You could celebrate All Saints Day or have a Fall Festival if you wanted to do candy.

We do not. We have our own party the next day. I suppose if my neighbors were more naturally good and there were not as many public school kids, or even if I liked and trusted my neighbors, I might consider it. For us, it opens to many doors that we would like to keep closed.

Please take time during this satanic time, including the weeks leading up to "Halloween" to pray for the children who are being tortured and sɛҳuąƖly assaulted as part of this "celebration."

I hate Halloween more each year.  It seems as if it is becoming the national holiday of America. I was already sick of it before we had kids.

 But, circuмstances force me to allow my kids to go trick-or-treating.

So, we bear in mind that Halloween is the Vigil of All Saint's Day.  This means no candy until the next day.  We drive to the nicest, safest, calmest neighborhood possible--where the adults opening the doors handing out candy are usually older, very conscious of being kind, polite and generous.  The candy givers appreciate the good manners my kids show.  We never, ever knock on any door where the decorations look satanic or in "off" in any way.  Many store-bought costumes are so horrible, our kids rake in extra candy because the people seem to like the old-fashioned kind.

So, that's just me making the best of something I don't like to do.  If I were a millionaire, I'd jet off to the islands for that night.

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You could celebrate All Saints Day or have a Fall Festival if you wanted to do candy.

So, I take it you would not allow your children to trick-or-treat on the night of October 31, even if their costumes were otherwise acceptable?

I wouldn't but at the same time I probably wouldn't make a big fuss if grandma wanted to take them around the block during daylight hours. We always did a fall festival at a protestant church as an alternative.

Halloween has NO religious meaning in NYC except for Satanists, maybe. All Saints Day has been hijacked by the fαɢs.  They use it to mock Christians, Catholics, in particular.  I went once, out of curiosity, as a Protestant, to the Greenwich Village Halloween parade.  Had to leave after about five minutes.  It was a gross public display of blasphemy and perversion.  If I ever go again, it will be with a large group of Catholics equipped with Our Lady's Rosary.  The funding for it this year has fallen on hard times.  Please pray it is cancelled!  Our Lady of Victory, St. Michael, pray for us!
I have no children, but if I did, they would not go trick or treating.  My neighborhood has many Muslims who despise Halloween and most people live in apartment buildings, so nobody goes trick or treating in residential areas.  Some businesses do participate.  If so, they place a sign on the sidewalk indicating they are giving out candy.  I suppose it's a way to get parents to come in and buy merchandise.  A lot of vandalism and general mischief occurs at night by teens, gangs.  I always leave my car locked in a friend's garage and take the subway to work on All Saint's Day. In the past, I've had nasty things painted on it, windows smashed, radio stolen, etc.  It's a good night to stay home and have a holy hour of reparation.  My school where I teach, nondenominational, basically Protestant, does not observe Halloween.

My kids all went trick or treating.  My grand kids don't.  My children have more sense than I did on this issue.  However, it was a different world then, even though it was not really so long ago.