Have You Ever Gone Trick or Treating?

[Moonface]

Yes, I am aware Halloween was three days ago. I forgot to make this thread on the day and I don't particularly feel like waiting for next year to ask it.

So, have you ever gone? If not, how come, and if so, what have you dressed up as? Have anything else to say about trick or treating? Screw it, say it in here.

I've been trick or treating a couple of times. Once when I was 12 or 13 shortly after my knee surgery, which wasn't very pleasant trying to walk around streets on crutches. I don't recall if I dressed up or what as, but I was with a few other kids. I'm not sure if it was this occasion or another a following year (I can't recall if I went trick or treating more than this once as a kid) but I remember this lady handed me an entire bag of candy, and closed the door. I thought she was giving me all of it so I walked off, and then after I had gone around the corner heard her open the door and complain that I had taken all of her candy.

The only other time I recall going was with @ShiraNoMai when we dressed up as Cuphead and Mugman and went around in the neighbourhood where one of our friends lives and went around as a group. Those costumes were awful to walk around in...

Other than that, never really done it much. Once my parents and I started decorating the house for Halloween I lost interest in going out in favour of seeing the reactions from people seeing our house, since we were the only one in town that decorated for Halloween and we always went all out for it.

So what about you folks?

[Mr EliteL]

Yes, but have no idea what I went as or how exactly old, er, young I was but believe it did happen before my parents split up. All I know is I went with my brother and sister, assume my parents were there too, and remember sitting down in the living room with the two of them afterwards with our candy on the floor. We might have shared out what we got too. It wasn't something I did multiple times, and lost interest in trick or treating. I don't mind the tradition myself, but know my mum and sister don't like opening the door to it anymore so we have most of the lights off, not that anyone has bothered to knock in a good number of years now.

Also you can't really say your house is the only one decorated in town, but you can say substantially more decorated than any other that has tried to in town. There really should be an announcement of some kind for everyone in town who's going out trick or treating to go to the street your (over here) home's in, that's how good they decorate it.

[Nightingale]

No.

Never a thing where I am from.

[Moonface]

No.

Never a thing where I am from.

Interesting. So does the area you live in not do Halloween at all or is it just the trick or treating part that doesn't happen?

[Nightingale]

No.

Never a thing where I am from.

Interesting. So does the area you live in not do Halloween at all or is it just the trick or treating part that doesn't happen?

We don't do Halloween at all.

Firstly because going around knocking on random doors / opening your door to strangers is often considered to be a really stupid idea.

And secondly because we don't really enjoy doing things that fall outside our culture and traditions. We actually have an offensive nickname for those who do XD

That said, we do binge on horror flicks and candy around this time of year.

[ShiraNoMai]

Wow, that's crazy! But I suppose I'm not too shocked; @Animemoongirl hasn't either due to her religion and I totally get that.

Still, as someone that has done it yearly since the year I was born up until maybe 14, it seems odd not to have a childhood filled with memories from it.

I don't remember much of my early years (understandably) but I spent a lot of my trick-or-treating at friend's neighborhoods, mostly because growing up I lived in a lot of apartments and it wasn't very common to see those kind of complexes suited for the event.

One of my most memorable costumes was a custom Yoshi one my mom helped make (cuz back then, they didn't just have any ol character costume available like they do nowadays): I'll never forget the paper mache tail she made that was strapped to my backside and whenever I walked, I felt it sway, and it was quite amusing (though sometimes troubling considering I had no hips to told them onto and it would slide down often).