In my neighborhood, Halloween is used as a way to get people to open their doors to home invaders posing as trick-or-treaters. Every year these thugs ruin it for hundreds of kids and dozens of good people get robbed and beaten. At our house we have a tradition similar to the easter bunny, where the "great pumpkin" brings baskets of candy for our own kids. As for the trick-or-treaters that still make the rounds, unfortunately, we turn off the porch lights, douse the jack-o- lantern and don't answer the door. Sad but true....
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