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Trick or treating is dead, pretty much, but Halloween is still polled as the most popular holiday in America outside of Christmas. Where I live, there aren't many kids out at night (due to good ol' fashioned parental paranoia, mainly), but the decorations are legion.

I keep seeing threads claiming Halloween is Dead... but I don't really buy it. Sure, there's some turnover in neighborhoods when the kids grow up and move on... but the holiday is far from "Dead".

Trick-or-treating always goes in cycles.... parents get paranoid and take their kids to "safer" places... then a couple years down the road the ToT'ers start coming out again.

The only way Halloween is going to DIE is if people give up on it. Frankly, I don't care if I'm the last house in the world that passes out candy on October 31st-- Halloween will never DIE so long as I'm alive.

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Halloween isn't dead here! I think alot of parents don't let their kids go tot'ing is because they are afraid something bad will happen. I have kids and I always go with them but I'm not afraid and I always check the candy.

It isn't dead in our neighborhood. Most of them come in big groups though so it's not a constant flow. Expecting more this year being a saturday and all.

In terms of consumerism, Halloween is second only to Christmas in money spent. That's pretty good evidence that our favorite holiday is alive and well. I mean, there are already Halloween decorations in a lot of stores even though where still in mid August. I don't think we'd be seeing Halloween items on shelves nearly three months before Oct 31 if the holiday was dying.

I know that I did start my thread here before, "Is Halloween Dying?" and I don't think so it will die! Halloween remains Forever!

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It's quite the opposite here, actually. I actually ran out of candy last year from a line of roughly 30 trick or treaters strong, which has never happened. While the era of the always-paranoid soccer mom is beginning to strengthen once more, Halloween has doubled in popularity due to the coming of age for the new generations of Trick or Treaters. It seems you live in a boring town, my friend. My condolences.

Same thing here my friend.... this old town i live in is full of history and character that would be PERFECT for a fun loving town he would have EVERYONE on board to celebrate the great holiday..... the problem is is that they just simply DON'T.. West Point is a town with a classy ghost story which is quickly being forgotten as the town seems to be dying along side its residents..

every one on this site needs to get together, we all move to one town, buy houses, and all be neighbors lol that way around this time of year we could all create the PERFECT little town

adrian wrote:Same thing here my friend.... this old town i live in is full of history and character that would be PERFECT for a fun loving town he would have EVERYONE on board to celebrate the great holiday..... the problem is is that they just simply DON'T.. West Point is a town with a classy ghost story which is quickly being forgotten as the town seems to be dying along side its residents..

every one on this site needs to get together, we all move to one town, buy houses, and all be neighbors lol that way around this time of year we could all create the PERFECT little town

THE West Point?

I have been so busy starting school. I am teaching in a new school this year, but it is still in the county where I live. Today, when I was playing an icebreaker game with my 6th graders, I shared that I LOVE Halloween. I had a little boy ask me, " Is that your house with all the spiders?" IT IS!!!! I was so excited to know that several kids in my classes make an annual drive by my house!!! Not even knowing who lived there!!! It excites me to know that my house has become a holiday tradition!!! WoW!!!!

Halloween is only dead if people forget the fun of it!! It is up to us Creepy, Freaky, Fun loving Halloweenists to keep reminding people of it.