I guess it's gonna take a few more years or generations (if ever..) until ppl here will actually HAVE Halloween. Where I live it's more like a "We celebrate it.. and the neighbors don't.. she does it, but he don't..and they don't even know what it really is." ^^,
The retail industry tries their best to establish it here in Germany..you can buy alot of candy and costumes and stuff and there's a few big parties downtown every year that night.. or ppl do their own lil feasts (mostly teens and twens) but you don't see the kids running around "trick- or treating"
well ok.. some of them do! and will this year.. But they wont be too successful I think.. meaning.. they don't get rich. Most of the ppl don't have extra candy handy for em, not on purpose cuz they're mean or something (ah..well.. some of them might ..)..just because they wouldn't know about the 31st of October or they would've forgotten about it or something. Ok.. It has been worse!.. when I was a kid (yea..waaaaaay back then... you couldn't get a hint of Halloween all over the country that time of the year..(..oh god I'm old... ..) so ..you can see a huuuge difference and the progress. But still.. lot of grown-ups don't give a crap about it or think it's just stupid (my parents!) and a few kids (the older ones) just take their chance trying to get on the candy-for-free-train.. and hey! they don't even come up with a costume or something.. I mean, hello!?!...cadgers.. I wouldn't even open up my door for those.. !!!
Long story short.. ^^, I like Halloween and I think it's such a sweet (literally) night for the kids and everybody. It's fun! and if we had it here I would love to make up a costume for my 5 year old.. it would be pirate or a lil vampire or knight aww cute...
And I'll buy some extra candy in case some lil dwarf, princess or witch comes knockin
and if not... it is all mine!... *___* ok I'd probably have to share it with my sonny but hey.. I am his mother.. I make the rules... ha ha haaa...