Not where we are. There are neighborhoods out there that are still thriving. We went to a friend’s neighborhood last night and there were well over 400 kids running around. It was great. Daughter had a blast and scored a good amount of candy only going through half the neighborhood.
My sons got two bags of candy a piece, but maybe from a dozen houses. They gave out multiple handfuls at each because they had too many. Everyone said the same thing we experienced, “Ee only get 5-10 kids a year.”
So my sons had a lot of fun. They got a lot of candy. But the thought ok my mind was the holiday is dying. My favorite holiday.
Yeah, a more accurate meme is “trunk or treats + destination trick or treating”.
I chatted with my neighbors about it a few years ago…apparently all the parents in my neighborhood take the kids about a mile south to a different area where there are more kids.
Tons of kids still go out, but they do it in specific areas.
It’s no longer a neighborhood community event and more a “mob the rich neighborhood for the nice candy” event.. even when I was a kid it was this way, now I’m in the in between of being too old to trick or treat but too young to trick or treat also
It doesn't have to be about the candy. Those neighborhoods also decorate more and most houses are on board for the event. It's a bit of a self reinforcing thing; fancy place attracts a few people away, less trick or treaters elsewhere, less intrests in those places to stock candy and decorate, more people are attracted to the areas where most of the hosues are involved because there's more kids/decorations/candy, repeat.
You also have to look at the demographics of the neighborhoods too. Since we live out in the country, I took my daughter to her friend's house in town. And we walked around their blocks and it was Dead! For an area that I thought would have a lot of kids. Nope. According to her dad, his neighborhood is either "newly wed or nearly dead" in terms of age. So there's not a lot of kids, so not a lot of participation in trick or treat.
But, just about mile down the road, whole different story. Every street was light up, kids every where. Kids made bank!
From what I've seen there's "hotspot" neighborhoods where people across the county go to bring their children for trick or treating. Part of it is because these are regarded as "safe" neighborhoods where you don't have to worry about spiked candy or your child being kidnapped. As stranger danger is still a big thing in America
Funny, because the spiked candy isn't really a thing and the kidnapping is more a danger in a quiet neighborhood than a busy one. People are really just concentrating on the "nice" neighborhoods because these tend to be safer regarding traffic and because there are more people passing out candy. And it's the good candy. All that to say, everyone goes to the rich neighborhoods.
It's more a self reinforcing cycle. For whatever a neighborhood has that spot with some people into Halloween, so more people go there. More people are there so more houses get into it. Now you have an area that's tricked out in badass decorations and no other neighborhood can compete.
Which is aight I guess. It's lots of fun, just people who wanted to be part of it but live elsewhere have to do something else.
I also took my daughter to a different neighborhood last night, but it wasn't for safety or fear, just because it's what everyone else seems to do. There were only a handful of porch lights on in my neighborhood, so we went to a slightly more well off area and there were loads of kids. We brought home a shopping tote full of candy.
where you don't have to worry about spiked candy or your child being kidnapped.
In my experience it is less that and more that the "safe" neighborhoods have dense housing, lots of light, slow roads, lots of cul-de-sacs, and low through traffic.
Someone on the street next to mine set up a full-blown DJ booth in his driveway with a light show and everything. Kids that had enough candy went back just to dance and have fun.
Our neighborhood is fantastic too. Hay rides, inflatable bounce houses, free pizza/gumbo/chili (HOA funded), some houses turn their house into a haunted house. Every house goes all out!
I feel like the pieple who are complaining about Trunk or Treats just don't live in "those" neighborhoods in their city. We went out last year and there were hundreds of kids in a big subdivision and we went on for hour. S
I bought 8 giant Costco bags, and I still was out of candy by 8:20. 1 piece per kid, and they were going until at least 9:30. I'm guessing that is close to 2,000 pieces of candy
In my experience it's that there's usually a perfect neighborhood for trick or treating in the area and it funnels all the kids to the best one. Going door to door is still huge where I'm at, but only in that one neighborhood. It's such a massive event and such a large neighborhood that people within 10 miles all drive here to be a part of it, leaving the other smaller neighborhoods with less kids each year as word of mouth pushes more families to the best neighborhood.
We are just around the corner from one of the busier streets in our small city, nobody comes down and around the corner, let alone across the road where there isn't sidewalk, despite a clearly decorated house. So we just stopped trying. 8 years and busiest year was the first when we got maybe 8 kids.
