and then there's the Easter bunny, oh don't get me started. Let's get back to chickens.
What do you call a yankie aussie? If you mate a lion and tiger you get a liger don't you? So what should we call ourselves? hmmm a yansie maybe?Happy Halloween to you Jellybean and Pinky( I don't celebrate Haloween but wish you both a wonderful night)
I don't agree with Halloween myself but you enjoy yourselfOMG! babies everywhere. Spring has sprung.
Anyways, a lot of people on here think of me as a fellow Aussie. I consider myself mostly one too, as I have lived here most of my life, although I kept my country of births citizenship, I am a permanent resident. My kids and husband are all born here. So I would like to tell you I am really a Yank. My accent is Australian, so you wouldn't know, unless I told you. My parents were recruited here in the early 70's, as the NSW Government needed Special Education Teachers, and there were none trained here at the time.
I am telling you all this because I would like to wish you a Very Scary Halloween!
I have always had very fond memories of Halloween from my younger years in America. So when I had children, that was one tradition I tried to passed on to them.
When they were little, I would always decorate the house and have them dress up. As we lived in a rural part of the country, our neighbours were really spaced out, so trick or treaters were obviously not going to come, even though the house was all decorated to try to invite them. So I would invite their friends from preschool and then primary school over to celebrate with us.
I received some, what I would call snobbery or even prejudice from parents and I felt sorry for those children that had to miss out on the fun because of their parents ignorance and lack of open mindedness, that other peoples cultures can be fun to celebrate.
I would try to explain to parents and children, that the actual first Halloween's were celebrated in Ireland and it also came from the Spanish tradition of the Day of the Dead. Its originally about celebrating our ancestors and I am sure that Australian's have those too.
So why can't Aussie's celebrate and enjoy Halloween too?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
I think Halloween is becoming like Christmas in Aussie, way too commercialised 
Yep. Definetly too commercialised. There's really no point to it either, just another way of spending way to much money on candy.Sorry I must add I don't celebrate Halloween. Only thing I do is follow tradition and hide sharp knives
Sorry if this offends anyone, but I get kids at the door saying "trick or treat" I ask them what Halloween means to them and they say candy. Says it all I think
