BRITISH REACT TO AMERICAN HALLOWEEN! 🎃
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Joel & Lia Halloween is usually black and orange lol. Still look great tho
Joel & Lia I really want the cheeky legends T-shirt
Let me see if I understand...its stupid to buy a Halloween card because you're just making "those people" money, is being told to me by two Brits that admitted they don't celebrate Halloween, on their Halloween video, selling me dish towels? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Corey Brass I’m a Brit but totally agree about the tea towel 😂😂😂
Porch light on = Giving out candy
Light off = Skip that house/move on to the next
I agree that noticing whether the porch light is on or off is vitally important.
very true
I turned my light on for pizza and had a horde attack my door when I got back in with it.
@@gwillis01 why? BTW I'm british
@@zaynenexus4147 Because candy is vital.
Americans are enthusiastic people about every holiday and even non holiday events. And it doesn’t have to be expensive. We get creative here.
megroux I ^This. It doesn’t usually break the bank unless you want it to. I also believe it stems from we generally have a great deal of pride for our affiliations be it our state, town, school, organizations, things that we do, and traditions. Holidays are no different than traditions that we cherish and have fun with. It’s just part of being an American.
Creative and we are not boring like British People having tea no offense to these 2 lovely UA-camrs 😅
megroux I agree! I love American culture. We are FUNNNN!!
Not to mention, when it comes to holiday decorations, they accumulate over the years.
Yes we do and it's fun and not expensive.
In the U.S. I feel like we have a “ go big or go home” effect as a society. I can’t think of anything we do small lol 😂
prue9123 Exactly! 🇺🇸
prue9123 how about proper dialogue between left and right?
^ cause I’m ready for a peaceful secession if democrats won’t start listening to both sides and dropping the bias....and I’m a democrat lmao......trump 2020
Going home is the best
Doing it up bigger makes it a much more fun and enjoyable experience for children .Just like hanging Christmas lights around your house and front yard decorations .
I find it odd that British custom is handing out money . Who has alot of money to hand out to kids who come to your door? Seems like it would encourage robbers.
Candy is cheaper
I’m Christian and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I’ve never understood why some people think the two are mutually exclusive. I celebrate it because it’s fun. That’s it.
Same, always baffles me as well
The reason is because all Religious based holidays have two features. The religious feature, ie Jesus birth, Jesus Resurrection, Satan’s day, and the secular retail industry features, Santa, Easter Bunny, egg hunts, bobbing for apples, trick or treating. Some people only care about the religious aspects but want nothing to do with the secular aspects. Since Halloween is more based around Satan then Jesus they don’t want to celebrate it.
@@brandonaston2261 Actually Halloween comes from the Irish festival of Samhain and has literally nothing to do with Satan, but ok.
I remember in 3rd grade Catholic School they canceled Halloween and we had to dress up as Saints for All Saints Day. Yes, that is probably more blasphemous, no the Catholic Church has no leg to stand on.
My old church used to always “celebrate” as well but they used it as a way to spread the word and whatnot lol they would wear costumes, grill food, pass out trunks of candy and have trucks full of games to play, etc…😭
Why do we go big for Halloween?
Because it's fun.
We Americans LOVE to DRESS UP!!! Its the Best! I go to costume parties all times of the year. People even have costume themed weddings....Cosplay is Huge Here too!
Yes! It's all about having fun. You can dress up and be whatever you want for the night, and there is soooo much candy and goodies. People also enjoy watching scary movies around Halloween time due to the old superstitions surrounding this time of year. But basically nowadays, it's an excuse to put up fun decorations and have fun like a kid again. Some people do it for just the last few days of the month, others decorate during the first part of the month and enjoy them for three or four weeks. To each his own.
If you hate Halloween, you hate fun. 😋
Wouldn't you have more fun to be snoty and sarcastic towards people actually doing things instead of doing things yourself.
@@drewpamon No
Doesn’t understand the over-commercialization of Halloween.
Has merch with their faces on it to make money.
I think you understand the reason better than you realize
Wind up hoping chicks in Halloween costumes at the Family Dollar Store had me confused. Did they have too many Spring/Easter chick toys left over and thought what the hey people will buy anything throw them out and see if they sell?
@TheKarlOshaughnessy Um, no. In America, servers get paid like $2.50-$3.00 per hour, and tips are meant to make up the rest. These two are trying to make up in the same way what they can't make in ad revenue, etc. It's an apt description/comparison.
I send cards to family members who live far away on holidays like Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, etc. just to let them know I’m thinking about them.
Isn't it better to write them, or email, or even give them a call? I have to side with Joel & Lia on this, these companies are making an absolute killing from people buying into this idea.
