Halloween
31st October. The Dreaded Halloween.
As you may have guessed I hate Halloween. In principle, the idea of having fun at Halloween party when it's dark and miserable outside is great. However, who wants to have knocks on the door every 5 minutes with some scary masked teenagers popping at your door steps. If you're on your own or eldery do NOT open the door. Have a sign displayed on the door - available from local council or police or published in local newspaper - and simply ignore them.
But if you are one of the rare people who do enjoy it - there's two tips I would give:
- don't go over the top - like every other holiday, it is now
over-commercialised. Having your house decorated from top to bottom
in web spiders may turn out to be much cheaper if you simply don't
clean it for a few months before.
- treat or trick -whilst supermarkets want to convince you that you need to give out treats (hence endless piles of sweets promotions at every isle throughout October), as the name clearly explains - you are allowed to trick - a home made chocolate covered Brussels sprout will do it nicely.