Thread: Halloween Falls on Sunday in 2010...ewww

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The Countdown Clock is at 275 days today and I just looked at the calendar and saw that Halloween falls on a Sunday this year. Yikes! That can't be good.

This past Halloween, which fell on a Saturday, yielded lower attendance numbers in my area, so I kind of feel weekend ToTing is not a good thing for haunters who want more people to show up at their door. "When" Halloween actually fell during the week was never a concern to me until we bought a house and now have the room to decorate. I only set things up for Halloween night so am now rethinking how much stuff I really want to plan for this year's haunt.

When Halloween falls on a Sunday do cities tend to move the date of ToTing for the little ones? like maybe to a Friday? Love to hear from people who have done haunts in the past when Halloween was on a Sunday.

I think it will be on sat this year to.I can't think of anytime when it fell on sun that it wasn't moved.

Hallow Ghost of Spookie!

In our area - the city/village sets the TOT time for 6-8. That's it. 2 hours. they will still hold it on a Sunday night. At least if going by past decisions.

For us - we always host an extra hour at our haunt for the neighborhood to come back for "One Last BOO!" We serve hot dogs and cider. Neighbors bring salads and casseroles. If we have leftover desserts for our bigger adult party - we set those out. People use this as the slightly more healthy dinner food for their kids - or so I have been told. Otherwise, they would eat nothing but candy. So I know we will still do this again this year - even though TOT night falls on a Sunday.

Personally, I will be glad for the full Halloween weekend again. We can have our house party on Saturday night (Friday last year didn't give people much time to get ready after work...) and then be ready for the TOTs SUnday night.

I hope it won't be a big issue... I hope... I hope...

Now - on to the more important thing you sated: ONLY 275 DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN!! Seriously - has 1/3 of the year gone by already!?!

I too like having Saturday evening available for friends from all across the city to visit. It then enables everyone the chance to go TOT'ing with their respective neighbourhood friends.

One concern I have is when will Spirit and Halloween USA go 50% off. Here in Utah, you can count on ToTing moving to Saturday...so do the sales start Sunday or Monday.

My bigger concern with having Halloween on Saturday is what time is the Huskers's kickoff. Last Halloween we lucked out with a 10:00AM start here.

Mine will start about October 1st anyway.

I am setting up on the 1st, but am staying up all night the night before Halloween to take care of mischief night kids. I am a little afraid of someone trying to take out my statues, so I will be waiting for them.

Here in Florida TOT is always on October 31st no matter what day of the week it falls on.

In Canada, same as Spookilicious mentionned, Halloween is always celebrated in 31st, no matter what day of the week. I am planning to do the full Haunting Friday night to Sunday Night I hope. Take then Monday off to hit the stores!!!

We're Oct 31st - period in Redding. The adult parties will happen on Saturday, though.