Is it me or Halloween season, just doesn't feel the same vibe as before?

Well, candy is so expensive, and so are costumes. I get why it's different now. Now that I think of it I think it's a little weird to let your children knock at a stranger's door for candy. I prefer trunk or treat events, where you can watch your child closely.

Top | New | Old

nevergiveup · 61-69, M

In the UK we now have a sign to say trick or treat welcome. No sign no treats. I have a big tin of roses chocolates so they just grab a hand full

MethDozer · M

It has been dying in a lot of places. Its being driven by low effort replacement like trunk r treats in daylit parking lots and or mall/storefront trick r treating.

The sense of innocent mischief and more importantly of community sharing and engagment os being ripped out it in favor of low effort, sterile, bland, and impotentt quasi-celebrations ans its really sad. Yet thats what happens when everyone is scared of even a shred of real life human interaction and quiver over the idea of the doorbell ringing without 3 hours notice.

It's sad to me because it shows how broken our senses of community is these days and its sad to me because us late gen-x and millenials are denying todays kids all the things that made our childhoods great and were given to us. Its selfish and lazy imho

View 11 more replies »

MethDozer · M

@disturbedchicken No i am a millenial, my parenrs were boomer and gen x

disturbedchicken · 31-35, F

@MethDozer Are you a parent?

MethDozer · M

@disturbedchicken Unfortuantely no, so Im not giving parental advice but I anyine can comment on what they see in comparison to their childhood. Im very active in my nieces, nephews, and cousins lives and upbringing and I active in comminity events and I see the effects of helicoptering and structred everything and get why kids hate doing anything outide of online these days. I'd hate it too when I was their age if I was always being bird doged and structured as opposed to left to go play amd get dirty and skirmish with my friends and family my age.

Its not jusg parents either. Its people in my age group without kids ruining it for them. How many times I see millenial aged neighbors or guest where I work having a shitfit over a " group of 9-13 year olds out at the field or park unattended by parents" like that it is skme sort of issue. They just get mad and annoyed at kids veing kids. My generation sucks at being community memebers

Nunlover

It’s you

disturbedchicken · 31-35, F

@Nunlover says the creepy pdo

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

Back in our day we knew all our neighbors whose doors we knocked on around the neighborhood for halloween.

View 3 more replies »

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

@disturbedchicken The 70's and 80's were a magical time, 20 cent candy bars that were larger, 20 cent sodas in glass bottles, cheap mcdonalds and burger king with bigger burgers and fries, we didn't have to worry when walking to school, and far better music,.tv shows, and movies

disturbedchicken · 31-35, F

@NativePortlander1970 I'm sure it was they say everything went to shit in 2000 after 9/11. I wasn't alive in the 70's but the fashion and music I like so much.

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

@disturbedchicken Even before 9/11 in 2001 things were getting bad, I blame Congress outlawing saturday morning cartoons in the early 90's for more "educational programming". Yes, Congress actually did that...[media=https://youtu.be/3cpUDtW1cV8]

Add a comment...