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Originally Posted by 2 Oldcrabs
THe little ones under 10 were cute! But don't miss it.  |
I agree. We enjoyed it when our children were young and right up to our 50's when there were still children in our neighborhood. All grown up now and gone.
We had our porch lights and pumpkin lights, etc. candles and such on until 830 p.m. and then we shut them off..........from 6 p.m. for a half hour were the little tykes.........then came hordes of big S.U.V.'s driven by fathers from other neighborhoods, too lazy to walk up our hills........dropping crowds of kids off on our cul de sac. Didn't know a single one of them.
Gave out Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Kit Kats.........costumes were great but the "personal touch" was missing.......as these were strangers.
Last year in T.V. we bought Halloween cookies to pass out, just in case children did come to the door, while visiting their grandparents in T.V.
Not one child rang the doorbell. It was very very quiet.
But, we did receive tons of email photos from all our children and grandchildren and our "adopted" adult children's kids in costume from all over the world and U.S.
Halloween isn't what it used to be.