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sumthin fishy
11-01-2009, 1:06 AM
This is the first halloween in 10 years I have lived on a well lit street with plenty of neighbors. My wife and I went to our churches harvest festival, left there at 8:00 and were home 5 minutes later. There were still kids out all over, but not one has wandered down our street :( I was a little let down.
On an aside, is there anyone else who is appalled by girls costumes these days? I understand (but dont really condone) twenty something girls dressing slutty for parties, but I saw some 10-12 year olds dressed up as hooker little bo-peep, stripper red ridinghood, hooker pirate, stripper pippy longstockings etc. Today, going out to lunch, the 2 girls at the register were dressed in similar costumes. They include thigh high stockings and garter belts, and skirts so short you can see thier underwear :screwy:! When did this holliday become an excuse for little girls to dress like prostitutes?!
irmuddled
11-01-2009, 1:12 AM
I worked tonight :( Sucks but I survival comes first!
And yeah, I agree on the costumes. I at least had to get a costume for my department's cube decoration contest, and gosh most of the girl costumes if not all are way too revealing. Not work appropriate at least. Not sure if that's because that's all the companies have to offer or because nobody will buy something else, but I had to order something online that wouldn't show my butt or boob cracks. :s
cam191919
11-01-2009, 1:17 AM
none came to my house, but they wouldnt have gotten candy if they did. maybe an onion...
little girls like dressing like big girls, if toddlers could understand it they would go out like that too...
DarrylR
11-01-2009, 1:54 AM
I had 4 tots but that equaled to one group. I would think partly because the front door light was not on so people thought no one was home. But than 10 mins after that first group around 8 pmish we left to go to my aunts b-day party. I missed the traditional going house by house and actually walking but now parents drive their kids in the car, 1) because I would think faster and safer 2) its raining.
7itanium
11-01-2009, 1:56 AM
Keep in mind that we were all born naked.
Not saying i condone little kids dressing this way in any shape or form. but the way an adult dresses is fine with me as long as it is legal (and you have the figure to pull it off)
vampie
11-01-2009, 2:05 AM
No trick-or-treaters here, there hasn't been any in nearly a decade.. I've already stopped doing the neighborhood patrol years ago. A few will roam the main streets and trick-or-treat at stores, but homes are avoided.
And with the costumes.. it could just be that I'm a horrible person, but I'm already so used to little girls normally dressing in what would be considered inappropriate, so I'm indifferent about the Halloween costumes.
The Zigman
11-01-2009, 2:48 AM
TRICK OR TREAT!!!
Send your candy to me!
(PM for address)
Rbishop
11-01-2009, 6:22 AM
None here either...guess the Pay Day candy bars are all mine....
BarbEgirl
11-01-2009, 7:07 AM
I slept through the whole thing since I was sick but I heard we got a lot of kids (we always do) and my Beagle barked every single time hehe. Drives my husband nuts. Jeez, she was defending the candy! As for the costumes. They usually have snow suits on here. We just had a snow storm. My husband said he saw a lot of game characters like Mario.
They must have scared the life out of one of my fishes :O(
RDTigger
11-01-2009, 8:09 AM
None here either...guess the Pay Day candy bars are all mine....
Money...:clap:
I had already eaten half the little snickers anyway...the reeces cups are MINE!
msjinkzd
11-01-2009, 9:07 AM
we never do.
I was appalled as well by the 8 year olds in "sexy" costumes. What can you do other then not let that be your kid, lol
Chrisinator
11-01-2009, 9:14 AM
My whole street was blocked off last night and all the kids from town went to our street. I wasn't there the whole time but my parents ran out of candy and had to go out and buy more. But we ended up buying too much candy.
And yes, girls at my school we're dressing up as superwoman and her cleavage was showing.
dundadundun
11-01-2009, 9:52 AM
i was personally surprised and relieved to not see boat loads of little girls dressed up as little sluts. i can't say that offers much hope for next year though considering it was raining and it was pretty much a ghost town.
teenagers and adults alike ran to their cars and scurried home basically a 1/2 hour after the first knock on the door. we only did like 2 1/2 streets but when i forced my kids (almost kicking and screaming) to go home their was noone left on the streets. my kids are 2 and 5 and were the last kids out in the neighborhood.
the funny thing to me was every door we knocked on people looked at us like we had 2 heads. i mean cummon guys, it was halloween. when i was young halloween was a job like a postmans job. if you had an excuse for not taking your kids out you were considered almost neglectful. now it's almost 70 degrees and raining and people run like their going to melt without consideration to what their kids will miss out on. i mean did these people really think i was going to take my daughters first chance at tricker treating on her own 2 feet from her. heck no... she was too excited... and it wasn't cold out... there's no excuse for the laziness and ignorance imo.
