Is trick or treating not popular anymore?

When I was a kid there were kids all over the place trick or treating. Now, I'm lucky if I get any at all. Tonight I have a bowl full of candy and no trick or treaters to give it to. Oh, well, more for me I guess...

I had no trick or treaters two years in a row back in 2009 and 2010. I think it's mainly because people don't give out a lot of candy anymore or the parks either.

I got a decent ammount........................Of candy left over..................

When I was a kid there were kids all over the place trick or treating. Now, I'm lucky if I get any at all. Tonight I have a bowl full of candy and no trick or treaters to give it to. Oh, well, more for me I guess...

The-Apostle

Seriously, who would want to send their kids out to the homes of strangers to get candy this day and age?

Just spend twenty or thirty bucks on candy, have your kid invite some friends over and no worries.

I had about 15 trick or treaters and that was it.

In my area I noticed instead of being 2s and 3s there are like massive groups that would come every 10 or so minutes

I don't know, but it also definitely depends very much on the area. Certain suburban neighborhoods still get pretty big turn outs I imagine.

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

IdioticIcarus

[QUOTE="IdioticIcarus"]

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

Ace6301

They park their cars in the church parking lot and then go trick-or-treating car to car. And they usually have like a little get together.

[QUOTE="IdioticIcarus"]

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

Ace6301

Bunch of people hanging out iin the trunks of their cars, handing out candy................First time I've ever seen it today............

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

IdioticIcarus

Yeah that's a big thing around here.

I had 8 teens stop by.

:(

I just gave them the bowl.

[QUOTE="IdioticIcarus"]

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

worlock77

Yeah that's a big thing around here.

Man, I have never f*cking heard of that. I guess I'm out of the loop with the youth group scene.

I'm guessing many kids these days simply have a lot more safer options(far less freedom though) when it comes to celebrating Halloween than we did growing up.

Many parents are extremely paranoid when it comes to their kids nowadays and the disappearing sense of community in lots of areas over the years doesn't help either overall.

[QUOTE="Ace6301"][QUOTE="IdioticIcarus"]

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

IdioticIcarus

They park their cars in the church parking lot and then go trick-or-treating car to car. And they usually have like a little get together.

[QUOTE="IdioticIcarus"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"] The hell is that?Ace6301

They park their cars in the church parking lot and then go trick-or-treating car to car. And they usually have like a little get together.

And fruits!

Fu(k them! They deserve to get egged!

Like I posted in an earlier thread, I went trick-or-treating in a neighborhood full of rowhomes where it was always crowded and adults were out, etc. If the walk is very far between houses, like it is in my neighborhood, an adult I think should be with you depending how old you are. If you're like 10 or older, having a cell phone would suffice. You only get one life and a very short time to be a kid.

Yeah, it dried up where I live too. I guess I just expected a yearly ritual of getting free candy to last as long as kids liked candy.

we only had one this year down from like 15 , of course we live in a small town ,

I believe kids these days know they can just go to the store and buy a bunch of candy so they dont have to walk door to door to get any

The traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating has largely given way to organized events, such as "cubicle-to-cubicle" treating at a parent's workplace.

That said, kids still do the door-to-door trek here in the apartment complex where I live.

I set up a little table with several bowls of good candy outside my door and most of it was taken before 6:30PM.

The first gang that came made off with ALL the Pop Rocks (about 30 packets of the stuff)!

Sucks to be the kids of today.

Nothing like getting together with friends days prior and planning out all the best candy routes. And ooh, the first time you got to trick or treat without any parents bugging you along the way!

I imagine kids these days that are young enough to go out unsupervised would rather act cool and skip out on trick or treating and instead try to go to a halloween party or stay home and dick around on the internet or with the tv and videogames, etc.

Also, unless you live in a real nice area, I'm guessing as a parent you are thinking twice about letting your kids out at night to roam the neighborhood and interact with strangers. In the past few weeks it seems like there have been 5 or 6 high profile instances of kids being kidnapped and killed.

It's nothing like it was when I was a kid. Quite sad really. You get more trick or treaters in the nicer areas. What's been happening is that people have started driving to nicer areas to trick or treat, mostly from the not so nice areas. Sometimes in huge groups.

I used to love trick-or-treating and there was a lot of people who did it when I was younger, but last night, not one trick-or-treater! Waste of money buying sweets.

I din't even know it was halloween.

The Police are stamping it out round here.

[QUOTE="Ace6301"][QUOTE="IdioticIcarus"]

Where I live, it isn't that they've stopped trick'r'treating, it's that they've started doing trunk'r'treating at their churches instead.

IdioticIcarus

They park their cars in the church parking lot and then go trick-or-treating car to car. And they usually have like a little get together.

I used to love trick-or-treating and there was a lot of people who did it when I was younger, but last night, not one trick-or-treater! Waste of money buying sweets.

PiscesChick93

I blame that show "To Catch a Predator" lol. Everybody is convinced their neighbors are child molestors now.

I was born in 1980 and as a kid in the 80's Halloween was HUGE. Boatloads of kids would be walking around the neighborhoods (most even without their parents) and everybody dressed up the front of their houses. Fast forward to 2012.............hardly anything.

5 years ago I moved into a classier trailer park of atleast 250+ trailers a little before Halloween. I bought a crapload of candy and put plastic jack o' lanterns on my fenceposts with candles in them. Guess how many kids stopped by? Zero. That's the last time I'll ever buy Halloween candy again. Bah humbug!!!!!

There were plenty of kids last year. This year not so much. Its kind of disheartening.

Seriously, who would want to send their kids out to the homes of strangers to get candy this day and age?

Just spend twenty or thirty bucks on candy, have your kid invite some friends over and no worries.

d_parker

Thats boring as hell

I had 2 good sized groups of about 10kids this year...But to be fair they had their parents driving them in vans around so they kind of cheated the system.

Nobody does it in my hometown anymore. At least not door-to-door. There are special events, but nobody just takes their kid around in a costume.