I love Halloween because a lot of horror movies get released around this time of the year, and I love watching them!
Mostly I watch horror movies and Halloween specials from when I was younger.
I also still live with my folks, so I manufacture reasons not to have to hand out candy.
Local theatre company usually puts on a fundraiser party that’s a surprising amount of fun. I like to put together a homemade costume the best I can and get juuuuust drunk enough to embarrass myself on the dance floor.
Unfortunately it’s canceled this year due to the usual party-thrower quitting the board of directors 😭 I’m a little short on time and money so it’s probably a blessing in disguise, but I’m already daydreaming about next Halloween. I’m thinking giant foam SpongeBob head 🤔
Not really. Retailers try to make it more of a thing every year though. We have Sinterklaas, Christmas and most important the Carnaval season here in the south of the Netherlands, which starts on 11/11.
More interestingly though the same day as Carnaval season starts we have ‘Sint-Maarten’, where the kids also trick and treat. This tradition is also known as old halloween.
In some German and Dutch-speaking towns, there are nighttime processions of children carrying paper lanterns or turnip lanterns and singing songs of St Martin. These processions are known in German as Laternelaufen.
I find a camping site next to a lake and hope a group of 18-25 year olds will camp…
