Yeah, we used to use pillow cases, and we often brought back up bags. I had a plastic pumpkin one year, but it filled up really quick. (I had a bag for back up)
Plus this one guy at the end of my aunt’s street would do up his garage like a dungeon, and everything. It was so freaking cool.
The Christians in my area tend to use it as a way to re-direct the holiday away from it’s pagan roots and make it more churchy. Also avoiding the STRANGER DANGER of going door to door.
Me, I’d never take my kid to one. Door to door is the whole dang point!
This is true. No one in my neighborhood growing up would have dared to not give out candy. . . we took the “or” part of that pretty seriously. But it’s also true that there was a strict rule: one piece of candy per child. Nowadays each house that does give candy encourages her to take three or four.
Nice story: One elderly gentleman cut down all his mums on Sunday so the storm wouldn’t wreck them. He made bouquets and handed them out to all the Moms who came around with their kids.
Awwwwwww!
While this may be true, it’s been my experience that trunk or treating was an answer to a problem that has never really proven to exist. Namely the Safety of the candy you get from trick or treating. Which has by-and-large been proven to be mostly media hype that won’t quit.
That’s a ridiculously pretentious statement. Our trunk or treat is sponsored by the town and open to everyone. It was in the local newspaper and no one was turned away. Most trick or treating is also done in people’s neighborhoods. Do you really think my nine year old has some sort of civil discourse with the guy handing her a lollipop?
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My kids went to trunk or treat this year because Sandy was heading our way and we were afraid Halloween would be cancelled. My youngest girl won for third best boy’s costume so we even got something to tease her about for years.
Well, you know, Lavender, the only people who would participate in such a “trunk or treat” are obviously WASPy soccer moms and helicopter parents who would never even think of letting their precious snowflake out in an “urban” area where they might get infected by the poor or the black.
:rolleyes:
In any case, sven’s statement is nowhere near true for my neighborhood - we’re very demographically mixed and like I said, participants usually hit it in combination with hitting a bunch of the houses in the residential neighborhood. If anything, it’s uber-American - another way to get more candy and maximize effort output! I totally took my nieces a couple of years ago (again, in combination with the traditional trick or treating) and they loved it.
Huh. I never remember that being nearly as big a deal as the safety issue of kids being out after dark, especially with all the cars out. Parents were already requiring there to be an adult with their kid, just in case. Some parents even would drive around, watching their kid from a distance. No one wanted to be that parent, the one whose kid got hit on Halloween (something that happened at least a couple years.)
The other issue that was played up was the pagan roots of the holiday. A lot of trunk-or-treats were church sponsored and didn’t allow “demonic” costumes, and didn’t play up the scary part of the holiday at all. Personally, while the prohibition on ghosts and witches bugged me, I didn’t mind the lack of the macabre or trying to scare people. I’ve never been a haunted house or scary movie fan, and I only like the silly macabre.
The schools around us held them, mostly as a school event and not to replace actual trick or treating. It gave parents of very small kids a nice option, and also provided some fun for the ones in rural areas.
The people handing out the candy had the best costumes and really got in the “spirit” (some even had fog machines and such).