1. Do you celebrate Halloween?  Yes!

2. What are you dressing up as? A chocobo. (google it.... It's a chicken-like thing)

3. What's your jack'o'lantern going to be? Mine is a cat. =)  With a wand and stars and lines and the moon and my initials.

4. How many houses in your neighborhood, counting yours, are going to be celebrating Halloween? (Best guess is fine, the only reason I know is because we moved here at the end of February and I wanted to see how many people are celebrating.) I don't know; a very small amount, because my neighborhood is pretty small.

5. What's your favorite kind of candy?  Everything except for black licorice, pretty much.  (I HAVE had black licorice, not lying!)

Also...

Something I have observed: The people with really awesome (meaning scary) decorations often have the best candy, the people with lots of decorations (not really awesome/scary, just lots) often have kind of bad candy, and the people with simple decorations often have really good candy. Do you agree or disagree?

I don't know.... Maybe the second two have to do with expectations, and the first is probably because they are really into Halloween! =)

1. Do you celebrate Halloween?

Of course! All Hallows Eve is awesome!

2. What are you dressing up as?

A cup of Starbucks coffee (my costume is so cool! It's homemade)

3. What's your jack'o'lantern going to be?

Not sure. I haven't carved it yet. Probably some template that I'll trace and carve.  

4. How many houses in your neighborhood, counting yours, are going to be celebrating Halloween? (Best guess is fine, the only reason I know is because we moved here at the end of February and I wanted to see how many people are celebrating.)

Zero. I don't trick-or-treat in my neighborhood. I do it in my friend's neighborhood with so many houses, there's no way I could count 'em all.

5. What's your favorite kind of candy?

SweeTarts, Dots, Nerds, Reeses, Kit-kats, Laffy-Taffys, Jolly Ranchers, Starbursts 

Something I have observed: The people with really awesome (meaning
scary) decorations often have the best candy, the people with lots of
decorations (not really awesome/scary, just lots) often have kind of bad
candy, and the people with simple decorations often have really good
candy. Do you agree or disagree?

I totally agree with the awesome decorations=awesome candy, but there are some houses with no decorations that give out candy in bulk sizes. Like this one lady gives out Nerd Ropes PLUS a huge thing of Starbursts. Yum.

1. Do you celebrate Halloween?

Some years we do, some we don't. Last year we did, this year we're not.

2. What are you dressing up as?

Actually, we won't be here for Halloween, and I'm so excited! Because... WE'RE GOING TO THE HARRY POTTER WORLD IN FLORIDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am WAY beyond excited right now. And since we're Homeschooled, we get to go during the weekday when it won't be busy!!! We kept putting it off til' the middle of November, but then we were finally just like, why not go now? So we are. And our Papa has to go up to Canada to work next week, so this is the last week we would be able to go together without it being busy. I was going to be a Doran and wear my peasanty dress with these woven sandals and a plain kind of long sweater that was supposed to be a Doran cloak. You guys gotta read Juniper. And Wise Child. And Colman.

3. What's your jack'o'lantern going to be?

We don't have any pumkins.

4. How many houses in your neighborhood, counting yours, are going to be celebrating Halloween? (Best guess is fine, the only reason I know is because we moved here at the end of February and I wanted to see how many people are celebrating.)

Uhhh, there are about 60 houses in our booooring neighborhood. We're not, I don't know if one of our neighbors who have a phsyco dog are. I've NEVER seen anyone go down there on Halloween;they have a steep hill. Okay, I saw one group of kids a while ago. We are getting some new neighbors across the road!!! I hope they have kids. There are only two kids in our part of the neighborhood, and we don't see them that much. But anyway, teh moving-in-neighbors have halloween stuff out, so I suspect they will be trick-or-treating. 

5. What's your favorite kind of candy?

Butterfingers (when I could have them before I got braces) reeses, dark choclate, Ghiradelli (spelling?!) caramels (HA! take that, orthodontist) (don't worry, I don't eat those anymore, either *sob*) and a new one I just discovered yesturday... Rasinets. But I don't know if that counts as candy candy.

Also...

Something I have observed: When there was a sign last year that said "please take one" almost everyone I was trick-or-treating with took more than one. But not me. My sister says I'm a goody goody... Sometimes. lol. Some people have more halloween decorations than Christmas ones. Some people think halloween is evil (expecially here in the south, blech. the south stinks, sorry) and they celebrate this thing called "Reformation Celebration". I've celebrated it twice with some friends. It is to celebrate when Martin Luther (not Jr.) nailed the (I forgot the number of laws) to the door of a church. The Irish celebrated Samhuinn to mark the end of the growing season on October 31st and November 1st. Irish also would make Jack-o'lanterns out of turnips because they had no pumpkins in Ireland. (I got that one from Cricket!)

-Hannah☺☻ Peaceing out for now.

Happy Halloween everybuggy! :D *gives everybuggy a handful of their favorite candy*  

1. Do you celebrate Halloween? Yep! :)

2. What are you dressing up as? I'm going to be a Scarecrow. My siblings and I are surprising each other with our costumes this year, so they have no idea what I'm going to be, and I have no idea what they're going to be!