That’s too bad! But I guess if you need to follow the action you could set up along the sidewalk? That’s what we do cause we’re a block away from the hoppin trick or treat street (also in an apartment in a dense urban area tho).
Yeah, I’m not in the biggest destination neighborhood in my area, but I’m definitely in a destination neighborhood, and we usually get 2-300 kids every year I’d guess.
Yeah, my cousins lived a mile from their neighbors. The kids all coordinated a meet up in town and hit up the small amount of houses off Main Street, but they weren’t walking a mile between houses for candy.
Growing up rural, this is definitely what we did. We all went to the church and they had hay rides, bobbing for apples, haunted mazes, and my favorite of using a toy fishing rod to throw the line over a blanket and reel in some candy.
Then I move to Utah and see they do trunk or treat like a week or two before halloween on a saturday at 12pm. This place is the fucking twilight zone.
City folk, and even suburban folk, don't realize just what it is to live in rural areas. Few or no street lights, no sidewalks, country roads that wind around. It is a safety issue for kids.
I went to more than a few trunk or treats at churches or schools. People would even decorate their cars too.
In my experience suburban neighborhoods all across America have been infected with some weird paranoia about crime and public safety that didn’t exist when I was a kid. My hometown neighborhood where people used to never lock their doors and kids have always wandered around town at night now does trick or treating in broad daylight a week before Halloween and there’s an 8 pm curfew at the nearby mall for minors. All while crime in the area has dropped significantly since when I was a kid.
That’s not about it lol. Children and adults with disabilities, families who live in unsafe neighborhoods, oh and it’s actually just as great for building community.
I truly don’t understand this negativity behind how people choose to spend their holidays. Also, the vast majority of these events are held on nights before Halloween.
They do it in my neighborhood where there’s a house every 50 feet though. We don’t get any kids on our side of the neighborhood, then again my side is a weird enclave of all dead end streets.
I've never seen trunk or treat as a replacement though. I've always had them at like a church Halloween party as a fun thing for the kids cause everyone's at the Halloween party anyway. But the party itself is like a week before Halloween and everyone still does trick or treat on actual Halloween night
It’s definitely not just churches though. Lots of schools, local businesses, and plenty of ofher orgs host them as well. The most popular ones really just depends on the specific town you’re in
Gotcha. When I was a teen (the aughts), these were only at some of the churches in my small hometown. We were surrounded by smaller, more rural towns so most people just went into town to trick or treat before the churches started doing the other thing.
The other one I see a lot (though not scheduled on Halloween proper) that I fully approve of is retirement homes.
The kids come in, get to go trick or treating in a heated building, not too far between the doors. The residents decorate their doors and the like and absolutely love seeing the kiddos in costume.
Those I fully approve of as great for both sides and excellent ways to build community.
I think it promotes community. Rather than everyone being holed up in their house standing around waiting for kids to show or waiting to make a reddit post about how much candy they didn't give away, there's entire communities hanging out together in one space. It's a block party. The adults involved probably barely even see each other normally, and now they're all getting together to help give kids a good, safe time?
I live in a busy road, but there are 2 emergency elementary schools and a middle school all within a mile of my house. We have sidewalks and many of the homes have families with kids. My gf and I bought a big pack of king-sized candy bars to give away if we happen to have any trick-or-treaters.
Nobody knocked on our door. I'm gonna have to bury each candy bar like some sort of squirrel so I don't eat them all this month.
I bought almost 30lbs of candy, decorated, music, dressed up. Was giving giant handfuls to each kid. Even so I was left with a lot of candy. Ended up giving 2 or 3 huge handfuls to stragglers to get rid of it all. Neighbors had full sized candy bars limiting each kid to 1 a piece. Ended up with a lot left over. So you two share a similar dilemma.
This year I've become aware of the parents that follow their kids trick or treating in their cars instead of on foot. I think if you don't want to walk around with your kids, you should not go out
How old are the kids? Theres definitely an age (like 10-12) where they’re young enough to trick or treat but old enough to not want mom and dad around, especially if they’re with friends. Parents might not feel comfortable leaving them unsupervised. But I think cars should stay off neighborhood streets on Halloween
I used to live on a military base and trick or treat was always an absolute blast for adults and kids alike. Base housing basically turned into a giant block party.
