Got my candies all picked out to buy for Halloween. CVS got the cheapest candies that I like to get which are Crispy M&Ms. I bought them on sale at Walgreens and fell in love with them! If no one comes for trick or treating I get to eat it all by myself (LOL). No I won't be going trick or treating this year. Are you ready for Halloween 2015? HAPPY & SAFE HALLOWEEN!
I don't care much for Halloween here in Millinocket. Neither my wife or I need to be eating candy, yet we generally get stuck with a bunch of it. If my wife would let me, I'd lock the doors and leave the lights out until it was all over, but she seems to think that would be antisocial or something. We might get a bunch of kids here one year, and almost none the next, so it's hard to know what to prepare for. Last year, we still had most of the candy left when it was starting to get reasonably late, so I gave it all to the last kid who came to the door before I shut the lights out. Now in Texas, where I lived near the Mexican border, Halloween would cost hundreds of dollars. Since there was no border check to speak of at the actual border, I think parents from Mexico brought their kids across to go trick or treating for candy that they probably sold back across the border. I don't know, but there was no end to the kids coming to the door. My first Halloween in a house there, as opposed to a condominium, I bought about fifty bucks worth of candy and ran out within a half hour. Before it was over, I had gone to the store to spend another couple of hundred. Since I was single most of the time that I lived in Texas, and a paramedic, I learned to stay at the station during Halloween, so that I could avoid that.
Based on your description of anti-social (or rather, your wife's description), I guess we qualify as anti-social. We live in a neightborhood that does not have a whole lot of kids, and it is not a safe place to be taking a child around trick-or-treating, in any case. We bought the small candy bars the first year, had no one come by, and since then we do not even buy candy. We just turn off the lights, and the porch light, and do not encourage anyone to stop by . That way, we do not have to deal with leftover candy, which neither one of us likes, in any case. When I was younger, and had kids, I used to enjoy decorating for halloween and even dressing up in a costume for when the neighbor kids came to the door. Now, we pretty much just ignore the whole day, since it is not a regular holiday anyway.
I don't know what to describe this because we have no Halloween but lately there are Halloween celebrations here particularly the trick or treat. Not in our village though but in some high end villages, they let the poor kids enter to trick-or-treating from house to house. In malls, surely there are trick-or-treating participated in by the commercial tenants. There was a time when some neighbors here knocked on our gate and pronounced the term "trick or treat" to which we responded with some candies and coins. Hmm, that was last year so maybe this year the kids here will do that again. What's funny is they knock only on our gate. Our tradition is actually November 1 which is observed as All Saints Day although people observe it as All Souls Day because they go to cemeteries and columbariums in remembrance of their departed loved ones.
We have some inside and outside décor that we put out. My wife absolutely loves décor for Easter, Halloween and Christmas and basically I do to. One thing we are not and that is anti-social. We will buy a bag of candy, but that will be it. Have had very few kids stop by our apartment, but are ready just in case. Last year, one of our neighbors little girl dressed up as Frozen (the movie) and was really, really cute. Well, I should say, if we are home for Halloween, we give out candy. We have Star Wars costumes that we bought last year and the year before. I've got a real nice Darth Vader costume w/a full-size helmet, lights/sound on my chest, boots, foam armor that I repainted gloss black and sprayed with clear lacquer to really make the armor shiny. I repainted my belt and sprayed it with clear lacquer as well. Also, have a nice FX Lightsaber that lights up with sound. Two years ago, we bought my wife a Princess Leia costume from the movie A New Hope (the dress, boots and hair w/buns). That was a cool costume, but she got an even better one last year........a Female Stormtrooper one. Full helmet, slip-on spandex costume of white armor and utility belt. White boots and a Stormtrooper Blaster gun that I repainted all black and done the lacquer shine to also. Yes, we are BIG TIME Star Wars fans. Last year we went to a Halloween Party and I was amazed at just how popular both of our costumes were. Felt like a celebrity with all the camera flashes going off and people wanting their photo taken with Darth Vader and his Stormtrooper. This year, may go out on our local Casino Boat for their party. BTW, did I say we are in our mid 60's? Anyway, my MIL dressed up at the Statue of Liberty in her late 80's and won first prize at her Senior Halloween Party.