@@futurez12 You can got holiday cards 2 for a dollar and then the cards serve as another seasonal decoration and a memento of the person who sent it. I'm almost 30 and my mom still sends me a card with a $20 to treat myself to some Halloween candy and then I have the card on the fridge until the next holiday. It's different then getting an e-mail.
A lot of grandparents send cards to the grandkids-it makes the kiddos happy!
I used to send halloween cards to my friends and family as a goof. I sent halloween cards to some family members as a "thinking of you", thing. I don't think it's weird at all.
The colors mostly associated with Halloween in the US are black and orange. But that's ok Joel, you tried!
Neon lime green is also a thing.
Purple and orange is a Halloween combo too.
You're right Bobbi. I was going to add purple (and even bright neon green) but I thought I might trigger some legends.
Neon green also very cool!
When I was a kid in the U.S. the Halloween colors were orange and black. But we have added purple and green.
Halloween is the one day of the year you can be whoever/whatever you want, that's why we love it.
Bo Johan U forgot about social media XD
Oh, you do NOT want to reuse your jack-o-lanterns as food! Full of moss, rot, and insects less than 24 hours later. Just use the stuff you scooped out.
And honestly, they are usually a different type of pumpkin than the ones we eat!
I know right! I was disgusted when I heard him say, "oh, you can reuse it, right?"
NO.
NO YOU CAN'T.
I always just let it rot in the grass, and then, a pumpkin plant would grow for me every year.
But then it would die because it didn't have sufficient sunlight.
@@leirawhitehart1236 well technically yes you can if you have a garden as mulch but other than that no lol just no
@@sockshandle yeah, I guess that makes sense!
I mean, that was kind of my plan, but then my first pumpkin plant started growing!
But they just kept dying because there were two big trees in my front yard blocking the sun.
Also, not gonna lie, it was always weird to me how a plant would grow even after we gutted it. Never really knew why.
Not really a plant expert.
That's why you paint the pumpkin and only have it out on the day. That way it is safe to wash, cut up, and turn it into a pie on November 1st. DUH!
Joel your being literal, children aren’t taught any devil stories they see it as as child’s free day of being dressed up as what they want to be and collecting candy that many don’t get to eat daily.
some people are told that Halloween is a day of evil and they do not celebrate it because they say it is connected to the devil. you do not have to call him names
Yeah Joel
Kimmylovelife
They didn’t call him names though...
@@KimmyLL1890 yeah but those people are wrong cause that isn't what its about at all.
But, as a parent of two I can say my favorite thing is you get to literally watch you kids freely dress and be what ever their imagination wants. And for one day we give them candy for it.
David VanRassen agreed same for me
You guys help your children with their costumes, right?
Halloween isn't just one day. It's the whole month of October!
I remember as a kid that if your house didn't give out candy it was subject to retribution like an egging.
It's really candy extortion.
Absolutely, that's how it was in my neighborhood too. No candy = walking up to a yard full of toilet paper in the morning.
California gal here.. no, we do not send Halloween cards that's weird. but last night we handed out candy to hundreds and hundreds of super cute kids! So many cool costumes and all the kids were really polite. We were all dressed up as well! SO MUCH FUN! We went through 4 tubs each 33 gallons of candy. We decorated the yard in skulls and caskets, spiders and lights. We had the fog machine going.. It was amazing!
Re: Halloweeen...some people have $$, others have creativity and imagination due to having no $$. It's just fun to see what you can come up with for very little $$. Besides, who doesn't like FREE CANDY?
We go "huge" on everything. Never think small is our culture
(*Looks in pants*) WTH is wrong with you!
Bob D: True.
We even have a president with a huge head and huge ego (small hands though)
Scotland is in the UK and Scotland is were Halloween came form, Well there and Ireland. The Scottish go big on Halloween. When Joel and Lia say British they mean English and mostly Londoners. Joel and Lia sometimes forget how Diverse the UK is and that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is not always like the England and London!
Right on, Bob D. Everything is huge here.
Omg! I wouldn’t make it one WEEK in Britain!! I would die of sheeeeer boredom. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ We like to have fun in America. Life is hard enough.... why not celebrate the fun moments?
Yea, UK compared to the US seems relatively boring (though a British Christmas is something special when you're in London). I can only take so many weekends going to the pub drinking before my brain registers it as a certain degree of substance abuse and a lack of creativity.. Like for fucks sake can't you think of anything else to do?
Urban legends...no one is handing out expensive party drugs to trick or treaters...
It has happened before in the 80s.
@@ryanblack3285 I was an 80s kid and my parents usually took us to the local mall to go around to the shops (so boring) to do our trick or treating out of fear the candy could be tampered with if we went door-to-door. I always drive my kids over to the richest neighborhood, drop them off and tell them to go get that candy and do mama proud 😂
RubyWoo Whoo 😂😂😂
TBH, I'm from a "rich" neighborhood, and it does happen from time to time. I remember seeing needle marks in my Reeses once. But for the most part, yeah, it's an urban legend.
