How Was Your Halloween?

[The Duke]

The custom was attacked by the left AND the right.

This attitude from the right. . ^

And the scare mongering worrying worting from the left . .

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I raised my kid in a very conservative village, about ten minutes outside of the bigger town I grew up in.

I noted that the local church party, (which was held at the local public junior high school gym,) had more in attendance than there were tricker-treaters.

I took my kid to it when he was seven, and he won a bike in a raffle there.

. . . but then, when he was older, I took him to the town where I grew up to go house to house.

The left, of course, had started scare mongering parents starting in around the seventies. It did not help that they found tainted candy in some kids hulls back then. With crap in it like needles, poison and razor blades. . . with bullies and pedos stalking kids.

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I think it was around the time I was eight or nine my folks said I could not eat anything in my hull until they inspected it, and I was not allowed to go out alone. I had to go with a group of school friends.


My kid hated trunk or treat. NO FUN AT ALL.

See? They started that crap in the 70s so people couldn't make creative things for the kids and had to buy them from some corporate vendor. I'm tellin' ya that's what it was all about to the Nth degree!
Moms and dads used to make neat stuff to give to the kids, dammit!
A cupcake's a cupcake! And if you eat it right there, with their kids, it ain't gonna get confiscated!
Oh, my loved ones fell for that hook, line, and sinker. Nobody was nefarious on our freakin' block.
Oh yeah, the girls' parents that I play with every day and taught me how to ride a bicycle and their parents
give us all treats sometimes in the afternoon, are suddenly going to turn evil and hand out fucked up things to their children and their friends on Halloween.
The media did that one! Grr!
Back in the day, you might get a gingerbread soft ghost cookie with white icing.

 

[MisterBeale]

I took my youngest out trick-or-treating. There were lots of kids out, and lots of families happy to see them and have a little chat while handing out candy.

Yeah, it all has to do with the local attitudes toward other people and the holiday itself.

I found that the most kids out there doing it, were in the suburbs.

In the city they do trunk or treat, and in the country, houses are too far apart, trunk or treat and parties have taken the place of kids on bikes going house to house.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I don't celebrate satanic feasts.
Only idiots do it

Our church has done Trunk r Treats. Thats the new thing in a lot of places.

We had about twenty kids. we really like the Littles (gen 3 on our street) that can barely walk going around with their parents. They appeared more interested in the poodle I was holding then the candy.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I stopped buying candy years ago. Kids don't trick-or-treat my street.
They'd have to walk 400%-800% more to do the houses around here.
I had a couple..in a couple decades.
I had teh candy, though! Yes I did! And the ones that came, I gave 'em extra, cuz I knew there weren't going to be many more.

I have moved to a sweet little conservative Midwest town and we have a ton of trick-or-treaters, and it's been fun seeing my new friends and their children in their costumes.

I've had a bad cold so I just put the candy in a big bowl on the front porch and asked to not be disturbed, and went to bed, slept hard and woke up to an empty bowl. I hope the kids acted responsibly but I fear that some HS kid just dumped the whole bowl into his bag.

 

[MisterBeale]

See? They started that crap in the 70s so people couldn't make creative things for the kids and had to buy them from some corporate vendor. I'm tellin' ya that's what it was all about to the Nth degree!
Moms and dads used to make neat stuff to give to the kids, dammit!
A cupcake's a cupcake! And if you eat it right there, with their kids, it ain't gonna get confiscated!
Oh, my loved ones fell for that hook, line, and sinker. Nobody was nefarious on our freakin' block.
Oh yeah, the girls' parents that I play with every day and taught me how to ride a bicycle and their parents
give us all treats sometimes in the afternoon, are suddenly going to turn evil and hand out fucked up things to their children and their friends on Halloween.
The media did that one! Grr!
Back in the day, you might get a gingerbread soft ghost cookie with white icing.

I grew up in the country, we biked from house to house.

I never saw any kids on bikes doing it when my kid grew up.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Our church has done Trunk r Treats. Thats the new thing in a lot of places.

We had about twenty kids. we really like the Littles (gen 3 on our street) that can barely walk going around with their parents. They appeared more interested in the poodle I was holding then the candy.

We do that in my little town too.

 

[Road Runner]

I don't celebrate satanic feasts.
Only idiots do it

Touchy!

We would get sick eating so much Halloween candy when I was a kid.

Lol who didn't?

That's the reason our churches aren't hanging on to their followers like they used to.

I believe that Jesus was our Christ and savior, and that he went thru the worst ass-whipping in history for our sins, but I also think kids have to be allowed to be kids.

Yeah, I also believe that even Jesus would have loved up dressing up and getting free candy as a kid as it's not a sin, it's just being a kid.

The Devil and Halloween

“Neither give place to the devil.” (Ephesians 4:27) Halloween has long been claimed as the high, holy day of Satan worship. This is the day when witches and warlocks gather to praise their leader and extend his work on Earth. Festivities are marked by unprecedented evil and blasphemy, with...

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Dude literally nobody cares already so give it a rest!

 

[Concerned American]

Yeah, it all has to do with the local attitudes toward other people and the holiday itself.

I found that the most kids out there doing it, were in the suburbs.

In the city they do trunk or treat, and in the country, houses are too far apart, trunk or treat and parties have taken the place of kids on bikes going house to house.

Our local grange had a trunk or treat at their hall last Saturday. It was the third time they've done it and it has seen increased attendance each year. The grange springs for a taco bar and they have traditional Halloween games and prizes as well. The volunteer fire dept. always brings a truck down that is a hit with the kids too.

 

[The Duke]

I grew up in the country, we biked from house to house.

I never saw any kids on bikes doing it when my kid grew up.

