hang it at your door and invite the neighbours round for a game of hide the pencil.
That's a good way to scare off the kids!
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That's a good way to scare off the kids!
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British approach is:Forgive me, what is the British approach?
Mainly a young children/teen "celebration". Kids dress up like witches, mummies, vampires...etc and teens dress up like horror movie characters. Usually, monsters, character from Scream, some other gory figure or shape.
The kids go door to door, saying "Trick or Treat", the occupants are expected to give them candy. (sweets)
It's usual for the teens to set up pranks. I.e. the other year my mates drew the outline of a body on someone's drive with toothpaste and covered the fence with police tape. Then they threw loo roll in the back yard.
If the house is bare, the teens usually get a pack of eggs and "decorate it".
It's basically all about horror over here.Comment
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...how is that different from the american approach? It's the same damn thing!
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As with anything the americans are much more enthusiastic about it... I'd say it's much more light-hearted and fun over there. I remember from my time in the US, seeing loads of kids out, everyone decorates and gets ready for halloween in a big way, poeple throw parties and on occasion even the adults dress up; kids are dressed up as firemen, cartoon characters, superhero's, as well as the more scary stuff...
Over here it's much darker; not taken seriously, little decoration, a much more negative attitude and response towards the day and those that are out trick-of-treating. I remember as a kid going out a few times and getting some abuse!! lol, I think we saw it as part of the fun back then, but I must admit alot of kids out were just there to cause trouble!AUDI - saving Dad's from minivans since 1994
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My bro-in-law and his family all had fun parties and dressed up like characters from books or famous people or something funny. They made cutsie pumpkin cup cakes and decorated the house light and happy....how is that different from the american approach? It's the same damn thing!
Two other families I know who are American do the same thing.
To me, that's a big difference!Comment
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It's still relatively the same... people set up some serious wicked horror houses on Halloween. I was mostly horror figures like Scream (although I think I was a power ranger when I was wee Cullam3n), and believe me, I've done my fair share of TPing and egging. :mischeif: In fact some supermarkets and grocery stores will not sell eggs on Halloween or 2 or 3 days prior!
And I can't say I can remember an adult dressing up and going out to trick-to-treat, if anything they will just put on a half-assed thing on to greet people at the door.
While on this topic, my friend just got his Halloween costume in the mail today! He's a... uh, a sheepf***er. Like, for real. There's half a sheep attached at the front, and the rear of the costume has a flap for, uh, "quickly mooning."
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Gotta love the diversity of America I have never done or heard of anything like that where I am from!
My friends and I scared the devil out of this one woman, her husband decided to chase us for a bit down the street
luckily someone distracted him and i 
in the trees
I would say that it's not all about horror as you described, as a lot of youngins will dress up like superman or spiderman or something, but believe me you get/do some pretty gruesome stuff.Comment
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just thought id add these as i had them as an email today and well like the look of your pumpkins so i thought id add these to the thread....Comment
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there is a few if any are to naught feel free to take them of moderators..Comment
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