Really the only thing that bothers me are the people who go out and do things like Egging houses, Smashing Pumpkins, or any other form of meschevious buffoonery.

I'm one of those horrible 'prance naked through the wilderness and sacrifice a baby' pagans, so I don't tend to celebrate Samhain with the parties and what not. That's not to say that I don't enjoy a good halloween party or haunted house though... Cause I do. 

Can't say I really dislike any particular way of celebrating Halloween. It's my favorite holiday by far, which is a shame because I never really do celebrate properly myself. It's been years since I've made a costume (time some years, money others). Makes me sad. :(

What I hate is when people put up Christmas decorations this early. Christmas is a great holiday (not as awesome as Halloween), but come on! Give Christmas its 12 days or something. Anything more than that is just stupid! And to sacrifice not one, but two other holidays just because you want to be a "go getter/actually too lazy to decorate later," just bugs me. If you're not gonna celebrate Halloween, don't. Just don't pretend it's a different holiday for 2 months.

Well, the worst part of the Halloween celebration, at least on my part and our situation here in the country(from the Philippines here by the way), is not most of the people celebrate or enjoy such event, especially those who are right in the middle class, like our family.

Costumes are quite expensive, and you'll feel out of place with the people who really can afford to be in such glamorous outfits and stuff, and that is sending a depressive mood on me.

Bar none I have to say egging, I had my car egged my feshman year on holoween, and had to get the door repainted. Otherqise I love the holiday, it happens to be my Fiancé and I's anniversary, so other than the occasional egg, I have to say I love the holiday.

I would have to say probally those who don't even celebrate.  It is my favorite holiday.  I love going to salem mass on holloween.  Being stuck in bed this year I'm very disapointed I won't be able to do anything.  Not even pass out candy.  Hopeing my wife will be home so she can at least pass some out but she's not sure if she is going to be able to. Even if she can I'm going to be disapointed that I will not be able to even see all the costumes that the children come to the house in.  I enjoy the creativity and excitement of children.  I love children witch is why I became a father myself.  Little worried about all the psyco's out there.  Wich is why my son is only going to houses of friends and family.  He is only 2 so he doesn't really need much candy.  But overall I'm very disapointed I'm going to miss out on the fun of holloween this year wich is probally why I chose people who do not celebrate at all and don't even pass out candy.

Rocky Horror Picture Show.

They show it at midnight at every local theater, and I've always hated both the movie itself, and the crowd of people that go act it out, then loudly shamble home afterward.

This isn't bad solely because I live near a theater. But it does up the priority, somewhat.

The hazing of freshmen fraternity pledges on Halloween.

Now, for me, I kind of got lucky on this night because I racked up enough "pledge credits" in advance to get out of this one event, because I knew I didn't want to put up with this damned night. Terrible, terrible night. The pledges had to do stupic crap like put Icy/Hot on their balls and not touch them for half an hour or sit on a cactus or shit in a bucket with everyone watching. It was awful.

The way it worked was, there were one to two events a week, usually a party or a home football game, you were required to attend and you could opt out of only one event in the pledge period if you earned enough credits. By the time Halloween came around, there were three weeks left in the pledge process for my fraternity. It ended the week of Thanksgiving holiday, so you could come back after the break and study hardcore for finals. I went to the party every year, but didn't have to participate that night of my freshman hazing. I mean, being a pledge was bad enough, and some of the hazing that went on the rest of the time was pretty bad in and of itself, but on Halloween the pledge process was a nightmare.

I swore to myself that when I became a brother, I was going to be the nice one-- and I was. I gave out my max amount of credits before the Halloween party and got two to three people out of it every year. Now, I wasn't allowed to tell anyone what happened at the party, especially the freshmen, but I always "suggested" to the pledges I helped out to cash in their credits at the Halloween party.

So why did I tell you all what happened? I'll just not tell you what frat I was in during college.

This was actually a hard one for me. Of course the pranksters are bad - we had some kid who put a small bomb literally in the leaf pile at the end of our drive. Ever since then we've heavily saturated the piles when they accumulate around this time of year. But that's not really "celebrating" to me. And while I don't like loud parties going on at all hours, that's again, not really a problem around here. Ahh the joys of living in a quiet neighborhood.

As a child the two things that bugged me was when my Dad would make me bundle up (thus throwing a coat over my costume) when it was cold out, and long driveways.

