Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by adrian » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:16 am

Belladonna wrote:Absolutely.
I kind of feel like that about being 29...hold hold hold!
But I like the challenges the years bring. It just keeps getting better.

thats a good way to look at it :)
Last night 'twas witching Hallowe'en
Dearest; an apple russet- brown
I pared, and thrice above my crown
Whirled the long skin; they watched in keen;
I flung it far; they laughed and cried me shame
Dearest, there lay the letter of your name!

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by Belladonna » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:33 am

I'm a big kid!
Love theme parks, roller coasters, skydiving, bungee jumping. I hope to be doing all that when I'm 70.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, and I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. Did you hear me butterfly? Miles to go before you sleep."



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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by adrian » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:09 am

Belladonna wrote:I'm a big kid!
Love theme parks, roller coasters, skydiving, bungee jumping. I hope to be doing all that when I'm 70.

see thats how i think! theme parks, petting zoos, what ever keeps me busy and entertained :)
Last night 'twas witching Hallowe'en
Dearest; an apple russet- brown
I pared, and thrice above my crown
Whirled the long skin; they watched in keen;
I flung it far; they laughed and cried me shame
Dearest, there lay the letter of your name!

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by Belladonna » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:10 pm

Right on! :D
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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by LarissaAnn » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:33 pm

39, and liking my life much better than I did at 29!
'Tis yet again the spooky season
so we lose all sense of reason.
When witches, ghosts, and ghouls are near,
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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by Murfreesboro » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:38 pm

Well, most of you all are making me feel like the granny or the old crone. I'm 54, will be 55 at Christmas. But despite my age, I'm not a grandmother yet, because I had my children late. My youngest is 12, and I'm trying to persuade her to TOT again this year. I think she's agreed to do one highly decorated street near our home.

My own mother was 40 when I was born, so I have a lengthy perspective in Halloween. My mother never TOT'ed as a child. It wasn't done when she was growing up in the 'teens & '20s. She said she saw it first when she was living in CA in the 1930s, but she didn't see it really take hold in the rest of the country until after WWII. She happily took me TOTing, but in my (1960s) childhood, even a modest Jack-o-Lantern was not common, at least, not in Mississippi. If there was even one house in town that went out of the way to be spooky, all the kids talked about it at school the next day. I still recall getting candy from a young man who had pulled a stocking over his head and held a flashlight under his chin. He gave me such a thrill! And it was such a simple thing he did.

IMO Halloween really took off when those of us who had TOTed as children grew up ourselves. We didn't want to let it go, and the holiday began to proliferate. I saw it get bigger every year throughout the '70s and '80s. Of course, there are fundamentalist Christians who object to it, including some of my own good friends. There is a strong puritanical streak among many religious denominations around here. I am relieved that I don't belong to those churches myself, because I am not giving up Halloween. I think a person can be a good Christian without being a puritan.

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by adrian » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:35 pm

Murfreesboro i'm glad to have you here :) your age just means that you've enjoyed halloween more than us :) stories? what is one of your favorite halloween memories?
Last night 'twas witching Hallowe'en
Dearest; an apple russet- brown
I pared, and thrice above my crown
Whirled the long skin; they watched in keen;
I flung it far; they laughed and cried me shame
Dearest, there lay the letter of your name!

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Post by spinergy2002 » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:41 pm

27 is what I be!
I feel dizzy.
Jack-o-lanterns are on the cutting edge.

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by scorpio 40 » Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:29 pm

i am 41, will be 42 at end of the month.

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by Pumpkin_Man » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:32 pm

As I think I may have stated before, I'm 49, and will be hitting that big Five-0 next Summer, but I will allways be young at heart. I hope to be celebrating Halloween, going on long road trips on my motorcycle and riding motorcycles well into my 70s, and even until I'm waiting at St. Peter's Gate.

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by LarissaAnn » Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:21 am

Murfreesboro wrote:Well, most of you all are making me feel like the granny or the old crone. I'm 54, will be 55 at Christmas. But despite my age, I'm not a grandmother yet, because I had my children late. My youngest is 12, and I'm trying to persuade her to TOT again this year. I think she's agreed to do one highly decorated street near our home.

My own mother was 40 when I was born, so I have a lengthy perspective in Halloween. My mother never TOT'ed as a child. It wasn't done when she was growing up in the 'teens & '20s. She said she saw it first when she was living in CA in the 1930s, but she didn't see it really take hold in the rest of the country until after WWII. She happily took me TOTing, but in my (1960s) childhood, even a modest Jack-o-Lantern was not common, at least, not in Mississippi. If there was even one house in town that went out of the way to be spooky, all the kids talked about it at school the next day. I still recall getting candy from a young man who had pulled a stocking over his head and held a flashlight under his chin. He gave me such a thrill! And it was such a simple thing he did.

IMO Halloween really took off when those of us who had TOTed as children grew up ourselves. We didn't want to let it go, and the holiday began to proliferate. I saw it get bigger every year throughout the '70s and '80s. Of course, there are fundamentalist Christians who object to it, including some of my own good friends. There is a strong puritanical streak among many religious denominations around here. I am relieved that I don't belong to those churches myself, because I am not giving up Halloween. I think a person can be a good Christian without being a puritan.
How great that your mom got into it when she didn't have it as a kid! I imagine no one was giving away much of anything during the depression, but I'm surprised it wasn't a "thing" before that. Who knew? You forget that things haven't always been the way you know them to be.

I was born in 1970, right when you say Halloween was really picking up, which explains my childhood full of TOT & Halloween parties.

Oh - and my mom had us pretty young (she was 24 when she had me & 31 when she had my sis), but is just going to become a grandmother this winter, at 61, when my little sis has her baby.
'Tis yet again the spooky season
so we lose all sense of reason.
When witches, ghosts, and ghouls are near,
We are ruled by fright and fear!

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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by Ghoul of the Graves » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:20 am

I must be the youngest. I'm 15.

Well, the youngest to post in this thread, anyway.
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Re: Ages of All Hallow's Eve Supporters?

Post by SpookyBlackKat » Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:39 pm

I'm 23. My birthday is less than a week after Halloween so my favorite holiday is always the best way to celebrate the end of an age.
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