Why have the amount of trick or treaters decreased?
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My husband & I were just having this conversation, as well as having one with my son's babysitter.\n\nPeople are trying to downplay it for the fear of offending 5% of the population.  Plus, there's a lot of places who advertise "safe trick-or-treating" like at churches, malls, etc.  Trunk-or-treating is becoming a very big thing at schools & churches, too.  I think after people go with their kids to these things (some even happen the weekend before Halloween), they don't worry about doing the actual Halloween things on Halloween.\n\nSad what some of it has come to, but we also wondered how long it would be before no one goes door-to-door trick-or-treating.  Now schools have "fall parties" instead of Halloween - kids can't even dress up for school anymore (reference the 5% comment above).\n\nI hate to see it change like that, but society is making it change.
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We got our two pumpkin lanterns stolen last night.  I don't know whether to be upset or pleased that I did such a good job of carving them that somone would steal them.  We had a load of them last night - about 75 at the door.  The 5:30 - 7pm ones were the young kids dressed up with the parents loitering at the end of the path.  Then as the evening progressed the older teens and even adults (15 to 25 I think!!) just turned up in masks and hoodies and were a little scary to be honest.  We just let them take as much as they wanted out of the bowl and shut the door as fast as possible.
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probably yeah! but it's also because people have changed, people dont walk as much as they used to, people drive everywhere, spend more time in front of the tv rather than out and about.  also we eat alot more shit than we used to. If that many people are getting stoned regulary then i expect they are munching on take aways and chocolate and biscuits and loads of fatty stuff.
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CAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARENT REALLY NOWADAYS
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It reduced people and things to mere lines and numbers... seems like we might not even have names in the future - just a bar code with our "number".
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More demand for necessities like food, water, etc. resulting in more waste and less space.
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Because there are not a lot of them left...
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They are just below 3 here (Central Florida).  I do think that the days below two are gone.
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That depends entirely upon what type of answer you are looking for. For many people in the United States, it is just a holiday for people to buy candy and distribute it to the children who dress up as their favorite ghoul, hero or otherwise.\n\nFor others, it is known as All Hallow's Eve. This is a day in which supernatural energies are at their most and sightings of demons, ghosts and other supernatural beings increase. Spells cast upon this day are supposed to never fail as long as the heart of the one casting it has intentions of good.\n\nIt also started as a way to keep demons out in another country. People would put treats onto their doorsteps to ward off the demons and those that did not offer the treats would be subject to the tricks of the demon. Trick or treat....
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its getting more and more in germany. i think one ponit is that in many parts of germany is bank holiday on nov1, so many clubs and bars do a halloween special. The days before halloween they show millions of the us halloween movies at german tv, so its no more so "strange" for the people here. This year i saw first time kids going for sweets  "trock or treat" but i fear they dont earn that much... for this its a lack of traditional, especially because on nov10/11 its st.martin in germany, this day the kids go from house to house and sing for sweets.
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There are coupons in the newspaper and online, plus shopping online is so much easier. People go to the movies and so similar activities less and less.  The only thing left from the entertainment book is restaurants and some activities, for which I guess people have so many options that they don't want to pay to be tied down to certain restaurants.  Plus, the huge amount of restaurant competition causes them to have specials w/o coupons anyway.  Plus, schools and groups have more ways to fundraise.  Also, fundraising has slown down slightly, perhaps because fewer kids have to do so for activities.
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They are becoming pariahs to all cultures.  It is the responsibility for all peoples to turn them into authorities until they have no safe place to stay.  Eventually they will disappear.
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right here\n\ni think they got rid of it because a lot of people got the wrong idea.
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I've noticed more people with cardboard signs. I doubt they're homeless. There was a woman in Dallas a couple of years ago who went out begging on a street corner and cleared enough to pay off her family's mortgage on their 6 bedroom house. It was in the Dallas paper! She started it after her husband lost his job, because she didn't want to work full time (that's what she said, not my idea) and had a can she held saying need to feed my children or something like that. They come out more at Christmas because people are supposed to feel more generous then.
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Fool the general population - though even that has started to falter!
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The overall numbers suggest that home sales are up and prices have lowered.\n\nThis is due to the high number of sales in the southern region at lower prices.\n\nThis did not occur in the northeast where homes are more expensive and fewer sales were made.\n\nTherefore, the reported numbers are skewed and do not accurately represent the overall trend.
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I know that they have them in Mexico. I lived there 12 years.\nMexico also has started having Halloween too, but instead of saying trick or treat they say Halloween Halloween.\nSorry I do not know where it started.