3. What's your jack'o'lantern going to be? We've carved pumpkins every year, but I'm not sure if we're doing it this year.....we might do them today, if we do, I'll let you know how I carve mine! :)

4. How many houses in your neighborhood, counting yours, are going to be celebrating Halloween? (Best guess is fine, the only reason I know is because we moved here at the end of February and I wanted to see how many people are celebrating.) Ha, ha, we're at an RV park, so I'm really not sure! ;) We're not trick-or-treating this year, so we're having a fun Halloween party with candy, scary movies, etc. It should be loads of fun! :)

5. What's your favorite kind of candy? Ooh, super hard question....well, I'm not the biggest fan of chocolate, (my sister thinks I'm crazy. :)) but I really love skittles, nerds, hot tamales, lolipops, tootsie rolls, red vines.....I'm a sugar nut! :)

Something I have observed: The people with really awesome (meaning
scary) decorations often have the best candy, the people with lots of
decorations (not really awesome/scary, just lots) often have kind of bad
candy, and the people with simple decorations often have really good
candy. Do you agree or disagree? I agree! Our old neighbor had LOADS and LOADS of decorations, (we helped her put them up every year) yet she never had very good candy....weird! :)

I hope everybuggy has an awesome spooky day! *hugs*

I do not celebrate Halooween. Here is a speech I wrote for a class for CO-OP I took (speech class).

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What is Halloween?

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A lot of us
celebrate Halloween by trick-or-treating or celebrating at a local church. But
do you truly know what you are celebrating.

Halloween
originated as the eve of the Celtic (KELTIC) New Year and celebrating Saimhain,
their Lord of the Dead.  Halloween is
about death, witchcraft, Satan, and sooooo much more.

PS  I dunno what the stuff on the top is. caNT GET IT TO GO AWAY! SOrry!!!

The Celts (KELTS)

The Celts
(KELTS) lived over a thousand years ago, in what we now know as Ireland. The
Celts (KELTS) worshiped Saimhain. He was their Lord of the Dead.

October 31st
(Saimhain) was the Celtic (KELTIC) New Year. They believed on the night of
Saimhain, October 31st, the souls of the dead would come back
home.  This was especially true for those
who had died in the past year.

Saimhain was
the same night that the witches’ Goddess Diana would go into a deep sleep.
While the goddess was sleeping the screen between life and death was very
thin.  On the night of Saimhain, witches
preformed magic “spells” that would
give them contact to the souls of the dead.

Demons set
out to cause turmoil and distress to the humans. So that is how our pumpkin
tradition started. The humans did not like the demons disturbing them. So they
hollowed out turnips and carved scary faces in them to scare away the unwanted
spirits. Later when the Irish had immigrated to America, they found that
pumpkins were much more durable and much scarier looking.

Ghosts or souls were to “return” to their earthly
homes. They believed that especially those who had died in the past year would return
home. The witches believed that bones had power.  Many witches would go and lie on graves. That
is sometimes graves are stolen or robbed because witches, warlocks, or wizards
would dig up the bones and keep them for power.

Symbolism:

A witches
hat, the black cat, black wardrobe – What do they symbolize?  Black was the color of evil. They wore black
hats, black shoes, and black dresses; black anything to represent their evil.

The witches
believed their hat to be the “cone of power”. They believed as long
as they wore this hat they would always have their “magic powers”.

The witches also
believed that the spirits of the dead could possess these black cats because
they are elusive and their dark color.  Many
practicing witches wanted one so they could be in better contact with the
spirits that possess the cat.

Bonfires and human sacrifices:

Have you
ever wondered where the word bonfire was derived from? Here’s the
answer! It is derived from the word BONEFIRE!!

The Druids
were the Celtic (KELTIC) priests. The Druids would go to homes and demand
a virgin to be produced by morning. If one was not, the Druids would go back to
that house and paint a blood pentagram on the door with a very scary face in
the middle. That would announce that everyone in that house would die if a
virgin was not given. The Druids would also burn criminals alive as sacrifices.
But over time the decided virgins appeased the gods better.

What the one TRUE GOD thinks:

The Holy
Spirit denies Halloween. Halloween is an evil holiday. It worships Satan. This
does not please the LORD. There are many many verses in the BIBLE that warn you
about Halloween. Joshua 24:15 b, is a great example:

Joshua 24:15 b

“as for me and my
household we shall serve the LORD”

After doing
this research I do not want to go anywhere on the night of October 31st!!

I am a Christian if you are wondering.

1. Do you celebrate Halloween? yes

2. What are you dressing up as? an (east) indian princess

3. What's your jack'o'lantern going to be? I did it yesterday. A cat.

4. How many houses in your neighborhood, counting yours, are going to be
celebrating Halloween? (Best guess is fine, the only reason I know is
because we moved here at the end of February and I wanted to see how
many people are celebrating.) Almost all. Our neighborhood is a huge spot for trick-or-treaters to be dumped off because the houses are so close together, you don't have to go far to get loads of stuff.

5. What's your favorite kind of candy? Ohhhh... Heath Bars. And then after that, any novelty variety of kitkat or butterfinger that will make your siblings jealous, lol

Also...

Something I have observed: The people with really awesome (meaning
scary) decorations often have the best candy, the people with lots of
decorations (not really awesome/scary, just lots) often have kind of bad
candy, and the people with simple decorations often have really good
candy. Do you agree or disagree? Hm... The people with the most specialized decorations often have the most specialized candy, which I hate. Like gummy vampire teeth and chocolate eyeballs, ears, etc.