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Through the past few years I've noticed people who have said their ToTer numbers were dwindling, but one thing I don't think I've seen as much of - but which I was really surprised to note this year - was that in my neighborhood, we had more ToTers (probably because it was a Saturday), but WAY fewer "haunted" houses.
A noticeable amount of people who used to decorate in my neighborhood didn't do it at all yesterday, even though most of them had a porch light on and were giving out candy.
I do notice that a lot of people in my area don't decorate until the "night of," but did note ahead of time that the homes that decorated earlier didn't seem to have anything up - noticed this because my kids and I often do "drive-arounds" before H'ween to see decor, and we just weren't seeing any. I thought: Okay, maybe they're taking the trend of most of the 'hood (not me though, LOL) of waiting until almost the ToT hour.
But nope. Just so fewer haunters!
I don't know if I'm disappointed. I def. get my H'ween fix around here and as I said, I'm not slowing down any, and I'm right on a visible corner of a busy cross-street so a lot of people can get joy out of seeing decor, if that's their thing.
But it's kind of weird...I wonder why that happened. It's not that they weren't going to be home or anything; as I said, lots of porch lights on, just no scary decor.
A noticeable amount of people who used to decorate in my neighborhood didn't do it at all yesterday, even though most of them had a porch light on and were giving out candy.
I do notice that a lot of people in my area don't decorate until the "night of," but did note ahead of time that the homes that decorated earlier didn't seem to have anything up - noticed this because my kids and I often do "drive-arounds" before H'ween to see decor, and we just weren't seeing any. I thought: Okay, maybe they're taking the trend of most of the 'hood (not me though, LOL) of waiting until almost the ToT hour.
But nope. Just so fewer haunters!
I don't know if I'm disappointed. I def. get my H'ween fix around here and as I said, I'm not slowing down any, and I'm right on a visible corner of a busy cross-street so a lot of people can get joy out of seeing decor, if that's their thing.
But it's kind of weird...I wonder why that happened. It's not that they weren't going to be home or anything; as I said, lots of porch lights on, just no scary decor.