Our saw sign here in NC from other denominations for Trunk or treat this year, so it is definitely not a Mormon thing. Also, definitley best to trunk or treat for fellowship and then trick or treat in your neighborhood to be a good neighboor and get to know each other. Our family did both on the same night, church and neighborhood.

If you live in PA near Harrisburg you never trick or treat on Halloween night anyway. Go figure. It is always the Thursday before or something. and that’s nit a mormon things.

I bet you tell girls scouts that you don’t have any money for cookies too.

I’ve already told my daughters they won’t be trick-or-treating on Sunday. I feel like a mean mom, but I haven’t been active in the church for most of their lives. I have an 11-year-old who doesn’t feel very strong in the church and that’s my fault.

I’m hoping our ward will do trunk or treat.

I like the idea someone mentioned of bringing family history into it.

My other idea, which I haven’t mentioned to anyone because I probably won’t follow through, is to have a little Halloween party at our house on Saturday. Too much work!

Trunk-or-Treat was also a tradition in my ward in Washington. Maybe it’s one of those “Mormon traditions” that’s spread across the country? There are plenty of those, anyway.

Our ward is organizing a trunk-or-treat this year for the entire community. We’ve included the two other contiguous wards, invited the other Christian denominations in the area, and plastered fliers on every door in the neighborhood (with a plan to re-plaster early in Halloween week) and in every retail business. It’s being held in the parking lot of the municipal park. In short, we’ve done everything possible to make sure this is NOT a clannish and exclusionary event. All we’re doing is getting the ball rolling on a community celebration.

Only part of the impetus is the Sunday Halloween this year. The other part is that too neighbors are retirees who don’t want to be getting up to the door all evening, and too many are young partygoers who won’t be home. Last year my kids found someone home giving out candy at about every fifth door, and it was so bitterly cold and drizzly that they almost had frostbite after two blocks. So the trunk-or-treat’s got my vote all the way ’round.

And if anyone comes by on Sunday, I can be reasonably sure that they’re trolling from outside the neighborhood. I’ll tell them, “Sorry — we gave out all of our candy last night, and I ate all the leftovers.” Which will be true, likely as not.

(And thanks to Bryce for the shout-out on my shrunken apple heads; be sure to check back later as they acquire more personality with age, like most of us.)