People do put drugs in Halloween cans. May not be expensive. Look at news reports.
Favorite Halloween memory - when my daughter was 3 and we took her trick or treating, when asked “And what do want this Halloween? A trick or a treat? She said “hamburger & french fries” 😂
😂😂😂
Your daughter sounds very intelligent.
😂😂😂
I’m in Florida and if the house has the front porch light off you don’t knock on the door.
British just seem more stuffy than Americans.
Agree
No doubt! LOL :)
It's just not a big thing here.
@B Babbich Don't forget who gave you your bloody country, before you went and broke it.
@B Babbich Well let's do a little history. When Britain had the 13 colonies. They made a treaty with the indigenous people, to not go inland further than the Appalachian mountains. The fact that the colonists wanted more lands was part of the reason they made a fuss and the native people sided with the British.
Now, your lot were given your independence and decided to push west. Claiming land, belonging to hundreds of tribes right across what is now known as America.
So are you saying that America belonged to the British at the time. Because you claim America started about 4th July 1776. So I guess you can't blame us for the genocide inflicted on the indigenous population from then.
It's so annoying when you lot "bash" the British. It's like when your petulant adolescent kid slams doors and screams "I hate you? I hate you!" at their parents.
You know one day they will grow up and realise how stupid they look.
Next year for Halloween we should all send Joel and Lia Halloween cards.😂🎃
My grandma sends my sons cards for every holiday BC we live far away and she always wants them to know that she is thinking of them.
Desirae Silvers exactly! My grandparents sent us Halloween cards!
Same. My Grandparents, Godmother and my mom would send cards for most holidays . . . New Years, Easter, Valentines Day, Mardi Gras, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. I think it was for the same reason. We usually lived far away (my father was in the military and we moved every three years) and would sometimes not see them for years so it was just a reason to keep in touch and let them know you are thinking about them.
Exactly..
Desirae Silvers same. I send a Halloween card with candy to my niece every year bc I live out of state.
That's sweet. I definitely think it's a distance or extra doting thing.
Exactly, we go big on everything! We are a culture that loves to celebrate!!! We decorate for seasons too:). It’s funny, you don’t realize how extra we are until people from other countries , point out how overboard we go.
Aria A very true.
I agree Aria it can be that way but its all about celebrating and tradition behind the holiday.
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Aria A we’ll we are a younger country that’s adopted traditions based on the immigrants that make up everyone. So it’s no wonder we’ve got a wide scale perspective on things
I love Halloween. It has been my favorite holiday since I was old enough to walk. My Mother threw epic Halloween parties. She would decorate the whole house. I love to watch scary movies and dress up. When I was a child it was the thrill of dressing up and getting candy from Trick or Treating. It was a bit of competition. Now that I’m an adult I love passing out candy and I still dress up. I only pass out Halloween cards to invite people to my Halloween parties. I am a macabre person anyways so I decorate my house for Halloween all year except Christmas.
Halloween to me just kicks off the holiday season. (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years) It’s just the holiday drinks, cold weather, haunted houses, coming up with costume ideas. It’s just so much fun.
"What if they poison the sweets?"
"What if they give out of date chocolate?" LMFAO
By the way.
There are pumpkins for food.
And there are pumpkins for carving or chucking and they are not the same.
All the pumpkins are sold as produce and can be eaten... Most just don’t buy them for food...
Joel and Lia, you should make a towel with “Triggered”! on it
D.C Carter or how about -
You might be triggered...
But I m not bothered
Tadrick Liss I love it.
Right?!? 😂😂😂
And “thrice weekly”
Or “spiraled.”
Halloween is a big celebration of the end of the Celtic year and honoring our ancestors. Adults have "fancy dress" parties (costumes). We typically start decorating for Halloween on October 1st and take it down November 1st. Trick-or-treating is generally for children 12 and under, and teens have their own parties. There are also Haunted Houses people can have fun with. Halloween cards are mostly for sending to family and friends who live far away and can't just come over and celebrate it with you.
It's the one time when you can be someone other than yourself, the more authentic, the better.
Grandparents who live far away from their grandchildren send them. I used to get a Halloween card every year till I turned 18 from my grandmother.
Yep, grandparents to young grandchildren who they may not often see... And who also tends to buy/send these cards I think are very new couples who are kind of sickeningly “in love,” and feel like they have to do cards for every little occasion lol
LOL , I do still receive different holiday cards from my own Mom. She as Grandma does same thing for my son. It is traditional in America for my family.
