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[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

when is trick or treating in medford?

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[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't it be on Halloween night?

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Towns tend to vary it for various reasons like school schedules and other community events. my home town is having it monday..

It also gave us the opportunity to go to three halloween nights some years, going from town to town..

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

When you say "towns", could you give an example or two? I've never lived in any community which had trick-or-treating any day other than the evening of October 31st.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

BTW, I'm not denying it exists, I'm just trying to figure out if it's a purely regional thing. Like "Pop" in the midwest, "Seltzer" in Boston, and "Coke" in the south. All referring to the same thing.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

http://www.newhampshire.com/entertainment/nh-trick-or-treat-times.aspx

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Seltzer?

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

http://www.popvssoda.com/

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

NH sounds about right. I remember my aunt there talking about "trick-or-treating" being held at the local fire station. It wasn't the usual idea of going door to door.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

and frequently in New England, the word is Tonic.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, being from NH, we always looked up in the paper to find out what the times, dates and special requirements were this year.. so I'm sort of baffled as to what to do here :)

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

it seems to still be halloween night here. which is good. moving it is silly!

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Any idea what time?

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

I think that if there's no "official" schedule (which is something I don't think they do around here--I've never heard of it), it usually starts around the time when parents who come home from work will have finished feeding their families and dressing up the kids, and usually ends by around 8ish, maybe 8:30.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks!

[xjustquietx.livejournal.com]

My sister lives in Pennsylvania, where it is also scheduled for Fridays or Saturdays, depending on the town. Which I think is a tragedy; I grew up here and can't imagine of a better place to have Halloween. and I often consider kidnapping my nephews so they can celebrate on a school night like God intended.

They also hand out shots to the adults.

[sarah-raz.livejournal.com]

All this talk of different days and set times for Trick or Treating is very confusing to me! Is it really so regimented in some places.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

around my area, anout 5:30, or at least that's when I typically get home from work. it can go late if the weather's nice. I'm near tufts Park if that helps.

[warlord-mit.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Where I grew up (in Northeast Ohio) they would schedule trick-or-treating on the nearest weekend, trying to have it on a Friday or Saturday night. One year they held it at one of the schools, but that only lasted one year.

When I first moved to Somerville the fact that trick-or-treating was always on the 31st and not on the weekend before confused the heck out of me!

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm not alone in my confusion!

[warlord-mit.livejournal.com]

Nope, not alone. But yeah, around here it's always on the 31st, regardless of the day or weather. Happy Halloween. :)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

In my neighborhood we get a lot of little kids, and the parents seem to come by before dark. So it can start earlier than five o'clock in some places.

[ellf.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, nothing special. Most of my life (all of which has been in Boston or the Metrowest area), Halloween trick-or-treating has been a 6pm-8pm thing, with some families being out a bit earlier or later. Houses with porch lights on were fair game; a turned off light indicated no candy was being handed out.

I imagine that the local papers will indicate the particulars, but in this area I would be surprised if the holiday were handled differently.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

JP specifically schedules their T&T from 4pm to 7pm for the local businesses (I think it's a community business coalition that arranges it).

I've seen lots of more organized T&T things, but often halloween night still ends up being a time to expect em, depending on where you live.

[studeronomy.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I've never lived in a place (having lived throughout the Midwest) where trick-or-treating actually occurs on October 31, unless October 31 is a weekend night.

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

I lived on Conwell Ave (off Curtis) for two Halloweens and was always amazed at the number of kids we would get. At first I was snacking on the candy and letting kids grab from the bowl.

As the night got later and more and more kids kept appearing, I stopped reaching into the bowl myself, and made sure to limit each kid to just one piece.

As it turned out, I ended the night with exactly one piece leftover.

I think it helped that Conwell is a very long street with not too much traffic, and a lot of families. Sounds like prime Trick-or-treating area right there.

October 31st always

[lena-a-mermaid.livejournal.com]

I've lived in Massachusetts all my life and Halloween is Always on Halloween October 31. It is not regulated by cities or towns. Kids go out whenever they or their parents are ready to go out. Generally between 5 pm and 9 pm. If you don't want people coming to your door, turn off all your lights. If you do, try to put on a front door light.

Did your town tell you what time you had to eat your Christmas dinner too? It really seems silly to me for towns to dictate Halloween practices although I have seen towns hold parties and encourage kids to go to that rather than door to door during times when people were paranoid about safety and poisoned candy. But those things are mostly urban legends.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, it's interesting that most of the people who talked about having Halloween or "Beggars Night" as the date of trick or treating was publicly called was typically moved to Friday or Saturday night. Where I lived in Ohio it was always moved to a non-weekend day so that kids didn't have to contend with "partiers" who might be inappropriate around children.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

tonic i'll give you. never heard seltzer in MA. but i've lived in new england my whole life and the majority of people just say soda.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

so weird to me! what's the point of having halloween being a designated day, then? ;\

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Haverhill apparently as well.

Re: October 31st always

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

http://www.haverhill-ps.org/