Best city neighborhood to take your kids trick or treating? (Pittsburgh: living, Swiss) - Page 4 - City-Data Forum

chielgirl · 10-30-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Jrn14

well technically they have the right to trick or treat in a different neighborhood... It's not against the law... I don't understand what your trying to say.

Did you read the post I was responding to?

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Originally Posted by steindle

You sound hilariously stodgy for a "hippie." Is this a matter of real concern for you? Who cares?

apparently, I do.
When 4 or 5 vans full of older kids not from the neihborhood pull up, the lights go off.

Jrn14 · 10-30-2010, 01:05 PM

Ok Ebeeneezer... do you smash pumpkins, knock over snowmen, and hoard kids balls that land in your yard?

chielgirl · 10-31-2010, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Jrn14

Ok Ebeeneezer... do you smash pumpkins, knock over snowmen, and hoard kids balls that land in your yard?

Aren't you funny.
So, you're saying that I have no choice in what I do with my time or money?

jay5835 · 10-31-2010, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by chielgirl

Aren't you funny.
So, you're saying that I have no choice in what I do with my time or money?

So, how many vansful have you closed your lights to tonight?

groar · 10-31-2010, 07:21 PM

if anyone wants to bring their kids to wilkinsburg (it's right on the border of edgewood, don't be scared!) they can split a giant bowl of peanut chews, jolly ranchers and twizzlers! we got *one* group of kids last night, and none tonight which is totally weird. we never get mobbed, but we've always gotten a decent amount of kids in the past. we don't always have a pumpkin but we always have our porch light on.

and i only read the last page of this thread, but refusing to give candy to kids cause they're not from your neighborhood is pretty petty & lame. of course, you certainly have every right to be petty, and lame too.

EDIT: we have skull pops too! even for filthy out of neighborhood kids! even for the teenz!

groar · 10-31-2010, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Katiana

Once I moved away from the Pgh area, I learned it is uncommon in the extreme anywhere else to set a specific Trick or Treat night with times. I have lived in 7 states, including different areas of NY, and different parts of PA and I've never heard of this anywhere else.

I remember one other year when Halloween was on a Sunday. It was before 1996, b/c my father was still alive. He asked me what night we were having Trick or Treating out here in CO. (He was a concilman in a little burb in Beaver County, and they had to proclaim a night every year.) I said, "Sunday of course". He was surprised. He wondered how people who didn't believe in doing things on Sunday (non-religious activities, anyway) would go for that. I said they didn't have much of a presence here. In a way, I can see Saturday (you can be sure there'll be a lot of activity on the college campuses Sat. night) when Halloween is on a Sunday, but I don't get Thursday at all. Does anyone know why this is done?

yeah, i never lived anywhere other than pittsburgh where trick or treating happened during a set time or on a day other than halloween. besides pgh i've lived in nyc, suburban nyc, and in rural and urban areas in connecticut. when i was a kid, we went out by ourselves and trick or treated until we had hit everywhere we could walk to. and in the rural area, our parents drove us to a couple of further away places too (gasp!)

Sideblinded · 10-31-2010, 08:14 PM

I live in squirrel hill and had a record amount of trick or treaters tonight! Last year we had 6, tonight we had over 30.

chielgirl · 10-31-2010, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jay5835

So, how many vansful have you closed your lights to tonight?

Since I'm currently living in Europe, none.

BrianTH · 11-01-2010, 05:14 AM

I think Wilkinsburg having a different night than Edgewood, Swissvale, and Pittsburgh threw things off. Living in the Regent Square part of Wilkinsburg, and right across from a popular house whose decorations have gotten news coverage, we still got plenty of people, but I could tell it was quieter than usual in the Wilkinsburg direction, and obviously Saturday didn't make up the difference.

Jrn14 · 11-01-2010, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by chielgirl

Aren't you funny.
So, you're saying that I have no choice in what I do with my time or money?

Obviously you are free to do whatever you please.. Judging by your post you aren't big on making others (children) happy. I guess that is your choice. I just hope that society doesn't all become that way one day and traditions such as Halloween dissapear completely.