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With Halloween on the horizon, we’re speaking to people in Newport about their thoughts on trick or treating. Do you embrace the kids in their costumes or do they pull the curtains shut and pretend you’re not there?

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00:00Halloween is now only a few days away, so we're speaking to people in Newport about
00:06their plans for the big day. Some people embrace trick-or-treaters and have bags of sweets
00:10ready to hand out to kids in their costumes, but others pull the curtains tight and make
00:15themselves invisible for the evening. It might be a generational thing, or it might just
00:19be your way of celebrating the day, but people all seem to celebrate Halloween in different
00:24ways.
00:25We do trick-or-treat, when they come and knock on the door we'll do it, but we don't
00:28go out anymore. Obviously, I'm 21 now, my youngest is 19, so we don't really do that much anymore,
00:34but if they do come and knock, then we will hand out some sweets on them.
00:38Me and my mum, they like to be by the door, and when they knock on the door, I speak in
00:45and I speak, and some other stuff.
00:52I love Halloween, because there's this culture, but my parents are a bit defensive.
00:58I love it. I mean, our door is open to anyone to trick-or-treaters, but we live in an off-road
01:08of an off-road, so we don't get anyone around, but we buy a tub of sweets anyway. I love Halloween,
01:15I love everything about it, I think it's quite cool. And I love seeing kids dressed up, and
01:21it's all quite fun and whimsical, and I like it a lot.
01:25Halloween, though for most people, especially the grown-ups, is more than just trick-or-treating,
01:30with people huddling around to watch scary films, going to pumpkin patches, and embracing
01:34all that spooky season has to offer.
01:36Oh, not really. When I was younger, yes, but now it's just every Halloween, I'll sit
01:43down and watch horror movies, and eat snacks and stuff, that's about it.
01:48Sorry, so when some people knock on doors and don't answer, it's like, come on, it's been
01:51around for years, like, come on. It's got to cost, what, three quid to get a bag of sweets
01:55in the shop? Not a lot, let's be honest. But it's not something you should be ignoring,
02:01to be honest, it's been around for long enough to know what I mean.
02:07It certainly isn't for everyone, though, but even people who don't celebrate can see
02:10that it's mainly just an innocent celebration that can bring people and families together.
02:15It kind of reminds me of the film that appeared, you know, it's like, once a year, we put on
02:19our masks and we just go wild, and like, because I'm a Christian, I am, I believe in God and
02:23stuff, and it's a bit devilish to me, do you know what I mean? But like, you know, people
02:27are going to do what they're going to do, you know? It's just the way the society is,
02:30and the way the world goes, and it's been going, you know? Yeah, I don't have anything
02:35against it, but obviously, because of my religion, I don't celebrate it myself personally, but
02:39I don't, I don't have anything bad against it, I suppose.
02:42Believe it or not, no, not really. I just like the, I just like, I'm like a horror
02:46addict, do you know what I mean? So I like horror films. Obviously, Halloween's the best
02:49time for horror and stuff like that. But I don't really celebrate much, I just, I just
02:55like watch films and give out sweets on the day, do you know what I mean?
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