For those who celebrate... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

[breoni]

As a kid, we lived out in the country and never had anyone come to our door. So now I'm happy that we live in a small, rural neighborhood where there are a lot of community events. We are expecting several hundred kids to come by our house tonight, so we've been stocked up on candy and ready for them. Hubby and I will dress up to hand out candy. We have Steampunk leather hats and dusters. I don't know if it will be cold enough tonight for us to wear our dusters or not. Hubby also wears his "Thanos Gauntlet" to hand the candy to the kids... it's always a huge hit!

What are your Halloween traditions? Are you dressing up? Do you have a lot of trick or treaters come by?

 

[msbrad]

Happy Halloween!
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[AJsRandom]

Where we currently live, we don't get a lot of kids at our doo, but we always buy a huge bag of candy anyway. We are generous with it and eat the leftovers once the night is over. I have a Halloween shirt and socks I've been wearing for years, plus a witch hat headband. Hubby doesn't dress up but he does pass out candy.

And now, I must carve the pumpkins. Getting started very late this year.

 

[LilyAnn]

This is the first year in 21 years that I didn't take off work for Halloween. My daughter has a party on campus and my son is staying home to give out candy. He didn't want to go Trick-or-Treating this year. At 16 (he'll be 17 next month), he thinks he is too old. My husband and son went to a Halloween party on Saturday. I had a bad cough and decided to stay home.
In the past it was a tradition (that ended this year, I guess) that when the kids get home from school, they change into their costume if they didn't wear it to school and we'd head out about 3:30. Sometimes my husband would stay home and give out the candy. We trick or treat until dark then we'd go out to dinner in costume, than home to give out candy.

 

[Yvonne55]

Where I live Halloween is not a tradition, but like all (festive) days in the USA (Valentine's day, Black Friday), Halloween is carefully coming here too. But not exuberant, no kids from door to door, no dressing up. I think in a few years time we will celebrate it here too, haha.