Halloween Question

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  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    In response to a few people who've mentioned porch lights...it occurred to me to add that the decorated houses in question DID have their porch lights, front door lights, etc. on as well. In all of the years I've been out trick-or-treating, that has always been one of the cardinal rules: Lights out = don't bother.

    And let me stress that my kids (and my friend's kids) aren't greedy, candy-grubbing fiends...they weren't cursing the people for not being home. They were simply curious about the decorations/lights because, in the past, that meant the people were welcoming trick-or-treaters.
  • bennysammysofie
    bennysammysofie Posts: 331
    I decorate because I like how it looks. I don't pass out candy because I don't like kids. Decorations and Halloween aren't all about kids. Simple as that.

    Where i grew up, lights off meant you got egged. What IS halloween about? Grumpy adults?
  • WickedGarden
    WickedGarden Posts: 944 Member
    I love Halloween, I would decorate, but then the kids would come pounding on the door.

    As another person said, candy is expensive, and when we did pass out candy, we'd see a parade of minivans FULL of kids pouring out to get candy. What happened to making the kids walk? Kids started becoming really rude and ungrateful too, "I don't like that kind" "Don't you have good candy?" :mad: (WTF? Kit Kats/Twix IS 'good' candy!)

    When I was a kid, the people that pissed me off were the ones that had the porch lights on, house decorated, the curtains open, and would never answer the door. You could even see them in their big picture windows sitting there watching TV.
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