What are you planning on giving the Trick or Treaters?

[Yeshuasdaughter]

First of all, the quiz is just for fun, and unrelated to this thread. But go ahead and talk about it if you like.

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Now to the topic at hand:

I love seeing little ones in cute costumes. Halloween is a fun night.

I'm kinda unorthodox about Halloween candy. You see, it is a great tradition to mix tricks with treats.

Last year was a big success when we gave out ramen packs rather than candy.

As a joke, my daughter put a can of vegetables into the treat bowl. The teenage boys who came by the house thought that was hilarious, and they fought over the can of veggies. (Scrambling for the tin can of Del Monte's finest): "Bro! That's mine!"

I think that ramen will fill the spooky bowl yet again. (dried packs, not cooked, lol). And we are discussing perhaps a potato this year will star as the trick in the bowl.


What are you gonna hand out to the kids?

 

[Metalhead]

Little bags of skittles and starbursts.

 

[SPEED RACER]

Rotten eggs lol

 

[Shevek]

Solo cups of popcorn with a paper lid taped on reading "Vampire Repellent" - Organic popcorn, butter, garlic & salt.
I get anywhere from 15 to 60 goblins, so I can make it as needed, and don't mind finishing the few leftovers. if I could find fair-trade chocolate with wrappers talking about the child slaves making most chocolate, I'd buy those.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

We have hundreds, maybe thousands of kids coming into our neighborhood. We are one of those big housing developments built on the edge of town. There are a lot of kids just in our own neighborhood... but then a bunch of the kids from outer rural areas will be driven in as well... cars/trucks lined up and parked all along both sides of our streets. We go through about 2 large punch bowls of candy each year. There might be 5 to 10 kids on our porch every few minutes. It lasts for a few hours until the candy is gone, then the house lights are turned off. It's kind of fun to see all the costumes.

The toilet papering thing... I did it when I was a kid in my own neighborhood, but I've never seen it done around here. Not a "thing". As a kid, we typically got into mischief on the night before Halloween... we called it "Devil's Night"... eggs, toilet paper, soaping windows, etc. Again, not a "thing" around here.

 

[Misery]

We wont be getting any.

There's nowhere for them to come from, and certainly no reason for any to travel out here from further away.

Absolute middle of nowhere, you see.

It's definitely for the best. I'd rather not have my dog have to go through the doorbell ringing every 5 minutes.

 

[TBRS1]

I live in that scary old house in the woods, so we seldom get trick or treaters (that are ever seen again).

 

[Mary Terry]

Solo cups of popcorn with a paper lid taped on reading "Vampire Repellent" - Organic popcorn, butter, garlic & salt.
I get anywhere from 15 to 60 goblins, so I can make it as needed, and don't mind finishing the few leftovers. if I could find fair-trade chocolate with wrappers talking about the child slaves making most chocolate, I'd buy those.

A friend of mine always stuffs popcorn into food-safe plastic gloves and adds a plastic Halloween ring to the ring finger. It looks like she is handing out severed hands.

 

[Judge]

Makes me wonder if such a cultural thing is limited or widespread across the US.

In realizing that "trick or treaters" seem to be a taboo in apartment complexes. At least in living in them between Northern California and Nevada.

I suppose families living in apartments take their kids to the residential neighborhoods nearby.

 

[Judge]

The toilet papering thing... I did it when I was a kid in my own neighborhood, but I've never seen it done around here. Not a "thing". As a kid, we typically got into mischief on the night before Halloween... we called it "Devil's Night"... eggs, toilet paper, soaping windows, etc. Again, not a "thing" around here.

That was an almost ritualistic thing done when I lived in Virginia in the sixties. Though no specific holiday was required. In living out west I can't recall ever seeing anyone get "papered".

 

[Mary Terry]

Makes me wonder if such a cultural thing is limited or widespread across the US.

In realizing that "trick or treaters" seem to be a taboo in apartment complexes. At least in living in them between Northern California and Nevada.

I suppose families living in apartments take their kids to the residential neighborhoods nearby.

A lot of todays' trick-or-treating is done by invitation only. Trunk-or-treat parties are increasingly common here.

 

[Dagan]

Candy and glow sticks. Maybe some dad jokes.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Took so much I I was a kid still paying back, have always given, Grand daughter is now age where she can understand. If my son brings her around.

 

[Streetwise]

First of all, the quiz is just for fun, and unrelated to this thread. But go ahead and talk about it if you like.

********


Now to the topic at hand:

I love seeing little ones in cute costumes. Halloween is a fun night.

I'm kinda unorthodox about Halloween candy. You see, it is a great tradition to mix tricks with treats.

Last year was a big success when we gave out ramen packs rather than candy.

As a joke, my daughter put a can of vegetables into the treat bowl. The teenage boys who came by the house thought that was hilarious, and they fought over the can of veggies. (Scrambling for the tin can of Del Monte's finest): "Bro! That's mine!"

I think that ramen will fill the spooky bowl yet again. (dried packs, not cooked, lol). And we are discussing perhaps a potato this year will star as the trick in the bowl.


What are you gonna hand out to the kids?

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[Captain Jigglypuff]

Disappointment because I’m giving out nothing.

 

[Ken]

We wont be getting any.

There's nowhere for them to come from, and certainly no reason for any to travel out here from further away.

Absolute middle of nowhere, you see.

It's definitely for the best. I'd rather not have my dog have to go through the doorbell ringing every 5 minutes.

I live in that scary old house in the woods, so we seldom get trick or treaters (that are ever seen again).

You are making me jealous!!

 

[Dagan]

Once again, there's countless sources (actual, historical documents) that prove Halloween was nothing about worshipping evil. It was about warding it away. Religious scholars are who have written many such articles on it all. It's found with ease. There are also many, many historical records that one of the most popular things to do on Christmas Eve...was telling ghost stories. It even says so in the lyrics of "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" by Andy Williams. Ghost stories. Ever heard of A Christmas Carol..? Ghost story. Beloved. No one cares or complains, save for those who don't understand actual history and what texts truly do or don't have written in them. Text(s) - plural - there are far more than a few texts in this world, and many of them existed before the ones most like to only live by.

The point of making this statement is that we need to STOP demonizing anything based on opinions, conjecture or perspectives, even if some ne'er do well heathens did acts in the name of whatever vile beliefs. Forcing wrongful and negative connotations on Halloween would make as much sense / be just as contradictory as to if no one ever again celebrated Valentine's Day after the massacre that Al Capone called for in 1929 Chicago, Illinois.

P.S. If you do read historical records, you'll find so, so many instances that when more lands and peoples (most who aren't in any of the popular religious texts because they didn't know they existed) were "conquered" and assimilated into their belief systems - the most popular and effective way of doing so, being that the Empirical Victors would absorb in the same beliefs that they considered to be "pagan" and then just twisted their meanings to become what they have to this day. All of it done in the name of their god and beliefs. Even freaking POPES mandated these things to become so. It's expressly the religious systems that adopted, twisted and apparently still to this day go about confusing and re-deciding what any of it ever meant or means, now. Make it make sense. Make it stop.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I really enjoyed getting candy as a kid, So I do not like denying them my enjoyment and warm feelings as a child. Such fond memories.