If you don't celebrate Christmas then you should not celebrate Hallowe'en either.
Just as Christmas eve is the night before Christmas day, Hallowe'en (All Hallows evening) is the night before all Hallows (souls) day, where the souls of the departed are venerated.
On the other hand, simply "because you can', why not have fun on both days?
These holidays were around a thousand years before Xianity corrupted them!
I know. That's why I use them to "wind up" the god-botherers.
I celebrate Yule at the shortest day, and the autumn equinox, in to a degree the traditional ways.
Yule is a Viking festival, which runs from the winter solstice until Epiphany, the day on which the Northern hemisphere sunrise is at its latest.
I thoroughly enjoy marking it by feasting, drinking and shirking.
Celebrate goodness, celebrate good people in your life, celebrate helping hands every day around the year and stop buying on holidays. Buy when you feel like it. Gratitude, acknowledgment, remembrances do not have to have to wait until a stupid date decided by another stupid somebody. Holidays started as harvesting season celebrations. Don't bend over for shops and their gimmicks. Love your mother every day, a greeting card or a puny gift once a year won't cut it. I don't do mother's day, boss's day, secretaries day, valentine's day, Christmas, Diwali... none of it. Do what you must continuously. We should not need a day once a year... this is a shitty idea.
Don't buy holiday gifts you freethinkers. Snap out of it.
Xmas is not religious to many anymore!!!
All hallow eve is a pagan and souls of the dead day which is not religious unless you make it religious!!!
Only on the full autumn harvest moon Do I celebrate the souls that have departed!!!
I have fun with them both, but I draw the line at Columbus Day.
I object to anyone telling me what I should or shouldn't do. I choose to ignore Halloween most years. Especially this year will be no different. Christmas gets a tad more attention as it is a time to get together with family, and it is a birthday for the granddaughter as well.
Hallowe'en is for youngsters, not us. I definitely agree that Christmas is a time to be introverted, with close friends and with family. New Year is extrovert. An excuse to greet the entire world.
@Petter Most New Years I spend either sleeping or reading and about to go to sleep. I'm not a party girl.