I'm from a small town in northern Wisconsin, but I live in a big city in Texas, now. When I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, trick-or-treat was ALWAYS on a weekend. If Halloween (Oct 31) was on a Wednesday, trick-or-treat would usually be on the Friday or Saturday after. And it's always in the afternoon rather than the evening. This year, Trick-or-Treat is on Saturday, the 29th, from 4-7pm. The sun starts going down around 6pm this time of year, so really, by the time it's actually dark, trick-or-treat is ending.
This is completely different than how it's done where I live now. Last year was the first year my husband and I got to hand out candy, since we now live in a house in a pretty big neighborhood (before, we lived in an apartment complex on the second floor so we'd never get trick-or-treaters.) I spent quite a while searching through websites and local newspapers last year trying to figure out when trick-or-treat would be. Finally I asked some friends of ours if they knew. They said Halloween evening after dark, when else? I explained how trick-or-treat was always on a weekend in my hometown, regardless of when Halloween actually was, and they looked at me like I was crazy. They'd never heard of that. Everywhere they'd ever lived, trick-or-treat was always on Halloween. And, down here at least, it doesn't even start until after dark. I was wondering if our neighborhood wasn't a popular trick-or-treating location since we didn't get a single trick-or-treater before 7pm. But once it got dark, we got slammed. We had kids coming until nearly 10pm.
So, I'm curious. When does/did everyone here trick-or-treat?
This is completely different than how it's done where I live now. Last year was the first year my husband and I got to hand out candy, since we now live in a house in a pretty big neighborhood (before, we lived in an apartment complex on the second floor so we'd never get trick-or-treaters.) I spent quite a while searching through websites and local newspapers last year trying to figure out when trick-or-treat would be. Finally I asked some friends of ours if they knew. They said Halloween evening after dark, when else? I explained how trick-or-treat was always on a weekend in my hometown, regardless of when Halloween actually was, and they looked at me like I was crazy. They'd never heard of that. Everywhere they'd ever lived, trick-or-treat was always on Halloween. And, down here at least, it doesn't even start until after dark. I was wondering if our neighborhood wasn't a popular trick-or-treating location since we didn't get a single trick-or-treater before 7pm. But once it got dark, we got slammed. We had kids coming until nearly 10pm.
So, I'm curious. When does/did everyone here trick-or-treat?
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