Trick or Treating

wawajeanne · October 2011

So, with Halloween on a monday, when do kids trick or treat around here?

Is it different county to county?

Where I grew up they would announce in the paper which night was the "official" trick or treat night and it typically was NOT a monday.

jcsntms06 · October 2011

Last year the kids start coming between 5:30-6:30 (when it got dark). This is in Harford County.

wawajeanne · October 2011

jcsntms06:
Last year the kids start coming between 5:30-6:30 (when it got dark). This is in Harford County.

But they always just come on actual halloween day, regardless of which day of the week that is?

jcsntms06 · October 2011

wawajeanne:
jcsntms06:
Last year the kids start coming between 5:30-6:30 (when it got dark). This is in Harford County.

But they always just come on actual halloween day, regardless of which day of the week that is?

Yes. No special announcement is made in our neighborhood. Not to my knowledge that is.

wawajeanne · October 2011

jcsntms06:
wawajeanne:

jcsntms06:
Last year the kids start coming between 5:30-6:30 (when it got dark). This is in Harford County.

But they always just come on actual halloween day, regardless of which day of the week that is?

Yes. No special announcement is made in our neighborhood. Not to my knowledge that is.

thanks! I've been here 5 years now, you'd think I'd have accepted this fact by now, but it still seems weird to me to get trick or treaters on a school night.

xmaryrickx · October 2011

wawajeanne:
jcsntms06:
wawajeanne:

jcsntms06:
Last year the kids start coming between 5:30-6:30 (when it got dark). This is in Harford County.

But they always just come on actual halloween day, regardless of which day of the week that is?

Yes. No special announcement is made in our neighborhood. Not to my knowledge that is.

thanks! I've been here 5 years now, you'd think I'd have accepted this fact by now, but it still seems weird to me to get trick or treaters on a school night.

Lawmakers in Connecticut want to change Halloween to the last Saturday of October exactly for this reason.

We always ToT on Halloween, regardless of school night or not.

nezwee · October 2011

See and I thought it was weird that SIL's sisters's neighborhood did trick or treating not on Halloween.

Growing up, we always went trick or treating on the night of Oct 31st from 6-8. We don't live in a neighbor hood per se, but I'm assuming our community follows those same guidelines.

SarahKate31 · October 2011

I've never heard of trick or treating on a night other than actual Halloween night. Growing up, we still went out if it was a school night. It was just better when it fell on a Friday or Saturday because we could stay out later. But ToTing used to be a lot later than it is these days.

kelleymark82606 · October 2011

Always on the actual day for me.

madladybride · October 2011

Yeah I was wondering that. Where I grew up ti was from 6-8 or 6:30 -8:30 on Halloween, regardless of the day. I still don't know what hours TOTing is in my neighborhood.

lenebene · October 2011

Growing up in Anne Arundel, we always went on Halloween night but I found here in PA, they do it on Saturday night, which I think would be tomorrow for us. I'll have to ask my neighbor since I have been traveling lately.

KathrynMD · October 2011

the idea that there's an official time or date for ToTing is totally bizarre to me. We always went on Halloween and we went whenever we wanted after dark. There was no time that it "started or ended" younger kids generally went earlier, older kids later.

SarahKate31 · October 2011

KathrynMD:
the idea that there's an official time or date for ToTing is totally bizarre to me. We always went on Halloween and we went whenever we wanted after dark. There was no time that it "started or ended" younger kids generally went earlier, older kids later.

Ditto this. That's how I remember it.

lsgarver · October 2011

KathrynMD:
the idea that there's an official time or date for ToTing is totally bizarre to me. We always went on Halloween and we went whenever we wanted after dark. There was no time that it "started or ended" younger kids generally went earlier, older kids later.

This was how we did it when we were little (well, not exactly. We lived in the sticks so my mom and dad drove us around to the "neighbors" and family members. Still, always Halloween and always after dark). Our neighborhood always does it on Oct 31 and the littlest ones start a little before dusk. It peters out around 8.

I have seen on FB that some neighborhoods do it on Saturday but I think that's highly organized among neighborhoods with good communication/organizations.

KathrynMD · October 2011

One of the things that I like most about Halloween is that its so individual - you can either participate or not, there's no requirement or rules and its all voluntary.

wawajeanne · October 2011

KathrynMD:

One of the things that I like most about Halloween is that its so individual - you can either participate or not, there's no requirement or rules and its all voluntary.

As opposed to thanksgiving where the police come door to door and give tickets if you don't have a turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.

LoveLossHopeRepeat · October 2011

I know that some neighborhoods make a collective decision to do ToTing on the closest Friday/Saturday if Halloween falls on a weeknight, but that doesn't seem to be the MO for my neighborhood. Thank goodness. If you had an HOA or something similar, I would check with them to see if a decision has been made, but if your neighborhood isn't quite that organized and/or you haven't seen mention of it, then you'll probably just have kids on Monday night.

kelleymark82606 · October 2011

wawajeanne:
KathrynMD:

One of the things that I like most about Halloween is that its so individual - you can either participate or not, there's no requirement or rules and its all voluntary.

As opposed to thanksgiving where the police come door to door and give tickets if you don't have a turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.

I literally laughed out loud

LoveLossHopeRepeat · October 2011

wawajeanne:
KathrynMD:

One of the things that I like most about Halloween is that its so individual - you can either participate or not, there's no requirement or rules and its all voluntary.

As opposed to thanksgiving where the police come door to door and give tickets if you don't have a turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.

I snorted.

KathrynMD · October 2011

wawajeanne:
KathrynMD:

One of the things that I like most about Halloween is that its so individual - you can either participate or not, there's no requirement or rules and its all voluntary.

As opposed to thanksgiving where the police come door to door and give tickets if you don't have a turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.

yes, exactly

no, I mean, you basically just go to your neighbors and they give you CANDY! Even though no one's requiring them to do so and there's been no assignment of who gives out what to who (whom?), etc. I just think its so awesome.

wawajeanne · October 2011

KathrynMD:
wawajeanne:
KathrynMD:

One of the things that I like most about Halloween is that its so individual - you can either participate or not, there's no requirement or rules and its all voluntary.

As opposed to thanksgiving where the police come door to door and give tickets if you don't have a turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.

yes, exactly

no, I mean, you basically just go to your neighbors and they give you CANDY! Even though no one's requiring them to do so and there's been no assignment of who gives out what to who (whom?), etc. I just think its so awesome.

LOL, i agree actually. I just couldn't resist the urge to poke.

linzee · October 2011

I'm not sure what the official time is for where I live but we plan to take Kira for an hour or so on our street probably from 6 to 7. I turn off our porch light at 8PM.

TheLinkBride · October 2011

Growing up in PA, we were one of the ones that designated a day and time for Trick or Treat. Communities were on different days. Every year my mom still asks me what day is ToT in my area and I laugh. Although, I will say Maryland is weird to me with ToT in the malls.

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