Ooh, i like that. Very topical.
Same as last year. And the year before. And before that, too …
We turn out the porch lights. The neighborhood changed a few years back. The little kids are gone. When the teens started showing up, sans costumes, all pushing and shoving, we decided we are done.
I’m very “meh” about my otherwise favorite day of the year. Put the lights out front, haven’t decorated inside.
I’ll have the light on, although I doubt there’ll be many kids. Despite living in a physically close neighborhood, I’m technically the only house on my block, so an effort has to be made to get the goodies. If the weather is decent, I’ll maybe have 30 kids?
The local TV news is showing “delivery chutes”. Essentially a big plastic pipe tilted at an angle, sometimes strapped to a porch railing… You stand at the top end and drop the candy in, the child stays at the bottom end and holds up their sack/bucket to catch the candy as it falls out.
We rarely have more than a handful of kids show up even in a good year. With COVID still a thing, we’ll turn off the lights. The neighbor has a big display up already, so the kids won’t miss out on candy.
One of my friends did that last year, but this year he plans to open his door.
We’re going to put out a basket full of baggies with salt water taffy in them with a sign that says “help yourself”. I have no desire to interact with the little petri dishes.
I’m going to the Henri David Ball. It was cancelled last year, but looks to be happening this year. I haven’t really had any energy since I started working (It’s not the hours or the activity. It’s the soul sucking banality and evil). So, I will be wearing my Cultist Of Cthulhu costume again. I may make and print new doom tracts.
Stick to the Cthulhu album. Other albums are not work safe.
There are 5 other apartments that share a hallway with me. I will put out a bowl of candy. It will almost certainly be untouched when I get back from the ball.
It’s an apartment building so we won’t get any. I’ve been wanting to costume for ages but it’s usually too cold and a coat covers up the costume. A couple in the building are hosting a cook out (if it rains, it’s pizza inside) And I can afford a costume…I want to wear a Dunkin costume but as a once only, it’s a bit pricy. I’ve decided to probably buy a number 12 football shirt and go as Tom Brady.
Same as usual. My community holds trick-or-treating the Thursday before the 31st (I have no idea why, it makes no sense and I hate it), and we always bring the dogs to the kennel, make a pot of grog, sit around a bonfire with some friends in the front yard, and leave bowls of candy 20 feet away. Kids arrive, we admire their costumes and gesture towards the bowls. We get a few dozen trick-or-treaters, some from around here and some from nearby neighborhoods.
Wooooo!
I’ll be giving out, hopefully, lots of candy to kids and teens alike.
It’s my husband’s and my first Halloween in our new house. There are kids on the block, so we hoped we might get some trick or treaters, but our next door neighbors say it doesn’t happen on our street. We decorated the front anyway, and will buy some candy and leave the light on just in case. We got some felt, pipe cleaners, styrofoam, paint, and googly eyes to make bat, cat, and raven silhouettes, spiders, and tombstones that say “Trevor Bauer’s Career” and “I Did My Own Research,” because we are awful people. We are inviting some friends over to watch movies, order pizza, and drink; I’m still vaguely pulling together ideas on theme cocktails. Last year we had a very small socially-distanced party in my parents’ massive driveway with a bucket of candy at the end for the kids who came by, and I made a green kiwi- and cirtus-based cocktail I called Bitches’ Brew, a glittery blackish-red Chambord-based cocktail I called Thriller, and a cocktail made from butterfly pea tea, so it was blue until you squeezed in a lemon, which turned it purple, called Superstition. I made individual bottles for each couple’s table and gave everyone a dish of dry ice pellets to give the drinks that cauldron look. Gonna be hard to top that this year. But I’m pleased with our couple’s costume; we’re going to be Gavin Newsom and the French Laundry. I hope I never outgrow this shit.
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It’s not really a big deal round here. Three years ago, there was one knock on the door with an embarrassed looking lady with a couple of small children dressed in cheap supermarket costumes. I apologised and shut the door on them.
Hopefully, the whole thing is going the way of yoyos and hula hoops. But yeah, no lights outside and no ‘spooky’ stuff to encourage them.
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We live in a gated community of small farms…so, rural, insular, mostly old folks. Ain’t been no Halloweens round these parts in a coon’s age, and that’s the way we like it. But wait! Apparently some new people with kids have moved in. Now they’re planning to cart them around on a neighborhood hayride. Other neighbors have scrounged up some grandkids to participate as well. So in order not to be the Halloween Grinches, we’ll have to pen up the dog pack and sit out at the end of our driveway in the heat and mosquitoes during our prime inebriation time. I guess we’ll survive it.
But not many miles away is one of the real destination neighborhoods…I feel a little sorry for these kids having to get by with just ten or fifteen stops at the houses of old farts.
We live in an area that isn’t very conducive to T or T. Houses are far apart and we’re on a busy road. Otherwise, I would love to hand out candy to little kids and teenagers alike.
We’re taking the grandkids to a Trunk or Treat on the 30th, besides T or T there will be food trucks, games, etc. So that should be fun. Well, it will be fun, if the weather cooperates.
I have a few decorations inside and outside. It’s a fun “holiday” that I hope doesn’t go away. When I was a kid, only Christmas topped Halloween.
A whole lot of nuttin’.
This will be our sixth Halloween at this condominium complex, and we’ve never seen any trick-or-treaters, not a one. It’s gated, so outsiders cannot wander in. The residents are mostly elderly. There are a handful of children living here, which has always perplexed me, because this place is most decidedly NOT child-friendly. I’ve often wondered just what led the parents to move here.
Waikiki used to be a great place for Halloween watching, the streets filled with costumes, but we still don’t feel like engaging with crowds.
Not doing a dam thing for Halloween this year, just as I did nothing for Halloween last year. Lights out. I will be inside watching my favorite Halloween movies with popcorn and wine. (as a matter of fact, I don’t think there were ANY trick or treaters out last year at all - I can hear them from inside, and it was quiet as a tomb last year.)
Our COVID numbers here are worse than they’ve ever been and the worst in Canada by a country kilometre. However we’re vaxed so we’re just going to mask up, practice our basketball skills (figuratively) and pretend it’s Halloween 2019.