Is Anyone Else Just... Not Feeling The Halloween Spirit?

[🪦 wickedbeard ●]

<!--quoteo(post=335846:date=Oct 22 2009, 01:19 AM:name=travsall)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (travsall @ Oct 22 2009, 01:19 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=335846\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecI got the opposite problem Ryan, I'm jacked and ready to go this year, planned out the yard haunt months ago, have 4 or 5 different costumes I could pick, a couple new masks, and even extra people who want to help me out. I'm gonna be stuck on the couch this year though with a bunch of pain killers thanks to my back. I'm really really disapointed. I know what you mean though, just kind of losing intrest, and drive to get into the spirit, I find the best stuff that works for me is to save a few things for this time of year. Being so emersed in horror, masks and props, and what most consider 'halloweenie' it can dull the excitement a lot, so you have to have something a little different to push you into feeling it. A few good movies that really remind you of halloween are great, I like Pumpkinhead, I only watch it once a year, and it always get's me goin. Hit a couple haunts in your area, a good corn or hay maze does a hell of a job. The decorating is a big part too, hard to halloween up a room of monster masks, but a few things here and there you only take out this time of year helps. The best thing though, get involved in a yard haunt, do one yourself with a buddy, or see if you can join one in your neighborhood. The people who don't wanna sit and geek out with horror movies the rest of the year LOVE to put a mask on and scare kids that one night of the year Start early too, get a costume thought up and planned over the summer, figure out a layout for the yard, props you wanna use and make, like styrofoam tomb stones, coffins, gallows etc. And you really find as it gets closer, you don't have to do anything to psych yourself up, you end up getting over excited, like when you were a kid waiting to trick or treat. Everyone remembers 'those houses' the ones that gave the best treats, and the best scares, guys who go all out to really make a fun night, we ARE those guys now! We live in THOSE houses! It`s another way to think of it is keeping the tradition alive, makin the best night of the year that much scarier and funner, so the kids we terrify will one day grow up and scare the crap out of the next generation <!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndCould not have said it better myself trav.Being a Wiccan, Halloween is very important to me , and I live it every day of my life.I revolve my entire life around my costumes, I make a living doing costumes, so for me the spirit of the holiday never dies.I feel bad for those of you losing interest.To me life without masks ,costumes, and horror is no life at all.And if we , the life blood of this hobby start losing interest....what is left?Society has already ruined Halloween for the kids,with the stupid curfews(who the hell wants to trick or treat in the daylight),goofy non scary costumes and safety precautions,but we don't have to let them ruin it for us.Keep doing your awesome costumes,masks, videos, fan films,and haunts, and together we can make this wonderful night scary and horrifying like it used to be.I get so irritated by people who say they are too old to dress up or that the holiday is for kids.that could not be further from the truth.I get even more irritated that Christmas Stuff has already invaded the store shelves and it is not even Thanksgiving yet.Find a way to relight the spark guys.This Holiday depends on us!!!