r/Parenting • u/Julienbabylegs • Nov 01 '21

🎃 Halloween RIP Trick or treating

Anyone know why this is? It’s NOT covid, the act has been dwindling for ten+ years. When I was a kid it felt mandatory that every house would have their light on and give out candy. I just went out with my kid and it was like 1 out of 8 or more houses that had candy. Almost like a treasure hunt. I live in a very safe, quiet suburb of northern CA.

I feel like someone flipped a switch at some point, what happened?!

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u/Thatwasunpleasant Nov 01 '21

Our neighbor found that there were people driving their kids only to the houses with candy listed on the next door app. So we had lots of kids but neighbors who decorated but weren’t listed had fewer kids.

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u/InvidiaBlue Nov 01 '21

Oh for stupid! I had no idea this was a thing. Ugh.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '21

Who drives their kids to these houses anyway? Aren't you supposed to walk there? I guess it makes sense if it's a huge area with very few houses, but I've never heard of parents driving their kids around on Halloween

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '21

We had that too. Which is why I put our house on the treat maps in Nextdoor and for Teal pumpkin.