Is Halloween a big deal where you live?

Most of the activities in my area are for the kids. Things like Halloween costume parades in elementary schools and trick or treating or trunk or treat. I’m sure some adults have parties but it is not such a big deal. A few people decorate their houses.

About half of our population celebrates and half frowns upon it as the ‘Devil’s Holiday.’

I have several private parties, we may or may not dress up for. Mostly religious kids go to churches Trunk or Treats. Secular kids go to mall or rich neighborhoods or private parties.

If we dress up it will be Kelce and Taylor.

Not at all.
I live in a quiet mountain town, in a forest. Last year we got zero trick or treaters. This year, I expect twice as many.

It is a big deal where I live, but mostly focused on kids. We have four distinct neighborhoods of very nice houses, and kids will choose the one nearest and trick or treat there. One is a gated community, and the residents kind of compete to have the best display and hand out the best treats (king size Hershey bars!).

I lived on a cul-de-sac of 25 houses and one of the girls’ birthday is Oct 31, so every year there was a huge combined birthday and Halloween party. By the time she was ten, all her classmates came to get in their costumes right after school and paly birthday games and have cake. Then the rest of the neighborhood would show up about 4:30/5 to eat and then everyone went trick or treating in huge group. It was a lot of fun!

The general area I live in, there are a bunch of trunk or treat parties at local groups, like VFW groups in the area.

In the complex I live in, whcih is an old, former vacation complex which is now full time and where everyone knows everyone, there was a movie night recently where they were going to have a scary movie outside at the playground but it rained and so it was in the pavilion, and they had snacks and stuff for the kids. They used to have a party but there’s a new Events Committee so that’s what they chose to do. A movie night is probably way easier to plan and execute than a big party.

Here, Halloween night is a big deal and people will come from other areas to trick or treat here, because the streets are small and it’s just a fun place to be on Halloween night. There’s a town about twenty minutes away that hundreds of people will flock to. We went there once and it was so crowded, it was overwhelming.

I belong to a senior center (the qualification is over 55 so I can attend) and they’re having a big party. I went last year and everyone dressed up. Some of the costumes were quite elaborate. I was really impressed. They have lunch and a DJ and dancing and games. I am planning to be a hippie. I am going to tie dye a shirt and wear a bandana – nothing too elaborate. I was going to buy a adult size onesie and be a baby but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on something I was only going to wear once.

Adults here may wear some fun ears or something simple on Halloween itself, but other than that, nobody is wearing a costume on any other day except Halloween.

Thankfully not.
Last time there were trick or treaters at my door, which was many years ago, I defenestrated them from the 10th floor. I got a citation for public littering for my efforts.

@ragingloli I do love the word “defenestrated.”

Spasibo.

De rien.

Its made a comeback here, and we go all out for it. Usually over 200 trick-or-treaters, but it increases every year as our house has become somewhat of a neighborhood spectacle.

It’s a bit hit or miss around here. I have a bit of a challenge with a guy around the corner when it comes to decorations, but we don’t get a ton of trick-or-treaters. Usually a bag of candy leaves us with about half a bag after Halloween.

No. It’s just about chocolate to me.

A big deal would be a bit of an understatement. People go all out here. And many families from other cities will drive their kids in for trick or treating. In the busiest neighborhoods, people buy 1,500+ pieces of candy!