Jillian Pretzel writes that not being in a trick-or-treating area is something of a treat.
It was a brisk Halloween morning when my family moved into our home two years ago. “I put our costumes in a specific box so I’ll know exactly where they are tonight,” I told my new next-door neighbor, who’d popped her head over our shared garden wall to introduce herself. “Oh, this neighborhood doesn’t do trick-or-treating,” she said matter-of-factly. “Never has.
A woman a few doors down said she liked Halloween but she and her kids like going to her parents’ neighborhood to trick-or-treat. “My parents love seeing the kids dressed up,” she said. “We go to their house every year.” One dad said he actually liked that our neighborhood doesn’t do trick-or-treating. He used to live in a big Halloween neighborhood and said that every October 31st, noisy, dry ice-filled haunted houses took over the street.
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