Americans don’t know why there’s Halloween cards either
Yeah, we do--advertisers and card makers to make profits. Why else would that even be a thing?! Another thing that's come into style due to advertisers is Easter gifts. Seriously. People buy each other gifts for Easter just like it's Christmas--I ain't even kidding! That is putting the commercialism waaay over the line, I think. Unbelievable what people will fall for!
Exactly. It's a way for greeting card companies to make some cash.
😅
Yeah, I roll my eyes when I see them. 😂
It's a holiday! Let's do a greeting card!
My family is Christian and when I was growing up we did Halloween I was just not allowed to do anything really scary 🤷🏼♀️
Same
Christian here as well. As a kid I was aloud to trick or treat (just as long as it wasn't a devil costume) and we passed out candy. I just was never aloud to decorate the house.
Halloween for some of us is an accumulated decorated holiday. You just pick up a few things year to year and the budget minded pick it up after the holiday when it’s on sale. After you get enough one day isn’t long enough to look at it all. 😉
Also, no one gives away their drugs to kids....especially for free 🤦🏽♂️
Truth. By all means, check your kid's bag, but I've never come across anything even remotely suspect. It would take a very special type of crazy to go to the extra effort and cost to do anything malicious. Could I theoretically inject something into a piece of candy and manage to seal the hole with heat to leave an air bubble behind? Probably. But just the thought of that kind of tediousness is exhausting. People have easier, more obvious, and cheaper ways to be cruel than mess with Halloween candy. I'm also thinking the drugs likely weren't really "drugs" but a drunk person thinking Advil was a suitable option. That's far more realistic.
That all stemed from one like one news report in the eighties and no kids were even hurt.
In California they did! I live in California and it doesn’t surprise me at all but it does disgust me!
Here if the porch light is on they are giving out candy.
rstyree where I live in NYC they don’t go into buildings anymore just stores
@@chanelmone4721 cool
@@chanelmone4721 oohh that's kinda creepy going inside apartments lol. I'm assuming it's for safety thats why they stop doing that?
That is very true. I leave the light on and make sure to give candy to the little kiddies because it's good public relations with my neighbors!
A T No your not going inside apartments you would be going inside buildings and I believe there was a time when my mom and I mentioned how there was more kids in the building so maybe we would get a trick or treater. I remember when I was little I went into stores and buildings with my friend and her father
My grandma sends me a Halloween card every year. She is to put money in it it was great.
Yes, we do tricks like ding dong ditch, tping a house, jumping out and saying "boo!"
No one eats the pumpkin after its carved. But you can donate them to rescue animal organizations. Mostly they get thrown away or if you are really unlucky it's stolen and smashed on the road. Christians have various takes on Halloween. Some are completely against it, some convert it into a Harvest Celebration and others are totally fine with it. Ususally it depends on your denomination. In the US, normally you have to have your porch light on and the hours are set by the town. If it's decent enough weather wise, most people just set up shop on their porch so you don't have to knock. And really Trick or Treat is for 12 and under or so. Some towns have set ages. As far as decorating, I feel like it's gotten more intense as I've gotten older. But as a society we seem to have a weird obsession with death, (numerous horror movies, books, etc.) feeds into it. We also have Haunted Houses that are specially built attractions that people pay to go through. If you do ever celebrate Halloween in the US, come to Ohio because a Joel and Lia vlog of a Haunted house would be amazing. We have literally tons of them. There was a meme about it even. Not my vibe, (people jumping out of dark rooms with chainsaws and the like, are just a solid no.) But tons of people love them and spend most of October going through them.
“I hope people reuse their pumpkins.”
Oh Joel, sweet Joel, this is America. We waste all the pumpkins, and we do it with a smile on our faces. 😜
Hey, we don't! We have a Pumpkin Hunt every year. We take the pumpkins out to the desert for target practice. The remains get eaten by the wildlife. Recycle, reduce, reuse. America.
True story lol
I'm sure it gets used for pumpkin pies
I'm English and I sometimes put a pumpkin on my doorstep but that's all and I just make something out of the guts
We also bake the seeds you have to gut out of the pumpkin with salt and eat those
My Grandparents send cards to the grandchildren for ALL holidays 😂
You should create a shirt that says "What kind of pesant are you?"
He's a complete tight wad to the 10 power!
I thought that comment was funny, too. I think I will adopt it! 😆
“We just don’t do that” just wait till you have kids or grandkids, then you’ll see the fun.
If they want any.
RoseOfTheNight4444 they have said they do
@@trenicejohnson15 Huh. Maybe I haven't seen whichever video(s) where they said this. My mistake. Still, this is something that is said to everyone when it shouldn't be.
RoseOfTheNight4444 I hear what you’re saying, rose. As a someone who never wanted my own children, I appreciate how stupid people can be to push parenthood. I guess I meant more when Joel and Lia mature more, and treasure the little stinkers for their cuteness.
