Five million of us will celebrate(?) Halloween this year in Australia,
according to the ABC News yesterday.

In its first survey of Halloween intentions, the Australian Retailers
Association found that the average amount spent on Halloween is
$86 per person, equating to a $430 million boost for retailers.

Those in the 35- to 49-year-old age group are the most likely to
celebrate Halloween, with one in five to hold or attend a party
without children.

While Halloween has slowly taken hold in Australia over the past
few decades to be a retail event, the holiday in the US is a major deal.
Americans' expected to spend $US100 per person for a massive
total of AU$16.5 billion on Halloween this year.

One Melbourne resident said while he's not against people having
fun, he will not be celebrating Halloween. He said the October date
represented "Americanisation at its worst".  [I agree]

"Halloween in Australia, and more precisely the way in which it has
bewilderingly entered our cultural landscape like a cheap show bag,
really kind of angers me," he said. "It was just dumped here as a
commercial exercise".

My local Woolies was selling orange "Halloween" pumpkins for $6 per kg. 
I weighed one last Tuesday, and it would've taken $30 of my hard-earned.
This morning Woolies were selling the same pumpkins for $4.50
for the whole thing FFS!

Is this price gouging on a major scale?   Should the ACCC investigate?



At any rate, as an atheist I've never "celebrated" Halloween, one reason
being its religious origins.  The English word 'Halloween' comes from
"All Hallows' Eve", being the evening before the Christian holy days of
All Hallows' Day (All Saints' Day) on 1 November and All Souls' Day
on 2 November.

Who cares where it came from, it's really fun for kids. Don't be such a misery guts.

I'll be taking my 5yo this arvo.

Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat

Gordon wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:11am:


In our little town, we have a register of people's names and their
addresses where the kids can safely knock in order to get their
sugar kicks.   It also stops hoards of kids banging on my front door
for half the night.

A few years ago a few streets away from me, 4 houses put on a street party with a sausage sizzle, fairy floss machine and even beers and wine for the parents. Imagine how horrible it is for all these  neighbours and their kids to fun and getting to know each other.

BAN IT

Gordon wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:45am:

You do realise that this is an offensive claim don't you?  It simply points up
how devoid of legitimate comment you are.  Ad hominems only make the user
look even more stupid than their words would indicate. 

Gordon wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:45am:

Are you truly this dense?  Any normal person would've realised by now I don't
like Halloween, and I don't "do it".    You really need to catch up mate.  (Hint:
read the thread title.)

Gordon wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:45am:

Uh..... what?  This means... uh... I give up LOL.

And......from personal experiences from my older one now 15, from about 12 and up kids are too cool to go trick or treating, so it really mostly little kids doing it and mostly between the ages of 5 to 10.

5 to 10 year old usually don't roam the street for half the night.

Stop lying!

...but hey


The Media of Oceania leaves North Americans in the Dark (continent), oppresses South Americans and is rejected by Sahulians (us Australians).

Just like Monotheism of the Middle-East left Africa in the Dark (continent), oppressed Europe and was rejected by Asia.