It's honestly so depressing. I live in a giant apartment block and we do trick or treating amongst all the apartments in the building. Basically you sign up, get a door tag, and kids will show up to your door and you give them candy. Very normal. When I moved here there were dozens of apartments that signed up for this. This year so far there are 3. My apartment building has 230+ units. Literally just over 1% of apartments are now willing to give out candy to kids. Grim.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Haven't had trick or treaters in 7 years across 3 different apartments and multiple states. Just 1 fairy princess around Year 5 and had to scramble to find some stickers to give her. Everyone does the trunk or treat stuff now, which made sense for little kids, but is also sad because it turns it into a sectioned off activity that you drive to and then go home.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's capitalism yes but it's also the encroachment on Halloween by Christmas

The so called "War on Christmas" is a lie but it is also projection from the perpetrators of the very real War on Halloween

I have joined the War on Halloween on the side of Halloween

I am Halloweenpilled, Spookypilled and Skellingtonpilled

I am ready to do jihad for Halloweentown and become Jack Skellington

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

hat-kid-dance uphold, empower and enforce halloween

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

I tried to buy candy yesterday and the candy canes had already replaced the halloween candy. Awful.

[–] Edamamebean@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

To be fair it also feels different because its 24 degrees out and people are wearing shorts and tank tops and I'm sweating in my Halloween costume

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's 27 here today. The trees go from green to brown without passing through colors.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

26 (80°F for the Americabrained) today here in Ohio. The trees outside my window always took up brilliant yellows and reds these past few years, but this year they too went straight from green to brown and/or gone.

We've been in a D1 "moderate" drought since August, so between that and the abnormally hot temps (it should be around 7 to 10 degrees by now), the trees are just flat out dying this year.

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was going to solve this by dressing up as Luffy, but I forgot to grab a straw hat and a red vest

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Shirtless, hatless Luffy is a thing. Just go all out on the chest scar

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Still capitalism tho.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I've lost the battle with misanthropy. it's not even fun to talk to people anymore because they'll drop some sort of clueless class-unconscious take like this and then blame you if you explain why they feel bad

[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

person covered head to toe in lampreys: I don't know, I just feel so drained

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

Lib shit aside, shit really does feel completely wrong and empty now.

[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Halloween is my favorite holiday...

I guess I must say was because every year I do less and less. It feels pointless. Why bother.

I hate it. I wanna dress up as a gorilla and chase people around like I used to when I lived in a walkable community where we knew our neighbors. Now though I'd just be some fuckin freak. I don't think a single trick or treater stopped at our house last year. Ugh

[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just for some amount of levity, a tale of Halloween past: the year one of my friends dressed in a banana costume and threw bananas at people while another friend dressed as a gorilla and chased him and we all drunkenly chortled

[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Peak performance. I miss it. Next year I gotta atleast do something.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

people wouldn't be saying this if they were making homemade candy corn bat fursuits out of EVA foam 🙄

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

mfw Trunk or Treat is a thing sadness

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

It's Halloween in July and Christmas in September.

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Seriously, all the stores and media and commercials and ads are getting people hyped up about Christmas by now and people don't get into the Halloween spirit and the Christmas spirit at the same time.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

For one thing, it was 80 fucking degrees today in the DMV.

It should be borderline about to snow. That would be a "normal" pattern. Ya know, the kind we haven't had in 20 years.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

lmao I honestly didn't realize today was Halloween

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

This is the first year I wasn't able to do a Halloween staycation. Also (selfishly) sad to miss out on some stuff I was looking forward to because I got praxis stuff to do. Jealous of the libs in these moments.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

covid obviously

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