What time do little kids trick or treat when Halloween is on a Saturday?

[eliza61]

My kids are waaay past trick or treat age but I still give out candy. I'm use to kids coming after school or early evening.
What do you do when Halloween is on a Saturday?

 

[EMom]

Around here, we start ToT when it gets dark. It doesn't matter WHAT night of the week it is.....We wait for dark. This week, "dark" is about 6:30.

 

[ICF]

around here Halloween is the same time, no matter the day of the week.....depending on the city its either 5-8pm or 6-8pm.

 

[Angelhalo]

I was just thinking about it this morning. It's supposed to get more and more rainy as the day goes on. i don't plan on being home in the afternoon, so I hope the kids aren't going to come in the afternoon to try to avoid the rain. I really want to give out lots of candy but I just won't be there to do it until normal trick or treating time.

 

[Rora]

We wait for dark and then typically turn our light off around 9:30 or 10.

 

[golfgal]

Around here, we start ToT when it gets dark. It doesn't matter WHAT night of the week it is.....We wait for dark. This week, "dark" is about 6:30.

Same here. The only thing that really changes when Halloween is on a Friday or Saturday is how late kids are out.

 

[jen0610]

According to the listing in our paper, the City of Ft Wayne's official hours of TOT are 6pm to 8pm.

Last nights edition had all of the larger citys in the surronding area's official TOT hours listed. There were a couple of 5:30 starts, but most were 6:00 starts.

 

[BabyTigger99]

We have set hours in our city, from 4 - 7.

 

[Disney Doll]

They usually start near my house when it is getting dusky....

 

[Pooh67_68]

Trick or Treat is always on a Sat. here, 1-4

 

[patsal]

6 to 8, day it falls on doesn't matter around here either!
I think DD is having friends over to watch movies, but htey will head out for the last hour.

 

[EMom]

It wasn't until I joined the DIS that I realized some towns had such a thing as "official" Halloween/ToT hours. I'd never heard of ToT-ing happening on any other day EXCEPT Halloween, just as Christmas happens on Dec. 25 and Valentine's Day is Feb. 14. You wait until dark on Halloween night and you head out. When it gets dim, the kids come out of their houses like a hoard of roaches. It's like a mass exodus.

The UNofficial rule here is that if the lights in the house and the porch light are on, you can ToT that house. If the lights are off, keep walking. Very few people seem to have a problem with it.

Of course, it being Texas, maybe people have the good sense not to pester someone late at night by ringing their doorbell when their lights are off and they clearly want to be left alone........

 

[tmarquez]

Everywhere I've ever lived trick or treating starts at dark. It'll probably start a bit before then this year since the time change is so late this month. But after hearing the kids asking "can we go now" 8000 times, I can't blame parents for letting them loose a bit early.

It's funny to me to see how many places have scheduled hours for trick or treating. Not to mention the places that make it on whatever day they want!

 

[HM]

Our nieghborhood is doing a little party in the cul-de-sac at 5pm (with food, drink, and parade). Then the kids will go from house to house.

We usually expect people from 5-8.

I have also never lived somewhere where Halloween was on a different day or hours were dictated by the town. It's always been Halloween night at whatever time you want to start.

 

[clgwli]

We have set city hours here on a set day. Big cities kind of do that for safety reasons I'm kind of glad they don't start at dark now because thanks to the silly wait to fall back an hour it doesn't get dark until closer to bedtime for the really little ones.

 

[downsouth]

Our subdivision is connected to our small downtown by sidewalk so we usually have 250-300 kiddies come thru. They usually start showing up at dusty dark which should be around 5:30 - 6:00 this year.

I move my firepit out front and sit out there and hand out candy until we run out. I usually bribe on of the neighbors kids to man my candy while we take DD around.

I've never heard of official T or T times or doing it any other night than Halloween.

 

[jacksonsmom]

It wasn't until I joined the DIS that I realized some towns had such a thing as "official" Halloween/ToT hours. I'd never heard of ToT-ing happening on any other day EXCEPT Halloween, just as Christmas happens on Dec. 25 and Valentine's Day is Feb. 14. You wait until dark on Halloween night and you head out. When it gets dim, the kids come out of their houses like a hoard of roaches. It's like a mass exodus.

The UNofficial rule here is that if the lights in the house and the porch light are on, you can ToT that house. If the lights are off, keep walking. Very few people seem to have a problem with it.

Of course, it being Texas, maybe people have the good sense not to pester someone late at night by ringing their doorbell when their lights are off and they clearly want to be left alone........

Same here!! I neve heard of ToT'ing on any other night but Halloween evening until I came upon the DIS!

It just seems so strange to me!

As for us, we will go ToT'ing sometime after supper when it gets dark, around 6-6:30.

 

[jrmasm]

Same here!! I neve heard of ToT'ing on any other night but Halloween evening until I came upon the DIS!

It just seems so strange to me!

As for us, we will go ToT'ing sometime after supper when it gets dark, around 6-6:30.

We have one of those oddball nights. ToT was last night, 6-8pm.

 

[Kimkimba]

We usually go at dusk - about 6:00.

 

[aprilgail2]

It wasn't until I joined the DIS that I realized some towns had such a thing as "official" Halloween/ToT hours. I'd never heard of ToT-ing happening on any other day EXCEPT Halloween, just as Christmas happens on Dec. 25 and Valentine's Day is Feb. 14. You wait until dark on Halloween night and you head out. When it gets dim, the kids come out of their houses like a hoard of roaches. It's like a mass exodus.

The UNofficial rule here is that if the lights in the house and the porch light are on, you can ToT that house. If the lights are off, keep walking. Very few people seem to have a problem with it.

Of course, it being Texas, maybe people have the good sense not to pester someone late at night by ringing their doorbell when their lights are off and they clearly want to be left alone........

Same here about never hearing about changing the dates or setting times etc...but also aroudn here there is no lights on lights off rule---you knock on every single door, lights or no lights...some people don't even have outside lights on their house and the ones that do have the motion sensor lights that go on when someone walks in front of them...not stay on. So you go to every house..if they choose not to answer so be it but no one excused from having their doors knocked on for halloween LOL.
Also it starts early around here to get the maximum trick or treat hours in LOL....usually right after school at 3pm kids will start coming but being its a weekend now everyone is stocking up on extra candy since the kids will probably come out around noon and continue on till 8-9pm! I can still remember coming home with that stash of halloween candy when it fell on the weekends and you had hours and hours to go around...we would hit every block in the area we could get to!