Current Events > Man, friends getting old sucks. Halloween is fucking dead to our clique.

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Mind you, all these people used to absolutely LOVE Halloween.

But so long story short, two of them each threw a really big Halloween party every year. Like, all-out, legit parties. Last few years however, both started to shrink in size and they put less effort into 'em. To compensate,me and my fiancee started throwing our own small party, knowing we couldn't compete since we just have an apartment, but figured it'd help keep the spirit up.
Unfortunately, last year due to one of them having their in-laws move in with them and taking over their house and not a lot of people showing up, we spent the entire party outside at a firepit. The other one decided to throw their party in November, the weekend after Halloween.

This year, the one friend (frustrated from his last party flopping) scheduled his like 4 months in advance and invited a ton of people, but still only like 7 or 8 people total came. (compared to like 25+ in other years.) We mostly sat around the food table talking, and the guy throwing it ended up falling asleep on the couch while watching Amityville Horror.
Additionally, we had our own little party again, and similarly no one showed up. (It was literally us, my parents, my sister and her husband, and two of our friends). Meanwhile, the other guy decided for the second year in a row to throw their party in November again.

This fucking sucks, guys. Halloween used to be this month-long fucksplosion of awesomeness with this clique. Now they're all hitting their early 30s and just getting tired and sad and empty, so no one wants to celebrate anymore. Parties now are just tired people sitting around talking about home repair and babies.
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