As an adult, the thing I think I hate most is grabby un-grateful children. The ones that try to reach into the candy bowl before they say their ToT line/Please and thank you. I don't care if you're dressed like el Diablo, HAVE SOME MANNERS! XD

COMMERCIALLY however, I'd say what I hate is the endless parade of bad Horror movies. Yes, I know some are cheesey, but where are the real classics these days? I hit up Halloween just tonight only to find it was the remake. It not only failed to scare me, it succeeded at BORING ME.

Pet Sematary had great atmosphere to it even if I didn't feel particularly scared watching it. It just had that proper, creepy feeling. The Evil Dead mobies have their camp yes, but they have creative and horrific imagery. What about a Dracula film or something?

All I keep finding are Remakes of classics that never live up to the original, and the many bad sequels that followed the originals. I find the shlock horror that TGWTG LIVES on. It's kind of depressing not being able to find something that can't make my hair stand on end or give me pause for thought.

Oh well, that's why I have DVDs *digs out Army of Darkness and Vampire Hunter D*

It really annoys me when people play the Commodore64 on Halloween. It just drives me bonkers.

.....yes, I'm kidding. >D Please....don't send me angry messages. :P

I'd say the people who use Halloween as yet another excuse to get drunk and become obnoxious assholes, and well, people....already do that anyway, and for no real reason at all, if it's not Halloween. On Halloween though, they get to wear bad costumes, too! Sorry, I don't care for that.

I do agree with Knightcrawler about the way, way too early Christmas materials though, although I don't think those things are set out as a way to celebrate Halloween, exactly! At least, to most people. :P But yeah, I do hate it that a lot of people and stores don't even wait at least until Halloween is over to start with the Christmas stuff. Auy... -__-

(First off I just wanted to say, that I didn’t mention the commodore 64 because I wanted to get mentioned, I just wanted to share the love, for a device I have a hard time not loving hehe.)

Halloween, well this was a little hard for me, mostly because in Denmark Halloween hasn’t been celebrated for a lot of years, actually Halloween first arrived in Denmark six years ago. That now said I do have a story, this is more an event that obviously happened to me, you may laugh if you want, but I sure as hell didn’t laugh.

Well I was invited to friend’s house for Halloween; they decorated their lawn as a cemetery, with ghosts, skeletons, zombies and a hell of a lot of jack lanterns, as well as a lot of dark lights you might say. But they also had the idea to place a hole somewhere on the lawn. So basically what would happen would be that people would get scared and somehow fall down into the hole, because nobody would be dumb enough to walk into it right? Well I was one of the few guys who didn’t get scared but didn’t see the hole, because it was freaking night and while there were lights you couldn’t see the whole areas because it was too dark.

So I fell into the hole, some others had fallen down, but because they had been scared. I remember they all laughed, and while it didn’t hurt falling down into the hole it instead was very embarrassing to fall into this hole. I heard that they actually have had this idea for some years, and some hated it and some didn’t, I was one that didn’t like it. It wasn’t the way I wanted to start my Halloween night. So for the last years I have instead invited friends over to my house for some horror movies and just for the enjoyment. I also should say that they stopped having the hole two years later because people began to get hurt and began to complain a lot.

I am sure this isn’t something that usually happens, and I my opinion it was a really bad idea, and I just wanted to share that story with you, hope you have a great Halloween and let us all raise our glasses to all the evil guys in movies, because they are all coming to kill us… have fun:)

Some others have already mentioned it, but the concept of smashing pumpkins, egging houses, etc. really irritates me.  If I'm remembering right in my area the day before Halloween is called cabbage day, where teenagers run around and destroy property and are generally obnoxious.  I'm not a fan.

If I had to pick one way people celebrate Halloween that bugs me, it'd come down to the lack of originality in costumes. Store-bought or home-made, I don't care, if you assemble the one big "It" costume of the year- for instance going as the Dark Knight version of The Joker a few years back- I just can't throw my hands up high enough in disgust. Halloween is about creativity, so yes, I will judge you. Harshly. It gets even worse when you think "slasher bad guy" is still worth it. You wasted mo0ney on a costume no one likes. Congrats. Now give me your candy and get out of my sight.

To continue and counter what Prangeraide just said I hate it when everyone goes as that "It" costume, but I hated having a costume and everyone asking me what it was. I haven't dressed up in 3 years (I'm 14) and the last time was some shitty scream mask my Mom bought for me last minute when I didn't want to dress up. Walking around in that horrible mask nearly suffocated me, and I never did care for the candy, with the chocolate melting and the rest being shit brands bought at the stores for real cheap. Back to the costume thing creativity is always wasted, if you don't know what it is and have to ask you're just wasting your breath, if you don't know the costume you don't know what it is from, you can't start a conversation besides "What are you?" "I'm (x)." "K" if you were looking to start a conversation find something that you recognize and enjoy.