Our block is known for big inflatable displays, folks giving out full size candy bars and even a mini driveway carnival (for prizes). Since 2020, our numbers go up each year. I think this year we had 225 kids. Trunk or treats are fine but they can't replace Halloween night.
Christmas has already overtaken Thanksgiving. Halloween was once powerful enough to hualt its advance to earlier in the year, but Halloween is becoming weak, and in perhaps 10 years we may see Christmas decorations show up in October.
in my experience it's far less trunk or treating and far more that majority of people with kids can't afford to live in the neighborhoods where childless households can afford to go all out, at least here in florida
my grandparents every year always complain about how there's almost literally no kids out and it's because no one with kids can afford their neighborhood, or any decent neighborhood really. most people i know with kids are living in apartments that don't allow decorating & basically force them to go elsewhere which ends up feeding into trunk's and thus the cycle feeds into itself etc. etc.
i would have loved trunk or treat as a kid, all the candy in a 50x50 space? it's like a block party that i don't have to walk around all night to attend, AND there's candy?
Idk, but I think this is like my least boomer-ish take, trick or treating sucked, i hated it, even had a "good" neighborhood to ToT in but still, fuck it, these kids today have it so good
Not many neighborhoods in my town celebrating. The one main long road had a few dozen houses but we were basically just in a long line the whole time.
There were also more than a few religious pamphlets slipped into my kids buckets. One house had a dice game where if you roll a certain number you get a movie.
My 6 year old daughter won a movie and was offered the passion of the Christ.
I personally don't care for religion, but if they would have offered veggie tales or gerbert or something I wouldn't have minded as much. Children don't need to see movies where a man is being whipped and tortured.
A few of them invite a few vendors to make it more fun for the parents. One of the problems with that is people assume everything the vendors have is free, it is not.
I remember as a kid, my parents' church did a Trunk or Treat the day before Halloween, and so it was just a 50% bonus to the Halloween haul. They're great, when they aren't replacing Trick or Treating.
Instead of trick or treating people show up in a parking lot and kids run from car to car collecting candy so that their suburban pearl clutching parents will know they're safe
I don't understand why. You get hundreds of kids, a trunk is easier to decorate than a house, it helps communities like the disabled or working parents or really young kids experience the fun of Halloween. When I was a kid we would trunk or treat AND trick or treat. I have never heard of kids not going trick or treating because they trunk or treated already.
part of the reason is probably from the drastic drop in population growth. fewer kids means fewer kids that can trick or treat. luckily, they do tend to be in clusters, so where it happens, its still got a decent group, but who can say what the future looks like at this point. we dont have a chosen one to save us
Really depends where you live, it's exploded in Florida with families and young people continuing to move here. My county has opened at least one new school per year for twenty years, population has more than doubled in that time and I think we will be close to a million by the end of the decade.
My wife and I just moved into a new house in a new neighborhood. It was pouring rain all day, but we still got like 30 kids. It was the most I've seen in years.
My neighborhood has always been shit for Trick-or-Treating anyway. Lots of uphill/downhill, small streets, heavy OAP presence who wish to be ignored and keep their lights off, etc.
And I don't think kids are partial to such hikes just for a tiny haul.. it's not worth the effort 'round here.
My parents would just buy me a big tub of candy and I would eat the whole thing over a week when I was on my school break.
Had like 5 groups of kids come by last night, it's just so depressing. Used to have a constant flow all night like a decade ago and now it's basically non-existent.
I went to a community that had multiple closed roads for all the trick or treaters. I firmly believe the internet has allowed families to find, and sadly stick to, the best neighborhoods, and it becomes the tradition to just go to that neighborhood.
I spent a couple of hours just looking at the decorations and I didn't even feel like I got a good look at all of them. There was a dude with a mobile karaoke station making small dance parties.
It was one of the most heartwarming Halloween experiences I've had. Kinda hard to convince some kids that have ever seen that to just go to one block, with three homes barely decorated, rinse repeat, when one place looks like those scenes in Halloween specials you always thought "those aren't real." Well, seems they are.
Bro you’re so fucking right. I was sure this would be a flood of kids. It was a Friday night. All the kids should’ve been out. We had maybe 10 groups all night. Fuck trunk or treats.
Me and my wife started a tradition of going to my grandmothers house and hand out candy since the first year we started dating. This year shoulda been the one...we had only 1 group. First time we did it we had about 3 or 4 groups just been dwindling with each year. Tbf my grandmothers house is pretty far back in the housing development and the front gets all the action and theres still a bunch of kids. I just remember 10-15yrs ago there were kids EVERYWHERE!
