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Post by vegalyra on Aug 16, 2019 19:08:49 GMT
My kids go regardless of the night it falls on. It's just a corporation trying to make more money.
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Post by GiantFan1980 on Aug 16, 2019 19:09:35 GMT
Haven't had a trick or treater in at least 12 years. Before all the housing developments were thrown up we would get at least 10 a year. But the last few years I haven't even seen kids in costume walking around the neighborhoods. If you wanna see people in costume around here you have to go to one of the artsy fart sniffer gentrified neighborhoods where the houses are closed together and the town is putting on some festivities.
It all started declining around Sept 11th. Up until that point it was your traditional Halloween around here. That Halloween was very bleak, nobody was in the mood to put up decorations. Ever since that day I have hardly seen any kids out bumming for candy except for the very young being drug around by their parents.
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Post by Harmless elf on Aug 16, 2019 19:52:25 GMT
Haven't had a trick or treater in at least 12 years. Before all the housing developments were thrown up we would get at least 10 a year. But the last few years I haven't even seen kids in costume walking around the neighborhoods. If you wanna see people in costume around here you have to go to one of the artsy fart sniffer gentrified neighborhoods where the houses are closed together and the town is putting on some festivities.
It all started declining around Sept 11th. Up until that point it was your traditional Halloween around here. That Halloween was very bleak, nobody was in the mood to put up decorations. Ever since that day I have hardly seen any kids out bumming for candy except for the very young being drug around by their parents.
Kids are idiots these days I mean it's free candy! Are they seriously so lazy they can't even walk for free damn candy! you can't even download Candy!
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Post by Sarge on Aug 17, 2019 20:12:40 GMT
We used to get around 60-70 trick or treaters but it's down to 20-30. The date isn't the problem, it's the urban legends about tainted candy, and protestant churches attacking the holiday. Churches here have their own version of haunted houses with scenes of abortions and hell. Also kids and parents are just lazy. The new thing is trunk or treating where everyone goes to a parking lot. Teenagers are too lazy to even vandalize houses that don't participate anymore. Halloween was our night for (admittedly mild) mayhem like toilet papering the principal's house, soaping windows, or corning cars.
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 17, 2019 23:55:44 GMT
Haven't had a trick or treater in at least 12 years. Before all the housing developments were thrown up we would get at least 10 a year. But the last few years I haven't even seen kids in costume walking around the neighborhoods. If you wanna see people in costume around here you have to go to one of the artsy fart sniffer gentrified neighborhoods where the houses are closed together and the town is putting on some festivities.
It all started declining around Sept 11th. Up until that point it was your traditional Halloween around here. That Halloween was very bleak, nobody was in the mood to put up decorations. Ever since that day I have hardly seen any kids out bumming for candy except for the very young being drug around by their parents.
I remember that Halloween, everybody was freaked out, we still went out, but there was a new neighbor 2 houses down nobody knew, we went there, he gave our individually wrapped Twizzlers, which NOBODY in the neighborhood ever gave out, I love Twizzlers, but I was so paranoid about there might be anthrax in them, I never ate them.
In our town it was more than just 9/11 though, everybody was on edge because the night before, 3 convicts had broken out of prison in a neighboring town and everybody was worried they would come here, whenever there's a jail break they all seem to come this way and I don't know why.
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 17, 2019 23:57:18 GMT
We used to get around 60-70 trick or treaters but it's down to 20-30. The date isn't the problem, it's the urban legends about tainted candy, and protestant churches attacking the holiday. Churches here have their own version of haunted houses with scenes of abortions and hell. Also kids and parents are just lazy. The new thing is trunk or treating where everyone goes to a parking lot. Teenagers are too lazy to even vandalize houses that don't participate anymore. Halloween was our night for (admittedly mild) mayhem like toilet papering the principal's house, soaping windows, or corning cars.
I don't know what the problem is. I think where we are, sometimes it's the weather, it snowed October 12th last year, sometimes it IS the night of the week, you get more kids when it's a weekend than a school night, but there's no real rhyme or reason with us, one year we get 30 kids, last year or the year before we got about 100. What most of them do I think is FIRST they go trunk or treating, go to the churches, the downtown businesses, THEN when it's over, they come up to our street.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 18, 2019 5:11:13 GMT
In every other city I've lived, they would designate the weekend closest to Halloween for Trick or Treat, but down here in the bible belt the local governments pretend Halloween doesn't exist so they don't upset local churches and everyone that trick or treats goes on the 31st, whatever day it is.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 18, 2019 14:53:47 GMT
Halloween candy started appearing a couple weeks ago in my local grocery store... stocking up on candy that no one is asking for ftw.
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Post by theshape25 on Aug 21, 2019 6:55:25 GMT
Back in the 80s in my town trick or treat was always on Halloween night. I remember going out as a kid and there would be hundreds of kids. Then in the early 90s they changed it to the closest sunday to Halloween and it was like 4pm-6pm. It wasn't even at night. It started going down hill after that. We haven't had a trick or treater in my neighborhood in years.
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