And I'm going to have to echo the drunk and loud parties thing. I spent the last 2 years of Haloween at my Dad's house. My Dad isn't the kind of drunk to get violent and drink too much and shit, but he drinks half a bottle and being so short he gets dumb as hell too fast, and when you've got kids over you should atleast be able to do simple Math if you want to keep up with what we're doing.

The egging and fucking annoying teenagers is something I've never seen, but I've heard plenty and spending Haloween at my Mom's house this year in a part of town with a lot of teenages I will expect to see it some time this year maybe. Sounds like hell.

I also hate Pumpkins. I just hate being dragged to some shit pumpkin farm with half of the people there abnoxuious kids and the other half irritated parents just to walk through a huge field with pumpkins trying to find the perfect pumpkin. I also hate carving these pumpkins later, I generally suck at it and noone has taught me how to do it right, but I generally just hate having to mess with this pumpkin making a huge mess and, ugh. I just hate do this.

Clearly I don't like Haloween, but I do like the whole scary thing, that has always been my favorite part, and I hope to enjoy costumes more when I'm older and can do something creative around friends and people who would get it. Until then I'll be playing Castlevania and Ghost n' Goblins, and whatever TF2 has for Haloween these coming years.

Most of the stuff i dislike these days (being a bit older) has already been mentioned. I will say back in my trick or treat days of the 90s, i loved trick or treating but when i got candy i didnt like i was always a tad disappointed.

However most of my friends would meet up after we finished and set up our own "shops" where wed trade our candy for other pieces we did want. I remember one halloween i traded like half my stash for snickers bars. Ahh good times. Gettin kinda nostalgic here lol.

@ DXT: LOL to go along with my hatred of really long drive ways and continue the candy trade thing, I went down a very long driveway one year to someone's house and to my shock and awe they actually were handing out candy. Since I and the girl I was with were the only Trick or Treaters they'd seen in ages, she just split the whole bucket of Tootsie rolls (a personal favorite) into each of our bags. It was nearly the most awesome haul ever. We also had a woman who had a light on and one of the FEW to do so in an otherwise dark neighborhood who was giving away full size candy bars - I got me a butterfinger :)

It's a tie between people who damage other people's property and people who don't celebrate Halloween. I personally celebrate by watching scary movies and enjoying my birthday presents. Yes, my birthday is on the eve of All Hallows Eve. I feed off the terror this causes you. Or maybe that's just the extra candy in the house.

Other years, I'll get into a costume, usually comprised of my duster and a random mask, and go to a bar and celebrate. This year will be scary movies due to the timing and economy. This is without a doubt my favorite holiday of the year and the reasons are numerous.

Pumpkin smashing, toilet papering, lawn forking, window soaping, egging, tire slashing, arson, etc.

General vandalism and using it as an excuse to dress like a hooker.

The two things that I think of is : 

1.Devils Night - For pepole who don't live in America it is when kids go out the night before Halloween and vandalize houses, cars, buildings, ECT. 

2. The other thing I can think of is when older kids scare the little kids who are trick or treating. I know its Halloween but really come on.

I think Halloweens celebration is the great idea for holiday celebration. I also want to enjoy this great Halloweens celebration. But honestly, I think No one should use it for their own sick. It is good thing for every celebration. I really like it and I really enjoy this celebration.

Now, I should point out I am a huge halloween lover, to the point of every year having a party as close to the day as possible.  That said there are some 'traditions' that pure and simple tick me off

1.  Ignoring trick or treaters:  not a big gripe but we all met them if we trick or treated as kids.  Not the ones that had all the lights out and were either asleep or out doing their own thing, I understand that, I am talking about the ones that had their lights out and the TV on so you could see it flickering.  Meaning we knew they were home

2.  using relgion to either ban the holiday or using the holiday to promote the relgion.  Halloween is no longer a relgionous holiday in the traditional sense (unless you are wicca or something but then they do their own thing and leave the rest of us alone) and I won't get too much into the ban part of things, but that just irks me to no end.  Promtotion however, is annoying, I don't want a pamphlet in my candy bag, I want candy, or money is fine.

3.  The pranksters, it has to be said, anyone who uses the holiday purely to cause havoc is ruining it for the rest of us, they are the reason curfews are instated.

4.  people who complain that halloween is a 'kids' holiday: NO!  adults celebrate it too, hell some even trick or treat, if you don't want to celebrate that's fine but don't try to ruin everyone else's fun!

Yeah pretty much anyone who somehow tries to ruin the holiday for me gets me a bit irked, but then that's just me.