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I have a different view of Halloween, but that is of no matter, really. I respect others’ distrust/dislike of it actually.

I don’t do Halloween anymore because of what it became in my subdivision in my small town. 12 years ago, we got mostly the little Princesses and Batmans from our sub division. Very young, many out just before dark with their mommies AND daddies. Very respectful, not greedy and happy children.

This quickly turned into an entitlement grab from parents all over the county who’d jam the subdivision. It got so bad the police and fire department had to station themselves at the entrance and regulate traffic and entry and patrol throughout the night.

At first I didn’t mind the indigenous county residents who didn’t have anywhere to take their kids - what I DID and DO mind is all the illegals and other immigrants who give their kids a pillow case and send them out to get their freebies. They increased in number year by year until it is just another invasion of illegals. No costume, no speaking, no Thank You. I stopped two years ago altogether. I turn out my lights and let them pass by.

I’m thinking of this year of just having some candy for the neighborhood small fries the hour before sunset and then packing up lights out. I really liked Halloween as a kid - great memories. I still want young Americans to have an opportunity for that because so much is and will be taken away from them in the name of diversity, inclusion, one-worldism, etc.

Same in our development. The worst is parents with their tiny babies who aren’t even on solid food yet. They have plenty of places to go here in the downtown area that hosts all sort of freebies for kids. Personally, I don’t care for the loads of strangers wandering around my neighborhood at night. The vast majority of them non English speaking...ie) illegal Mexicans.

I’ve heard that parents “bus” kiddies to richer neighborhoods than their own - middle class parents, not poor people which I could almost understand. Not nice. To me, Halloween is about growing a child’s imagination - letting them role play a hero or villain. One of our last holdovers from the medieval age - like the Lord’s Misrule.

I loathe the gore that has become associated with it but most of the kiddies I get are very young and all dress up as princesses and pirates, thank God.

When we lived in Simi Valley, CA, mini-vans would come to our subdivision, kids would pour out as if it were a clown car, and the hooligans would race up and down the streets, greedily grabbing stuff from every house. They’d get back in the van and move on — to another subdivision, I assume.

We don’t participate. If at home, our lights are off and the house is relatively quiet. Sometimes we help with a kids’ program at church.

Adding insult to injury, besides the Satan-centered actual Halloween “celebration”, sometimes the little freaks are collecting money for commie UNICEF. It’s a creepy, creepy time of the year.

We have three dogs. They don’t like strangers coming to the door. We go upstairs and turn out the lights. Very few kids in our neighborhood but we get kids from other areas because our development is one big circle with no thru traffic so it’s safe to walk. I used to love sitting out front and passing out the candy to cute little kids. Now so many “big” kids, teens, are coming around and I just don’t feel comfortable, not to mention the price of candy.

Something like that happened at our old house, which was in a small neighborhood. We moved in 2002, and now our driveway is so long and steep, with no streetlights on this street, that no one comes down here. It was fun for a long time at our old house, but by 1997 or 98, it had become rather insane. We easily had at least a hundred children holding out bags for candy. People from towns away were driving their children to our little spot, and still ringing the doorbell after 9:00, even though all of our outside lights were off.