Oktoberpost!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Mom brought home a whole pile of candy about two weeks ago.

“This is for Halloween,” she told me and Dad.

“Right, sure, Halloween, gotcha,” we said.

Mom brought home a replacement pile of candy today. Now taking bets on whether it lasts!

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Happy birthday, Liz! I swear, all my friends in the world were born in October. Except for acrossthelake, who was born in November.

Liz does not have a Livejournal, but you can see what she looks like in our three part tour of Utah.

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Speaking of Utah and that tour:


Hello, ladies.


Look at these rocks.


Now back to me.


Now back to the rocks.


Now back to me.

Say what you will about Utah, you can’t deny that it is fucking ORANGE.

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And now, a poll!

[Poll #1638195]

I am actually curious. Here in my neighborhood, the community always switches to Saturdays when it falls on a Sunday. I suppose you can argue that Sunday’s a School Night, but this doesn’t seem to carry over when Halloween falls on, say, a Tuesday. I’m not sure if this is standard, or if it is a Utah Thing. I know that Sundays tend to be Utah Things, but I am never sure to what extent.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I've never heard that before. Sunday might be Church Day where I came from, but if anyone rang Mom's doorbell on the 30th because of it, she'd have to make a mad dash to find where the candy was waiting for tomorrow.

[evilcresyluna.livejournal.com]

I'm in Lancaster PA and trick-or-treating was supposedly tonight (friday! What? Madness! - I just moved here but my sister tells me they've moved it into November too). I'm in a "townhome apartment" so I only got 4 trick-or-treaters tonight, not sure if that number is due to people not caring that this is "official" trick-or-treating night and I will see them on Sunday instead, or because even the kids that live in the apartments went downtown today (and will probably again on Sunday).

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

Here in NC, I've heard of people calling for trick-or-treating to occur on Saturday if Halloween falls on a Sunday. I haven't heard it this year though (I could just be out of the loop), and I don't remember it actually coming to fruition in years past either. Perhaps because the people wanting to change the date were church people, and churches tend to do their own fall festivals, so kids just went to those and then trick-or-treating later anyway.

I for one won't even be around to hand out candy tomorrow night, but I'm definitely ready for Sunday! :B

[placetohide.livejournal.com]

Japan doesn't celebrate halloween! :(

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

Bah, they absorb foreign culture like candy (albeit with their own weird spin). Start a tradition!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

In the probably SLIGHTLY skewed media my college Japanophile friends always had around, I rather got the impression that Japan is PERPETUALLY celebrating Halloween.

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

I shall affirm this statement with a picture.

[tay421.livejournal.com]

I've assumed that to happen for mega-churchies, but never heard accounts of it.

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

I feel like we always do the trick-or-treating on a Friday or a Saturday, but I know that can't be right. I assumed that it had something to do with school nights, but it could be because Sunday Is For Jesus or something.

Edited because apparently I like to leave words out of my sentences.

[spiffikins]

another of my friends on LJ who lives in Utah mentioned this too - that they will have a lot of LDS kids Saturday night, and then they'll have the non-LDS kids on Sunday night.

If I were a non-LDS kid in Utah, I'd be ALL OVER this - 2 nights of trick or treating? MAJOR win!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

If I were a non-LDS kid in Utah, I'd be ALL OVER this - 2 nights of trick or treating? MAJOR win!

Except you also get the bitter people, like my mom, who are ONTO those kids. A lot of folks just refuse to give out any candy.

Plus, two nights of trick or treating would've been too much for me. I don't mind handing out candy, though.

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

Trick-or-treating on the day before is Not Right. If someone tried that in my neighborhood I'd tell them to come back tomorrow. Although it's moot since there are no kids in my neighborhood. Still, I've never heard of such a practice. The cynic in my wants to think it's because psychoChristians are afraid observing Halloween on a Sunday will somehow undermine the faith ("It's a PAGAN holiday!"), although those sorts tend to just not observe the day at all.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I think around here the rationale is simply an extension of the No Fun On Sundays rule. It's still religious, but in a much less fire-and-brimstone sense and more in a The Way Things Are sense.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Q: What do you call the Holiday when the 31st of October falls on a Saturday?

A: Challah-ween ;)

Can't take all the credit for that one, one of my co-workers came up with the pun itself, I just did the setup line.

[mooncat75.livejournal.com]

Your post told me I should check out when trick or treating hours actually happen. Turns out, Sunday. I only get a handful of trick or treaters, usually really little kids when prompted 'what do you say?' they reply 'Please?'...our neighborhood is small so I think most of the older kids go off to the bigger neighborhoods with their friends.

[daiq.livejournal.com]

I am Australian, so small children turning up to our door in costume is met with "what on earth are you doing" or "if you are going to a party, you have the wrong house" etc.

[baby-rissa-chan.livejournal.com]

Our community always celebrates Halloween on a Friday or a Saturday - the newspaper publishes the official date for each of the local communities so you know which day to go for - so that it won't be on a school night.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Where I'm at, Halloween is Halloween. There is no "Halloween Night (Observed)". Kids showing up the night before would be met with an "Um, I think you're a little early".

EDIT: BTW, Metaquoted that first bit

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

I was surprised that nobody rang the bell today. Glad they didn't though, 'cause Candy Giving Day is the 31st and not before. All other days, those dang kids have to get off my lawn. ;)

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine in GA was saying that oh no, they can't do it on Sunday because that's Church Day and in her town, they won't do it on Wednesday either for that very reason. They won't do it on Fridays because that's high school football & apparently, some kid was killed by a drunk driver that night.

So, when did they have it this year? Thursday!

[safti]

"People drunk drive on Fridays! So instead of letting people have fun on Friday and cracking down on drunk drivers, we'll just move anything not football related!"?

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

This is Georgia - two things you don't mess with is high school football and church services. Where my friend is a librarian at, they still do pagents at least twice a year because all the good girls are supposed to show off how ladylike they are and catch themselves a "rich" husband. (21st century, hello? Nope, not there! :-p)

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Over here in New Jersey, the Catholics flat-out do NOT understand why you can't just go trick-or-treating after church. wtf, Evangelicals? I even know one kid who dressed as a saint at CCD and then changed to a different costume for trick-or-treating.

Protestants are weird.