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Best neighborhoods to trick or treat in the shoals?

M monicaabbeysmomMember
Anyone have any favorite places to trick or treat in the shoals? It seems like so many neighborhoods have more and more dark houses and so many people are going to trunk or treats only. Seems like it would be fun to find a nice neighborhood where most of the residents participate. I would love any suggestions.
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S SeaweedPost Master
How bout every kid trick-or-treading in their own neighborhood ! The neighbors all know the local kids, and enjoy seeing them all dressed up. Also, your own house won't be blacked out while you haul your kid across town.

I always enjoyed putting on a costume, putting a strobe light behind me in the hallway and passing out candy to the kinda scared kids. Enjoyed seeing them all dressed up. Now, kids I never saw before in my life are showing up. I guess our neighborhood is a good one, but we will be going out to a party and our house will be black this year.
T TheTotalTruthHall of Famer
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Originally posted by Gypsee:
now, brooks is doing a trunk or treat at the fball game fri nite...i thought they made that up? what exactly is a trunk or treat?


Some Churches and schools in my area have cars park in the lot with treats in their trunks.... everyone knows everyone and their kids,,, so they just go from car to car for their treats.... it is like a big happy family!... and so much fun to see all the little ones all dressed up.....
M monicaabbeysmomMember
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How bout every kid trick-or-treading in their own neighborhood ! The neighbors all know the local kids, and enjoy seeing them all dressed up. Also, your own house won't be blacked out while you haul your kid across town. .


I would love to be able to trick or treat in my neighborhood, but we live in a rural area and don't actually have a neighborhood LOL. The few houses that are on our road don't pass out candy and even if they did... we would have to drive down the road and pull into and out of drive ways into oncoming traffice as it is too far between houses, plus we live right on a major road and it would be too dangerous. Also when I take someone trick or treating anywhere.. my house does have someone available to pass out candy if we had any trick or treaters which we never had in the almost twenty years we have lived here. I am not advocating trying to take advantage of others who live in a neighborhood I just wanted to take my child to a neighborhood where we could park our car and walk from home to home. Sorry if I offended anyone.. it wasn't meant too
D dntblnkEverybody Knows My Name
In Muscle Shoals, there is Jackson Heights. Hundreds upon hundreds of kids, teenagers and parents are all dressed up and walking the streets. Most people park at the Baptist Church there on Avalon and walk about 4 or 5 streets in Jackson Heights. It's like it was when my wife and I were kids. And our kids love it.
I ILuvSchnauzersEverybody Knows My Name
I live in muscle shoals and our neighborhood get lots of kids. My main thing is that people don't decorate like they used to when I was a kid. So my husband and I decided this year we would. We put out the cobwebs, mad a grave yard w/ a skeleton in it, had monsters hang up, and we had it all spot lighted. We had a lot of compliments on it and I think the kids really enjoyed it.

But we did have one trick or treater ask us if we were Christians? Yes we are why? B/c my parents say you aren't b/c of decorating and that my parents said that ya'll over did it!

I was shocked, if the parents felt that way then why was this little girl at my house trick or treating or trick or treating at all??? I thought it was rude! Other than that, we had a blast and we think that the kids like the deco. too!
E Eye-gorHall of Famer
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Originally posted by ILuvSchnauzers:
I live in muscle shoals and our neighborhood get lots of kids. My main thing is that people don't decorate like they used to when I was a kid. So my husband and I decided this year we would. We put out the cobwebs, mad a grave yard w/ a skeleton in it, had monsters hang up, and we had it all spot lighted. We had a lot of compliments on it and I think the kids really enjoyed it.

But we did have one trick or treater ask us if we were Christians? Yes we are why? B/c my parents say you aren't b/c of decorating and that my parents said that ya'll over did it!

I was shocked, if the parents felt that way then why was this little girl at my house trick or treating or trick or treating at all??? I thought it was rude! Other than that, we had a blast and we think that the kids like the deco. too!


That child would have received a rock at my house.
K knowandtellEverybody Knows My Name
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Originally posted by monicaabbeysmom:
Anyone have any favorite places to trick or treat in the shoals? It seems like so many neighborhoods have more and more dark houses and so many people are going to trunk or treats only. Seems like it would be fun to find a nice neighborhood where most of the residents participate. I would love any suggestions.

