Census Which holiday season is better: Halloween or Christmas?

i like the dark, creepy side of halloween. as well as the utterly ridiculous side like this "sexy oscar the grouch" costume.

http://www.yandy.com/Sexy-Grouchy-Costume.php

loved christmas when i was little and when my kids were little. now there isn't really anything about it that i look forward to. i guess that's kind of sad, but meh.

 

Man I didn't know they made a sexy costume of me

 

In the U.S. almost as many people decorate their homes elaborately for Halloween as for Christmas. I think it's about Americans hedging their bets. Just in case we're wrong about Jesus, we devote a week to worshipping Satan and practicing witchcraft.

 

If Halloween is a holiday, so is Star Wars Day.

 

Christmas.

Halloween is actually a nuisance...

 

The Warriors/NBA can help with that.

 

Families from the west side of Chicago drive to my neighborhood for a safer place to trick-or-treat. So, with Halloween on a Saturday, and if it's not raining as forecast, I can expect about 400 kids over a 2-3 hour window, possibly longer, since the Saturday evening will encourage people to ignore the posted municipal candy redistribution schedule. It's a lot of fun: chaotic and cute and over quickly.

One idea I had: to give the first 10 families who knock on the door a rotisserie chicken. I think it would be a lot of fun to put a whole chicken in someone's candy bag.

 

Halloween. It's the one day of the year where it's considered normal to hang around a cemetery while wearing a costume.

 

And take candy from strangers.

 

I prefer Halloween.

The neighbors get a bit uneasy when I hang up my severed heads for Christmas.

 

well one means I get time off work, and sometimes get to see family.

the other usually involves just getting drunk at a party, and that's only if anyone can be arsed organising something (which is usually never). so it's def Christmas

 

Thanksgiving.

 

We should just combine both, so I can dress up as Charles Manson when I visit my relatives.

 

Kwanzaa

 

Christmas.

I've dressed up in Christmas cosplay before, so cosplay, candy, and toys. And wintery weather, pretty lights, family & friends, people watching during the boxing day sales (lots of fun).

 

Good call on Thanksgiving. I do love the JC's desire to populate the obvious oversight of no "other" option with highly personalised preferences that the intent of the thread author was quite obviously indifferent to.

 

I might actually do some Black Friday shopping this year. *shudder* I won't be waiting in line at midnight Thanksgiving night, since I'm going to an early football game the next morning, but I will go shopping once the game is over. I wonder if the malls will have anything left when I get there...

 

Christmas but Halloween does come close.

 

Dallas Cowboys day aka Thanksgiving, when everyone gives thanks to my favorite football team.

 

The Larry the Cable Guy of Atheists celebrates Christmas?

 

RELIGION R DUM DID U NO THAT <insert Lamarckian definition of evolution with great authority>

 

Christmas

 

Kwanza

 

I like the entire holiday season which for me is begins Oct. 1st and ends Jan. 2nd. This period just feels different than the rest of the year. I did vote Christmas over Halloween, though.

 

Halloween is to Americans what St. Patrick's Day is to the Irish - an excuse to be stupid.