why do they think that today is Halloween

Yhis won't work for me. DH gets Christmas as a paid holiday, but not if it is on a weekend. Wednesdays are good. They can't send him anywhere because the week is broken up.

When I was a kid, if Halloween was on a Sunday, you could trick-or-treat the night before, so as not to be out trick-or-treating on the Sabbath. I was surprised as we passed a church last night (well, actually the old school building being used by a local church), to see everyone going in dressed for Halloween. Seemed like a funny way to have Sunday evening worship, and why would you bump Halloween back to have it fall on Sunday?

so cute when they say "i love you" i got that tonight. everyone was so polite. it's all over now.what elaborate costumns there were! i prepared bags for 80 but i had plenty for 100 or so. i got 57. had a great time with them. my doorbell was broken so i stayed out on the front step.i'm worse than a kid at halloween. i took a pic of me dressed as a witch through the mirror. it just came out as a blob. i'm piging out on the leftover choc bars now. wish some of you who like choc. could drop in. i only buy what i will eat later. caramel,crispy crunch,mr big etc.~Georgia.

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we never get any trick or treaters not a one. I actually LIKE handing out candy and seeing all the kids in their costumes having fun. I know kids live around here, I guess they go to trunk or treat and things happening in the parks instead of neighborhoods now.

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It's not that I don't like mankind, I just like nature a whole lot more.

I live in a subdivision, so we have some of the kids' friends (and parents) who live in more isolated areas over. We have a great time, go trick or treating, then come back in and have a great time.
So we have a great time, but we don't get to hand out the candy. We fill up a bowl at the door and refill it once when we go past the house. We get to watch our own kids but miss the neighbors'.

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The garden's getting bigger this year. Again.

We had 25 or so kids this year, last year had close to fifty but it was a weekend then. SO, now we have lots of leftover candy, because we overbought.
I made sure to give out all the milk duds, they get stuck in my teeth!

No t & t here, that all happens at the city park and they always have it on Halloween.

Anyone have a Midnight Mars bar? It's the one with the dark chocolate. I haven't had one of those for years.

I like the Milk Duds too. Slow Pokes are good. 3 Musketeers is a favorite. Junior Mints are great frozen. Oh, and the big York Peppermint Pattie was awesome! from the fridge. We don't have any candy here other than some old chocolate in the freezer from last year.

I should have went t & t'ing.

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We went Trick or Treating last night in a nice lil sub division where my brother in law lives.

One house had an extremely tolerant Newfie out front with saddle bags full of candy for the kiddos to grab.......Several folks sat outside for the kids & chatted.

One house had elaborate porch decorations, the light on & a lil picket sign that said "Trick or Treat".....Kids rang the door bell & the woman inside screamed from behind the closed door a list of profanities I can't type here & a rant along the lines of she dealt with TorT yesterday, was not doing it today & why were we so rude to ring her doorbell so late (it was 6:30)........My son (8) said perhaps she didn't dress up for Halloween, she just wanted to act crazy instead

All in all we had fun & the kiddos filled their buckets & my purse (ran out of room so they empitied their buckets in my purse) Got several houses who handed out fruit, pretzels, coloring books & things of that nature too.

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Yep its just wrong to move the Hoilidays around. But over the years most have been . after all even Christmass was set fo a handy time not his birthday.
Personally I think its simply a matter of power hungry fools.

No confusion here, everyone went out monday. We even got two trick or treaters brave enough to venture down our 800ft driveway.

I leave a bowl of candy out if I'm not home, but no one had come by the time I got back home. I parked my truck and compelted a text before getting out, then sent another text while standing in the dark away from the house. While I was doing that was when the trick or treaters were driving up the driveway!

I had such a great scare your pants off moment but I chose not to give them a heart attack that night. If I had a big foot costume however....


BTW, why do some of you call it trunk or treat?

Trunk or treat is where people show up to a park, school, wherever and do trick or treating in the parking lot as if their cars were their houses- out of their trunks. I hadn't heard of it until a couple of weeks ago.

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Trick or Treat is always from 3-5 on the Sunday before Halloween here. Most of the county adopted that "suggestion" back in the 90's. Some local places still do Halloween proper and in the evenings (dark)....but most have gone to the Sunday thing.

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Ah thanks FC!

I remember watching E.T. when I was a kid and while watching the Halloween part of the movie thinking, how sad that the kids in the US have to have Halloween in the daylight :P, its not like real halloween at all!! lol

When I was a kid, it was called Beggar's Night, and it was always (I think) the night BEFORE Hallowe'en. So Hallowe'en is October 31st, Beggar's Night was October 30th.
Now our community always has trick or treat on the Sunday before Hallowe'en.
But Hallowe'en is ALWAYS October 31st. You can't change that.
Martha