Holiday Blog

By Mike D

October 16, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

I mix condiment packets, wine corks, and rocks into the candy we pass out. I’ve been doing this for years just for kicks, but this year I plan to poke pin holes in the packets so they will ooze all over everything else in the bag.

By Devil in Prada

October 16, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

We do several ‘hoods and have a ton of kids we walk with. We used to pull several wagons (one with a cooler full of beer), and we would be out until 9:00. Oh what fun it is!!!!

I have to say one of the things I absolutely HATE about trick or treating, are the lazy parents who follow their kids in a car. Get off your lard butt and walk around with your kids (i notice alot of hispanics do this, and their kids are huge). OR the parents who walk up to the door with the kids. I understand with the babies, but a 6 year old can ring a doorbell by himself. We had one lady who drove her kid up each and every driveway, waited for him in the car, he got back in the car, and she drove him to the next house. No wonder our kids are fat.

By Dawn

October 16, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

We live in an area back in the woods with few houses. So, there isn’t any trick or treating there. I take my kids a couple miles away to the same subdivision each year where a number of their school friends live. We park in one place and walk all around. Fortunately, no one has said anything negative to us about it.

By Sassy

October 16, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Mike D LOL … that’s good! Pin holes in condiment packages, I’m gonna have to try that!

I have no feeling one way or the other for parents who bring their small (notice adjective here) to other subdivisions, but I do have a problem with 12+ year olds coming around after 9 o’clock!!!

Sorry teens, but you’re caught in the ‘middle years’ where Halloween is concerned. Once you hit 21, then you can enjoy the holiday at a whole other level!

By Lissa

October 16, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Apparently I’m an evil witch (or so the jokers on the Newcomer blog tell me), but I am one of those who are against trick-or-treating in others’ neighborhoods. It’s one thing if you don’t even live in a neighborhood and that’s understandable, but it’s just rude to go to neighborhoods where you don’t even know anybody just because you think they’ll give out more/better candy than your own. Hitting up the “hot” ‘hoods - that’s just pathetic. If you’re unhappy with your own neighbors, there are other places for you to go (malls, festivals, etc.) and you don’t have to crash other neighborhoods. A friend’s mom used to give her a bag of her favorite candy for Halloween and they’d stay home and watch movies. You don’t have to go out trick-or-treating.

I’m also very against parents driving along behind their little darlings. That is just plain lazy and the roads are dangerous enough on Halloween as it is.

I also believe that trick-or-treating is for children, not for teenagers/adults (who can buy their own bag of candy). Unless they have a great costume, the teens get the crappy candy from our house.

By Alecia

October 16, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

We stay in our neighborhood and I walk with my daughter. There is nothing wrong with the parent walking with the kid to the door. However, kids from other neighborhoods are annoying. I never know how much candy to buy and kids are fat enough. Do they need more candy than what is in your neighborhood? If you have an urge to stuff your kids with all the candy possible, go to the half off sale the following day. This will cut down on Halloween traffic and we will know how much candy to buy. If you don’t live in a neighborhood, go to a trunk and treat.

By Mattie

October 16, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

My kids are past the trick or treat stage, but when they were younger, we lived in a very rural area. They wanted to go out with their school friends, so I drove them to the one big subdivision in town. I handled my guilt about it by carrying bags of candy with me as we walked. I just handed it out to the kids we came across on our rounds.
I don’t mind the teens going out, as long as they are respectful and make an effort to dress up. This year Halloween is on a Friday, and we’ll be at the high school football game. I will bring candy to our neighborhood fall festival and hand it out there instead.

By Sugar

October 16, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

We welcome all kids, of all ages, from all neighborhoods. Hell I can’t tell who they are when they are all dressed up. I love this time of year, I love halloween, and I love trick or treating. Bring all the kids, I don’t care where they come from, it’s all about them anyway. I have plenty of candy, so come on. Bring ‘em in from other neighborhoods, I don’t care. Bus ‘em in if you have to. I love seeing the little guys all dressed up, they are so cute. I miss mine being little, but we sometimes walk with friends or neighbors with the little ones.

Whatever you choose to do, please be careful and carry flashlights with you. The idiots who drive around following their kids with the headlights on are the most dangerous. You can’t see around them when crossing the street and the headlights sometimes blind the little ones. If you choose to hover over your child, at least turn off the headlights, and leave the “parking” lights on or the emergency blinkers.

By MrLiberty

October 16, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Why should anyone be surprised that this kind of crap goes on? I mean we have most of our young people thinking that free health care is a “right” (that others will be robbed by the government to pay for that “right” never comes up). We have laws in place forcing businesses to accomodate every disable person, no matter what the cost of even if they have no disabled customers or employees. We have people who expect someone else to pay whenever anything bad happens to them, and then as the best and most flagrant example we have the government telling americans to stop paying their mortgages, keep making irresponsible financial decisions and the magic fairy will come along and just print gobs of money so that you don’t have to be responsible. We have a political system that is rooted in class envy and that constantly stirs the racial and class pots to keep people at each other’s throats.

