Trick-or-treat as a kid is the most magical night of the year. Dressing up and going from house to house getting candy was absolutely one of the best nights of the year growing up.
Don’t get me wrong I still love Halloween now that I am an adult; a little too much according to my mother. Every year I still dress up in custom, decorate my home and take part in all of the Halloween activities.
As a kid going out trick-or-treating was one of my favorite events of the holiday. But now that I am on the other side of the door handing out the candy a little bit of the magic of trick-or-treat has vanished.
The first Halloween I was out of school, I didn’t get the chance to participate in trick-or-treat on Halloween night because I was traveling and then the second year was the pandemic which frankly was a lost year for us all.
Which means that last Halloween was truly the first one that I was the one on the other side of the door handing out candy and listening for a knock at my door.
Now I live in an apartment building that gives every resident an orange paper sign to tape to the door to let the children in the building know that it’s OK to trick-or-treat at that apartment.
I think that night I had made 5 or 6 trick-or-treaters in total for the whole night; mainly the ones who live on my floor and a few who were clearly going to every floor in the building.
