Halloween 2011 Trick or Treating

http://www.toledoblade.com/news/2011/10/30/Area-trick-or-treat-schedule-2.html

Cool! Thank you very much :)

Kind of bums me out that Trick or Treating starts in broad daylight these days. That really hoses the effect of all the effort we like to put in to decorating the place for the little tykes.

I can understand for the 5 and under crowd, but where is the fun in that for the older kids.

I wonder if the time change being moved contributed to that firefighter being struck by a car and killed last week? I mean, it is still pitch black at 730 in the morning these days.

Yet more effort to drive every fun thing out of this world by "safety" asshats. You know, every child out after dark trick or treating is going to get run over by a speeding madman. Or kidnapped inside the house of the neighborhood perv and repeatedly raped. Or picked up by a stranger and left in a shallow grave near Swan Creek? Or any of a number of horrible fates mommy can imagine.

Shit, it's no wonder these kids are addicted to cell phones; probably the only unfiltered, unscheduled human contact they're allowed because mommy feels "it's a dangerous world out there".

Poisoned candy? Totally, totally overblown, if not downright fabricated. And the author of the snopes.com article nails it right on the friggin' head when it comes to all this:

It's a sadness that a holiday so thoroughly and greedily enjoyed by kids is being sanitized out of existence in the name of safety. Sadder still is there appears to be little reason for it.

Trick or treating was from 6-7:30 in Sylvania Twp, so it got dark for at least the later portion.

That wasn't too bad, actually. A lot of the little ones were out and about for the early portion, while the slightly older kids made the rounds when it was getting darker.

Since its a school night, I don't mind that it was wrapped up at 7:30 pm.

(I wouldn't have a problem with my kids walking around my neighborhood after dark - it just took me awhile to get them settled down after trick or treating to get ready for bed! They're still awake now, but I figure they should crash hard from the sugar rush soon.) :)

ha, wish I had crashed hard from the sugar rush, I was up till 1 on a work night and up at 6! and, lest we forget, the time change was to save us energy, not eff up Halloween, right? that whole thinking was so stupid. so it's lighter and you leave your lights off later in the evening, you still have to turn them on earlier in the morning since it's darker!!! brilliant piece of garbage legislation there. and coffee, I was like you, unsure until the first kid showed up. I couldn't find the schedule but I figured Lake Twp wouldn't mess with it and they didn't. :)

Numbers were low this year in our neighborhood.
I can do without the "older" kids who think you should give them as much candy as they want.Punks.
I will always give more candy to the ones who make an effort on a creative costume and the younger ones.

We only had about 10 kids total. New this year (in my experience!) was several mothers pushing baby strollers with their infants dressed up in store-bought costumes. The moms rang the doorbell and received the candy ... their babies were really too small to know why they were outdoors!

A friend has pointed out that Halloween used to be a very low-waste holiday. The squirrels would take care of the cornstalks and pumpkins, the kids ate the candy, and the costumes were easily repurposed (sheets, cardboard, ballerina skirts, mummy wrap). Now everything is plastic and 100% durable, ending up either in storage or the landfill.

We had maybe 30-40 kids. Our neighborhood doesn't get many though.

We had a kid ring the doorbell at least 6 times in 5 seconds. When my wife answered the door he yelled, "I can't wait for the candy!!!!". To which I yelled from the other room, "Don't give that kid any candy!"

She did and then scolded me that, "His mom was right behind him and heard you!"

GOOD. Control your heathens.

Live in a changing WT neighborhood. Original owners have sold to young families with children. But we have lots of foreclosed homes. Where did the 225 children come from I'll never know.

Have lived here 27 years and never run out of goodies at 7 p.m. before. I believe with it being daylight till about 7 p.m. we must be having parents driving their children to our neighborhood.

Funny, slowsol! We had a few who just rang the doorbell and stood there. There were not aware of "the rules" : they were supposed to ask for a treat in the time-honored way, not just stand around and let the candy magically appear in their bags!

Which brings up another point. Kids who are running around screeching like heathens and demanding attention and getting special treatment all the time ... how is Halloween any kind of special night for them? Just business as usual!

Here in Holland, we had many more kids than usual. But all were well behaved and there were a lot of neat and inventive costumes. My better half puts up a nice display complete with a dead guy and the kids seemed to enjoy that, some going so far as to give him a little nudge just to make sure it wasn't a live person. It's an old store mannequin we got at a storage auction, which when dressed and placed face down with his head under the garage door, looks pretty convincing. All in all a good Halloween from the perspective of a two-retiree household. So glad it didn't rain.

We had about 100 kids or so...I lost count after awhile.

Most of them live in our subdivision with a few extra guests here and there. Our neighborhood is situated pretty well for trick-or-treating, so a lot of the residents invite nieces/nephews/friends to join in the fun.

This year I think we also had a few cars of people who were just looking for a place to go. Which is fine with me - the more the merrier! (As long as you're in a costume and relatively well-behaved, of course.)

I usually set up a little table in the front yard and pass out candy from there. Its fun to watch the parade of kids walking up and down the street, plus I can keep an eye on my kids as well. (They're at the age where they'd rather go door-to-door without mom hovering over them.)

The "little table" idea is a good one. We may try that next year. It sure would be better than trying to keep a 4lb Yorkie from launching herself out the door into the arms of every Trick or Treater.

Agreed. In my case an 80lb Bulldog trying to steal the bags and eat its weight in candy.

I hooked up a air line to a small house outside my door, should see the kids jump when a light quick blast of air hits them. I didn't do anything for halloween this year just gave out candy to the 8-10 kids that came by.

I've got a fog machine that fills the yard with a nice thick fog...

Our neighborhood was crammed with what appeared to be people bussed in from the local section eight housing complexes.They were blocking the street and taking there sweet time of moving out of your way so you could drive through.I never saw so many ghetto cruisers parked in our area.