Red Face Mad Fun? For who, lady? Why don't you stroll your own neighborhood or just go out and buy your kid some candy and stay at home?!
Neighbors enjoy treating their neighborhood children -- not every kid in the Shoals area whom they don't know.
Go to your church's fall festival -- not everybody elses' church festival. Beggers teaching their kids to be beggers in the name of "fun"? You've got to be kidding. We love our neighbors children and expect to treat them when they come by. We don't like for total strangers to show up, gobble up all they can get their hands on and expect us to think their kids are cute. We don't know your kid and don't want to help support you in teaching them they are entitled to ask strangers for favors.
Stop burning your gas to come to our house and our neighborhood. You are an embarrassment to the folks who stand there handing out candy to somebody they don't even know and would never invite to their home.
One neighborhood in Tuscumbia was swamped with people from all over the county -- Cherokee, Florence, you name it. They parked all over the place and people could not get to their own houses because of folks like you. Over 300 men, women and kids walked the streets "BEGGING" before 6:30 p.m. Do you know how expensive that is on our families whom you expect to host your kids to stuff you need to buy and stay home to hand out to your neighbors?
BE ashamed! You're not wanted in our neighborhood nor our town. We know who lives in Tuscumbia and those fat cigarette smoking, tatooed older kids and MEN and women are not entitled to capitalize on excuses of "having fun with the kids."
Next year, expect to see a roadblock leading into our subdivision with observers to call the police when traffic begins to impede on our ability to drive up our own streets to our homes. Tags will be noted and our neighborhood watch group will alert house-to-house to stand by the rule: WE ONLY TREAT THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS SUBDIVISION AND YOU'RE NOT ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS.
You will be told that our treats are for OUR neighbors only! Cruel? Not one bit -- if you have the nerve to impose on us, we're going to have the nerve to get you out off our streets and out of our driveways and yards.
lynnblountlynnblountHall of Famer
Quote from Knowandtell
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Go to your church's fall festival -- not everybody elses' church festival. Beggers teaching their kids to be beggers in the name of "fun"? You've got to be kidding. We love our neighbors children and expect to treat them when they come by. We don't like for total strangers to show up, gobble up all they can get their hands on and expect us to think their kids are cute. We don't know your kid and don't want to help support you in teaching them they are entitled to ask strangers for favors.


All the churches I know of use their fall festivals as an outreach tool and WANT non-members to come.
BellaSwanBellaSwanHall of Famer
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Originally posted by knowandtell:
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Originally posted by monicaabbeysmom:
Anyone have any favorite places to trick or treat in the shoals? It seems like so many neighborhoods have more and more dark houses and so many people are going to trunk or treats only. Seems like it would be fun to find a nice neighborhood where most of the residents participate. I would love any suggestions.

Red Face Mad Fun? For who, lady? Why don't you stroll your own neighborhood or just go out and buy your kid some candy and stay at home?!
Neighbors enjoy treating their neighborhood children -- not every kid in the Shoals area whom they don't know.
Go to your church's fall festival -- not everybody elses' church festival. Beggers teaching their kids to be beggers in the name of "fun"? You've got to be kidding. We love our neighbors children and expect to treat them when they come by. We don't like for total strangers to show up, gobble up all they can get their hands on and expect us to think their kids are cute. We don't know your kid and don't want to help support you in teaching them they are entitled to ask strangers for favors.
Stop burning your gas to come to our house and our neighborhood. You are an embarrassment to the folks who stand there handing out candy to somebody they don't even know and would never invite to their home.
One neighborhood in Tuscumbia was swamped with people from all over the county -- Cherokee, Florence, you name it. They parked all over the place and people could not get to their own houses because of folks like you. Over 300 men, women and kids walked the streets "BEGGING" before 6:30 p.m. Do you know how expensive that is on our families whom you expect to host your kids to stuff you need to buy and stay home to hand out to your neighbors?
BE ashamed! You're not wanted in our neighborhood nor our town. We know who lives in Tuscumbia and those fat cigarette smoking, tatooed older kids and MEN and women are not entitled to capitalize on excuses of "having fun with the kids."
Next year, expect to see a roadblock leading into our subdivision with observers to call the police when traffic begins to impede on our ability to drive up our own streets to our homes. Tags will be noted and our neighborhood watch group will alert house-to-house to stand by the rule: WE ONLY TREAT THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS SUBDIVISION AND YOU'RE NOT ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS.
You will be told that our treats are for OUR neighbors only! Cruel? Not one bit -- if you have the nerve to impose on us, we're going to have the nerve to get you out off our streets and out of our driveways and yards.


