Trick or treating crazyness!

[BrightEyes]

Maybe it's because I grew up in a rural area and we had to literally walk kilometers in the pitch dark with falshlights between each house....we could never have gotten that much candy even if we kept at it all night! But it was sooooo much fun...going out in the dark and scaring each other....we made our own costumes...pretty much nobody bought them. We planned our costumes for months in advance and put so much time and effort and thought into them...I think as most things, we have lost the fun of Halloween to commercialism...we buy or kids costumes that require zero thought or imagination from them...then we take them out in suburbia from house to houes until they have five mountains of candy and it is all about how much candy you can get and how quickly. I just find it sad and backwards.

This is exactly how my childhood Halloweens were and exactly my thoughts on today's Halloween.

[Wonderwiper]

Just wanted to chime in with " we're still out there "!!!! I took my 2 1/2 year old out in a home made costume, went to about 8 houses....and only those houses with decorations!!!!! She has allergies so can't even eat the candy ( lucky Daddy) but had so much fun running around outside in her little costume with all the big kids! Our neighborhood is total movie set suburbia!!!! The day after Halloween.....the changeover to Christmas decorations began!

[bright sparks]

I thought that was hillarious. I nearly fell over laughing. Suitcases and wagons. Some people have no shame. They'd actually do it in front of others, not even trying to hide their greed in a backpack or something more discreet. God help us when these children grow up in society. They are gonna have issues with these kind of parents and these poor values.