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re: Trunk-Or-Treat is so lame and ruins Halloween for many kids
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:05 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:05 am to GetCocky11
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Are parents really this paranoid about strangers doing something to their kids in a neighborhood setting?
I find that more and more towns are doing this, because neighborhoods are just not participating in handing out candy anymore. I live in a smaller town and the neighborhoods we all used to go trick or treating in just don't hand out. Just a few houses here an there. So now they do something in our downtown where businesses and people can set up and give out. It is what it is.
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Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:06 am to ChewyDante
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Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:08 am to ChewyDante
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From a kid's perspective, doing it in a parking lot would destroy the experience.
Kids don't give a shite as long as they get to dress up and get candy. We had a fall festival at my elementary school when I was growing up and I liked it way more than trick or treating. Games and face painting and all that jazz. Way more fun than walking up to a house and getting a lollipop from my recollection.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:11 am to GetCocky11
We usually have Halloween a few days before the actual night in our neighborhood...that way we can feel safe going around on our golf carts and SxS's without having to worry about the trash running over our kids or stealing our shite.
Halloween night is about the one night per year that my front garage and porch lights don't come right at dark.
Halloween night is about the one night per year that my front garage and porch lights don't come right at dark.
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 9:12 am
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:14 am to el Gaucho
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Most of us non adipose Americans don’t eat candy
Yeah, I guess you're one fit person with 1% body fat...
I've seen some of your other post, you're full of shite...
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 9:16 am
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:17 am to GetCocky11
We taught our kids to not accept candy from strangers in cars.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:27 am to GetCocky11
We do host a Trunk or Treat in downtown LC. A large portion of the kids that come don't live in the best area of town so door to door isn't really an option. It also makes trick or treating available to handicap or special needs children.
I support door to door but the problem now is parents don't get out and walk with their kids. Instead, they drive their cars and follow their young children. The traffic this creates is unsafe for children.
Truthfully, Kids don't give a frick where they get their candy from.
I support door to door but the problem now is parents don't get out and walk with their kids. Instead, they drive their cars and follow their young children. The traffic this creates is unsafe for children.
Truthfully, Kids don't give a frick where they get their candy from.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:35 am to GetCocky11
what’s worse is when trunk or treat is done inside, like in a gym. The final form of this is going to be kids dressing up and their parents just driving to the store and buying them a bag of candy.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:37 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:43 am to GetCocky11
I don't have kids...but the way some of my employyes talk, I always thought trunk or treat was for people who lived in apartments and needed a free event to take their kids too.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:48 am to GetCocky11
1. Trunk or Treat is used by many churches and schools as a fundraiser.
2. Yeah, because kids getting free candy on the Saturday before Halloween really ruins the free candy they get on Halloween. Kids don't like that much candy.
2. Yeah, because kids getting free candy on the Saturday before Halloween really ruins the free candy they get on Halloween. Kids don't like that much candy.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:53 am to GetCocky11
Trunk or treat is not done during Halloween evening so kids can still trick or treat.
My little one is 4 and enjoys the trunk or treat. We went to one on Friday night and one Sunday Evening. The one last night had about 300 cars and many were nicely done with themes. Most cars had activities to do to get candy. Many had Cornhole boards, basketball goals, fishing poles with magnets on fish from a kiddie pool, cutouts to take pictures, walk the plank, etc...we only made it through 1/3 of the area last night in 3 hrs.
We are still doing the trick or treating going door to door as our neighborhood is big into that with decoration contests and turning the entire house into a haunted house. 4 houses on our street alone are doing that.
Trunk or treat does not replace walking door to door.
My little one is 4 and enjoys the trunk or treat. We went to one on Friday night and one Sunday Evening. The one last night had about 300 cars and many were nicely done with themes. Most cars had activities to do to get candy. Many had Cornhole boards, basketball goals, fishing poles with magnets on fish from a kiddie pool, cutouts to take pictures, walk the plank, etc...we only made it through 1/3 of the area last night in 3 hrs.
