I’ll go first. I love watching Over The Garden Wall every October, either on Halloween or a bit earlier. What about you?
Costumes for sure. I just luv pickings things to wear. I also love watching spooky movies like Halloween, Nightmare Before Christmas, Casper The Friendly Ghost ect… ect… And some Halloween themed episodes of shows like Treehouse Of Horror and the American Dad Halloween episodes.
halloween was imported into this country by a costume shop in 1997. this is common knowledge and the shop itself is very proud of this fact. because of this it is an explicitly consumerist holiday, and it is younger than me by a good margin. i do not know anyone who celebrates.
Here in Costa Rica we don’t usually celebrate Halloween because people back in the 90s said it was satanic and stuff.
Eventually the tradition died down
Nah, Halloween died down and we celebrate Mascaradas (another tradition) instead in that same date.
They used to say that black shirts, heavy metal, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon and even Winnie the Pooh were satanic too as well
We went for a nighttime walk in the woods and read “Tell-Tale Heart.”
Since owning a house my partner and I have really embraced Fall/Thanksgiving/Halloween decor from mid-September until early November (we’re in Canada where Thanksgiving is in October). I like fancy/pretty shit so we have a bunch of blown glass and porcelain stuff, candles, some skull/haunted-like figurines, wreaths and vases with faux flowers/black branches. The last two Thanksgivings my partner bought me a bouquet of orange/yellow flowers for the dining table too.
I bake at least once for Thanksgiving and once for Halloween. We also watch Halloween Baking Championship every year, and try to squeeze in some horror flicks too.
We also listen to a very wide variety of fall/Halloween music throughout the season. This year we particularly enjoyed the Nemos dreamscapes compilations (example).
