Since we live fairly close to each other...do they do Trick or Treating in your neighborhood on a day other than Halloween? Ours is today and it's 43degrees, windy and pouring down rain! Yuck!
Anyone else's town do it on a day other than Halloween?
What's the logic of not doing it on Halloween exactly?
I'm a curious guy and I don't see the advantage of doing it on the 25th vs the 31st.
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we still do ours on the 31st but (and i'm sorry about the highjack but i was thinking of this on the drive in) does anyone else notice that there's just not as many kids out going door to door like there used to be? i mean, when i was a kid, the streets were just packed. now, when i'm giving out candy, i'll have bought like 6 bags of candy to pass out and i might get through 3. i'm wondering if they're having more trick or treat parties in community centers and such as a safer environment or something.
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I think I remember T saying the split up in days was due to increased police coverage in different areas of town.
Ours is almost always the night before Halloween??? DOn't know why.
In the last few years, I've taken the kids to relatives and friends houses but that's it. They taken to opening up shopping malls in which the stores give out candy around here, and that's where we mainly go. As do most others based on the HUGE turnouts they have. A good idea I think. Most all stores participate.
In my area most kids go to Churches and other similar places. When the time changes it'll be pitch black dark pretty early down here and most parents don't want there kids running around then. It's too bad I used to love going from house to house.
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Halloween is Halloween! Trick or treating should be going door to door. When I lived in New Orleans it was another excuse to party. People would just put a bucket of candy on the porch and then go out with the kids. You would see parents following the kids around with a wagon and a cooler of beer talking with the other parents in the street while the kids went from house to house. I real sense of community there that I hope doesn't go away.
When I lived in Plano, TX I would send the kids out (with the million other kids in the neighborhood) and I would stay at home and try to scare kids that came to my door. My kids said that the other kids always talked about our house the day after halloween.
Now we live on a street with almost no kids so we don't get many trick or treaters but we are always ready. We have lights and graveyards and strobe lights and fog machines. We get more into this than Christmas. We'll have a costume party this weekend and take the little one to the subdivision one street over where ther are more kids to go house to house.
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my brother went trick or treating on nov. 1st one year with his best friend. they told everyone that they couldn't go out on the 31st because my brother's sister (me) married kyle's brother last night (the 31st) and they had to go to the wedding. they came home with SO much candy cause everyone just dumped their leftovers that they wanted to get rid of into their bags.
i know it wasn't BEFORE halloween but they did go trick or treating on a day that wasn't the 31st [img]smile.gif[/img]
Believe me..all of us ex-Marylanders that live here are still trying to understand it. The town I live in puts on a HUGE parade every year the Thursday before Halloween. Our township always Trick or Treats the Tuesday before that. The rumor is that each township trick or treats on a different night so police from the next town can help cover anything that might happen. Which I don't understand because hardly anything ever happens around here.
It's miserable out today, raining and cold...not sure what to do about tonight yet. I would take him to my sister's on Halloween, but he has school the next day and we'd get home pretty late. Grrr..weird rules!
Wish you could come to our neighborhood! All the kids in the neighborhood gather at our house, I serve a light kid's food buffet and then we go, as a group, trick-or-treating. I give out the glow necklaces and bracelets instead of candy.
And - it is on Halloween even when I am 9 mos pregnant, due in a day and having huge contractions.
I take my son out when it is snowing on halloween (2 years ago). People were handing candy out by the handfulls, because no kids were out. Lots of people go to the malls now to get candy, since it is warm and dry.
You do it on Halloween no questions asked. We have a great time. There are hordes of kids. We ussually hit the immediate neighbors, since I have young children and then all the neighbors gather up for a hay ride ending up at the neighborhood party.
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Every year for i think like 2-3 years now, my town has a big halloween thing at the firehouse. It's not cool. Last year i walked around with my friend and his little sister (who was like 2) and the rest of our families for a bit then caught up with more friends and we walked to each others houses and got candy on the way. then, we'd chill at each house for a bit. Then on to the next house, etc. Then we all ended up at this one girls house and we just chilled there and ate pizza and watched movies. My town is gay: they had like an 8 o clock curfew. Yea, they're gay. I couldn't even walk home from my friends house which is like a 2 minute walk or a 30 second run. NO!!!!!! i had to get a ride. Yea my town is gay.
