What are your plans for October 31st?

Does your family encourage enthusiastic Halloween celebration? What are your traditions?

If your family or country isn't big on the Jack-o-Lanterns, does the end of October have any other significance for you?

Where will YOU be in eleven days?

I have my reasons for not participating in Halloween.

1. I'm a Christan

and

2. Zombies, vampires, witches, and ghosts are just creepy.

I'll be improving the diction of whoever missed all those 'g's.

Samhain is actually the Irish word for "November". We also call December "Nollaig" which means Christmas. Halloween is called Oíche Shamhna (Samhain Eve). We eat a lot of this stuff called barnbrack, which is just a fruit loaf but with things hidden inside it. Usually a ring- if you get a ring in your slice, it means you'll be married first. If you get a coin- you'll be rich, a pea- you'll be poor, a cipín- a cripple (we're such a nice race).

But it's become pretty commercialised now so even all those ancient roots of Celtic tradition have become very Americanised.

Me though, I have a big charity event the following day at 5 am. So I'll be making cupcakes and sleeping.

I want to check the top one but I feel I'm a bit too old now.

Candy all the way, and @Blackwood, you are NEVER too old for Halloween! (As long as you wear some sort of costume, otherwise you'll get a lot of dirty stares from your neighbors.)

Samhain as in the pagan holiday? Are there many pagan YWSers?

I'm making my little cousins into zombies and fairies (and one pumpkin xD) then I'm taking them trick or treating!! Can't wait!

Well I have my deathly boring school prize giving on that day that I would illegally skip out on if i was not in the orchestra anyway. So blah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll be at a party and prepping for an All Saints' Day celebration!

Um excuse me why is "Preparing for Día de los Muertos" not included in this?

That weird moment when you realize you're getting old and you're the one actually passing the candy to trick-or-treaters...

@Carina you would easily pass for an 8 year old if you wore a mask

I shall be exploring Venice!!!!

I'm going to the dentist

A dentist in Venice.

I will still be being killed by this driving course I'm on... Maybe they'll do something for Halloween... Yeah likely