We are still doing the trick or treating going door to door as our neighborhood is big into that with decoration contests and turning the entire house into a haunted house. 4 houses on our street alone are doing that.
Trunk or treat does not replace walking door to door.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:00 am to GetCocky11
Very odd to get triggered over this.
When I was a kid, Halloween was a one night, one time thing. We didn't have pre-parties and trunk-or-treating or local companies putting on events for kids. We just had that two hour window of walking up and down our street.
Six year old me would've killed for an extra night of trick-or-treating.
When I was a kid, Halloween was a one night, one time thing. We didn't have pre-parties and trunk-or-treating or local companies putting on events for kids. We just had that two hour window of walking up and down our street.
Six year old me would've killed for an extra night of trick-or-treating.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:03 am to GetCocky11
i feel sorry for the kids of today. halloween in the 80's as a young lad cruising the hood with a plastic oversized pumpkin pale was tfrickinGoat. I feel like large swaths of neighborhoods don't really participate anymore, where back in the day everybody was down.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:05 am to LSUfan20005
quote:The frick?
the primary driver behind trunk or treats is lazy parents,
Because of trunk or treat, I now have to do 3 times the work as my parents did
I have 3 church/school trunk or treats the weekend before halloween, and then traditional trick or treat
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:06 am to GetCocky11
Obviously this guy isn't a dentist
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:50 am to GetCocky11
Anyone remember “Treat Street” they used to do in downtown Baton Rouge? I went once circa 1989 or so. The original trunk or treat. Seems like the mall used to stay open late sometimes and you could go store to store for candy. People thought it was safer to do that; it was at the height of the needles and razor blades scare.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 1:34 pm to TheFonz
I worked at JC Penney in Belle Promenade, Marrero, to pay my way through college. I remember in the mall having trick-or-treat at all the stores in the mall on Halloween.
If the kids came into the mall in costume they could go store-to-store, and in our store could go department-to-department to trick-or-treat.
It's quite a similar thing, just outside in a parking lot with decorated vehicles and other fun activities.
Lord, there are some miserable people on this board.
If the kids came into the mall in costume they could go store-to-store, and in our store could go department-to-department to trick-or-treat.
It's quite a similar thing, just outside in a parking lot with decorated vehicles and other fun activities.
Lord, there are some miserable people on this board.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 1:57 pm to RedPop4
Our church has an outdooor kitchen/pavilion area and every year on Halloween, we have a chili supper and all the kids are given a giant bag of candy at the door. Parents are welcome to donate candy or not to be handed out, but there is no giving candy from individual parents.
The church has plenty of money, and yes they allow any and all children to come in. But we do have a police officer who's on duty there and yes I've seen people leave in handcuffs. It's rare, most people know to behave at a church.
Also, costumes are allowed, even encouraged, but of course they are expected to conform to church standards, which means no slutty cats and such.
Lame? Lame would driving my children around our "neighborhood" and hitting about 6 houses in an hour.
That is one thing I remember fondly about my childhood in CA, we lived in a condominium complex of about 250 condos and then there was a housing subdivision just across the street. A kid could REALLY clean up on Halloween there.
The church has plenty of money, and yes they allow any and all children to come in. But we do have a police officer who's on duty there and yes I've seen people leave in handcuffs. It's rare, most people know to behave at a church.
Also, costumes are allowed, even encouraged, but of course they are expected to conform to church standards, which means no slutty cats and such.
Lame? Lame would driving my children around our "neighborhood" and hitting about 6 houses in an hour.
That is one thing I remember fondly about my childhood in CA, we lived in a condominium complex of about 250 condos and then there was a housing subdivision just across the street. A kid could REALLY clean up on Halloween there.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 2:22 pm to GetCocky11
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Are parents really this paranoid about strangers doing something to their kids in a neighborhood setting? Also, do churches do this b/c they think Halloween is evil?
My kid is only four weeks old, so I haven't had do think through this yet, but parents at churches LOVE it. All the churches around here market it as a safe alternative to Halloween. Our church just started a couple of years ago, and the neighborhood families show up in droves.
I don't think it has anything to do with Halloween being evil.
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