Thank you very much

That would be a yes. I have my Halloween tree set up in the front hallway, and my headstones out front. Halloween-...e600c3.jpg

Yes, and they are glorious!

Sounds logical, :D

I say both, but more often Fall.

To be sure, I do. IMG_2213-6...10564e.jpg

I will be celebrating my first British Christmas this year, when I travel to visit family in the UK.

This year would have failed you. The decorations everywhere are all gone, have been for a couple weeks. In fact, I would wager that black friday is going to be a s**t show considering that it's already been made public that merchandise is going to be short this year.

There’s some irony that the OP used the term “y’all” while calling the culture strange haha 😂

It's quicker to say "the 4th", "Halloween", and "Christmas". For me, it's all about efficiency.

A few people rent costumes. Many purchase them, but they are such poor quality they may not last long. Some wear them again in subsequent years. People often make costumes from old, used clothing, or sometimes by sewing.

My dogs get new costumes for Halloween every year.

The more unusual or excellent quality are rented. The ones you buy in Halloween stores aren’t made very well or from quality fabrics so they don’t last long. Although you can buy some top grade costumes or have them made special they tend towards the expensive side. My grandmother made all my costumes and my siblings for many years. I made my daughters costumes too. So if they’re good quality most kids will wear them for play over and over again.

All of the above - that’s the fun of it

My mom and me would always make my costumes. We'd raid the local thrift shop and craft away to our hearts content.

It's possible to rent a costume but for me, 80% of the fun is making them and seeing other people's scary/funny/creative work. I haven't done it in years but I used to spend weeks making one (although it's also fun to scrounge something together at the last minute from whatever scraps/cardboard/paint/etc one has lying around. It's an opportunity to be childlike and play with the (usually) darker side of the imagination. And it's not just costumes: one particular neighborhood in the biggest town in our county is famous for neighbors building jaw-dropping sets in their yards--they block of the streets and it turns into a huge party with kids and adults milling around eager to find out what fun creepiness is waiting beyond the next hedge...:-)

It's fun to make them!

I’m the same thing every year. A couch potato watching scary movies.

You think we only wear them at Halloween???

Why do 'y'all' think these questions have simple answers? Do 'y'all' think we're all of one mind? One culture? One stage of life? One income level? One lifestyle?

I buy them but i usually reuse them. My cats favorite sweater is made out of the hat from my old witch costume.

I thrift mine and then use the individual pieces of clothing as normal clothes the rest of the year

Goodwill.

Many get donated to thrift shops or repurposed

My husband's step sister has run a costume rental shop for almost 20 years. Halloween carries it through the rest of the year and make more than birthday and parade rentals of character costumes (think SpongeBob, Dora the Explorer) Easter bunny and Santa.

I would take my daughter after halloween and get her a bunch of dress up play clothes.

I've used parts from older masks (hair, eye meshing, etc) to create new costumes.

One and done.

Me, looking at an old photo of my husband wearing a cowboy costume at school: Was that Halloween? My husband: I hope so.

Most store bought costumes are so cheap they barely last the night of Halloween. We also has costumes made by my grandmother as a kid and they been passed down to my nieces. Picking and costume and making it was always my favorite part of Halloween.

I make mine from thrifted clothing and cardboard that would otherwise be recycled, along with some props that would fit more than one costume (like a sword).

Donate if they are in good shape.

oh some people use the costumes again later for cosplay

think...sweetened condensed milk? but in the texture of wax? meh, if you're european you probably wont like it

The really mean people give toothbrushes!

Ya, you betcha.

No, one of the holiday rituals is “demonstrate a psychological theory.” Most people chose the Tragedy of the Commons. Me, I’d think the Milgram Experiment more in keeping with the spirit of the holiday, but my lawyer pointed to its complications.

My family carves pumpkins every Halloween...and decorates cookies for Christmas, and dyes eggs for Easter...

We dress up and have a contest for different categories of costumes

Nos such thing as taking Halloween too seriously. NO. SUCH. THING.

Mmm, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, roasted pumpkin seeds...

The nice ones do, the mean ones don't.

Yes. Why is it ok to decorate for Christmas but not Halloween? You do your things but Imma get me some ghouls for MY garden.

You guys are getting days off?

It's the only holiday we have that doesn't come with some kind of baggage. It's literally just for fun, and also to scare away the spirits walking abroad that might steal our souls.

The same reason we love dad jokes

The best seasonal store ever. It's like Halloween Santa. Only shows up once a year and you never see it until spooky season

the big ones that are carved aren't eating pumpkins. Just like there is 'field' corn that's used for animal feed and corn products which is not the corn you buy at the market to eat.

i wish lol

Ummmm, has anyone told him about Christmas?

Where do you think we get our costumes and skeletons and witches and giant rubber rats and fake spider webs and coffins and monsters?