Why then should we be surprised that a parent cannot accept the living situation they have chosen with its limited numbers of houses or poorer neighbors and instead chooses to take their children to beg at the rich folks houses? Is this not the way the american voter is raised these days? Is this not the values they extoll at the polling place. Whether it be stealing hard earned money for foreign imperialism or for the purchase of welfare votes, both parties today are filled to the brim with americans unwilling to be satisfied with their current circumstances but more than willing to take from others.

I guess it has never occurred to these parents that a fun halloween could be had at home with the kids (you remember them, the ones you turn over to daycare or the government to raise every day).

By Sugar

October 16, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Mr. Liberty, what the hell are you talking about, and how does it relate to Halloween?

Also, what fun it is to keep you kids inside on Halloween, when every other kid is out there running from house to house? Exactly how fun is it to sit at home with your parents on the funnest night of the year? Sad, very sad.

By Rhonda K.

October 16, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

I don’t care where the kids come from, I love handing candy out to the kids! We usually try to get our dogs to have costumes on too, but they never make very long with them on….I actually count the trick or treaters, and get very disappointed when we don’t get many kids….we are known for the “good candy” so we get many of the same kids every year….

My daughter has gone to other neighborhoods, mainly because most my neighbors are in their 70’s and 80’s and don’t hand out candy….and since there are hardly any kids in our neighborhood, most are from elsewhere….

By David S

October 16, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

My sister lives on an island in British Columbia. The island is populated by artists and other well-to-do folks. Also on the island is a very large trailer park populated by folks with far fewer means. The island is extremely rural, and most houses outside of the trailer park are at least 1/8 of a mile apart. Many arther than that. Every year the wealthy parents in the houses would drive their kids to the trailer park and turn them loose on those houses since they were easier to walk to and would produce a larger haul.

Finally the folks in the park had had enough. They got together and with a single voice made it very clear that this situation would not continue. The solution? Now as halloween approaches the wealty artists on the island purchase bags of candy and deposit them in special containers at the two grocery stores on the island. This candy is then distributed among the houses of the trailer park and given to the children on halloween.

What are you contributing to the neighborhood your children trick or treat in?

By Trick or treat

October 16, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Entertainment, that’s what we are providing to the other neighborhoods. and it’s free!!!!

By doesitreallymatter

October 16, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

My kids are no longer trick or treaters. When they were we walked our entire neighborhood and had a very good time doing it. Then we even had a black cat (that thought she was a dog) and she walked with us. Sadly she passed away several years ago but we think of her often and especially during the Halloween season. My daughter and grandchildren live on a fairly busy street with no sidewalks. We now live in a neighborhodd (if you can call it that) with only 10 houses. So she takes the kids to the subdivision next to ours that has at least 50 houses. I don’t think any of those folks mind. I wish we had more trick or treaters they are so cute and we thoroughly enjoy them. Since we do have such a small neighborhood we are lucky to see 4-5 children.

By Gram

October 16, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

MrLiberty: I think you are lost. This is a Halloween blog. (You must be Georgia educated, because you sure can’t read!)

By Mike D

October 16, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Because of economic conditions this year, we are cutting back on candy. I am going to make a big pot of oatmeal and ladle a big spoon full in to all the little kids bags when they come by.

By candycorn

October 16, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

For those of you concerned about finances this year, Publix has a really good deal on candy this week.

By candycorn

October 16, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

For those of you concerned about finances this year, Publix has a really good deal on candy this week.

By Becky

October 16, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

People, don’t you remember when you were kids? It was such fun to trick or treat and get a bag full of candy. Get in the spirit! I love it! I just insist that they say “trick or treat”. I don’t care how old they are. I just want them to have fun. The little ones are very special but the big kids are fun, too, if you just get with the fun!

By Ol Guy

October 16, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

We have had kids from the apts down the street and it’s fun. As long as they make an attempt at a costume. (adult clothes, drawn on mustache, something) The older kids who don’t, don’t get anything from me.

By Seattle Mom

October 22, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

Mr. Liberty, I can only assume that you were never the parent that had any fun or enjoyment staying home with your kids on Halloween or vice versa, I don’t think you even had kids..it would be too much of a burden for you with having to feed and clothe them, let alone love them. We take our son to his friend’s house where we trick or treat with the kids and parents. It’s so much fun and no one asks if we’re from the nieghborhood. Isn’t that just really awkward and rude?

By ricardo

October 31, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

lol i found this site by accident but i found it interesting i seriously doubt mr.liberty was ever happy at any social event he speaks like a very cold person. who in thier rigth mind dosent enjoy halloween? its a time where ppl can recive free candy and its mostly harmless aside from the fact that you get scared to death.being a teen halloween is a good time to get candy and its fun not to mention safe,to shelter your kids at home is to deprive them of the fun of going out and seeing new ppl even if it’s just for candy. i ask you is there anything wrong with that?