Whew, take a chill pill. I could feel your anger from your post! I think the person who started this topic just wanted advice. If it's such a financial burden on your family or others, simply cut off the light on your porch and lock your doors. Halloween is very fun for children and scrooges like you ruin it. BTW, trick or treating is NOT begging!

Lynn, you are correct about that. Our church does gain more visitors and members after things like "trunk or treat" and Fall Festivals.
unclegusunclegusOld Faithful
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Originally posted by knowandtell:
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Originally posted by monicaabbeysmom:
Anyone have any favorite places to trick or treat in the shoals? It seems like so many neighborhoods have more and more dark houses and so many people are going to trunk or treats only. Seems like it would be fun to find a nice neighborhood where most of the residents participate. I would love any suggestions.

Red Face Mad Fun? For who, lady? Why don't you stroll your own neighborhood or just go out and buy your kid some candy and stay at home?!
Neighbors enjoy treating their neighborhood children -- not every kid in the Shoals area whom they don't know.
Go to your church's fall festival -- not everybody elses' church festival. Beggers teaching their kids to be beggers in the name of "fun"? You've got to be kidding. We love our neighbors children and expect to treat them when they come by. We don't like for total strangers to show up, gobble up all they can get their hands on and expect us to think their kids are cute. We don't know your kid and don't want to help support you in teaching them they are entitled to ask strangers for favors.
Stop burning your gas to come to our house and our neighborhood. You are an embarrassment to the folks who stand there handing out candy to somebody they don't even know and would never invite to their home.
One neighborhood in Tuscumbia was swamped with people from all over the county -- Cherokee, Florence, you name it. They parked all over the place and people could not get to their own houses because of folks like you. Over 300 men, women and kids walked the streets "BEGGING" before 6:30 p.m. Do you know how expensive that is on our families whom you expect to host your kids to stuff you need to buy and stay home to hand out to your neighbors?
BE ashamed! You're not wanted in our neighborhood nor our town. We know who lives in Tuscumbia and those fat cigarette smoking, tatooed older kids and MEN and women are not entitled to capitalize on excuses of "having fun with the kids."
Next year, expect to see a roadblock leading into our subdivision with observers to call the police when traffic begins to impede on our ability to drive up our own streets to our homes. Tags will be noted and our neighborhood watch group will alert house-to-house to stand by the rule: WE ONLY TREAT THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS SUBDIVISION AND YOU'RE NOT ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS.
You will be told that our treats are for OUR neighbors only! Cruel? Not one bit -- if you have the nerve to impose on us, we're going to have the nerve to get you out off our streets and out of our driveways and yards.


I'm loading all my cars with as many kids as I can find and going to Tuscumbia next year!
2_each_its_own2_each_its_ownHall of Famer
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Originally posted by knowandtell:
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Originally posted by monicaabbeysmom:
Anyone have any favorite places to trick or treat in the shoals? It seems like so many neighborhoods have more and more dark houses and so many people are going to trunk or treats only. Seems like it would be fun to find a nice neighborhood where most of the residents participate. I would love any suggestions.

