Halloween was awful for us this year. I already do not like Halloween because how over the top people have gone here. The majority of the people here do not celebrate in ways I grew up knowing of, as in, they do not trick or treat and such. I live in the bible belt and I know a lot of religions do not trick or treat here. But of those who do participate in trick or treating here, some of them went over board on the creepy disgusting themes in their yards. I called my old friend from back home and she said they do not see it there. Plus, my sister in Minneapolis also said it is not like this there.
Basically, we only went 2 blocks and gave up. Our street has 7 houses, 2 did trick or treating. The street in front of us had 2 houses doing trick or treating and behind us had more, maybe 5 houses, it is a longer street with more houses. We did not go any further than this. One house had a dismembered body in the front yard with body parts sticking out of the ground. Another had beheaded body hanging from a noose. It also had a skeleton on the ground laid out like it was trying to get people and had smoke coming out of its mouth. There was also the cemetary theme with spiders and such.
There were no young children out trick or treating. The youngest was school age. Half the kids were teens who were not really in costume. Of the costumes there were, other than my own children, everyone else went as horror themes. One child was a chucky doll, that was the youngest one I saw and he was about the size of my 6 yr old. There were some kids with Jason marks and a lot as vampires with blood oozing down the faces. There was one Luigi. I felt sorry for that little boy as he was running behind his teenaged sisters trying to keep up, totally ignored.
We were not out long and we only went to the streets in front of us and behind, so not like we saw the entire neighborhood. My grandmother is here visiting and she is staying with my parents. I called my parents and they mostly had teens and even adults with no costumes with bags trick or treating.
So my question is, is Halloween like this where you are at? I just do not think it is OK to do a rated R horror scene in your front yard. Especially when you know small children might come around trick or treating. I wonder if it is the horror themes that led to people not bringing their small children out. One neighbor, a nice older lady, had cute casper looking blow up ghosts hanging from her trees, which I think is ok. But she said her little granddaughters, who are 5 and 2, ended up at a house in town where when they got to the door, there was a corpse with the entrails all coming out and the small children were expected to step over it to get their treats. Apparently, it was quite disgusting and the mom did not see it there until she was up to the door and her small children had already seen it.
Anyway, my 6 yr old had to sleep with us last night because he woke up with horrible nightmares about what he saw on Halloween.
If you don't mind, let me know if it is like this where you are at, and a slight idea where you are at if you do not mind (i.e. major metropolitan area, south, rural area, or even state, etc) I am just curious if this is a Texas thing, a south thing, a big city thing, etc.
Basically, we only went 2 blocks and gave up. Our street has 7 houses, 2 did trick or treating. The street in front of us had 2 houses doing trick or treating and behind us had more, maybe 5 houses, it is a longer street with more houses. We did not go any further than this. One house had a dismembered body in the front yard with body parts sticking out of the ground. Another had beheaded body hanging from a noose. It also had a skeleton on the ground laid out like it was trying to get people and had smoke coming out of its mouth. There was also the cemetary theme with spiders and such.
There were no young children out trick or treating. The youngest was school age. Half the kids were teens who were not really in costume. Of the costumes there were, other than my own children, everyone else went as horror themes. One child was a chucky doll, that was the youngest one I saw and he was about the size of my 6 yr old. There were some kids with Jason marks and a lot as vampires with blood oozing down the faces. There was one Luigi. I felt sorry for that little boy as he was running behind his teenaged sisters trying to keep up, totally ignored.
We were not out long and we only went to the streets in front of us and behind, so not like we saw the entire neighborhood. My grandmother is here visiting and she is staying with my parents. I called my parents and they mostly had teens and even adults with no costumes with bags trick or treating.
So my question is, is Halloween like this where you are at? I just do not think it is OK to do a rated R horror scene in your front yard. Especially when you know small children might come around trick or treating. I wonder if it is the horror themes that led to people not bringing their small children out. One neighbor, a nice older lady, had cute casper looking blow up ghosts hanging from her trees, which I think is ok. But she said her little granddaughters, who are 5 and 2, ended up at a house in town where when they got to the door, there was a corpse with the entrails all coming out and the small children were expected to step over it to get their treats. Apparently, it was quite disgusting and the mom did not see it there until she was up to the door and her small children had already seen it.
Anyway, my 6 yr old had to sleep with us last night because he woke up with horrible nightmares about what he saw on Halloween.
If you don't mind, let me know if it is like this where you are at, and a slight idea where you are at if you do not mind (i.e. major metropolitan area, south, rural area, or even state, etc) I am just curious if this is a Texas thing, a south thing, a big city thing, etc.
) and I think that's one of the more gruesome decorations this year. However, a couple of blocks away they've gone all out w/ fake graveyards, half-buried corpses, etc. I think that's a neighborhood w/ older kids. I'm beyond certain that my boys will talk me into scarier decor as they get older.
