our families, visit cemetries and forget a little about the whole, revolving aroung money, commercial and busy world. And believe me, walking through a graveyard in the dark, when all candles are burning... It's really beautiful.

On the yay! side, its bonfire night soon :-). Which means firework displays, and bonfires and toffee apples. For all those people who don't know what Bonfire Night is, it's an English holiday on the 5th November essentially celebrating the torture and death of the leader of a group plotting to blow up the House of Parliament with gunpowder. For some reason, hundreds of years later we choose to celebrate this by burning our very own 'Guy', after Guy Fawkes, the man who was killed, out of straw.

As morbid as this sounds it's actually a lot of fun xx

That's okay, for a bit we had a naked Aussie festival here in Dahlonega to celebrate some Aussies who got piss drunk during the olympics and ran through the town naked. And the bear in the square after a bear got stuck in a tree! ^.^

I hate how the shops are trying to push the celebration on you, ugh. Halloween was a huge thing for me when I was little. I used to start planning my costume six months in advance and even made my favorite barbie one as well, who went trick or treating with me. In our neighborhood all teh kids and their parents went dressed to the nines. It was a fun and memoriable time. I finally stopped when I was 15, the thrill was gone, lol. Now I don't celebrate it at all and me and the hubby decided not to let our children due to religious reasons. But they don't miss it. This Halloween we rented movies, played dress up, bought and ate our own candy (until we were sick,) so the kids had fun.

I wonder if it will ever catch on abroad as it has here stateside. And I find myself wondering also, why is Halloween such a huge success here? lol

 And I find myself wondering also, why is Halloween such a huge success here? lol

It's all that old Puritan repression...it allows us to be all "evil" and naughty and all that good stuff!

Coquine

Considering that merchants consider Halloween their second biggest money maker, it's no wonder it's so big in the US.

If it wasn't such fun ...

(Btw, I handed out 6 lbs. of candy in less than an hour in my neighborhood. I felt like a wounded cow falling into the Amazon River. Scary.)

Varin

 it allows us to be all "evil" and naughty and all that good stuff!

But... but I'm always evil and naughty, rofl. See, you just can't see me being evil.

Btw, I handed out 6 lbs. of candy in less than an hour

I feel for the parents, lol. That's why I limit the amount of candy the little rug rats get per week. One rashion of candy a week, that's it. Sugar highs are NOT fun!

I actually love Halloween.  That might be more that it is my birthday and I can always find parties and celebrations. LOL

I live in Utah and it really is a big thing here with the kid's parties and individuals dressing up even for work.  The town my parents live in has a costume parade in the early afternoon.  The kids from the local grade school go up and down main street while shop owners and city officials hand out candy, the locals are also able to do so if they desire.  Also most shopping malls have treat-or-treating at the stores and sometimes the police and fire departments will also have activities for the kids there.  When I was little the streets were crowded with kids and their parents going door to door, but now neighborhoods do what they call truck-or-treating where people gather at churches or in city parks and decorate the truck of their cars.  The kids go to the vehicles trick-or-treating and it is a much safer alternative to the kids being on the streets after dark.