2006-10-30 07:59:51 · 11 answers · asked by imal jan 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
You dress up in some sort of scary or funny costume and you go from door to door in the area you live ringing the doorbell saying "Trick-or-Treat!" and you get candy which you put in some sort of holder, I use a pillow case. You usually go with your friends from door to door. Trick-or-Treating is for kids or teens, not for adults. Adults are the ones who wait in the house for the doorbell to ring and give people candy.
2006-10-30 08:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check your local newspaper for the correct night and time. Since Halloween is on a Tuesday this year, most communities are having it on Tuesday - when it is on the weekend, they move it. Around here it is 6-8 PM.
Trick or treat is for grade-school age children or pre-schoolers, although you will see some teenagers. If there are a lot of kids in your neighborhood, you may get many. Ask a neighbor to be sure how much candy to buy. If the houses are far apart, you may get just a few or none. You need to have your porch light on, or they will skip your house. It also helps if you have a Halloween decoration out, so that people are sure you are participating, but not completely necessary.
When you buy candy to give out, buy candy in individual sealed packaging. The grocery stores will have bags of specially wrapped small candy bars for this purpose at this time of year. If you buy chewing gum sold as 10 packs in a bigger bag, that is an OK price and a pack of gum is well received.
If you have children to take out, the hours will be in the paper. They should be in costume, you should walk with them with a flashlight if it is dark. They ring the doorbell at houses with the porch light on and when it is answered, they say "trick or treat" and the person gives them candy. People like it if the kids say thank you. Some older people don't know about the porch light thing, so if the light is on but no one comes to the door, just go on to the next house.
Some kids are ornery, so do not be surprised by 'grabbers' who take a whole handful of candy, or maybe a kid who sprays silly-string on your hedges... Not too many do this, but sometimes it happens.
2006-10-30 08:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, find out what night and time your town has Trick or Treat . Then buy lots of bags of candy. Place them in a bowl. Turn your porch light on so the kids know you are home. Children of all ages will stop by your house dressed up in costumes and ring your doorbell saying 'trick or treat.' You bring the bowl full of candy to the door and hand them a treat. Our trick or treat night is tonight. I love to see the sweet kids in their costumes. I hope you will enjoy your first Halloween in the USA! :) Have fun!
2006-10-30 08:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by mychemicalromancelover 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Halloween began as an historic custom approximately 2000 years in the past in what's now great Britain, eire, and France. there have been a team of people calle "Druids" that worshipped a solar god. Their new 12 months began on November one million. on the evening in the previous the hot 12 months they might build a extensive bonfire for a pageant stated as Samhain and that they might conceal themselves and go around with gourds carved out with candles interior(thus got here the jack-o-lantern) and that they might knock on doorways and ask particular people for particular meals. (some say if the persons did not have the meals, they may well be killed and sacrificed to the solar god.) So trick or treating is going decrease back to soliciting for meals and if not getting it, some thing undesirable might ensue. The church in the time of that element desperate to handle it so as that they created "All Saints Day" on October 31, which grew to alter into regularly occurring as "All Hallowed's Eve" which ultimately grew to become into "Hallowe's Eve" and now "Halloween"
2016-10-16 13:33:13 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You basically dress up as something scary, go up to people's doors, say "Trick or Treat" and they give you candy. Although I don't know if it's changed or not, I haven't done it in quite a while.
2006-10-30 08:03:20 · answer #5 · answered by rokkon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my neck of the woods, you put your porch light on as a signal that you are participating, and then prepare for the little pukes to come hollering "give us candy"!!!
Buy candy that you like to eat, cuz sometimes you'll get 100's, sometimes only 10 kids.
Don't hand anything out that is homemade, they'll just throw it out.
2006-10-30 08:02:34 · answer #6 · answered by Munya Says: DUH! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm new as well. I have no clue why it's "Trick or Treat" like it's an option but you're SUPPOSED to give gandy. Well then that's the "treat"... What if i choose trick then?
2006-10-30 08:06:10 · answer #7 · answered by dandii_smb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloween is a fun day. Very popular with adults and children. I believe it started out for children to reward them and give them a special day, but us adults like to have fun, too. So, parties, dressing up, etc. is o.k. It makes us feel young.
2006-10-30 08:02:34 · answer #8 · answered by tobeyp2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually the kids just put on a costume and go house to house. Some places have special days for it, but most go on the 31st. after dinner.
2006-10-30 08:02:57 · answer #9 · answered by wish I were 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dress the kids up in costumes and go door to door saying tick or treat and people give them candy
2006-10-30 08:02:46 · answer #10 · answered by me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