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Where you live, do people really make a big deal out of Halloween, (American) Thanksgiving, and Christmas? Or do they largely go ignored?

Up until like, maybe 2000, people back where I grew up only barely got into the holiday spirit. I guess that's what happens when you're poor. In the 2000s though, most people stopped acknowledging the three holidays.

By like, 2005, you couldn't even Trick or Treat anymore because no one gave a damn or ever bought candy. They would leave their lights off on Halloween and never answer the door. Same with Christmas; the lights stopped getting hung up on the windows and the houses would be dark in those early 5pm December evenings before the street lights cut on at 6:30 or 7.

Most of Philly seemed to eventually be like that. It's implied celebrating holidays is only a thing for people with money and/or people with children. Makes sense; Halloween costumes and Christmas lights are expensive. And if you're a single bachelor and not a manchild/womanchild, you probably don't care about Halloween or Christmas much.

Here in South Korea, it depends on the year. Korean Thanksgiving is in September, then Hangul Day in October, then Halloween as normal, then essentially two months of Christmas, with the X-mas season starting November 1st.

In 2020, no one got into the holiday mood; probably because of COVID. And in 2021, it was minor/minimal. But right now in 2022, people are SUPER into Halloween again and treating it like a major holiday. Lots of Costume Parties planned.

My job certainly makes a huge deal of the holiday season; but hey, I'm a teacher, so it makes sense.

Do people really get into the holiday mood where you live?