The past couple of years, the amount of kids out on Halloween has dwindled down in my neighborhood. This year, my wife and I were at her cousin’s house and we saw maybe a couple of kids walking around. My wife blames people going to Trunk or Treat things. We both work in retail, so we see more of the public, and nobody was in costume. What was everybody’s experience with Halloween this year?
We bought about half of what we had last year and had to ration it because it was so busy.
I live in a small rural New Mexico town, when I was a kid we only went trick or treating in the neighborhood behind the university. It was really the only place in town where houses were close enough to make it worthwhile. Over the years other people started going to these neighborhoods, parking between house’s and giving out candy from their vehicles. This was years before I ever heard of trunk or treat. It was probably '84, or '85 the first time I remember seeing these cars.
The last few years the businesses around our town’s plaza started doing trick or treating, it has grown so much the city took over organization and the entire town has started to participate.
It was 6-8 last year, this year it was 6-10 with people setting up as early as 3pm. I started to set up outside my shop at 5:30 and had kids lining up.