I've always loved Halloween but we live so far out that we haven't had a trick or treater in 15 years. But we always buy some our favorite candy bars.....just in case!
Most of our neighbor children have grown up, and our dark country road does not draw any trick-or-treaters. We have a Styrofoam jack-o-lantern, that passes as the real thing! We have always liked to give out full sized candy bars...and eat those left over.
When I was still married and owned a house, it was the last house on the right side of a dead end street. In front, on one side and in back of the house were wooded hollows and ravines. No one wanted to walk down there at night.
In out area the volunteer fireman always have a trick or treat parade for all the kids. They go to the firehouse and have cider and donuts and get candies. People in the village donate bags and bags of candy. Most of the little kids never go trick or treating because it is New York and it is thought to be dangerous. When I was a child we would go trick a treating and gets sacks full of candy. My son went as well, and we never had a problem. My house looks scary like a haunted house so people avoid it. Once years ago I took my son for a haircut and the girl at the salon said "Oh you guys live in the haunted house" She told us a story on how she used to babysit for the people that lived here before we did. She said she heard stuff and it made her afraid to come back. My ex used to also say the place was haunted. I will not go so far as to say we never had any experiences, but I am not afraid and can not imagine being any place else. Halloween is my favorite of all the holidays. In fact I was married at Halloween. The reception was a Masquerade Ball. I went as a bride, and all the guests were urged to dress up, most did. At that time the local radio was having a contest called "crash your Bash" so I sent them a wedding invitation and they came. They gave many of the guests prizes and CD's. They also gave out gas coupons that at the time were like gold because of the cost of gas. It was fun, on the way to the honeymoon I got to enjoy all the things about Fall that I love the most.
My area does not have a lot of young kids in the neighborhood. My grandson's are teenagers and do not do trick or treat anymore. I will get some candy for the few kids that show up and they will be the kind of candy I like.
Halloween was a time we got together to trick or treat when I was growing up. As the years go by the trick-o- treater's got less because the malls have a lot of Halloween festivities. I still buy candy for the trick-or-treater's that may come by. Last year no one came and I bought my favorite candies and ate all the left overs too! This year I discovered Crispy M & M's and love it, so I bought some this year. (image from http://www.funny-potato.com/images/halloween/cats.jpg.) (image from http://images.clipartpanda.com/halloween-candy-border-clip-art-9iRR5EaxT.jpeg.)
Love reading all the different stories. This is our first year here and there are a lot of kids. But, before we moved here, during the Halloween, we buy candy, beer, sometimes get dressed up. The beer was for us, my daughters and me. We would sit on the steps, we didn't let the kids go to the door because of the dog. We always had fun, we start off by telling the little one how cute they were, which they were,but at the night went on, we would see older kids. Whey they say trick or treat, I tease them and tell I'm giving a treat, their look in their eyes, were like, what , we would crack up, and give them some candy, other I asked them how old they were, and if they thought they were too old for this, of course they lie and say there were only 12, one time I asked one of them to sing me the song,and he did. We use to have so much fun with these kids. Now I don't know how these kids are, and it's only just one of my girls. I also like to decorate, I like to make my own. My husband is the one who is very antisocial. I also remember when I use to go trick or treating, we use to live in El Paso, TX, and my mother would takes pass downtown (we use to go on the bus), they gave the best candy ever. I only remember two of them. The first was when I was in 3rd grade, our 2nd teacher Mrs. Sugar, came into Mrs. Brown class and ask to speak to several kids, I was one of them, there was five of us, and she wanted us to get our parents permission to go with her to the base for Halloween, I think the base was Fort Bragg, anyway she took us there and i remember running, and i don't know if I fell or one of the boys. She also gave us tickets (they had a rummage sale and it was held in the gym), with those tickets I got my mother a set of dishes. I had the best time ever. And the best thing about all this was that my mother made me my costume, I was a black witch. It's not the same anymore, things have changed so much.