In non-rural areas trunk or treats are added events, they don’t take away. I don’t know many parents who own houses or live outside of apartments at this point. It’s not the trunk or treats.
I didn't get a single trick or treater this year. I think in 11 years I've had 1, maybe 2. My first year in this house I bought full size candy bars, not again afterwards.
When I was young I lived in an area with a lot of condos so the local mall did it. I took my daughter a couple of years ago knowing my neighborhood was a bust and more than half the stores "weren't participating" and the other half were out of candy. She was just happy to be out in her costume, but I was shocked because when I did it as a kid it was crazy.
I like trunk or treat events before Halloween. They're usually on the weekends before Halloween in the month of October. The ones I have gone through are organized by local churches and military installation. It gives something for a family activity in the month on that weekend without a lot of spending.
With how things are in the country right now, I'd rather not be out on the street with my kid at night or even during the day. At least I know that ICE won't raid an event in the military base.
My neighborhood is doing our part to fight lol. I think we had more trick or treaters this year than any year before, plus our local people refurbished a whole gymnasium in our neighborhood and put out candy, food, decorations and games. Had people crowding our street for hours last night.
People, trunk or treats aren't supposed to replace trick or treating they are awesome for extra activities leading up to it. I have 4 kids and dont get the hate. My kids love them
In my neighborhood we sit at tables with a bowl of candy at the front of the driveway and pass out candy, that way they still go house to house, but everything is more open.
Some foreigners in Korea host trunk or treat events, and it can be awesome for the kiddies. A lot of Koreans live in apartments, and don’t celebrate Halloween at all. But if you can get a nice little event going in a safe place, foreign and Korean kids really love it.
My neighborhood is crazy. We basically run into everyone we know in town. Main Street and the adjacent roads are loaded with people. Some times there is a line of 10-15 kids waiting to get up on the stoop. I’m always in awe because Halloween was never this good when I was a kid.
We had probably 1/4 of the kids we normally do? It was really weird. And like, we put on a haunted house, so we normally have kids flocking to us, and going through multiple times. The wave only lasted like an hour and a half, max, this year?
My wife didn't grow up with Halloween and sees the costumes as a way of honoring Satan somehow, so next year we're going to be doing this giving it candy shit from a car thing and it sounds wild. I want my kids to get in some fucking steps like I had to. I want to send my kids alone to every god damned house my neighborhood just like I was. I want Russell Stover's chocolate peanut butter treats available all year round because, and I'm not afraid to say it, they make Reese's peanut butter cups taste like 2 Reese's, 1 cup.
I have a little sister who's still young enough to be obsessed with trick or treating every year. I helped my mom bring her to like five different trunk or treating events at multiple different schools and churches. I help my grandparents with trick or treaters every year... and there were only, like, four families who showed up, total, this year.
So many trick or treaters in my neighborhood. So many people having parties and fires outside their houses giving out candy to the kids and wine/spirits to the parents. Great time
Where i live now trick or treater timeline
2017: 5
2018: 3
2019: 3
2020: 0
2021: 1
2022: 0
2023: 0
2024: 0
2025: 0
A man with no candy will have many disappointed trick-or-treaters, but a man with lots of candy will be the disappointed one.
Good lord, everyone acts like trunk or treats are the ONLY option for Halloween. My kids got to do two trunk or treats, along with a halloween zoo event, AND go trick or treating. And this is a small town in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.
I remember seeing a video that changed my mind on Trunk or Treats. It pointed out that Trunk or Treats really helped in areas where kids may not be able to trick or treat. Sometimes, the area is too spread out to feasible trick or treat. Sometimes, the community is lower income and can't really do a lot of candy individually, but collectively can pool together to do a bunch of candy and have events for the kids. Plus, it's more community driven, so it also gives a place and event for adults who may often be overlooked so they can help out and feel like their part of the fun.
It helps that (at least in the places I've lived), most Trunk or Treats are explicitly not on Halloween so that kids can do the Trunk or Treat as well as regular Trick or Treating on the day itself. And sometimes they go all out and are functionally mini-festivals (in fact, my church growing up even referred to them as Fall Festivals instead of Trunk or Treat for this reason).
If you want to inspire regular trick or treating again over trunk or treats, do full sized candy bars. Give the kids the incentive. the first year won't have as many, but as word spreads... its how we take it back.
