‘Trick or treat’ or ‘not for me’? What’s your most memorable Halloween costume? Leeds locals reflect on spooky season.
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00:00I really like Halloween. When I was younger, I never really did trick-or-treating,
00:03but we've always had like a little party going on and stuff, so we do that quite a lot.
00:07And there's a lot of people you can dress up nowadays.
00:10I think Keir Starmer will be one that would scare everybody on Halloween,
00:14so I think I might dress up as Keir Starmer this year.
00:16Sorry to be political. Tried to avoid it.
00:19Personally, I find Halloween very stressful.
00:21I feel like you've got to go out and do something,
00:24and it's got to be this big night, and there's a bit of pressure.
00:28I dressed like a vampire, I think, until every year, I think until I was, what, 12?
00:32And then, yeah, it kind of got a bit weirder. I did Enya, and I think I remember coming down
00:38this street dressed in Enya for a reggaeton party a few years ago, which was quite funny.
00:42I don't like Halloween. I've had experiences of witches against my Christian faith,
00:52which I can't really go on too length now.
00:55So I'm sorry to say, being positive about Halloween,
00:59I say it can generate fear, which I've experienced.
01:03I'm going to a Halloween party this year as Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.
01:09I used to live in Bulgaria, so Halloween as a kid was never really celebrated,
01:14because I think we have our own Night of the Dead, or maybe,
01:18I don't know what the right translation would be.
01:20When I was young, the trick or treat was actually on my parents,
01:24that if I didn't get a treat, it wasn't on other people, we didn't go to other people.
01:28It was sort of really, we're sort of on our parents,
01:31so if you don't treat us, we'll do a trick on you, you know, that sort of thing.
01:34So it was a standard joke that,
01:36aren't you supposed to go to other people and do trick or treat?
01:39Not, you know, not us.
01:40No, sorry, you're the easy target.
01:42I don't buy stuff for it. I just try to use what I've got.
01:45But it's like Easter, you know, the days after Halloween,
01:48you go into these shops and you get all the cheap chocolate,
01:52which is not really going for the same prices,
01:55and you sort of stock up on a lot of chocolate.
01:57Maybe that's the most consumerist approach to it.