Oddbean new post about login | logout HOLIDAY CELEBRATE question! What is your favorite holiday and why? Don't come to tell us you hate all holidays. I know they can be tough, but what you probably don't like is toxic people attached to them. Either way yucking someone's yum is not nice, so don't.
@3fe52772 Halloween! ...always been a fan of lycanthropy, plus it's just... fun!
@3fe52772 Any of them traditionally associated with meals. When I'm cooking for a crowd, I am in my element.
@3fe52772 Halloween, though the older I get the less I participate outside my house - but I do get good candy and I'm generous with it! :-) I'm also a ditto on the "any occasion with people and food" comment. I love baking pies, and leftover turkey is the *best*, and cornbread stuffing. Mmmmmmmmm
@3fe52772 Thanksgiving has become a favorite. Never when I was a kid, but definitely as an adult. About 14 years ago, I took over hosting duties, and each year we downsize things a bit. (Well, we REALLY downsized in 2020, but two subsequent ones have been simpler.) Here are my whys: I have beautiful linens, and using them reminds me of my grandmother. She was a Sunday dinner kind of German grandma, and she used tablecloths every week. I realized that since we really only like the ham, there was no need to make turkey. We make twice as much ham, and we are happy. My mom is so grateful that she doesn't have to clean her house to host that she foots the bill for the really good hams. My husband and I only have my family in attendance. And by hosting our own Thanksgiving, we don't need to deal with his family. And for that, I am most thankful. And I'm sure reflection on gratitude and family bonding and other stuff like that.
@3fe52772 Thanks-o-ween-mas. 😎
@3fe52772 Halloween has always been my favorite. I love the fall weather associated with it, the scary movies, haunted houses, the whole deal! I haven't dressed up for it in a while, but this year will be different if I can get my Spider-Gwen costume together. 😁
@3fe52772 Before the pandemic, my mom and I had a tradition of going to Europe (mostly Germany) for the Christmas markets. That’s probably my favorite holiday even if it isn’t a day. The best is when there’s a bit of snow - enough to be festive but not so much to be slippery. We’ve both been missing it. Photo: Dresden 2019 https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/111/160/939/107/623/707/original/31af92e73d6cfe52.jpeg
@3fe52772 No one takes it off but I'll always stubbornly identify my favorite holiday as Halloween.
@3fe52772 It’s fast approaching! My holiday is Halloween! I have all my friends visit and we have a movie marathon, eat lots of food, drink copious amounts of alcohol, and then on the 31st I hand out full sized premium candy to all who visit me. I love little 5 year olds hiding between mom and dad in the yard, all the way to late teens and adults at least trying. Everyone gets something nice… it’s what it’s about for me. The treats. Just the treats.
@3fe52772 Halloween is my favorite holiday, and October is my favorite month. In my household, Halloween is a season, not just a day, and we love all the decorations, atmosphere, shows, and other events involved in it. It's a time for Goth kids and adults to feel like they really belong!
@3fe52772 Halloween, all year round. October is the best month for a whole host of reasons, including finally being sweater weather, the chill in the air, leaves changing, increased likelihood of fog, rainy days. And Halloween because spooky ghosts and candy and costumes!
@3fe52772 I'm a big fan of Hallowe'en 2nd place goes to Hexennacht 3rd: Winter Solstice 4th: Summer Solstice 5th: Christmas (used to be Halloween, then Christmas, but I've learned a bunch of stuff since I was a kid.) I'm enchanted by the old tradition of Samhain as the ending of the year, and of Winter not being a season of death so much as dormancy; Halloween as both death & conception, and winter as pregnancy. Hexennacht is the other thinned-veil celebration, 6 months after Halloween.
@3fe52772 halloween for many reasons… nostalgia cos it isn’t observed at all the same way where we moved away to when i was a kid (it’s not even autumn here, there’s no corn mazes or pumpkin patch trips, we don’t even grow ornamental carving varieties), ed emberley line art from the Orange drawing book, candy, the way anyone remotely on the goth-alt-macabre end of the spectrum leans in extra hard to make it the last bastion keeping christmas commercialism from starting in september
@3fe52772 Swedish style Christmas. It was the food. Meatballs, sausages, kroppkakor* (pork stuffed potato dumplings), ham, worted bread, cheeses, Janson (potato and anchovies gratin), pickled herring in five differently flavorings, ginger snaps, saffron buns, dark sweet lagers, ... And the grandparents. (Not as impressed by US edition standard-issue Christmas turkey) *yes, I'm from that corner of the country
@3fe52772 Living in the Pacific Northwest with its limited daylight in winter, I celebrate the winter solstice as my favorite holiday. Knowing the daylight will increase incrementally each day lifts my spirits! #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BellinghamWA
