Thread: Cabbage Day...does it still happen?

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Does Cabbage day still happen? Is it the day before or the day after Halloween?

I remember my family use to drive us around the neighborhood looking at all the houses that got TP. Fond memories! I now love in the city and can't imagine a TP night in the city...but was wondering if it happens in the suburbs?

It's Oct. 30, the night before.

Cabbage Night, also called Mischief Night, Hell Night, Devils Night, etc., never really took hold in the Midwest, the South or the Western states, at least not to the extent it did in the Northeast. Some people engage in pranks on the night before Halloween, but it's uncommon.

Some larger cities (Detroit) once suffered massive arson on Devils Night in the 80's and early 90s, but it seems to have calmed down.

I love the origin of the name Cabbage Night, or Cabbage Day. Kids would store cabbage in a wet sack outside and let it rot. On the night before Halloween, they ran around the neighborhood, smearing rotten cabbage on doors and windows.

This is great. Thanks! Yeah, I use to live in the Northeast and it was fascinating to see the houses. You'd think that it would have caught on in other parts of the country.

I am glab that did not catch on. arson, and damaging property do not need to be encouraged.

I am having a hard time getting excited about the thought of someone rubbing rotten cabbage on my house.

Agreed...halloween has a bad enough reputation to start with. If damaging property is added to it - it only makes it worse. Why can't we teach our kids that halloween is about fun and spooky stuff WITHOUT damaging other people's property in the process?

post script....The one year I didn't hold my annal halloween bash, was because I was having to move. On one of my trips up to the old house to get more boxes, so sad I wasn't having halloween fun, 6 teenagers egged my car hard as I was coming around a sharp bend in the road, I have no problem saying that I pulled over and got out and was ready to throttle one of those (I&%^&%$%& Of course they scurried away. PARENTS - teach your kids that fun is fun, but damaging people's stuff is NOT COOL.