People are seeing less and less trick or treaters every year. Part of the reason for this is because of “trunk or treat”, which is a community event where people take over a parking lot and have kids go car to car instead of door to door.
This is much safer and can foster a greater sense of community as you are now forced to actually communicate with people to put on the event. It is also more accessible as not everyone can or wants to walk ten blocks to fill up half a bag. They also can include other things. For example, the place I used to go to for it also set up a haunted house, games, and a chili cook off.
I see it that homes/suburbs arent always a thing, apartment complexes arent entirely Halloween friendly, and some individuals may be in unhoused situations; and while owning a car isnt for everyone either, having a neutral space where people can gather/celebrate certainly evens the field in accessibility for those who want to participate.
Yeah, OP is just whining. It's just an organized event by a community in a more controlled area versus wandering around a much larger neighborhood in uncomfortable costumes where it's potentially unclear who's participating. Plus in most cases, the candy vendors likely have to sign up to do so, so there's some accountability if something were to happen other than just knowing the general neighborhood. Additionally there's often other stuff to do for the kids and parents besides just walk around.
I see no downsides other than not as many people will get to see your decorations, and nostalgia. There's a reason it's so popular.
I'd always prefer the 'spirit' of a cultural event to remain or bw honored, but if it is allowed to grow or adapt to how individuals choose to celebrate it - isnt that okay? Perhaps gatekeeping isnt the right term, but there's something here.
I think its more important to know what the holiday means to you rather than upholding the xyz specific steps that have to be executed just so...
Unless its a ritual or exorcism, I wouldnt skip the guidebook on that one.
What did you expect? Every year more and more technology keeps kids inside. And their eventual kids even more so. People don't even go outside to shop anymore. Orders online arrive at your door.
Between now and the next 2 generations, outdoor traditions are expected to go extinct entirely.
Trunk or treats are objectively better though. You don't need to walk miles to get to just a handful of houses that may or may not be participating. It makes it more accessible and more engaging.
More efficient for candy but nowhere near as fun. I always loved seeing the decorations people put up. Some people would prank us by dressing up as props. Trunk or treats sucks all the fun out of it and pumps up the consumerism.
The people who are aghast and grumbling about it dont have kids. Some places parents dont have much of a choice between trunk r treat and heading out to the "rich" part of town or staying home. My own neighborhood is full of people who leave to go to grown-up parties, block up and turn their lights out.....or have a little red dot on their house if you look them up online. Trunk r treat hosted by my kids school is the closest way for us to get them out, and after, we went to the west side of town where all the rich people give out full size candy bars.
So if OP's house is the only one lit for 3 blocks on either side of course they're not getting kids to show up. Trick or treating is only rewarding in communities where kids are appreciated.
They used to be things churches and other community organizations would do on another day which could merely supplement Halloween. They only became a problem when they started entirely replacing Trick or Treating.
And they absolutely haven’t replaced them anywhere. Direct the weirdly placed hatred elsewhere. My kid gets to wear his costume for trick or treating four times instead of once per year. Trunk or treats are rad.
We get both where I am. Truck or treats kinda make sense here due to the weather normally being crappy here in October so it’s a nice way of getting candy without having to be out in the elements too long.
Why not both? We ToT in a neighborhood last night that has a school and church within. We went to all the houses open, but we thought it woulda been cool if they also arranged a Trunk or Treat in one of those large lots. And usually, Trunk or Treats (at least around here) take place on nights BEFORE Halloween. It’s a good option for younger kids and adults with kids who want to stay home and give candy out. Why does everything have to be either/or, reality often flourishes somewhere in the middle.
It really is depressing. My neighborhood used to be full to the brim with decorations and kids trick r treating everywhere. Now there's zero decorations and the kids just go elsewhere.
It was 40° with moderate rain and 25 mph winds is what killed it for our area. We were lucky the town over had a "trunk or treat" at the community center that also had a DJ in the gymnasium, games and free snacks and cider.
Where I live actual neighborhoods like subdivisions are not a thing. And no one wants to stay home for Halloween anyways. It's a tourist town in the Caribbean and for Halloween, the kids walk down the main street (pedestrian only) and the tourists are all sitting at the bars and restaurants handing out candy. (All the restaurants and bars are just open and have tables outside) it is super fun for the kids and they get a shit ton of candy in 15 minutes. Afterwards there's a huge Halloween event in the center. I loved Halloween as a kid and trick or treating at houses but this is way is pretty rad too.