I lived in the city back then. It was a city-sized block full of houses, and we could go to each 1-block over, too.
The Klan dudes were in my front yard by the palm tree, though. Wtf were they doing there?
About 20 minutes later my ancient witch mask ripped. It was old.
Looked like the witch from uh..the cartoon Snow White.
I say that was my best halloween costume ever! That mask was kickass!

 

[Darkwind]

Yesterday I was going to take a break from painting and put up some Halloween decorations, but it started raining around 3pm. I was hoping it would pass us by, but it kept drizzling till around 11pm.

No parent is going to let kids go out in that kind of weather.

Course, when I was a kid I was running from house to house in a snowstorm, so rain was nothing to me.

Not one kid showed up....and I was ready this time, unlike last year.

I had my garbageman costume on and I was going to hand out store bought popcorn balls, ghoulish rice crispy treats, and several other goodies.

Last year only a couple dozen kids showed up and I was lucky that I bought $10 bag of candy.

This year I had everything.....and got JACK-SQUAT!!!

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It was relatively warm here -- 65 at sunset -- so we had a pretty frightening neighborhood.

I was coming home from work when they began, but the turn out looked to be pretty good in My little village.

The kids don't come to My door since I have something of a reputation as an axe murderer. Something My son started about 15 years ago to explain My strictness when he was growing up, and the stigma never actually left.

LMAO.

My wife for years didn't participate so our house was just added to the bypass list that all the kids seem to have.

 

[Unkotare]

Halloween celebrates demons and evil, ...

No it doesn't.

 

[MisterBeale]

The Devil and Halloween

“Neither give place to the devil.” (Ephesians 4:27) Halloween has long been claimed as the high, holy day of Satan worship. This is the day when witches and warlocks gather to praise their leader and extend his work on Earth. Festivities are marked by unprecedented evil and blasphemy, with...

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You know, IMO, Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses would get a much better reception when they go house to house spreading the gospel, if they dressed up like first century Christians or medieval Christian philosophers when they do.


. . . and bet they would have moar fun too!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I lived in the city back then. It was a city-sized block full of houses, and we could go to each 1-block over, too.
The Klan dudes were in my front yard by the palm tree, though. Wtf were they doing there?
About 20 minutes later my ancient witch mask ripped. It was old.
Looked like the witch from uh..the cartoon Snow White.
I say that was my best halloween costume ever! That mask was kickass!

My coolest costume ever was a ballet tutu and leotard, WITH SEQUINS! Back then, every little girl wanted to be a ballerina, and I saw this costume for 49¢ at the neighborhood second hand store, and it was worth a whole week's allowance!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

You know, IMO, Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses would get a much better reception when they go house to house spreading the gospel, if they dressed up like first century Christians or medieval Christian philosophers when they do.


. . . and bet they would have moar fun too!

The St. Terese of Liseux and St. Teresa of Calcutta and St. Francis are ADORABLE!

I wish the kids at my church would dress up like this.

 

[rightwinger]

I had about 200 kids between 4-8 PM
Consensus among the kids was I was the best house in the area.

Full size Hershey Bars, Snickers, Kit Kats, M&Ms
Bags of Chips
Play Dough
Soap Bubbles

 

[Darkwind]

See? They started that crap in the 70s so people couldn't make creative things for the kids and had to buy them from some corporate vendor. I'm tellin' ya that's what it was all about to the Nth degree!
Moms and dads used to make neat stuff to give to the kids, dammit!
A cupcake's a cupcake! And if you eat it right there, with their kids, it ain't gonna get confiscated!
Oh, my loved ones fell for that hook, line, and sinker. Nobody was nefarious on our freakin' block.
Oh yeah, the girls' parents that I play with every day and taught me how to ride a bicycle and their parents
give us all treats sometimes in the afternoon, are suddenly going to turn evil and hand out fucked up things to their children and their friends on Halloween.
The media did that one! Grr!
Back in the day, you might get a gingerbread soft ghost cookie with white icing.

This is kind of strange to Me.

I'm a boomer and the people who were adults back in the day when I was trick or treating were part of the greatest generation or even the silent generation.

A hard bitten lot if ever there was...

We used to get minibar bottles of booze from them!

LOL

Just kidding.

We didn't need parents to follow us around and we often traveled in groups of close knit friends.

Pedos and other assorted riff raf was never a problem because we weren't fucking idiots.

I grew up in the Southeast SF Bay Area.

 

[mudwhistle]

Yeah, it all has to do with the local attitudes toward other people and the holiday itself.

I found that the most kids out there doing it, were in the suburbs.

In the city they do trunk or treat, and in the country, houses are too far apart, trunk or treat and parties have taken the place of kids on bikes going house to house.

When I got older I went on hayrides with girls. We'd be on the back of a truck, or a flatbed, and drive slowly thru a haunted forest and the girls would start screaming and grabbing for someone to protect them.

It was pretty cool.

 

[gtopa1]

Europe doesn't do Halloween?

It's crazy to me but it looks like it's taking off here in Oz. The supermarket chains are pushing it. Grandson went to a Party dressed as a star wars Jawa.................not really on theme but a party is a party I suppose.

No real history of it here.

Greg

 

[mudwhistle]

My coolest costume ever was a ballet tutu and leotard, WITH SEQUINS! Back then, every little girl wanted to be a ballerina, and I saw this costume for 49¢ at the neighborhood second hand store, and it was worth a whole week's allowance!

All this time I thought you were one of the dudes.

Guess I have to watch my swearing around you now.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

All this time I thought you were one of the dudes.

Guess I have to watch my swearing around you now.

Well, I used to cuss like a drunken longshoreman, but since I became religious, I have toned it down a lot.

But thanks for the consideration.