I am known by my friends and family for loving horror and anything spooky related and this year I was asked what I was doing for Halloween. I was like.. I don’t drink or go to the bar so I’m not dressing up and doing that, I don’t have kids so I won’t be taking them trick or treating.. I also live in an apartment and the building is locked so I don’t get trick or treaters. It’s also a work night. And I wasn’t trying to be negative but I just was going to have dinner and watch a horror movie which I’m watching and reading horror all year long.. so it wasn’t a huge deal. And I got such negative reactions about it, like how dare I not celebrate appropriately or how can I be a true horror fan if I am not hand making a costume and attending a haunted house event and I don’t go to the goddamn pumpkin patch 4 times in October. Ugh. I still have a great time, and my home decor always looks like Halloween so it’s always spooky season for me! All that being said, just relating to you. Thank you for sharing.
I hated Xmas for years. I had a reason to be excited for it last year, finally, and had that reason dashed on the rocks two weeks or less before Xmas, but after I’d spent hundreds of dollars. So yeah, I’m with you man, I despise it.
Halloween this year was weird. I worked last night, so I didn’t get to do anything cool. I miss Halloween as a kid, and it’s not as “fun” as someone who doesn’t drink anymore.
I get that too. I stopped drinking a couple of years ago and it definitely changed my social activity. Hope you have a good season with or without the holidays.
Thanks again for writing exactly what I am thinking.
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I am known by my friends and family for loving horror and anything spooky related and this year I was asked what I was doing for Halloween. I was like.. I don’t drink or go to the bar so I’m not dressing up and doing that, I don’t have kids so I won’t be taking them trick or treating.. I also live in an apartment and the building is locked so I don’t get trick or treaters. It’s also a work night. And I wasn’t trying to be negative but I just was going to have dinner and watch a horror movie which I’m watching and reading horror all year long.. so it wasn’t a huge deal. And I got such negative reactions about it, like how dare I not celebrate appropriately or how can I be a true horror fan if I am not hand making a costume and attending a haunted house event and I don’t go to the goddamn pumpkin patch 4 times in October. Ugh. I still have a great time, and my home decor always looks like Halloween so it’s always spooky season for me! All that being said, just relating to you. Thank you for sharing.
Yeah, we all should be able to celebrate or not celebrate however we choose. Wishing you a great season, regardless of the holidays!
Thank you, you too 🖤
I hated Xmas for years. I had a reason to be excited for it last year, finally, and had that reason dashed on the rocks two weeks or less before Xmas, but after I’d spent hundreds of dollars. So yeah, I’m with you man, I despise it.
Halloween this year was weird. I worked last night, so I didn’t get to do anything cool. I miss Halloween as a kid, and it’s not as “fun” as someone who doesn’t drink anymore.
I get that too. I stopped drinking a couple of years ago and it definitely changed my social activity. Hope you have a good season with or without the holidays.
Thanks Kris. You too.