Is Halloween Dying?
Nov 1, 2021 12:40:56 #
We live in a town of about 11,000 people near the Wisconsin border.
The weather yesterday was seasonal...temps in the mid fifties, mostly sunny.
As usual we were prepared for Halloween. Normally car loads of little beggars are chauffeured to our sub-division for this annual even. Last year was understandably slow considering the pandemic.
This year was even slower. My wife keep count and only 10 kids came to the door. I remember times when the door bell rang almost every few minutes.
How was your Halloween?
The weather yesterday was seasonal...temps in the mid fifties, mostly sunny.
As usual we were prepared for Halloween. Normally car loads of little beggars are chauffeured to our sub-division for this annual even. Last year was understandably slow considering the pandemic.
This year was even slower. My wife keep count and only 10 kids came to the door. I remember times when the door bell rang almost every few minutes.
How was your Halloween?
Nov 1, 2021 13:02:25 #
No families with children left in our subdivision. Had 4 come to our door and they came from about a 1/2 mile away.
Nov 1, 2021 13:40:31 #
joer wrote:
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The Halloween we knew has been dead for about 50 years at least, not even close to what we knew.
Nov 1, 2021 13:43:38 #
I think the trick or treat portion is dying because of the garbage found n candy, apples, etc. this year I saw mention of sewing needles! What possesses some people?
Nov 1, 2021 13:45:00 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
Only a few children live in my neighborhood and very few families welcomed the trick or treaters. It was all over by about 7:30. There were some local "trunk or treat" events earlier in the week.
Nov 1, 2021 14:45:05 #
From what a friend was telling me the biggest majority of the trick or treating in this town has converted to the Trunk or Treat put on by local churches, businesses and organizations. This seems to be the safer option.
I quit giving out candy years ago when the majority of trick or treaters that arrived were teenagers that were well past the appropriate age.
There was a video posted on the "Next Door" app where a bowl of candy had been left on a table and several older children that arrived emptied the bowl in to their bags instead of selecting 1 or 2 pieces. That sours it for the home owner and leaves none for others. Very disrespectful!!! (This is not how I would chose to do it but still....)
Dodie
I quit giving out candy years ago when the majority of trick or treaters that arrived were teenagers that were well past the appropriate age.
There was a video posted on the "Next Door" app where a bowl of candy had been left on a table and several older children that arrived emptied the bowl in to their bags instead of selecting 1 or 2 pieces. That sours it for the home owner and leaves none for others. Very disrespectful!!! (This is not how I would chose to do it but still....)
Dodie
Nov 1, 2021 14:58:09 #
Trick or treating is alive and well here. I live in a Winter Texan Resort. We had boxes of M&Ms or Skittles type candy. We don't take candy bars or anything else that you could hide a needle in or inject anything from the people who donated . That's what we have done for years. We had way over a thousand packages. I was giving it out and my arms got tired had to call in replacement. A lot of the parents dressed up to, they got candy to. The kids would laugh at that. We set up a sound system and played scary music.
We have a marque and said we would be doing it Saturday and not Sunday.
We have a marque and said we would be doing it Saturday and not Sunday.
Nov 1, 2021 15:07:20 #
joer wrote:
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It was Halloween???
No kids around here. There’s still a COVID-19 pandemic. Also, it was Sunday and many churches held “trunk or treat” events in our city.
Nov 1, 2021 17:39:53 #
joer wrote:
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We had 2. We are now gaining weight at an alarming rate.
Nov 1, 2021 18:22:01 #
Nov 1, 2021 20:52:11 #
Nov 2, 2021 00:49:23 #
My neighborhood had a better than average turnout this year. Between 6 pm and 8 pm, the sidewalks in my townhouse community were packed with costumed children and quite a few parents. We bought 4 large bags of mixed wrapped and boxed candies and all 4 bags got dumped into the candy bowl. At the end there was maybe about a quarter of a bag left. Halloween is certainly not dead in my neighborhood.
Nov 2, 2021 01:02:11 #
We we wised up and did like the Reese's commercial, turned off our front lights and ate the candy ourselves!
We didn't see any trick-or-treaters go by.
Last year only 2 kids, our neighbors across the street. About 10 the year before that. Used to be 40, 50 or more.
No young kids on our block anymore, they grew up, some new babies though!
Yep, I think most parents are taking kids to the mall, church and school events now-a-days.
And there is a block on the "rich" side of town that decorates a lot and kids go there for the extra-good candy!
We didn't see any trick-or-treaters go by.
Last year only 2 kids, our neighbors across the street. About 10 the year before that. Used to be 40, 50 or more.
No young kids on our block anymore, they grew up, some new babies though!
Yep, I think most parents are taking kids to the mall, church and school events now-a-days.
And there is a block on the "rich" side of town that decorates a lot and kids go there for the extra-good candy!
Nov 2, 2021 06:03:24 #
Not a single trick or treater all night. And I was ready for them. Guess I will have to eat all that candy myself. 
Nov 2, 2021 06:34:17 #
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