then again i think i'm the only parent in the neighborhood that put up a woodbridge playset in my yard. don't get me wrong there's about 4 or 5 granparents in my neighborhood that have comparable playsets but no parents that i know of. the parents seem to focus on their own expensive toys. i mean i haven't even dressed up to look good since i found out we were pregnant with my first... but my son only wears old navy school uniforms this year. i may have taken advantage of a sale but he looks sharp when he leaves the house. me, i look like a raggity bum when i drop him off at the bus stop. that's the way it should be imo... kids come first.
anyway...
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after:
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they had a good time. :clap:
kj5kb
11-01-2009, 10:02 AM
[QUOTE=sumthin fishy;2164076]This is the first halloween in 10 years I have lived on a well lit street with plenty of neighbors. My wife and I went to our churches harvest festival, left there at 8:00 and were home 5 minutes later. There were still kids out all over, but not one has wandered down our street :( I was a little let down.
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They were out after 8...What's the scheduled trick or treat times? or do you have 'em? Around here (NE OH) it's usually 6-8 but I could see 7-9 in Cali. A few places have it the 30th, and 1 or 2 do it on the nearest Saturday afternoon in the daylight.
We live on a busy 35mph secondary street. There are hundreds of houses in the neighborhood across the street. Most kids won't bother to cross the street for the 30% of houses on this side that DO give out candy. We got the next door kid and 2 doors down kid :)
Sevast0
11-01-2009, 10:29 AM
We had rain on and off for most of the night. We got like 3 maybe 4 groups (I don't remember). We handed out really big hand fulls of candy since we weren't getting that many kids.
sumthin fishy
11-01-2009, 11:26 AM
when i was a kid, we started at sunset, and went till we had a pillowcase full. sometimes that meant 10pm or later.
Woodward
11-01-2009, 11:37 AM
im surprised this is the first time i can remember it not raining on halloween where i live.......
Juggalo3597
11-01-2009, 12:01 PM
yea idk what Halloween is coming to
Lol candy
ciaobella7122
11-01-2009, 12:16 PM
we had kids from 6 to 8ish then it started to rain so we decided to shut down and go out for a bit. we did have a lot of kids those couple of hours though, most not from our neighborhood however.
i agree with the slutty costumes getting worse and worse. i went to a halloween party last weekend and had to go get a costume and had the hardest time finding something that covered my butt cheeks. it was ridiculous! i finally ended up making my own funky little concoction because my husband would not have appreciated me going anywhere dressed like that! i am 23 so my friends all had those naughty little costumes, i just don't get it. half the time the girls wearing the costumes seriously shouldn't be anyway lol.
Lycanthropic
11-01-2009, 1:36 PM
We live in a generally small town. Usually we can expect about 100 kids. This year we had 5. The weather was fine, a bit chilly, but what is this world coming to?
DarrylR
11-01-2009, 2:26 PM
Money...:clap:
I had already eaten half the little snickers anyway...the reeces cups are MINE!
Reeces Sticks are so goood!
FindingBlemo
11-01-2009, 2:33 PM
You think just normal trick-or-treaters are bad, try having a senior, Halloween, highschool, dance party like my sister!
But I agree, bad stuff. The candy's good tho!*
*When there isn't crack in the pop rocks, or a knife in my Snickers bar.
BreezeRuehls
11-01-2009, 3:19 PM
Yeah we had a lot of skanky looking girls, the wost is when their moms look as nasty as they do. Gross what girls want to be. Maybe we should hand them condoms not candy since they want to be hookers not children.
Debra Mark
11-01-2009, 3:29 PM
I had 12 kids....13 if you count the first one - by the time I got to the door he was halfway down the street...lol.
Halloween isn't what it used to be - kids don't get excited over dressing up, and most get whatever they want, so the idea of free candy isn't all that appealing.
BreezeRuehls
11-01-2009, 3:39 PM
The kids out here had fun, we had a lot of people out here, could barely walk on the side walks. (But its on base too)
debaric
11-02-2009, 12:23 AM
On an aside, is there anyone else who is appalled by girls costumes these days? I understand (but dont really condone) twenty something girls dressing slutty for parties, but I saw some 10-12 year olds dressed up as hooker little bo-peep, stripper red ridinghood, hooker pirate, stripper pippy longstockings etc. Today, going out to lunch, the 2 girls at the register were dressed in similar costumes. They include thigh high stockings and garter belts, and skirts so short you can see thier underwear :screwy:! When did this holliday become an excuse for little girls to dress like prostitutes?!
