# What are you planning to do re Halloween this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628 "2021-10-17T04:35:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/41 "2021-10-26T15:44:05Z")
We’re blessed to live in a location practically inaccessible to trick or treaters. They could make it to our house, but it wold be a 20 minute detour down and then up a long, steep dark driveway. Never had one in 20 years, and certainly don’t expect any this year. I often forget it’s Halloween altogether. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/42 "2021-10-27T03:41:51Z")
I live on a very dark, very steep mountain. We get bupkis. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/43 "2021-10-27T03:59:44Z")
The stores are trying to push Halloween, in that they’re selling candy suitable for giving away to children. But Halloween’s not really a thing here (Switzerland), so if they’re any lost people ringing the door bell, they will get nothing. We will be watching the new Doctor Who. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/44 "2021-10-27T04:03:35Z")
I don’t get trick or treaters at my house and I don’t have anyone who goes out trick-or-treating. So Halloween is not a big event for me. I do however get together with some friends on Sundays each week to play board games. So I will be doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/45 "2021-10-27T18:27:15Z")
My kids, thank God, are too old to trick-or-treat so we will all be staying home with a big bowl of candy to hand out to anyone who comes to the door. This is our first year at our new house – new neighborhood – and I’m hearing varying reports of how good / bad the trick-or-treat crowds are here. I’ll have plenty of loot, just in case. Whatever leftover goodies we have I’ll take to class the following day and hand out to my students, none of whom can leave campus. I like Halloween and get a kick out of the decorations and costumes, although both seem less prevalent than 30 years ago when I was a kid. My wife’s theory is that the explosion of “trunk or treat” events has caused a corresponding decrease in residential decorations as there are fewer kids making the rounds in neighborhoods on Halloween night. We don’t do parties and I haven’t dressed up in a costume in at least 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/46 "2021-10-27T20:10:11Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I like Halloween and get a kick out of the decorations and costumes, although both seem less prevalent than 30 years ago when I was a kid. Interesting, my observation is the opposite. In the past decade or so I feel like there’s been an explosion of Halloween decorations. When I was a kid, houses had a carved pumpkin, and maybe a paper skeleton on the door. Now there are inflatables, and plastic gravestones, and hands reaching out of the ground, and … My husband picked up a couple of large inflatables a few years ago, and I’m looking to supplement that with a giant spiderweb and a spider perched between a couple of our trees. Even if we do that, we’ll be only modestly decorated for the neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/47 "2021-10-27T20:38:02Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I haven’t dressed up in a costume in at least 15 years. In the name of Christopher Lee, why not??? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/48 "2021-10-28T03:24:15Z")
Nothing! And I’m so sad… I’ll be flying around the east coast, and won’t get home til 11 pm Sunday. All those cute neighborhood kids to terrorize… and then gush over their costumes. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/49 "2021-10-28T15:27:50Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > In the name of Christopher Lee, why not??? Because as a fat and balding middle aged guy my options are somewhat limited. Or maybe they aren’t limited and I just have no creativity. I’ve long thought about dressing like [this dude](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/totalwar-ar/images/e/e0/Hamish_Campbell.png/revision/latest?cb=20180318174307) but in full battle regalia. There’s some good cosplay ideas on Youtube, maybe I’ll shoot for that next year. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/50 "2021-10-28T15:46:04Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’ll be flying around the east coast, and won’t get home til 11 pm Sunday. On your broom, or your ragged black wings? My husband, of all people, has decided to get in the holiday mood this year and wear a costume of his own devising. So I told my daughter to just bring me something out of her costume hoard and whatever it is, I’ll wear it. There is little doubt that I will be dressed as a witch, so that jibes nicely with my secret identity. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/51 "2021-10-28T16:00:23Z")
I put our [Halloween trees](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R4XBVMS) on the balcony yesterday and the metal pumpkin “welcome” sign has been on the door since the beginning of the month. We don’t expect any trick-or-treaters up here but we have a supply of store-bought Rice Krispies Treats to hand out just in case. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628/52 "2021-10-28T17:22:19Z")
My wife hates Halloween so I get stuck answering the door. Not that I mind the kids, I mind having to jump up every 30 seconds. Last year there was nothing. This year I think I’m going to leave candy on the porch, and take it in when it gets too late for the little kids and the big kids are the only ones left. We have high vaccination rates, so I’m not worried, but it will be easier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-planning-to-do-re-halloween-this-year/952628.md?page=2)