@@jslost That makes sense 😊
So as a Christian why do we celebrate Halloween? That could take a while to answer. The easy one is it's tradition, it's "harmless" fun and it's free candy and the little ones are so adorable. A longer explanation is that the more casual Christian just doesn't understand or care about it's origins and those that do end up doing harvest parties or trunk or treats at their Church.
I listen to an interview from a former lieutenant in the religion of Satanist. He said that Halloween was the most revered holiday as it worshipped Satan and the demons. He said that those who are Christians who celebrate Halloween or even just fall Harvest are still honoring Satan. Makes you wonder why people choose fun and food over honoring God?
@@flamingpieherman9822 That lieutenant was full of it.
@@saxonrains I've done too much research into it. It dates back to the honoring or those destroyed by God during the flood. Set up by the demons. And harvest festivals much the same where they would honor the gods that gave them good bounty for the year by sacrificing animals and orgies. Since humans are short lived at 100 yrs we dont think much father than our own lifespan about real history and how current it is. Sort of like little kids that just want their cookies now no matter the cost. Most of us are not deep thinkers from the comments ive seen so far
I love holidays and seasonal decor. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are my favorites! I also start decorating early.
Halloween has almost caught up to Christmas for celebration in the US. You can check the stats on what's sold ans spent. I love Halloween.
And Halloween ends and immediately we are bombarded with Christmas songs.
Awww... that's so horrible... the Logos becomes flesh to pay the blood price for your sin and open the way for your redemption. How can you stand it???
Yes, we are. It's actually annoying.....
I heard Christmas tunes the day before Halloween at a store. Say the least, I was not happy! Christmas is getting shoved down our throats
@Meade Vlog channel As opposed to Christmas with Santa, otherwise known as Odin.
Halloween is not a celebration of Satan
It's all about getting free candy!😛 That's all us Americans really care about is that dam candy. Don't be stingy with them Reese's cups B****. Lol 😎 I really liked the video!
Jennifer Smetanko I found that I didn’t like 98% of the free candy, would have been MUCH MORE productive getting the clearance candy that you like on November 1st.
John P But you don’t think like that as a kid. I remember I was less a lot less discriminate. Any candy with a lot of sugar was eaten. Chocolate first, hard candies last. Probably took me a month to eat everything. Plus don’t forget the trading value of the candy. Candy was currency between my siblings and my friends.
I agree as a kid it was all about the candy. But as an adult I think it is more about the fun. And even as a kid dressing up was a large part of my enjoyment of it although I was totally into candy!
Halloween isn't really about spending money. It's about fun and creativity, especially for kids. It's a fun holiday with parties along with Trick or Treating. It's my favorite holiday.
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter and all the usual celebrations!
I send them to my adult children so they know I’m thinking of all the fun we had when they were growing up.
I never got cash trick-or-treating, but there was always one house that gave out full sized candy bars. That's what I always looked forward to
Because. Americans never turn down a chance to party, drink, or free food. Lol.
Glad to be a Prosecco legend.
I love Halloween! 🎃 Mostly, I love the fall season: cooler weather, Apple cider, hay rides, pumpkins, leaves turning...it’s just my season. 🍁 🍂
I never even have any trick or treaters because of where I live...it’s just a fun holiday anyway. 👻
Lmaooo “what kind of peasant are you?!” 😂
Love that!
Maybe it's because we come from the rebellious Europeans so being mischievous and being publicly weird is coded in our DNA.
I honestly love Halloween! Christians can celebrate Halloween. 😂😂 I don't understand why people think they couldn't. 😂 I dont go trick-or-treating anymore because I'm not a kid, but I love decorating, going to parties and watching scary movies.
Kelly Hartford You bet! We’re not celebrating Satan! We’re celebrating the season & life & having a good time! I know the whole tradition is probably pagen but it’s not anymore!!!!
@@dediclark8913 All Christian holidays are to cover up pagan holidays, it was to help convert pagans. It gave them a link to their history. The idea of not celebrating the more obvious ones is mostly a practice by the more hard line evangelical groups (in the US anyhow). Same people that "warn" others of the evils in Harry Potter or how Monster supports devil worship.
My dad was a Pentecostal preacher and I was never allowed to Trick or Treat as a kid, because it's the "devil's holiday". So yeah, that's definitely a thing.
daft vagrant Great history!!
@@Ephem13 I listen to a former high priest in a Satanist interview, and he stated it's one of their most revered holidays because that's the day they worship Satan and the demons as gods. He said they actually laugh at so-called Christians because they're too dumb to realize they're still worshiping Satan. That was from a Satanist. I watched another interview from Johannesburg Priestess in the satanic religion and she said most all of today's Christians are inadvertently worshiping Satan and they laugh at them. But they like worshiping Satan because he lets them do what they want with no remorse and no consequences. When she was asked if there were any true Christians or a true religion, she said there is one and they know who they are. She wouldn't give their name as it represents their God. But she said those ones were warning people all over the Earth about the coming war between God and Satan.