Its real simple, its because their parents are *******s
BarbEgirl
11-02-2009, 5:20 AM
i look like a raggity bum when i drop him off at the bus stop. that's the way it should be imo... kids come first.
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they had a good time. :clap:
I agree with you 100%! And they do look like they had a blast! I always do stuff like that. Here is Alaska it gets darned cold and one year my son was a knight and when he slipped and fell on his butt his black vinyl cape shattered. It was -35 and I drove them from house to house keeping the car warm and toasty with hot cocoa in the cup holders. They had a blast. It's the times like that that make great memories.
abcdefghi
11-02-2009, 9:23 AM
We live in a generally small town. Usually we can expect about 100 kids. This year we had 5. The weather was fine, a bit chilly, but what is this world coming to?
H1N1.... a lot of people sick with swine flu at the moment, and also worried about their kids getting swine flu = not taking them to a strangers house where you have no idea about their level of hygiene and them giving candy to your kids. Couple that with the bad economy and you have a lot less people out and about than in past years.
One of the reasons for fewer trick-or-treaters. Alternate venues for trick or treating.
We take our kids two places: 1) the Zoo- they have a "Boo at the Zoo event" where they have halloween lights all over the place and stations where they hand out candy. 2) Local shopping centre.
When they're a little older will probably take them house to house- but for right now, I prefer the safety and well-lit areas to letting them go house to house.
(we had one 5 year old kid shot in our city last year... rang the door bell and some psycho opened the door and shot him multiple times)
As for girls outfits... they're mimicing the older girls- I won't let my girls dress like that when they're older- (they're 2 and 1 at the moment... Dora the Explorer is fine with me)
Most tweens don't need Halloween as an excuse to dress like that these days. :(
My girls *won't* dress like that (and I'm unable to get my wife to- LOL).
Oh and we only had two kids come by our house- but we didn't turn the light on until we got home from taking our kids out- so it was past prime trick or treating time.
Almost no-one on our street had their lights on to suggest they were giving out candy anyway so I don't think many people would have bothered with our street.
Cheech
11-02-2009, 10:27 AM
I don't like this newer trend halloween is getting to. . . Well, i like it for one thing, i don't for another.
- Adult women's costumes all seem like they came out of a sex shop, (that's the part that doesn't bother me one bit.. ;) )
- Kids costumes are looking skanky... I saw a little school girl costume worn by a little girl.. how sick is that... and what's even worse is thinking that a parent actually purchased it for their kid. It's sad, and so wrong...
- Nowadays it seems like the costume market are trying to sell so much of their products, and people are buying into them, that by people trying to be original by purchasing these premade costumes, they're actually looking like generic store bought costumes. hardly any original costumes nowadays... Nothing's home made anymore.
Fortunately, the city streets were still full of kids doing their thing, but it was hardly as exciting as it was years ago.
Halloween seems to have lost its magic.
Halloween in my area was truly sad. I think its the recession that has hampered this holiday. I took my kids to 4 different neighborhoods, basically around grandparents and aunts/uncles's homes. And it was almost the same, more than 50% of the houses were dark, or were just empty houses. I never realized how many houses have gone into foreclosure until now, I've read about in the news, but its different in person.
BreezeRuehls
11-02-2009, 1:11 PM
You guys gotta go onto mil bases for halloween, its good hunts.
dundadundun
11-02-2009, 1:31 PM
I agree with you 100%! And they do look like they had a blast! I always do stuff like that. Here is Alaska it gets darned cold and one year my son was a knight and when he slipped and fell on his butt his black vinyl cape shattered. It was -35 and I drove them from house to house keeping the car warm and toasty with hot cocoa in the cup holders. They had a blast. It's the times like that that make great memories.
exactly... and too funny. shattering vinyl reminds me of our kiddie pools. :)
Lycanthropic
11-02-2009, 1:50 PM
In our town there have been no reported cases of H1N1. As well, with the kid we have in our house, we just washed all the candy bags anyways because the bags were all factory sealed..... I just think its kinds crazy.
sumthin fishy
11-02-2009, 8:52 PM
... I saw a little school girl costume worn by a little girl.. how sick is that... .
LMAO! It's not funny, but it is, ya know. How dare a little girl wear a girls school uniform! But I doubt she was wearing a full length skirt and long sleved, fully covoring blouse.
I too wish I could get my wife to waer one of those costumes, in the privacy of our home(or hotell room).