Crazy Neighborhood Trick or Treat Plan

[C.Ann]

Halloween is October 31st.. That should be reason enough..

Good luck with this..

 

[Mimi1965]

Well I called a couple other members of the board and some neighbors and they weren't aware that they

county had designated Oct 31 as trick or treating and see having it here a different night as a huge nightmare. .

I'm confused-why would the county say this? Doesnt everyone celebrate Halloween ON Halloween?

 

[AustinTink]

Actually she did. When I told her the rest of the county was going Sun and so were we, she said we weren't going in our neighborhood and I said, "Yes we are".

I smell a fine coming. Our HOA is so ridiculous this would be a major offense.

 

[Hannathy]

I'm confused-why would the county say this? Doesnt everyone celebrate Halloween ON Halloween?

Most towns and or counties decide when Trick or treating will happen and set the hours.

And no a lot of places will pick a different day to hold trick or treating.

 

[barkley]

I'm confused-why would the county say this? Doesnt everyone celebrate Halloween ON Halloween?

the only time i ever remember this happening was once when i was a kid, and it was the one year when halloween was on a sunday AND that was the sunday when the clocks changed for daylight savings. the county that was adjacent to ours did'nt require it but they made the request that trick or treating be observed on saturday vs. sunday supposedly to make it safer.

all the kids from the adjacent county (we literaly had a huge housing develpment that straddled both counties) flooded that county's homes on saturday then did another round of trick or treating in their home county on the actual evening of halloween.

it resulted in a mother load of candy for those of us that did both nights

 

[Mermaid02]

Most towns and or counties decide when Trick or treating will happen and set the hours.

And no a lot of places will pick a different day to hold trick or treating.

Not in Maine. I had never heard of this until The Dis! Maine, the way life should be!

 

[ICF]

Halloween is October 31st.. That should be reason enough..

Good luck with this..

agreed.....halloween is the 31st, there is no reason it should be changed to have TOT be on Saturday.

 

[scrapquitler]

Most towns and or counties decide when Trick or treating will happen and set the hours.

And no a lot of places will pick a different day to hold trick or treating.

Most? Maybe in some parts of the country. Here in New England, I've never heard of it other than online...but we don't live in HOA land, and there is no county government deciding anything, town governments make all the decisions. But Halloween is on the 31st of October, and people TOT at whatever time they want.

 

[golfgal]

Most towns and or counties decide when Trick or treating will happen and set the hours.

And no a lot of places will pick a different day to hold trick or treating.

Not in Maine. I had never heard of this until The Dis! Maine, the way life should be!

Same here-never heard of "changing" Halloween until DIS. Heck, I never heard of having set hours OR even going out before it was dark before DIS.

 

[ICF]

I've lived in various places around Indiana and have been lucky enough to never be anywhere were the date of ToT was changed (although some places around here have done it) but we've always had a set time....usually either 6-8 or 6-9 PM.

It's not been an HOA decision, but rather a decision of the cities involved.

 

[PUZZLDY5]

Get this. In my home town in central PA ToT night is ALWAYS the Thursday BEFORE Halloween from 6-8. The strangest thing in the world if you ask me.

 

[clori]

I'm from the seacoast area of NH. For whatever reason my city always did trick or treating on October 30th no matter what day of the week Halloween fell on. It has been going on like that at least 36 years so no idea why. However we don't get yearly notices and there is no hoa or such involved.

People tend to follow the lights on knock lights off don't knock philosophy. I guess motion sensors aren't widely used there but if you do knock on a door and they don't answer you just move on. The majority of people seem to go 6-8pm. I asked my mother and she doesn't recall ever getting anyone before 5pm. When Halloween is on a school night it tends to die down earlier than Friday/Saturday nights.

Honestly as a kid we loved having trick or treat on the 30th. That just meant we got to trick or treat two nights in a row, have a Halloween party on the 31st or some other special activity without missing out on trick or treating.

I just found this for NH - set hours may be new or it might just be from someone listing the common times it is done per city.

http://www.newhampshire.com/halloween/trick-or-treat.aspx

 

[luvmy3]

Not in Maine. I had never heard of this until The Dis! Maine, the way life should be!

Me either, everywhere I lived, kids ToTed on Halloween whether it was a Monday or a Saturday. There have always been festivals, or trunk or treating on different nights but they were done in addition to traditional ToTing.

 

[okeydokey]

Well the Homeowner lady said that she is fine with moving it back to Sunday, Except that another woman was supposed to put as ad in the paper for this Thursday saying that our neighborhood was doing it on Saturday. If the ad is printed, then we have to do it on Saturday.

So do you think the county kids will do our neighborhood on Sat and the rest of the neighborhoods on Sunday. We could have 1000 kids. What a mess.

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

How many sex offenders do you suppose live in the OP's development, and if there are any do you really think that in a sub-division with an HOA the residents wouldn't know exactly who they are and where they live?

Not sure how many sex offenders there are, but apparently the police want to insure safety enough that they have announced the night several times.

Although I'm not really sure why Halloween would be Watch Out for Sex Offender Night anyway... do you guys let your kids go into people's houses when they're TOTing?

Not sure why either, but I guess because so many people go trick or treating and older kids tend to go in groups w/o their parents. I personally do not know anyone that goes into someone's house, but doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

What I would like to know is the statistics on how many children are molested, or worse on Halloween night. I'm guessing its like those statistics about how many kids are poisoned by candy or find a razor blade in their apple

Just for the record I don't live in a high sex crime area, but that is just some of the things my state does. However, some people are starting a new trend that worries me. Some areas in my town are having little get togethers at their churches or parks and are advertising "tot from the trunk" . Apparently they will have a group of cars and the kids will walk around to each car to get candy--- haven't actually participated, but with all the announcements about it I'm sure some sickos will be attracted to it whether they are sex offenders or do the pin in the apple type stuff.

I'm from the seacoast area of NH. For whatever reason my city always did trick or treating on October 30th no matter what day of the week Halloween fell on.
People tend to follow the lights on knock lights off don't knock philosophy. The majority of people seem to go 6-8pm.

I just found this for NH - set hours may be new or it might just be from someone listing the common times it is done per city.

http://www.newhampshire.com/halloween/trick-or-treat.aspx

Little off topic, but I saw an article today saying some cities are banning bigger kids from tot. They are still working it out, but apparently 12 is the cutoff. Depending on how big the kid is I guess depends on what happens. They were saying they can't imagine actually arresting these kids picked up, they would probably just be released to their parents. It was a couple of places in VA and one in MD.

 

[MnMomtoboys]

Well the Homeowner lady said that she is fine with moving it back to Sunday, Except that another woman was supposed to put as ad in the paper for this Thursday saying that our neighborhood was doing it on Saturday. If the ad is printed, then we have to do it on Saturday.

So do you think the county kids will do our neighborhood on Sat and the rest of the neighborhoods on Sunday. We could have 1000 kids. What a mess.

What a mess is right. I would be making plans at a hotel.