"Halloween goblins scaring off Britain's Guy Fawkes"

[McClef]

I always enthusiastically took part in Guy Fawkes celebrations as a lad but fireworks were less controlled and considerably cheaper.

Halloween products are less controlled and considerably cheaper now and more "hands on" for children than fireworks are. The trend is more for large scale displays where there is no "hands on" element.

The numbers of family and neighbourhood bonfires seems to be well down on what they used to be.

Perhaps it's partially our multi cultural and secular society too. The historical elements being more than other considerations.

[Cynthia]

It's interesting, but I've seen the opposite happening with Halloween, sadly. I'm very very depressed to see that fewer people and children dress up, decorate, and celebrate it in my area. I won't get into details why because of forum rules, but I'm so incredibly happy to hear there are some areas that still go have fun with it. I was shocked to read about people who did mini-haunted houses (it used to be that way here when I was a kid) for the trick-or-treaters and had about 300 or more kids come through. Some people who didn't do that much decorating still had a ton of kids come to their door. The last good neighborhoods I lived in for kids to go door to door (for some reason kids don't trick-or-treat here or where my mother-in-law lives), we were lucky to get even 5 or 6