Trump's first EO...

[mattndallas]

Move DST back to October week before Halloween.

Whole generation of soft kids that only trick or treat in the daylight.

8pm, just got dark, and it's basically dead. 😄

 

[UncleMark]

Move DST back to October week before Halloween.

Whole generation of soft kids that only trick or treat in the daylight.

8pm, just got dark, and it's basically dead. 😄

Bah! Humbug!

 

[GeorgeStrait IU]

Move DST back to October week before Halloween.

Whole generation of soft kids that only trick or treat in the daylight.

8pm, just got dark, and it's basically dead. 😄

Idk if its just where i'm at but over last 10+ years rhere seems to be a huge dropoff in amount of kids who do go tricker treating. Back in 1980s and 1990s it seems like they were everywhere. Not so much today. I did see a couple kids earlier dressed up but staring at their phone instead of the house to house dash. Took 5 minutes to make 3 houses. Weak sauce!

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Idk if its just where i'm at but over last 10+ years rhere seems to be a huge dropoff in amount of kids who do go tricker treating. Back in 1980s and 1990s it seems like they were everywhere. Not so much today. I did see a couple kids earlier dressed up but staring at their phone instead of the house to house dash. Took 5 minutes to make 3 houses. Weak sauce!

We had a lot of kids in our neighborhood. My disappointment was the number of houses participating. Maybe 1/3 were handing out candy. It seems many quit during COVID and never went back.

But the correct answer is to eliminate DST. It is a stupid law built upon a faulty premise; that it saves energy. We can go to year round standard time, year round DST, it doesn't matter. Just stop messing with the time.

 

[sweetsilence]

the idea goes all the way back to Ben Franklin. but i agree its outdated.

Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Savings Time?

The creation of DST is usually credited to George Vernon Hudson, but 100 years earlier, Benjamin Franklin pondered a similar question

www.smithsonianmag.com

We had a lot of kids in our neighborhood. My disappointment was the number of houses participating. Maybe 1/3 were handing out candy. It seems many quit during COVID and never went back.

But the correct answer is to eliminate DST. It is a stupid law built upon a faulty premise; that it saves energy. We can go to year round standard time, year round DST, it doesn't matter. Just stop messing with the time.

 

[dbmhoosier]

Move DST back to October week before Halloween.

Whole generation of soft kids that only trick or treat in the daylight.

8pm, just got dark, and it's basically dead. 😄

First EO will be to fix the ice cream machines at McDonald's. He made Joe a promise to win his vote.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

Idk if its just where i'm at but over last 10+ years rhere seems to be a huge dropoff in amount of kids who do go tricker treating. Back in 1980s and 1990s it seems like they were everywhere. Not so much today. I did see a couple kids earlier dressed up but staring at their phone instead of the house to house dash. Took 5 minutes to make 3 houses. Weak sauce!

Since we (and a whole lot of other families) live in the country, we went to my daughter's best friends neighborhood to trick or treat with them.

There were kids EVERYWHERE with houses all lit up. We made it down four streets by the time it was time to quit, half hour each street.

It's not a issue, but the things she got were out there. These are five houses in a row... first gave hot chocolate (it was 65 degrees out and my kid was sweating), $1, a pack of Roman noodles, then some pokemon cards and the final house, given by a guy dressed as Happy the Hobo (Fort Wayne people will know who that is - also had a guy dressed as Froggy with the whole stand built and all that Froggy was behind), gave out potatoes. One lady, who was giving out candy, offered the grown-ups a beer (of course I took it).

I didn't know if we were trick or treating or prepping at that point.

 

[IUCrazy2]

Move DST back to October week before Halloween.

Whole generation of soft kids that only trick or treat in the daylight.

8pm, just got dark, and it's basically dead. 😄

Just get rid of DST altogether.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

the idea goes all the way back to Ben Franklin. but i agree its outdated.

Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Savings Time?

