Trick or Treat 2009

[pyxiestix]

does anyone know when the trick or treat times are this year for all the towns?
i have a feeling we won't be able to do mt. gilead or edison this year & i'd like to be able to plan a different day for the kids if i can.

thanks

[Dean.]

does anyone know when the trick or treat times are this year for all the towns?
i have a feeling we won't be able to do mt. gilead or edison this year & i'd like to be able to plan a different day for the kids if i can.

thanks

having lived in Marion for 19 years, I've never seen trick or treat on any other day then October 31st.

[pyxiestix]

usually in mt. gilead it's not actually ON halloween...it just happens to be a saturday this year tho so it will be. unfortunately i have a baby shower until 4 in shelby that day & i was hoping to find somewhere other than mt. gilead/edison i can take the kids

[Lynn]

PLease do not take your kids to the North Woods Addition. Do you know how many people there live on a fixed income and turn off their lights and hide behind curtains because they can't afford huge amounts of candy? I went through 20 bags of candy last year and ran out. I am sure people who live in areas other than that probably give more candy to each person cause they have less traffic.
Better yet, try to instill in your kids they should not be so greedy and to go only to homes in their own neighborhood.
KIds who are as tall as me are too old to be out begging anyway. Or if you come to my door in a group smoking, well you probably won't get anything.
Moms of babies you push in a stroller are probably too young to eat the candy you fill a pillow case for. Go buy your own candy and let the kid have an extra bottle for a treat.
I love Holloween but it is out of hand and often it is the parents that make it so.
Use some consideration and think about who you are begging from.
Consider a party at your house and you foot the bill or split it with other parents.
BE safe and have fun, but remember this holiday is really for little kids not grownups to beg.
Lynn

[pyxiestix]

PLease do not take your kids to the North Woods Addition. Do you know how many people there live on a fixed income and turn off their lights and hide behind curtains because they can't afford huge amounts of candy? I went through 20 bags of candy last year and ran out. I am sure people who live in areas other than that probably give more candy to each person cause they have less traffic.
Better yet, try to instill in your kids they should not be so greedy and to go only to homes in their own neighborhood.
KIds who are as tall as me are too old to be out begging anyway. Or if you come to my door in a group smoking, well you probably won't get anything.
Moms of babies you push in a stroller are probably too young to eat the candy you fill a pillow case for. Go buy your own candy and let the kid have an extra bottle for a treat.
I love Holloween but it is out of hand and often it is the parents that make it so.
Use some consideration and think about who you are begging from.
Consider a party at your house and you foot the bill or split it with other parents.
BE safe and have fun, but remember this holiday is really for little kids not grownups to beg.
Lynn

wow...um i never mentioned WHERE in mt. gilead we go (which is usually just the main road) and as all my children are under 9 years old there is no age issue.
as far as going in my OWN neighborhood? yeah, i live in the country. there are a whole 15 or so houses on a 1 mile stretch on our dead-end road.
i was just looking for times and/or dates in cardington, marengo & maybe fulton...not a lecture.

[phschick2006]

I never understood why people take their babies (some of them as tiny as newborns!) out into the chilly October air to receive candy they can't eat. We typically give kids 3 or 4 pieces of candy but, in the aforementioned instances, we only give them one piece. If you're a parent of a newborn/infant and you want some candy go buy some.

[Lynn]

I was not pointing fingers at anyone with my post. I don't begrudge the kids who trick or treat with in reaason but the Addition is a target for many people because of the close proximity of homes. When you live in the country it is hard sometimes to find oneor 2 homes even, I was hoping I would remind people that there are those on a fixed income and a lot of them live in the Addition.

When I lived in Candlewood, I never had anyone knock on my door .

Hope your family has a nice Holiday.
Lynn

[becky1993]

trick or treat in MG is Saturday, October 31st, 5-6.

[XPADREX]

Would someone explain to me why Ohio can't wake up and have "Halloween" on, oh, I dunno... Halloween?!?!

When I was a lad in a state far, far away- we would wait until the streetlights came on, and then we'd go trick or treating in our neighborhood.

Candy bars were the large ones- not the bullion cubes they now call "fun size".

You didn't have to worry about carloads of kids from everywhere coming into your addition, you didn't have to worry about not being able to take your kids because you aren't yet home from work.

You didn't worry about some tool coining the phrase "Beggar's Night"- which is patently ridiculous.

While I'm on the subject, you didn't just walk up to a door, and stick out your candy sack with a slackjawed expression on your dull moon face. You said "Trick or Treat". It's how the game is played.

Ah well. See you at the Addition on the 31st.

[ohiostate4ever]

Would someone explain to me why Ohio can't wake up and have "Halloween" on, oh, I dunno... Halloween?!?!

When I was a lad in a state far, far away- we would wait until the streetlights came on, and then we'd go trick or treating in our neighborhood.

Candy bars were the large ones- not the bullion cubes they now call "fun size".

You didn't have to worry about carloads of kids from everywhere coming into your addition, you didn't have to worry about not being able to take your kids because you aren't yet home from work.

You didn't worry about some tool coining the phrase "Beggar's Night"- which is patently ridiculous.

While I'm on the subject, you didn't just walk up to a door, and stick out your candy sack with a slackjawed expression on your dull moon face. You said "Trick or Treat". It's how the game is played.

Ah well. See you at the Addition on the 31st.

On the subject of years past.

you didn't have to worry about some idiot putting something in the candy, that in today's society makes checking and x-raying a necessity.

you didn't have to worry about you kid getting abducted if you blinked too long or too much

kids and adults were more polite and respectful

[just-helping]

Would someone explain to me why Ohio can't wake up and have "Halloween" on, oh, I dunno... Halloween?!?!

When I was a lad in a state far, far away- we would wait until the streetlights came on, and then we'd go trick or treating in our neighborhood.

Candy bars were the large ones- not the bullion cubes they now call "fun size".

You didn't have to worry about carloads of kids from everywhere coming into your addition, you didn't have to worry about not being able to take your kids because you aren't yet home from work.

You didn't worry about some tool coining the phrase "Beggar's Night"- which is patently ridiculous.

While I'm on the subject, you didn't just walk up to a door, and stick out your candy sack with a slackjawed expression on your dull moon face. You said "Trick or Treat". It's how the game is played.

Ah well. See you at the Addition on the 31st.

Cities/towns/villages typically do not hold trick or treat on the 31st because of the risks and threats that come along with it. It's all about safety.

Some cat shelters also do not adopt black cats out during the month of October also because of safety.