I remember when I six years old, running from house to house collecting candy. I got a years worth of candy in one night and loving it! Today, no one showed up to collect any free candy. The old trick or treating is over.

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PS. trick-r-treating requires too much physical activity, and is too close to work for most folks... I'm sure the gubmint will rectify the situation and create a new program to redistribute the candy equitably to all the disadvantaged kids...

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We had quite a few here. Of course this is a small town of about 1000 people.

Still enough candy left for me though...
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I got home from Monterrey just in time to hand out candy. The pouring rain kept all but the hardiest of trick-or-treaters indoors. The ones that did show up got "hooked-up" with piles of candy from us!

Still, it's nothing like in the 60's when we were all "free-range" kids and trick-or-treat went on from just after dark until the candy was GONE.

I remember my brother's giant Tribble costume. It was actually just a slight variation from his Cousin It costume from the year before--all he did was pour some kind of hardener on the sewn together rummage sale wigs (ew!) and combed them out. I usually dressed up as some kind of animal--with face paint, ears and a tail. More freedom of movement that way--especially when carrying 25 pounds of candy in a pillow case.

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IMHO The gubmint already got into it and ruined it. Toward the tail end of my trick or treating years, around the late '70s, I started hearing folks say, "You're too late, trick or treating ended at such and such a time." Of course those houses got noted for special treatment at a later time.

Problem is as I see it, the local governments stepped in to keep us kids "safe" and ruined everything.

Another thing is, as you may note by the time frame, this was about the time that all the Boomer generation was finished with trick or treating and therefor the government saw another place where they could step in and not worry about the repercussions from that powerful consortium (if you think about it, most of the states dropped their 3.2% beer sales laws about the time the boomers reached age 21)

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