If you do a little research, you'll find out that the real Halloween started way before the worship of the demon named Samhain or All Souls day. It was set up after God destroyed the Nephilim which were the hybrid offspring of the Demons. It was set up by the demons to commemorate their dead Sons killed by God.
Americans like scary stuff. Like zombies. And we like candy.
I just love fall and winter. So much festivities like Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, then New Year's!
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Halloween is a relatively inexpensive holiday versus Thanksgiving or Christmas. During the last recession, more people indulged for Halloween.
Most American Halloween traditions came with Irish immigrants in the 19th Century.
You 2 need to fly to America like at the beginning of October and then tour some really good haunted houses and see what you think
This. Most if us consider an inexpensive holiday. NO GIFTS!!!!!
When you get toilet paper thrown at your house it's called getting tp'ed😎
Yep! We call it that here too!
Joel & Lia I thought in the UK it would be LR’d! Haha
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 Lia...u should dress as the phantom bride from Sherlock Holmes!
Wendalyn we call it getting rolled.
Yep TP'ed! The night BEFORE Halloween n is devil's night, that's when the vandalism happens! You can Google that!
I have a holiday list of 60 people that I send cards to for every holiday. Family, friends and co-workers living near and far. It's my way to stay in touch with these important people. As for decorating, I put up all that I can for all to see for every holiday. People drive by to see the sights and look at the lights at Christmastime. My electric bill is 6 times higher in December and I don't care. People send cards to us to thank us for the delightful displays in our yard. Halloween decorating usually starts right after our Labor Day in September. Fall decorations can be mixed with Halloween decorations as well. Right after Halloween we decorate for Thanksgiving. After that, we decorate for Christmas and leave that up until the New Year. Then there is Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter and then we roll Memorial Day, the 4th of July and Labor Day into a summer long patriotic display of Red, White and Blue. Candy at Halloween is a kids delight! Dressing up for young and old is good fun. Getting treats or a gift is great but it is nothing compared to seeing the joy on someone's face when you are the giver. It is better to give than to receive! All of this for most of us is our way to give to the community and make great memories for both young and old. It's amazing what you remember from your childhood in celebrating all of our holidays.
A lot of people usually start decorating for Halloween on October 1st, Thanksgiving on November 1st and Christmas December 1st. Decorations are usually up for the entire month.
Americans celebrate everything 😂
Thanks to the Internet. I mean,Best Friend & National/International Cat Day? We didn't have those before Instagram,etc!
Why shouldn't we?! Its not our fault you guys turn your noses up at everything just so you can say you skulked at it!
@@ln2559 who are "you guys"? I'm American!
@@adventuresinlaurenland You may have wanted to state that in your initial comment. It sounds as if your a Brit, bashing our traditions. This is the internet, we aren't psychics.
@@ln2559 why do you think you're owed an explanation for a comment that wasn't directed towards you? You didn't have to comment, what was offensive about what I said? I made a true statement, Americans celebrate everything. Triggered much? 😂
My great grandma when she was a live sent my siblings and i each a card for every holiday and when i say every holiday i mean every holiday
brittany wood ... yup, my mother in law sent a holiday card for EVERY holiday for each person in the family, with money inside 💵
@@christygriffin7835 same but my great grandma when she was a live
We Grannies who seldom see our grand kids...cards are a great way to say..I love you still. y
My grandma used to send me and my siblings a Halloween package and we each got a Halloween card with a individual note for each of us and we shared what was in the package.
I celebrate Halloween all year and so do my friends. I send about 40 Halloween greeting cards out each year to family and friends. I save all the cards I get. It’s my favorite holiday. It’s not madness to us in the states
I love receiving Halloween cards in the mail while I'm at my university! My parents usually write an encouraging note for me since it's halfway through the semester. It makes my day!
My grandma's does this too
That's kind of what I was thinking they would be for, is someone away from home on that day.
The poisoned/boobytrapped candy thing is an urban legend.
True. I watch a documentary on urban legends and poison candy was one of them. It started because in 1974 a boy got sick and died from eating one of his candies. I think it was a pixie stick. Autopsy revealed he died from potassium cyanide. Long story short, the dad laced his kids candy, as well as his neighbors kids (who where trick or treating with his kids), with the drug so he wouldn't be suspected when his kids died. Luckily, but sadly, only the boy ate it. Dad did it all for the insurance money. He was convicted of murder and got the lethal injection some years later.
@@jennifer7895 They should have made that bitch eat poisoned pixie stix.
