The past couple of years, the amount of kids out on Halloween has dwindled down in my neighborhood. This year, my wife and I were at her cousin’s house and we saw maybe a couple of kids walking around. My wife blames people going to Trunk or Treat things. We both work in retail, so we see more of the public, and nobody was in costume. What was everybody’s experience with Halloween this year?
We usually have several groups of families in our neighborhood. Our streets were packed this year, though. First Halloween in a while that wasn’t cold or raining or both.
Our neighborhood only has two entrance streets with a lot of connecting interior streets and cul de sacs. Many families set up firepits in their driveways to hand out candy, sometimes with music playing, movies projected garage doors, one house has a popcorn machine. Several houses had buckets of mini shots for parents.
This year there was even an Inflatable Cupcake Castle of Doom.
Last year there was a haunted house set up so that at the end you were watching the next group on cameras and you controlled the puppets and stuff, very Jigsaw style. That house has always had an elaborate haunted house but couldn’t do it this year.
So…yeah, trick or treating is still alive in our neighborhood.