@Raye As a kid I preferred Halloween, but as an adult there's less and less to do in celebration of it.
You can go to a party, but that isn't really celebrating Halloween; it's just doing the same shit you do the rest of the year in a costume (which you have to worry about paying for or making).
There are haunted houses and stuff, but they're short-lived and expensive.
There are movies, but I watch scary movies all year.
The older I get the more I appreciate Christmas.
Not as a time to get stuff, but as a time to focus on people I care about.
Late November/December is when people get a lot of time off, and you're often forced to spend time indoors together.
Plus Christmas has more of the sentimental stuff I appreciate: like the music, or the cakes.
Christmas is a holiday you can really take time to enjoy and think about;
Halloween tends to sneak up on you and be over before you know it.
This might change if I had children, but I suspect not.
Having a family is likely to just make me more of a sentimental sucker, and I'd love to playβI mean, help out Santa.