The creation of DST is usually credited to George Vernon Hudson, but 100 years earlier, Benjamin Franklin pondered a similar question

www.smithsonianmag.com

True, but it was WW1 Germany that began implementing the idea

America, taking ideas from the losers

 

[hoot1]

Move DST back to October week before Halloween.

Whole generation of soft kids that only trick or treat in the daylight.

8pm, just got dark, and it's basically dead. 😄

Looking back to Halloween, as a kid, the fun part was putting together a costumes as a family project. To my pleasure residents would often make a comment on my costume.

Buying or renting a costume didn't exist. That would eliminate the fun of creating your own new identity.

Biggest disappointment last night was the lack of originality in the costumes with many not even having a costume.

As to an Executive Order on Halloween, should be on a weekend. Working parents coming home at dinner time and taking the kids out to beg for candy (which they shouldn't eat in the first place) doesn't sound like a wholesome fun time for a family to me.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Looking back to Halloween, as a kid, the fun part was putting together a costumes as a family project. To my pleasure residents would often make a comment on my costume.

Buying or renting a costume didn't exist. That would eliminate the fun of creating your own new identity.

Biggest disappointment last night was the lack of originality in the costumes with many not even having a costume.

As to an Executive Order on Halloween, should be on a weekend. Working parents coming home at dinner time and taking the kids out to beg for candy (which they shouldn't eat in the first place) doesn't sound like a wholesome fun time for a family to me.

Something in your post made me think about Des Moines. They don't trick or treat on Halloween but the night before except this year when storm warnings moved it back a day. They call the 30th "beggars night". The kids are expected to go around and recite a couple of lines of verse, sing, or tell jokes, in return they get candy. This started in the 30s after Halloween vandalism became too much for the town.

 

[BCCHoosier]

We had a lot of kids in our neighborhood. My disappointment was the number of houses participating. Maybe 1/3 were handing out candy. It seems many quit during COVID and never went back.

But the correct answer is to eliminate DST. It is a stupid law built upon a faulty premise; that it saves energy. We can go to year round standard time, year round DST, it doesn't matter. Just stop messing with the time.

Agree. A lot of the older folks I work with said they were turning off their lights or going out for the night to avoid it. Others with young kids said they were both walking with them so would not be handing out candy.

When are kids were young one of us always stayed home to hang out candy.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

Agree. A lot of the older folks I work with said they were turning off their lights or going out for the night to avoid it. Others with young kids said they were both walking with them so would not be handing out candy.

When are kids were young one of us always stayed home to hang out candy.

When I was a kid, my grandparents had just moved from a neighborhood in Fort Wayne to a place in the country outside of Columbia City. They were big Halloween people.

We went out there like a week after Halloween. We walked into the house and my grandpa had whole bags of candy with our names on them. My dad asked him why each kid had a bag, which he replied my grandma had purchased the candy thinking kids would be coming by for trick or treat. He said he looked at her and asked which kids, there wasn't a house within a half mile of them and their house was a good 1000 feet from the road with no light visible.

Such a good memory.

 

[SqueakyClean]

We had about 75 kids last night.
I agree about the lack of originality in costumes. about 10 to 15% not even in costume.
The thing that has annoyed me most is that God apparently hates Halloween in central Ohio. We have had crappy weather for something like 10 years straight. Here in central Ohio, we have had an extremely dry late summer / Fall. Borderline drought conditions. It has literally only rained 4 days in the last 2.5 months (and 2 of those were because of the hurricane remnants). So naturally, it had to rain last night. I actually preferred last year when it started snowing for a few minutes.

I buy $200 worth of candy. I give out two handfuls of candy to each kid. If they are 12 and under, I give them a math question (addition or multiplication) for the chance for double candy (four handfuls). Kids over 12 have to name the state capitol of the state I choose for double candy. I ended the night with two pieces of candy (I admit, I had to drop down to one / two handfulls of candy.....early bird gets the worm).