Happy Halloween to all you ghouls and goblins out there on the Moviechat General Discussion message board! You've ALL made the last 2 months a lot more fun for me and I'm glad I met you. β€
Hope everyone will do something festive today whether it's watching a favorite Halloween TV episode, a Halloween movie, handing out candy to trick-or-treaters or just having fun on this message board!
Happy Halloween!
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Ha! π Love it. Do you know I've never had the nerve to go pumpkin smashing?
shareWhen I was a kid I smashed my neighbor's pumpkin when trick or treat was over. I felt bad and never did it again. π
shareThen only naughty thing I ever did as a kid that was similar to pumpkin smashing was I rolled someone's front yard. It wasn't on Halloween, though. It was during a slumber party and my friend's mom was actually the ringleader. I felt weird doing it and never did it again.
shareI love Halloween but also feel sorry for kids nowadays having to watch that their candy hasn't been tampered and most of the time now, Trick r Treating begins around 5pm and ends around 7:30PM. When I was a kid in the 70's, we'd be out til around 9PM and always had the families sitting out in the driveway too. I used to carry around a white pillowcase for the candy
shareYes the feel of trick or treating has changed over the years. I'm just glad people still do it at all.
shareHalloween was ruined when the U.S. Congress extended that pointless Daylight Savings Time into November, and Canada followed suit. There were rumors that the big candy manufacturers were pushing for this, believing it would increase the sales of holiday treats. They forgot one important point: Halloween activities take place after dark. With the clocks set incorrectly, kids lost a whole hour of trick-or-treating time, especially when Halloween fell on a weeknight with school the following day.
The "candy tampering" paranoia has been around for decades and is mostly another urban legend. Actual instances of this are extremely rare. You may find this article interesting:
https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/menus/candy-tampering.htm
I had a total of 19 trick-or-treaters this year. That was it. Fewer houses are being decorated for Halloween these days, too. Out of curiosity I walked to the end of the block and over to the following street. Most of the houses were dark. Years ago almost the entire block would have been lit up with kids everywhere.
It's sad that fewer people seem to care about the holidays anymore.
Save the holiday season.