I too love Halloween but HATE Trunk or Treat. I work diligently every fall trying to get TnT brushed back under the slime pit it crawled out from.
Long ago - back before people spread lies about Halloween being dangerous, kids and families would roam throughout neighborhoods, enjoying the sound of dry leaves underfoot and the smell of candles in pumpkins. You had to walk blocks to fill up a bag. You only went home when you couldn't walk anymore. Older kids watched over younger and the youngest of all had their mothers watching as you went from door to door. It was great!
No offense folks - but being one of the few trick or treat haunts remaining in our neighborhood, I get to hear all of the complaints from parents and kids on their way home from TnT. A majority of them are tired of it. They only continue because they don't know how to get it to stop.
"It's so nice that you do this for the kids."
"I wish it was like when we were kids but everyone goes to Trunk or Treat now."
We're popular because we still offer that 'old time' experience but now I feel obligated and that has taken some of the fun out of it.
It has taken me years to get people used to coming here to get some candy, if I miss a year due to illness or ??? I'd be back at square one. Sitting here alone on Halloween, wondering where all the kids are. I refuse to go to them - that seems so lazy. I might as well just drive around the neighborhood and throw candy out the window towards each house.
Parents and their older children now tell me that they feel forced into trunk or treat. They thought it sounded fun at first, but now realize that it is just not the same - especially for kids once they leave the toddler stage. They'd rather go back to the traditional way but don't know how to break the cycle.
I tell the kids to revolt. "But all the candy is there!" I tell the parents to boycott. "But what will I do if no one comes to my house - eat all that candy?" If we all start now, in a few years we'll be back to normal.
My daughter recently bought a new house - her first in a neighborhood with kids. I mentioned that now my grandsons will have someplace to trick or treat. She sighed, replying "Yeah, but they probably trunk r treat." How sad.
SAVE HALLOWEEN - BOO-YCOTT Trunk Or Treat in 2008!
Mary Ann - the ole crone.
Long ago - back before people spread lies about Halloween being dangerous, kids and families would roam throughout neighborhoods, enjoying the sound of dry leaves underfoot and the smell of candles in pumpkins. You had to walk blocks to fill up a bag. You only went home when you couldn't walk anymore. Older kids watched over younger and the youngest of all had their mothers watching as you went from door to door. It was great!
No offense folks - but being one of the few trick or treat haunts remaining in our neighborhood, I get to hear all of the complaints from parents and kids on their way home from TnT. A majority of them are tired of it. They only continue because they don't know how to get it to stop.
"It's so nice that you do this for the kids."
"I wish it was like when we were kids but everyone goes to Trunk or Treat now."
We're popular because we still offer that 'old time' experience but now I feel obligated and that has taken some of the fun out of it.
It has taken me years to get people used to coming here to get some candy, if I miss a year due to illness or ??? I'd be back at square one. Sitting here alone on Halloween, wondering where all the kids are. I refuse to go to them - that seems so lazy. I might as well just drive around the neighborhood and throw candy out the window towards each house.
Parents and their older children now tell me that they feel forced into trunk or treat. They thought it sounded fun at first, but now realize that it is just not the same - especially for kids once they leave the toddler stage. They'd rather go back to the traditional way but don't know how to break the cycle.
I tell the kids to revolt. "But all the candy is there!" I tell the parents to boycott. "But what will I do if no one comes to my house - eat all that candy?" If we all start now, in a few years we'll be back to normal.
My daughter recently bought a new house - her first in a neighborhood with kids. I mentioned that now my grandsons will have someplace to trick or treat. She sighed, replying "Yeah, but they probably trunk r treat." How sad.
SAVE HALLOWEEN - BOO-YCOTT Trunk Or Treat in 2008!
Mary Ann - the ole crone.
