Halloween!

Beth Gallagher

Beth Gallagher

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It will soon be Halloween. 🎃 I remember all the years when our children were small, we went all out with decorations and costumes. Trick or Treat was a big deal in our neighborhood, and all over town for that matter.

Things have really changed, and it makes me a little sad. People seem to ruin all the good things I remember about growing up. The current trend of "trunk or treat" in a parking lot just seems kind of pathetic when compared to the miles we walked (unattended) to collect our Halloween loot.

Do you decorate for Halloween? And do you have many trick-or-treaters anymore?
 
I remember doing that when I was a kid, and we went all over town, and no one ever worried about us, or any treats we might be given. When my kids were little, it was so much fun to make costumes and let them go out trick-or-treating. We were in a larger town , so they just went in our neighborhood, but they still loved doing it, and I enjoyed making a costume to wear to had out treats to kids who came to our house.

Now, everything is different, and parents have to escort their kids, and only go to friends houses where they know it is safe. It is a really sad thing. We seldom have any kids come by here, so after a few years, we just stopped getting any candy, and now Bobby turns off the porch lights and closes the curtains, so they think no one is home, in case there did happen to be any kids out looking for candy.
We don’t desolate much anymore, and not for Halloween at all.
 
I do not decorate for Halloween anymore. I set a few mums and pumpkins out Fall decoration but that is about it. Some of my neighbors go all out. They decorate the house with orange Halloween lights and lots of creepy Halloween stuff in their yard.🎃

I never understood the trunk or treat thing either. Poor little kids don’t know what it is like to run from house to house all by themselves getting a sack full of treats. We never had an adult with us. They turned us lose in our homemade costumes with a treat bag to collect our sweets, and away we went! I guess the world is too scary now to let your kids run wild and have fun.

We do not have any trick-or-treaters come to our house anymore. Most of the little ones in our neighborhood have grown all up and moved away.
 
We have a very diverse neighborhood and lots of trick or treaters. We do the traditional candy for kids and drinks for adults. If SO is in this year it will be apple cider and hard cider in crock pots on the front porch. What bothers me a bit is the families who bus car loads of kids in to graze.
Decorating? I have a black metal tree with bats and hanging glass holders for tea lights. That has to do.
 
Marie Miller said:
What bothers me a bit is the families who bus car loads of kids in to graze.
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That is one thing that never bothered me. It was usually children from poor neighborhoods who got "bussed in" and I was glad that they got to have a fun Halloween, too. I didn't even mind the teenagers who usually showed up around 9 or 10 p.m. because I could unload the leftover candy on them.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
That is one thing that never bothered me. It was usually children from poor neighborhoods who got "bussed in" and I was glad that they got to have a fun Halloween, too. I didn't even mind the teenagers who usually showed up around 9 or 10 p.m. because I could unload the leftover candy on them.
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Beth, I disagree with you here. Poor neighborhoods means 30+ minute drive one way. When a group of teenagers empties a bucket and I mean a bucket at one sweep that is not funny.
 
Hi all.
Halloween was never as popular in England as it was in the USA .
When I was young looking out of the bedroom window to see if we could see a flying witch was as good as it got !
When my kids were little it was just starting to catch on a bit .
The full extent of "dressing" up was a cheap plastic mask and taking them to the neighbours on either side haha.
But it's a massive deal now.
The young ones really embrace the occasion.
My grandsons other grandparents really go to town. Their garden looks fabulous with all the skeletons, mummies, ghosts, witches, cobwebs , spooky sounds etc etc.
 
Hoot Crawford said:
"leftover candy" - never heard of it. Does Mars make it?
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That is in the same category as leftover bacon:)
I have not eaten chocolate or candy in three years. SO’s 2022 Christmas present of peppermint bark is in a pantry door looking at me several times a day. He used to keep it it in a safe and dole out portions. Feeding the ducks so to say.
 
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