In my city, we Trick-or-Treat the last Sunday in October instead of on Halloween, because most people work on the weekdays and aren't there to answer the door. It makes way more sense than doing it Halloween night. Don't you think they should make Halloween be, like, the last Saturday of October or the last Sunday of October?
2006-10-29 04:50:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Here in Canada where I live, we do it on the 31st and I don't think it should change. Just because Christmas sometimes falls on a weekday, do we say Jesus was born on, let's say, a Monday instead? No.
You can't change the date of a holiday.
2006-10-29 04:56:20 · answer #1 · answered by Tiny Dancer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your mixing a tradition of giving candy to kids with the meaning of the day. Trick-or-Treat has little to nothing to do with the real meaning of the day. Disconnecting the holiday from the actual date would just further cause the true meaning to be lost. A community may decide to "do" Trick-or-Treating on a different day to make things easy for the community but they should not change Halloween to be the same day every year.
2006-10-29 05:02:44 · answer #2 · answered by John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's apply this to any other holiday, for one is no different than another.
Shouldn't we have Christmas be on the same day of the week every year, instead of 12/25?
Shouldn't we have New Years Day be on the same day of the week every year, instead of 01/01?
The answer is, a thing is that which it is and to change it in any way is to change it in its entirety.
Halloween; or All Hallows Eve, is a traditional Christian event. The last Saturday in October is just that.
2006-10-29 05:25:45 · answer #3 · answered by i_am_the_fig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they probably should but i have seen no evidence of our congress putting together a bill and pass a law that would make halloween the last sat. or sun. of the month. So until that happens or other cities follow ur cities lead it will b as it has always been.
2006-10-29 04:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by Nora G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not if you want to keep with the tradition of Halloween. To me that would be like asking if we should make Christmas and New Years on the same day (I feel we should not keep Thanksgiving or Easter on the same day either)
2006-10-29 05:20:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of communities have trick-or-treating on the weekend if Halloween falls during the week... military communites especially do that.
2006-10-29 04:54:01 · answer #6 · answered by odandme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah your right
2006-10-29 05:00:45 · answer #7 · answered by ☼Summer☼ Gurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