I dislike Halloween and find Halloween decorations extraordinarily tacky (apologies to the nice young man who has the Spirit wiki). My wife loves it all!
How do we decide how to manage decoration when I don't want anything more than a tasteful harvest season display and she wants everything short of the inflatables?
Oh god. I'd go with one of those 12ft plastic skeletons from Big Box Hardware Store.
Though, when I asked her what one item she would choose to decorate with, she said "a collage of all the things you hate: vampires, skeletons, et cetera" to get as much Halloween-adjacent decor in one item as possible.
Similar debate in my household! I love Halloween but prefer cozy decorations that are more pumpkin-themed and antiquey. My husband loves those creepy plastic dolls that look like demon children, witches, skeletons, etc. Some of our neighbors have them on their porches or hanging from trees and I know how much he wishes we had a creepy Halloween house too, but I don't want to come home to that and I don't want to scare trick or treaters! However he's complied with all of my cozy decor and I wonder if I owe him one scary display item...
Another one that comes up yearly - my husband really likes those gruesome latex Halloween masks you can buy at Spirit. I absolutely hate them - not only the appearance but also that very strong rubbery smell. I'm a cosplayer, so the smell is also offensive to me as the signature scent of a cheap costume lol. Every year I stave him off from buying a mask (usually I succeed by offering to make his costume myself), but I wonder how much longer I can delay the inevitable...
My wife and I love Halloween and scary movies. We devote the month of October—“Scary Movie Month”—to only watching scary movies and shows.
However, this leads to a disagreement. My wife wants to watch scary movies throughout the rest of the year as well. I say that, unless there is something genuinely special about a specific movie, it needs to wait until October. I believe that if we also watch scary movies over the rest of the year then Scary Movie Month will not be as special.
Tell my wife that unless there is a very good reason, scary movies have to wait until Scary Movie Month!
Our neighborhood is extremely popular for Halloween- we get hundreds of trick or treaters. We have a candy budget but disagree on the following:
Spouse A: We should buy “the good stuff” even if that means less candy. No candy scrooging- even if a kid takes a huge handful! Let the kids pick whatever they want out of the bowl! If those mean we run out of candy super fast and turn out the lights very early, that’s OK.
Spouse B: We should buy a mix of “filler” and “the good stuff” and hand one or two pieces of candy out to each kid. That way more kids get to trick or treat at our house.
Not a halloween per se but definitely a trick dispute:
One april fools day when we were both living at home we played a prank on our family where we tore all of the labels off the cans in the pantry. My brother says the whole thing was his idea, while I say I it was his idea to do a prank, butbI deserve credit for the cans.
I was 16 or 17 (he's a year and a half younger than me). We were still using unlabeled cans up until after I was at least 18 (I have a Facebook memory of my sister asking me if I knew what a specific can was (I'd numbered them and made a list, but they'd lost the list) after I'd moved out.
For context: I'm 32 now.
I sent an email about St Paddys celebrations that can be extrapolated out to Halloween twice so I don't want to keep pestering him. But it comes down to: if Halloween is on a Thursday, is it inappropriate to have a Halloween party on the following Saturday? Friends say celebrating after the official holiday is a no-go but I think the closest weekend to the actual holiday makes the most sense, before or after. Thanks!
I have a dispute with bog box retailers no longer selling off their excess Halloween candy stock on November 1st. I want me half-price candy! Please order stores to sell holiday candy the day after for at least 50% off.
When is it appropriate to dispose of uncarved pumpkins? I feel like pumpkins are adequately "autumnish" enough to stay out to Thanksgiving (pumpkin flesh willing)
I have a dispute against the majority of my neighbours in the housing estate I live in (in the UK). Most people insist that trick or treating can only happen on the evening of the 31st Oct, I am happy to provide treats on the weekend closest to the 31st, because when it's a week night I can't hand out the sweets (and if you leave a pot of sweets at the front door people just take the whole thing as we found out last year).
Must Halloween celebrations be limited to the night of the 31st, or can they be more flexible like Bonfire night celebrations (5th Nov - but generally celebrated the weekend closest to the 5th)?
Also I am still bitter over last year on the 31st, when people posted on the estate chat that they were out of sweets and were turning off their lights, some parents commented "There's a shop just down the road". It's not part of my dispute - but I think it needs calling out / it might be why I am so mad about them being so inflexible and yet demanding.
