[corpMaverick]

Mexican here. Not everybody does the whole enchilada as it is portraited in the movies.

On this day, my dad used to got to the cemetery to visit his parents. Clean the tomb and leave some flowers. But now that he is gone and I don't leave near him any more we are starting a tradition to make an altar with some photographs just to remember them and make sure that the members of the family understand that we didn't come from nothing, there is a family history and people that left a mark on what we are today. I think it is a beautiful tradition, not as fun as Halloween but it has deeper meaning. At least to us.

[jordigh]

How old are you, and what part of Mexico are you from?

I really think it was in the early 1980s when the SEP started to spread the holiday. It's kind of hard to figure out.

[tremendo]

I am 55 and we did celebrate Día de Muertos back in the 60's. Then we would bring flowers for our deceased, and outside (and inside) the cemetery it would be a lively scene with basically the whole town there doing the same, vendors of flor cempasúchil, sugar skulls, little calaveras (skeletons), etc. it's been an event my whole life, and something my parents celebrated, it's not new.

[tremendo]

I have to mention that it precedes "Día de todos los santos" so it's (or was) a two-day celebration. First remember the dead, then celebrate they've gone to heaven.

[corpMaverick]

Chihuahua, Went to elementary school in the 1970s. As a kid we celebrated Halloween more than "El dia de los muertos"