The past couple of years, the amount of kids out on Halloween has dwindled down in my neighborhood. This year, my wife and I were at her cousin’s house and we saw maybe a couple of kids walking around. My wife blames people going to Trunk or Treat things. We both work in retail, so we see more of the public, and nobody was in costume. What was everybody’s experience with Halloween this year?
I got 42 trick or treaters.
UK - Only had one kid come and had lots of treats. My own kids went out and got quite a haul, but most people had left bowls out so they didn’t knock on many doors (they know only to go to decorated houses).
For the last few years, there seem to be more people decorating and putting treats out than there are kids going out. Plus our weather has been shit.
More kids this year than any other year.
same.
covid babies are now old enough to trick or treat.
went from 600 kids pre-covid to over 1000 this year.
Our street only has 2 houses that do it, so everyone drives right on by our block. Some of them go to parties instead, some of them are just lazy and disinterested.
I’ve kind of shamed people into decorating for Christmas, I made my house elegantly lit with a warm white glow and theirs were dark and depressing. But Halloween, just the 2 of us for years.
We’re in a high crime city so a lot of folks do trunk-or-treats and I get that, but, those kids are gonna be adults that have to learn to live here too. There’s something humanizing about going up to strangers doors, finding out your neighbors aren’t actually monsters or assholes, but kind people.
I rent, so you don’t get a chance to pass out candy anymore, but it was a bright spot in my childhood. I’m sad that we’ve abandoned that.
Plus, you got to peak into all your neighbors doors and see a bit of their life and it was a positive experience for all involved.
Things died down since start of covid and this year was more dead than last year. I suspect it has to do with ICE making people feel safer
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declining at least a decade before covid, due to the rise of smartphones and ipads, people just want to watch youtube most of the time, or thier favorite influencer.
Real life just has to beat youtube in quality. Which will never happen because life is fucking shit for all but our masters.
Definitely on a down swing. Not a lot of houses do it. Lack of kids and candy prices. Kids get transported to more expensive neighborhoods or the trunk or treat events. I haven’t done it the last few years cause of the decrease in traffic, raising cost of candy, and the increasing number of rude ass kids (teenagers) that grab everything they can without saying a word.
Neighbourhoods have less kids because they grew up and then didn’t have kids at the same rate, it’s prob more active near new suburbs built by schools or other areas they are renting at.
alot of out of state transplants to, who dont have a sense of community here,
*a lot.
Not here. Insane amount of people out last night, most ive ever seen.
ICE, the chances pedophiles, kidnappers have definitely suppressed halloween numbers. also because of covid too.
Hasn’t died here.
Maybe it’s because no one can afford to have kids or buy candy.
We usually have several groups of families in our neighborhood. Our streets were packed this year, though. First Halloween in a while that wasn’t cold or raining or both.
Our neighborhood only has two entrance streets with a lot of connecting interior streets and cul de sacs which makes it a wee safer due to no through streets and less traffic.
Many families set up firepits in their driveways to hand out candy, sometimes with music playing or movies projected on garage doors, one house has a popcorn machine every year. This year several houses had buckets of mini shots for parents and a lot of others smelled like some dank vape. When we drank we used to bring a wagon with wine and cups to share with neighbors. It’s a really great time.
This year there was even an Inflatable Cupcake Castle of Doom.
Last year there was a haunted house set up so that at the end you were watching the next group on cameras and you controlled the puppets and stuff, very Jigsaw style. That house has always had an elaborate haunted house but couldn’t do it this year.
So…yeah, trick or treating is still alive in our neighborhood.
Trick or Treating has definitely gone down in my neighborhood.
The neighborhood is 21 years old and I posit that is the reason. A lot of new families, like us, moved in 20 years ago and now the kids are all grown up. My kids are 18 and 16 respectively and have not gone out on Halloween for a few years. The family right next door to us have sons that are a bit older than ours.
Thats so sad my sister at 18 went with me when we were younger, even dressed up. I went to a bar this Friday and it was packed with people in costumes and dancing, at least my generation still indulges in it. The music didn’t start until 8:30 so it was well after the trick or treaters. Idk maybe kids are afraid of their neighbors, that wasn’t the case in my neighborhood. Hope you have many festive years to come! My friend’s mom use to put tombstones out with her children’s names on them.
We’re in a downtown-adjacent neighborhood of our decently-sized city and we saw plenty of kids this year (6-8 in small groups and a herd of 15 or so). Other years when we lived a bit further out, we didn’t get as many but still a few (usually 5-10).
Neighbourhood is dying, new or expecting parents do not move here any more. And old folks get really aggressive when you dare go around as a young teen, for some reason.