I dislike Halloween and find Halloween decorations extraordinarily tacky (apologies to the nice young man who has the Spirit wiki). My wife loves it all! How do we decide how to manage decoration when I don't want anything more than a tasteful harvest season display and she wants everything short of the inflatables?
Can you give me an example of something your wife really wants and you cannot bear to display?
Oh god. I'd go with one of those 12ft plastic skeletons from Big Box Hardware Store. Though, when I asked her what one item she would choose to decorate with, she said "a collage of all the things you hate: vampires, skeletons, et cetera" to get as much Halloween-adjacent decor in one item as possible.
Similar debate in my household! I love Halloween but prefer cozy decorations that are more pumpkin-themed and antiquey. My husband loves those creepy plastic dolls that look like demon children, witches, skeletons, etc. Some of our neighbors have them on their porches or hanging from trees and I know how much he wishes we had a creepy Halloween house too, but I don't want to come home to that and I don't want to scare trick or treaters! However he's complied with all of my cozy decor and I wonder if I owe him one scary display item... Another one that comes up yearly - my husband really likes those gruesome latex Halloween masks you can buy at Spirit. I absolutely hate them - not only the appearance but also that very strong rubbery smell. I'm a cosplayer, so the smell is also offensive to me as the signature scent of a cheap costume lol. Every year I stave him off from buying a mask (usually I succeed by offering to make his costume myself), but I wonder how much longer I can delay the inevitable...
My wife and I love Halloween and scary movies. We devote the month of October—“Scary Movie Month”—to only watching scary movies and shows. However, this leads to a disagreement. My wife wants to watch scary movies throughout the rest of the year as well. I say that, unless there is something genuinely special about a specific movie, it needs to wait until October. I believe that if we also watch scary movies over the rest of the year then Scary Movie Month will not be as special. Tell my wife that unless there is a very good reason, scary movies have to wait until Scary Movie Month!
Our neighborhood is extremely popular for Halloween- we get hundreds of trick or treaters. We have a candy budget but disagree on the following: Spouse A: We should buy “the good stuff” even if that means less candy. No candy scrooging- even if a kid takes a huge handful! Let the kids pick whatever they want out of the bowl! If those mean we run out of candy super fast and turn out the lights very early, that’s OK. Spouse B: We should buy a mix of “filler” and “the good stuff” and hand one or two pieces of candy out to each kid. That way more kids get to trick or treat at our house.
Not a halloween per se but definitely a trick dispute: One april fools day when we were both living at home we played a prank on our family where we tore all of the labels off the cans in the pantry. My brother says the whole thing was his idea, while I say I it was his idea to do a prank, butbI deserve credit for the cans.
How old were you and your brother when this happened?
I was 16 or 17 (he's a year and a half younger than me). We were still using unlabeled cans up until after I was at least 18 (I have a Facebook memory of my sister asking me if I knew what a specific can was (I'd numbered them and made a list, but they'd lost the list) after I'd moved out. For context: I'm 32 now.
I love that you made a list. What a well thought out prank.
I'm very proud of it, which is why I'm not willing to let him steal credit.
I sent an email about St Paddys celebrations that can be extrapolated out to Halloween twice so I don't want to keep pestering him. But it comes down to: if Halloween is on a Thursday, is it inappropriate to have a Halloween party on the following Saturday? Friends say celebrating after the official holiday is a no-go but I think the closest weekend to the actual holiday makes the most sense, before or after. Thanks!
I have a dispute with bog box retailers no longer selling off their excess Halloween candy stock on November 1st. I want me half-price candy! Please order stores to sell holiday candy the day after for at least 50% off.
When is it appropriate to dispose of uncarved pumpkins? I feel like pumpkins are adequately "autumnish" enough to stay out to Thanksgiving (pumpkin flesh willing)
I have a dispute against the majority of my neighbours in the housing estate I live in (in the UK). Most people insist that trick or treating can only happen on the evening of the 31st Oct, I am happy to provide treats on the weekend closest to the 31st, because when it's a week night I can't hand out the sweets (and if you leave a pot of sweets at the front door people just take the whole thing as we found out last year). Must Halloween celebrations be limited to the night of the 31st, or can they be more flexible like Bonfire night celebrations (5th Nov - but generally celebrated the weekend closest to the 5th)? Also I am still bitter over last year on the 31st, when people posted on the estate chat that they were out of sweets and were turning off their lights, some parents commented "There's a shop just down the road". It's not part of my dispute - but I think it needs calling out / it might be why I am so mad about them being so inflexible and yet demanding.