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On moving to the Harrisburg area in PA, I was surprised to learn that many communities declare the official night for "trick or treating" to be on a night other than Oct 31.
Trick or Treat is outright endangered. Gated communities, communities with no sidewalks, etc, all make it more difficult. Add to that the steady increase in the "Helicopter Parent" syndrome and it will be history within a few years in many parts of the country.
Trick or Treat is outright endangered. Gated communities, communities with no sidewalks, etc, all make it more difficult. Add to that the steady increase in the "Helicopter Parent" syndrome and it will be history within a few years in many parts of the country.
Good riddance to trick or treating. Halloween is a waste of a holiday.
Trick or Treat is outright endangered. Gated communities, communities with no sidewalks, etc, all make it more difficult. Add to that the steady increase in the "Helicopter Parent" syndrome and it will be history within a few years in many parts of the country.
Sidewalks? I don't think trick or treaters need sidewalks with their parents driving them around from house to house. I've seen this trend become more and more popular over the years.
Good riddance to trick or treating. Halloween is a waste of a holiday.
It's not a waste for the kids...when asked which holiday is their favorite, Halloween is always a very close runner up to Christmas. The costumes, the candy - how could it not be fun?
We have trick night and treat night separately. It makes it a lot easier to get tons of candy while still throwing bricks through windows. Well planned, I say.
I get less and less kids every year. I love Halloween. It's just for kids of all ages - no religion or differences of nationalities or anything else. It's just for FUN!
Unfortunately, I guess because of all the senior citizens and fear of crime in our county, the county put an 8pm curfew to the t or t-ing. I didn't know that for 2 yrs, and mom and I were chatting on the phone, wondering what happened to all the kids, and had so much candy left over. Now, I just give handfuls to each little one who comes. They don't get as much as we used to. We used to have to run home to dump a pillow case full to go out for more!
Oh, and Toxic Toast - how do you declare it a holiday? We don't get off work or get paid more. So what constitutes a holiday?
They have their own version of Trick-or-Treat here in Dayton, OH called "Beggar's Night" and it's always on a different night than Halloween. No one even utters the word "Halloween" around here. Adults don't celebrate it. It is sooooooo weird. And not very cool in my opinion. Where I am from (Portland, OR), Halloween is celebrated by young and old alike and with fervor - and **ON** Halloween (ie the 31st!!!!!!!!!!!!). Adults do the party thing, kids do the door-to-door thing. Everyone wears a costume. The pagans go nuts. It's a joyous occasion. Halloween is alive and well in Portland. Too bad I'm going to miss it this year.
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I've seen this trend become more and more popular over the years.
"Beggar's Night" - BLECH!!!!!!!!!!