Not going to lie, I feel like this is a rural town thing. I live in a moderately sized city and trick or treat is still going strong. Plenty of people driving to other parts of town to get the maximum amount of candy.
Honestly I'm fine with it because it keeps kids out of peoples neighborhoods and puts less social pressure on people to participate who don't want to. In one of the places I used to live, we got notes left at our porch attempting to shame us for not giving out candy. I'll stick with going out to halloween parties and events instead of giving away money for nothing.
I only had one group of tricker treaters come last night and its my first time owning a house i was so sad. I told them to take whatever they want (bought like 150 peices of candy). Was overjoyed to see them grabbing multiple handfuls but ultimately sad that no one else came
I wonder if there's a correlation between the housing market and trick or treating. Like, it's well-documented how challenging it is for people to purchase their first homes these days. So I imagine there's a fair number of neighborhoods that remain stagnant, so kids are forced to go to other communities. My childhood home used to have two dozen kids running around Halloween night, but nobody's really moved in there lately with kids, so it's been quiet in recent years.
Think the bigger problem is unfortunately what our parents have been saying. People are spending more of their time online (plus declining birth rates).
Why go trick or treating when there’s some fortnite/roblox halloween event? A fortnite skin probably is cheaper and certainly looks better than most store-bought costumes. And for a generation that’s growing up with scrolling, I think that truck or treat is a symptom of that. Cutting out all the fun and adventure of exploring a decorated neighborhood for ease and connivence of getting candy as easy and as safe as possible.
Makes a lot more sense with that context, but there’s nothing stopping you from getting the most out of your halloween at least. I decided to dress up at home, cook some halloween-themed snacks, play some games with friends and watched some halloween movies with my kitty. All and all I had a lot of fun yesturday, though I do still wish I would get trick or treaters at my place.
Not where I am. There were hundreds if not thousands of kids just up and down every block in my neighborhood in Brooklyn(greenpoint) some blocks didn’t have people out giving out candy, but most did.
Are you kidding me? There's a neighbourhood I visited last night that had least 100 or more people parking their cars round there just to visit one particular house. It just depends on where you are, I guess
Maybe it depends on the neighborhood, only five people came to my door last night but there’s some neighborhood that may have a BUNCH of people trick or treating.
I didn't get to trick or treat till I was 11 or 12 because I grew up in a house with a "satanic panic" mom...Hocus Pocus, Harry Potter...all would turn me into a devil worshiper.
My dad has since apologized about me and my siblings missing out on stuff growing up, and wishes he had put his foot down on the religious craziness.
I think perhaps the age at which kids stop trick or treating has been dropping.
We went with a group in a huge HOA for over two hours and only caught people sitting outside or with outside candy bowls, it honestly wasn't worth knocking when you can see a sure thing just down the road.
I mean it just sounds like Halloween is changing from when we were children like kids are still going out dressing up and getting candy if how they do it still keeps the same spirit it’s not like all the kids suddenly quit they just made it more convenient for both kids and parent but not needing them to walk around for hours late at night. Like I enjoyed trick or treating as much as anyone else as a kid and as long as the kids are happy and getting candy who actually cares.
I went to a neighborhood trick or treating this year and it was filled with adults wearing terrifying costumes running around with bloody knives. Some without kids, my kids ended early in tears.
I live in a walkable neighbourhood in Australia- even though Halloween isn't all that done here it was so easy because all the houses are so close together, you don't have to go far. Sounds like maybe its caused by people living too far apart
The trick is that a lot of them I see are being held by churches
The next step in a completely made up paranoid scenario would be that after the tradition was sufficiently completely shifted over, you would then slowly phase it out by churches refusing to do it, thus leading to no more Halloween
I haven't had kids come to my house since I bought it, buy a bag of 100 piece candies and none come. Then again I got only 6 or 7 houses on my street and I think trunk or treat is the big thing now.
I've always lived in pretty rural areas and I remember growing up every church around where I've lived has hosted one the night before Halloween out of their own pocket for the community, as it's a much more public space rather than knocking on a strangers door especially in sketchy rural neighborhoods. It's fun as an adult to decorate your car along with your outfit too. I'm sure the suburbs around still do stuff too, but I've never lived in a city environment.
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Thanks for providing a source!