Red Face Mad Fun? For who, lady? Why don't you stroll your own neighborhood or just go out and buy your kid some candy and stay at home?!
Neighbors enjoy treating their neighborhood children -- not every kid in the Shoals area whom they don't know.
Go to your church's fall festival -- not everybody elses' church festival. Beggers teaching their kids to be beggers in the name of "fun"? You've got to be kidding. We love our neighbors children and expect to treat them when they come by. We don't like for total strangers to show up, gobble up all they can get their hands on and expect us to think their kids are cute. We don't know your kid and don't want to help support you in teaching them they are entitled to ask strangers for favors.
Stop burning your gas to come to our house and our neighborhood. You are an embarrassment to the folks who stand there handing out candy to somebody they don't even know and would never invite to their home.
One neighborhood in Tuscumbia was swamped with people from all over the county -- Cherokee, Florence, you name it. They parked all over the place and people could not get to their own houses because of folks like you. Over 300 men, women and kids walked the streets "BEGGING" before 6:30 p.m. Do you know how expensive that is on our families whom you expect to host your kids to stuff you need to buy and stay home to hand out to your neighbors?
BE ashamed! You're not wanted in our neighborhood nor our town. We know who lives in Tuscumbia and those fat cigarette smoking, tatooed older kids and MEN and women are not entitled to capitalize on excuses of "having fun with the kids."
Next year, expect to see a roadblock leading into our subdivision with observers to call the police when traffic begins to impede on our ability to drive up our own streets to our homes. Tags will be noted and our neighborhood watch group will alert house-to-house to stand by the rule: WE ONLY TREAT THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS SUBDIVISION AND YOU'RE NOT ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS.
You will be told that our treats are for OUR neighbors only! Cruel? Not one bit -- if you have the nerve to impose on us, we're going to have the nerve to get you out off our streets and out of our driveways and yards.




Who pee'd in your cheerios? Roll Eyes
KILINTIMEKILINTIMEEverybody Knows My Name
knowandtell....you must've really had a bad experience with Halloween before!?!? Trick or treating is NOT begging! I welcome our neighborhood to whomever would like to come trick or treating....I love seeing the little kids all dressed up! I wish I knew exactly where you lived....I would load up a trailer load full of kids and bring them to your neighborhood. On second thought, no I wouldn't...I want all the kids that I know to grow up with a good experience of Halloween and not have the same attitude that you do!!!!!
kimberleehelkimberleehelHall of Famer
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Originally posted by knowandtell:
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Originally posted by monicaabbeysmom:
Anyone have any favorite places to trick or treat in the shoals? It seems like so many neighborhoods have more and more dark houses and so many people are going to trunk or treats only. Seems like it would be fun to find a nice neighborhood where most of the residents participate. I would love any suggestions.

Red Face Mad Fun? For who, lady? Why don't you stroll your own neighborhood or just go out and buy your kid some candy and stay at home?!
Neighbors enjoy treating their neighborhood children -- not every kid in the Shoals area whom they don't know.
Go to your church's fall festival -- not everybody elses' church festival. Beggers teaching their kids to be beggers in the name of "fun"? You've got to be kidding. We love our neighbors children and expect to treat them when they come by. We don't like for total strangers to show up, gobble up all they can get their hands on and expect us to think their kids are cute. We don't know your kid and don't want to help support you in teaching them they are entitled to ask strangers for favors.
Stop burning your gas to come to our house and our neighborhood. You are an embarrassment to the folks who stand there handing out candy to somebody they don't even know and would never invite to their home.
One neighborhood in Tuscumbia was swamped with people from all over the county -- Cherokee, Florence, you name it. They parked all over the place and people could not get to their own houses because of folks like you. Over 300 men, women and kids walked the streets "BEGGING" before 6:30 p.m. Do you know how expensive that is on our families whom you expect to host your kids to stuff you need to buy and stay home to hand out to your neighbors?
BE ashamed! You're not wanted in our neighborhood nor our town. We know who lives in Tuscumbia and those fat cigarette smoking, tatooed older kids and MEN and women are not entitled to capitalize on excuses of "having fun with the kids."
Next year, expect to see a roadblock leading into our subdivision with observers to call the police when traffic begins to impede on our ability to drive up our own streets to our homes. Tags will be noted and our neighborhood watch group will alert house-to-house to stand by the rule: WE ONLY TREAT THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS SUBDIVISION AND YOU'RE NOT ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS.
You will be told that our treats are for OUR neighbors only! Cruel? Not one bit -- if you have the nerve to impose on us, we're going to have the nerve to get you out off our streets and out of our driveways and yards.



By all means, don't take your children to see Santa, others might construe it as begging..

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