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Originally posted by Kevin T.: Every year for i think like 2-3 years now, my town has a big halloween thing at the firehouse. It's not cool. Last year i walked around with my friend and his little sister (who was like 2) and the rest of our families for a bit then caught up with more friends and we walked to each others houses and got candy on the way. then, we'd chill at each house for a bit. Then on to the next house, etc. Then we all ended up at this one girls house and we just chilled there and ate pizza and watched movies. My town is gay: they had like an 8 o clock curfew. Yea, they're gay. I couldn't even walk home from my friends house which is like a 2 minute walk or a 30 second run. NO!!!!!! i had to get a ride. Yea my town is gay.
Well judging by your avatar, you like guys in dresses so.....
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No, I was gonna say the same thing, Nick. "Gay" should not be used as a pejorative term. Its use is all too common amongst young people and enforces negative stereotypes. You did right by calling Kevin on it. I don't see this as PC at all.
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And then I went and forgot to actually post .... boy, am I ever gay!
Oops.
We still do Halloween on the 31st and everyone goes door-to-door. I have not heard anyone in these parts do it on a different day. Some malls host trick-or-treat events but it's not as popular as door-to-door.
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Every year for i think like 2-3 years now, my town has a big halloween thing at the firehouse. It's not cool. Last year i walked around with my friend and his little sister (who was like 2) and the rest of our families for a bit then caught up with more friends and we walked to each others houses and got candy on the way. then, we'd chill at each house for a bit. Then on to the next house, etc. Then we all ended up at this one girls house and we just chilled there and ate pizza and watched movies. My town is stupid: they had like an 8 o clock curfew. Yea, they're dumb. I couldn't even walk home from my friends house which is like a 2 minute walk or a 30 second run. NO!!!!!! i had to get a ride. Yea my town is moronic.
Better?
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Not trying to rag on ya, Kevin, but I'm glad you agree. I have gay friends and I know some of the tough stuff they have to put up with. As I said, the use of that term in a derogatory way really reinforces a negative view of them. Thanks for responding back - shows character, man.
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Around here, it's usually on Halloween unless it falls on Sunday, then Trick-or-Treat is typically the day before. But, we usually start early like around 5:00 pm so it's still slightly light out for the younger kiddies. The "older" kiddies come out after dark, and the "real old" kiddies stumble around much later!
As for my house, we typically go into town to friend's homes and pass out candy with them. We've stayed home a few times, but in about 4 years, I think we've gotten a total of perhaps 6 Trick-or-Treaters come to our door. That's the only thing that sucks about living in the sticks!
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Originally posted by ODB: I, being a moron, am highly offended!
Get over it! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by ODB: I, being a moron, am highly offended!
Too funny! Priceless.
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A bit of moron trivia about the original meaning - A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
Sorry Joe you're not a moron.
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I need more sleep. Here is the classification system. You wanna talk about a non-pc classifcations but I guess you know if qualify or not.
"The introduction of the IQ test was followed by a classification system that used such terms as moron (IQ of 51–70), imbecile (26–50), and idiot (0–25); later these terms were softened and classifications redefined somewhat to mild (IQ of 55–70), moderate (40–54), severe (25–39), and profound (0–24) retardation."
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Does anyone think that Mahler is going to be upset that a thread that starts with his name is now a discussion of which is better terminalogy: gay vs. moron.
Deserve - See, I thought a moron was a highly intelligent person. Man did I screw that up! I am such an idiot!
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Originally posted by Tin Man: I remember that...good haul in a short time. We go around our bay about 20 houses and then home...that candy usually lasts until easter.
We took the car and would hit about 10-20 houses then warm up in the car then did it again. Only out about and hour, but hit the jack pot I hate trying to get costumes that fit over snowsuits. They are too big when they wear them to class and too small to fit over the suit or toques. Hopefully it stays nice for Monday.
Yea my town is gay.
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