When I was growing up, the urban legend was razor blades in the candy so you could take the candy to the hospital to be x-rayed. No joke.I was a kid in the 70s and 80s.
theanderblast unfortunately it’s not. My friend got one with a needle in it last night.
Mimi where the heck you live😳😩
I've already gotten four Halloween cards. LOL It lights up your day and makes you smile. I guess we Yanks just like holidays and a reason to party. :) OK everyone, let's send Joel and Lia Halloween cards next year.
In my experience, ‘Trick or Treat’ is just something you say as a kid, just after the stranger opens his door and just before he plops candy in your bag. There was never any resentment for the holiday...if the front porch light was off, that meant the house wasn’t participating in Halloween, and we skipped your house. Most houses chose to participate, though. “Tricks” usually happened the night before, on ‘Mischief Night’ when teenagers vandalized people’s houses/cars/trees with toilet paper (“T.P.-ing a house”) or eggs, or whatever. Nothing serious, just shenanigans.
A green sweatshirt... 😂 That has nothing to do with Halloween!
He tried. Lol
Wrong holiday. You wear green on St. Patrick's Day or you'll get pinched. 😊🍀
MsPippi haha! Right!
@@Elizabeth-aka-Pippi I was thinking "that's St Patrick's day" lol
I can't give exact answers to your question, but Halloween is my favorite holiday, so maybe I can provide some insight. Christmas is a holiday all about family, togetherness, and hope. It's nice, but it can feel a bit stale and samey, especially with holidays like Valentines day and the 4th of July also being about similar virtues. Halloween just feels exciting, rebellious, and electric by comparison. While originally based on harvest festivals, nowadays its more about confronting and overcoming individual fears. It just feels cooler and more youthful than Christmas - a holiday whose mascot is literally an old man. It's a chance to be someone who you're not, a chance to be unafraid and let go of your inhibitions, a chance to celebrate everything dark and taboo that isn't discussed in day-to-day life. It also holds a special place for people like goths, nerds, and cosplayers; people who "dress up" in unconventional ways year-round, but were often criticized for it as a child. Halloween is a day where society celebrates their interests and that be very cathartic. So I can't put into words exactly what it is about Halloween that makes it so special, but I can tell you that the electric energy I feel in my bones as an American during October is unlike anything else I've ever felt - and every bit as strong as the warm fuzzy feeling I get in December. Hope that helps :)
WillfulVisions Perfectly said! 🙌🏼
So true! Halloween is also my favorite holiday. It’s a day you can just let loose and dress up as whatever you want and laugh at all the hilarious and creative costumes people think up.
"Halloween just feels exciting, rebellious, and electric by comparison." I'm glad you said this, bc I feel that way too, even if I can't explain why! Maybe it reminds us of childhood fun.
Perfect!
Halloween is so much fun. I think it starts in childhood, because what kid doesn’t love a holiday where you can get dressed up in wacky outfits, then go door to door in groups while in the dark, getting candy. For children, it’s spooky and fun. It’s the same kind of thrill you get when you listen to a ghost story. I absolutely love it, and always have.
It’s an american tradition, and yes those cards are sent out to relatives who are not near for the holiday!
Hilarious
It’s actually an Irish tradition
no they aren't. Never have I gotten a card from relatives far away EVER.
@@Retroearthling right? cards lmao what the actual fuck?
Actually, only older Americans probably do that.
Every Christmas song played before the day after Thanksgiving, Santa kills a baby Reindeer!
Grew up Catholic. We always celebrated Halloween.
Fellow British ‘Scroogeaweenie’ here 🤭 I personally love America and for the most part it’s the differences between us that appeal to me the most. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
Tea towels are called in America: Dish towels or Kitchen towels.
im an american and i call lighter weight "dish towels" tea towels. the small ones, and the flour sack ones.
We call them hand towels 🤷🏼♀️
Dish towels are called dish rags and they stay hidden in a drawer lol
Or rags.
Dish towels are used for drying dishes in the kitchen. Dish rags are smaller and used to wash the dishes. Hand towels are in the bathroom used for drying hands.
Thanks, was trying to figure out what the American version of that was.
i imagine Joel and Lia going to the door and seeing a 3 or 4 year old and telling them "buy your own sweets" and slamming the door in their faces on Halloween (you guys are that stingy that you can't shill out a little for the kids)( audience keep this in mind when buying their tea towels)
I'm telling you the more I see these videos the more I can't stand the UK!
@@rebeccacobarrubias9547 You know, when I first started watching these two I thought they were cute and informative.
But now I just see them as shallow
and insulting.
And the whole Will and Grace thing is really getting on my nerves.
