What's your costume this year?

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

What are you dressing as this year?

Usually, my wife and I dress as famous couples for Halloween, but this yesr we have been so busy with family and work that we didn't have time to plan our costumes in advance like we always do, so instead of going as a famous couple we decide to go as 2 of the killers from the Fear Street movies.

We will be dressing as the Skull Mask killer Ryan Torres, and Ruby Lane. There are pictures below if you don't know the characters. I know that the Skull Mask killer is very similar to the Ghost Face costume, and the Ruby Lane costume is very basic, but they are both quick and easy costumes to put together at the last minute, and it will be fun to try something new.

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[Murfreesboro]

I usually just throw something together. I have a long silvery gown that looks spectral, and a long-sleeved Halloween themed blouse I can throw over it, as well as a covid mask that is decorated like Day of the Dead. I discovered that last year I'd bought an oversize Day of the Dead t shirt, too. I'm thinking I'll do that this year. Because our Lutheran church was doing an Ocktoberfest/Reformation Day shindig this past weekend, Trunk or Treat got pushed to Nov 2, so the Day of the Dead costume will be especially appropriate. I'm actually glad to get a shot at it this Saturday, as our Halloween forecast is disappointing. We've had only one day of rain this month, last Saturday. Now rain is moving in all afternoon, evening, and night on Halloween. I foresee many of the little ghouls will be driven to their destinations.

[Andybev01]

Because I thought that I had lost it in my move but luckily found it a few days ago, I will be resurrecting this from a couple of years ago.

[Murfreesboro]

That's great! The mask is amazing.

[Andybev01]

It's definitely eye catching.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

It looks like both Andy and I will be rockin' the bones this Halloween!

I didn't even know that Trunk or Treat was still around, they introduced it in my area about 10 years ago and even though most older people like myself were not too happy about it, the schools pushed it with the younger crowd and it was popular for the first few years, but they stopped during the pandemic and they haven't done it since then.

I, and a few other parents, still brought our kids out for regular trick or treating, and we would also stop by the school to let them participate with their friends. Because my kids are younger, they have only done Trunk or Treat a couple of times before it was stopped in our area.

I understand why it was necessary to start the practice, as the world is very different than when I was growing up, but it just seems like you are cheating kids out of the real experience of trick or treating.

As for the thing about California mentioned in another thread, I haven't heard about that before, but I guess like Trunk or Treat it was introduced to help kids stay safe while they are out on Halloween. My mother grew up in California for the first 16 years of her life before she started to move around the country, and I asked her about this, she said it's definitely a new practice because when she was a kid they did their trick or treating at night.

[Murfreesboro]

I'm not sure daylight ToT goes on everywhere in CA, but I think it does in some communities.

I would never substitute Trunk or Treat for Trick or Treat, and never did when my kids were young. But around here it gets done on days other than Halloween. Our church does it as part of their Fall Festival every year. I've seen three different groups in various parking lots over this past weekend. I expect all these kids will be out ToTing door to door on Thurs, weather permitting. To me, Trunk or Treat just extends Halloween.

The thing that died out around here was the Halloween Hell House that some churches did about 20 years ago. I went to one of those at a Baptist church back in the day. Once was enough for me.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

I didn't have kids yet when they introduced Trunk or Treat here, but I remember that they wanted to replace trick or treating with it,but it didn't catch on.

I remember when the Hell house started popping up in the late 90s, but around here they were called heck house because some of the more serious religious people here were afraid of the word Hell and they didn't want to offend anyone in the community. I was a teen at the time so I didn't ever go to one, but I do remember people talking about it, and I didn't hear anything good about it, which is probably why they don't do them around here anymore.

[Andybev01]

"...and they didn't want to offend anyone in the community."

Yeah why bother, when they have so many other ways of doing so.