…as I kid, I remember trick-or-treating the entire day, not just at night. Sure, lots of people weren’t home, but we sprinted from house to house, spreading out at times, until someone shouted “over here!”. Miles were covered; various stops back home had to be made to drop off supplies that got too heavy.
Does anyone remember doing this? Are anyone’s kids talking about doing this on Saturday? (Mine are too young to go out on their own - we’ll have to see if any neighborhood kids come knocking during when the sun is up and tip them off.)
If Halloween is on a weekday, it’s always 6-8 here. I never ever remember it falling on a weekend when I was a kid but obviously it must have. I’m sure it would have been 6-8 then. I still live in the same town and it’s 6-8 this weekend.
I do remember when I was a kid going to a weekend afternoon trick-or-treat with my cousins who lived in one of those nicer, community-minded towns (you know, a town with sidewalks and parks). I don’t think it was on Halloween day on a weekend - the town just preferred to have kids trick-or-treat on a weekend in the light.
Isn’t it kind of annoying for the homeowners to have kids ringing the bell all day long? When I was a kid, we started at about whatever time it got dark and went for a couple of hours. (We had flashlights, and went in groups.)
Early '70s here…I found an old calendar online. Says Oct 31 was a Saturday in 1970; I was almost 6 then, but I’m pretty sure that’s the year I’m remembering. I was with some older neighbors, and Mom probably had no idea how far we strayed from home.
I’m originally from Long Island, if locale has any bearing.
I actually think night time was more common when I was younger. Nowadays daytime is considered safer, at least for the younger kids. Nightime is for the older kids and partying/pranking… That said, throughout my entire life, including recently, trick or treaters appear pretty much from 10am-10pm barring schooltime on weekdays.
I was always a trick-or-treat at night kid, but the cool thing was, since I went to Catholic school, that, if Halloween fell on a week night, we had a day off from school the next day, since Nov. 1 is All Saints Day, a holy day of obligation. Have a (Catholic school) friend over to trick-or-treat and spend the night! OK, we had to go to mass the next day, but still…Day off from school!
Nope. Trick or Treating in the 80s and early 90s did go later into the night (from when it got to 9-9:30 instead of 6-8) but I’ve definitely never lived anywhere with daylight trick or treating regardless of the day of the week.
Nope, none during daytime.
However, I do recall moving like crazy to get to as many houses as possible, and then yelling back and forth to other kids that certain houses had the “big” candy bars, etc. so we could get those pillow cases full as fast as possible.
I also vaguely recall being pretty tired by the time I got home from literally running from house to house for several hours to get those big hauls.
Only later did my parents fess up and admit that while I was sleeping, they were digging into my stash and taking a lot of the good stuff! I always thought the haul seemed smaller the next day, but little did I know that the evil chocolate stealing parents (mostly my chocaholic mother) were the culprits.