They have always spoken their minds and not been politically correct. This is what I like about them. I doubt seriously they would slam the door in a 3 year old's face. Joel already said he just wouldn't answer the door. Not everyone in the US loves Halloween either. I didn't participate this year for the first time in many years. They have changed the rules on Halloween and they do "Trunk or Treat" at their community parks in neighborhoods or at churches and people sit in their trunks and give out candy from their cars. I think if you go back to their first videos, they pretty much are the same way they are now with a little more age and polish on them.
@@VickiMeldrumWiggingKnitting how is not giving out candy(sweets) for Halloween have anything to do with political correctness?
@@nunyabiz8305 It doesn't. People are trolling his attitude about it. He says that he thinks. If people don't like it. Don't watch.
Oh, one more thing. I never really lived close to my grandparents, so they'd send me cards with lollypops taped inside.
Says your stupid if you buy a Halloween card, then proceeds to ask if October 31st happens every year. Maybe you should send your mother in law a halloween card. 🤷♀️
I grew up in a very Christian home and we still did Halloween. I do know some Christians that have a problem with it but in my home and circle of friends we had fun doing it. I don’t see a problem with it. 🧡
It was my favorite holiday as a kid, even more than Christmas. There was something magical about it, and it never rained when we went trick-or-treating.
Commercial Halloween pumpkins in the US aren’t really grown for eating-though you can save and roast the seeds. Commercial Halloween pumpkins don’t have enough ‘meat’ in them to roast and purée. Kind of a waste all the way around-but they do look cool when their carved and lit! Our market does sell pie pumpkins that you can roast and eat.
Halloween is the (unofficial) start of the holiday season, at least it is now. A lot of people are happily looking forward to Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years day, so they spend some time and money celebrating Halloween. If you have kids or grandkids, it's a wonderful holiday for the little ones. They look so cute dressed in their costumes ! It's a wonderful holiday. Perhaps folks in the U.K. should do the same as us !
Many American cities now offer free x-rays of children's Halloween candy to be sure there are no blades in it.
We love to get together & have party's, so we love all holiday .
My womens group exchanges fall gifts, and we usually add a Halloween or fall card.
I think US adults celebrate Halloween much more now than 20-30 years ago.
The "trick" part of "trick or treat" was a real thing in the early days of Halloween, long before most of us were alive. It's not common to do the "trick" part now, so it's just a traditional saying.
Halloween brings feelings of fun costumes and decorations and candy- it’s just exciting having a time of year that celebrates a bit of the spooky and fun and otherworldly. Its the love of Halloween as a child that never dies. My mom would send Halloween candy and cards to all the grandkids. We all LOVED it!She passed in September and it was literally painful emotionally to realize there wasn’t a Halloween card coming in the mail. So seeing you all mock - it just hurt. So yeah.
Halloween is the perfect bookend to Christmas. It's the dark to balance out the light, the sour to balance out the sweet. It's a chance to celebrate the scary and indulge in dark humor. Plus, the fun of costumes, candy, parties, scary movies, etc. The appeal seems so obvious.
you guys not celebrating halloween is the most depressing thing ive seen all day. lol. its always been my favorite and I have the best memories during halloween especially haunted houses and mazes
Halloween is all Hallows Eve. It's the day before all Saints Day.
Halloween is my favorite holiday 💚🧡💜🖤🍬👻🎃 Festive movies, funnel cakes, bonfires; decorations, candy, costumes; pumpkin carving and pumpkin spice, color change, corn mazes, hayrides and sweater weather! The smell in the air. The colors. Everything about it makes me happy 😂
I’m your age and just like you grew up with Christmas traditions (as did we), we Americans have the same happy childhood memories celebrating Halloween. I feel sad for you guys that you didn’t grow up feeling the same! Also, It has nothing to do with religion in America. It isn’t seen as anything “evil”, it’s seen as fun. I went to catholic school and we wore our costumes to school on Halloween!
If grandparents live far from their grandchildren, they will send them Halloween cards. Mine would often include $5 or $10.
My four year old daughter got a Halloween card from her Grandma and also one from her Great Grandma 🤷♀️🎃👻
"I'm not a Scrooge, Ive got a green hoodie." Lmao that's more Xmas spirit haha love you both!! Some stores (like my old work Goodwill in the US) may start offering Halloween merch as early as the last week of August. My partner& I both are Mexican- American and celebrate dia de los muertos and Halloween as well as appreciate and enjoy darker morbid decor, artwork etc. We are the type of people who would buy Halloween cards as decorations or collection items as well as look forward to the days after Halloween where everything is 50% off or more to find new goodies to decorate with. We also are planning to decorate our new home with Halloween and Día de los muertos items when we move, including but not limited to a 🎃- themed Xmas tree which I would like to make decorations for. If you haven't seen it watch the film Coco to better understand dia de los muertos, it's very important for many Mexicans/Mexican Americans.
I’m a huge fan of dia de los Muertos….celebrated in Oaxaca, MX last year!