Happy Halloween

[BH]

Watch out for the ghosts and goblins.

And if any of you are going to go take kids or grandkids trick or treating be safe and have fun.

 

[ZiprHead]

Right back atcha.

 

[crazyfingers]

My wife insists on the blowups.

My daughter came over with her fiance and 21 month year old. They went out to do her old route from years ago.

She also brought 10 freaking pumpkins that she got today for like 90% off. We cut up 5 but what am I supposed to do with the other 5 big pumpkins?

 

[Tharmas]

We live a couple of blocks from a heavily Hispanic neighborhood and usually have a ton of Trick of Treaters on Halloween. This year however we only saw Caucasian kids. We had candy left over, which has never happened before. It seems like the Hispanics were all laying low due to fear of ICE. If so, it's really sad.

 

[Politesse]

Merry Samhain! It was our first Halloween in the suburbs, so I had no idea whether to expect trick or treaters or not. There were dozens, we ran out of candy and had to hide.

Until them I cut a classic figure of a witch, I think, sat out on my wicker rocker with my cloak and cap and an ancient tome.

 

[Bronzeage]

It's a shame Trick or Treating has declined so much. When I had a house in the suburbs, I enjoyed handing out candy. One year I had received a sampler pack of 40 cigars and life is too long to smoke short cigars, so I had a few small ones left over. I stuck them in the candy bowl and answered Trick or Treat! with "Candy or cigars." No one wanted cigars until two boys, each about 11 years old. Their eyes popped open wide, but hesitated, certain it was some kind of trick. I handed them the cigars and said, "Just remember, you don't remember this house." The last visitors of the night were a pair of girls dressed as Madonna out of her "Like a Virgin" video. They each had the cleavage for the costume. I said, "This is your last Trick or treat, isn't."

 

[thebeave]

In college, me and my 4 roommates rented a newish house in a suburban neighborhood away from the campus. We had a lot of trick or treaters every year. One year after we ran out, I started handing out boullion cubes (little cubes wrapped in foil, that could pass as a candy treat). I often wonder about the reactions of the kids and their parents after a kid popped one of those in his mouth. I feel kinda bad about it now, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

[BH]

In college, me and my 4 roommates rented a newish house in a suburban neighborhood away from the campus. We had a lot of trick or treaters every year. One year after we ran out, I started handing out boullion cubes (little cubes wrapped in foil, that could pass as a candy treat). I often wonder about the reactions of the kids and their parents after a kid popped one of those in his mouth. I feel kinda bad about it now, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Horrible person! just

 

[crazyfingers]

When I was growing up I lived on a road with a lot of space between houses. When I was old enough I roamed to other neighborhoods. My patents got very few trick or treaters.

When I bought this house on a short side street we get few trick or treaters. I think our max was 4-5 groups. This year we got one.

 

[southernhybrid]

Since we almost never had any trick or treaters when we moved here, we started turning off all of the lights and ignoring the holiday about 25 years ago. The kids mostly go to the two nearby, most affluent streets in the area. Do they really think that the wealthier people are going to be more generous? Plus their parents wait for them in their cars, blocking traffic for hours. Damn helicopter parents.

I recall being out for hours with a few kids on my black then bringing home a huge bag of candy and coins. Maybe it's a Jersey thing but some people gave out dimes or nickels instead of candy and the boys on my street loved that. How times have changed. It was great being a free range kid from around the age of 5.

 

[crazyfingers]

It was great being a free range kid from around the age of 5.

I was a free range kid. The 1960s and 1970's. We went out and didn't come back until supper in the summer. Winter, well I was back around dark.

I don't really know when things changed.

We adopted our kids in 2004. I had trouble just getting them outside. I'd have let them roam if they would actually do it. But they wouldn't.

 

[southernhybrid]

It was great being a free range kid from around the age of 5.

I was a free range kid. The 1960s and 1970's. We went out and didn't come back until supper in the summer. Winter, well I was back around dark.

I don't really know when things changed.

We adopted our kids in 2004. I had trouble just getting them outside. I'd have let them roam if they would actually do it. But they wouldn't.

My son will be 55 this month and his generation was the last of the free range kids, along with what is known as the latch key kids. I was a free range kid as well and loved it. I went to the corner store at age 5 and roamed for miles by the time I was about 7 or 8. In fact, I was permitted to play outside unsupervised at age 2 or 3 as long as I promised not to cross the street. The good old days for sure.

Sadly, my grandkids have been overly protected by their mom, even my grandson who will be 13 next month acts like he's about 5 when he's with "mommy". It's nauseating.