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If I heard correctly it will ruin halloween this year, if it is extented to november.
it just ain't the same in the light hours.

and my town has an 8 o'clock crefew for TOTing on halloween

not sure I will even p[ull it all out this year

Originally Posted by greasemonkey

If I heard correctly it will ruin halloween this year, if it is extented to november.
it just ain't the same in the light hours.

and my town has an 8 o'clock crefew for TOTing on halloween

not sure I will even p[ull it all out this year

If that's really true, then you're a jivin' poser! :-)

Sorry if anyone's bothered by this but I've kept my keyboard shut on this topic since it first reared its head on the forum last year, and I finally had to write what I felt.
In my opinion greasemonkey, you DIDN'T hear correctly.
I'm sure what you HAVE heard is a lot of negativity. I've been reading LOTS of haunters' takes on the change in day/night hours this year, and I KNOW that most haunters are ticked, doubtful, skeptical, etc., about the change.

But this was the last 'ruining Halloween' whine I could stomach. I mean, geez folks, come on... "ruin" Halloween? "Not sure" if you're going to "pull it all out this year"?!

In your case I'd be far more pissed that your town has a Halloween curfew for ToT's than having to wait an hour longer than usual before things get dark enough for you.
Thing is, Halloween's going to be like this (time change) for the forseeable future.
Haunters will adapt or fall out. But I don't know how any Haunter worth the name could really stop just because an hour's difference...
How could it possibly RUIN Halloween?
If Halloween were outlawed (and there are plenty who are trying to make that happen!), on pain of death even, I'd still put up a display in my home, and gloat over it after midnight.
We do Halloween because we need it, we love it, we have no choice, and nothing stops that.
Anyone who claims otherwise is a pretender.

Where I live, I've got MUCH bigger problems facing Halloween than an hour's sunlight--an attempted ban on ToTing outside of malls and assigned areas, a ToT curfew has been suggested numerous times (so far we've kept the enemy at bay), and daily (during October anyway) pestering in front of my home from bass-ackwards 'Gawd-feerin' rednecks about my displays being 'de Debbil's work!'.
For nearly a decade I've been putting up with all of that, and Halloween, everything I have to put out, gets put out, every year.

Maybe my case is different than many other haunters, insofar as my local idiot laws and so on... but in my view, moping about/deciding not do Halloween for DST reasons is like telling a starving man you didn't bring him any food because there were no napkins.

Mike C.

Yeah, sheesh. Halloween is still Halloween. It is what you make it.

Mike C,

I like your passion for Halloween. I agree with you that nothing will ruin my Halloween. Vandalism, bad weather, poor attendance,... I will just keep doing Halloween PERIOD!

I know it won't ruin halloween for me (my work does that enough when I don't have time to set up), I just will have to be more detailed with the props since they will be seen in the light of day.

I adapt my haunt to rain. I adapt my haunt for the local 6-8PM curfew. The new DST won't stop me from haunting, but I DO have the right to be plenty PO'd about it.

Yes, I'll adapt to ALL these things...but I won't be happy about it. Sometimes, it's just nice to have a forum to vent and commiserate with others who are dealing with the same frustrations. Who knows? Maybe we'll find and share a few clever tricks along the way to make things a little better. To me, that's what this board is all about.


boo

I live in a small town with more small towns close around me.
I can't do anything about dst, so I'm going to make the best of it and work with what I've got.

As far as 'de Debbil's work, the only static I've got from them was where I use to work.
I'm sure there are people who think Halloween should be banned around here, I just haven't met them yet.

I don't see it as doing the devil's work, I'm just there to have a little fun and to entertain people and the devil has nothing to do with it.
My problem is that if someone tells me I'm doing the devil's work, ( Being the bullheaded SOB that I am )I will push it beyond the limit and really put on a show for them just to prove a point.

I can't stand for someone to tell me how to live my life or what I should or shouldn't do.
There is something in my personality that says" If you don't like this, just wait and see what I do next!"

OK soap box speech is over now, you all can return to your homes and resume your prop building.

It's a done deal, greasemonkey. Best make sure you know when it starts or you'll be late for work.

Personally, I agree with Mike C. To me, it's more of an "issue" (if there even is one) that Halloween is on a WEDNESDAY this year. And it's not really even an issue to me, since I get maybe a dozen drive-by TOTs. My display will go up the last weekend of September, it will stay up, and be lit at night, whatever those "night hours" are.

Best spend your time protesting "set hours for TOTing" and TOT at the Mall rather than fret about something that is a done deal, like it or not. And FWIW, I don't like it, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with Halloween. Just don't like DST period. Never have, never will.

We have set hours and the tots will see alot in the light but it will definitly be on up and scaring long after dark for those who wish to see it in the the darkness it was meant to be seen in.

Glad to see I didn't tick anyone off; I sure didn't intend to accuse anyone, let alone greasemonkey, of being a 'pretender' to the Halloween-lover throne. In re-reading my post I can see how someone might take it that way, so please accept my apologies if you were taken aback. I wasn't talking about loyalty to Halloween, but to one's self and one's passions.
It's just that the worry over DST just seemed kinda needless to me.
Halloween always triumphs, one way or another.
Way I see it, I have an extra bit of time to fix last minute problems, since they ALWAYS pop up no matter what I do. :-)


Mike C.