For us, for Halloween: picture it. End of October. 9,000' up on top of a mountain in the middle of a forest. There are kids in the neighborhood, but not many: my next door neighbor is the school superintendent. What they do is the village puts on a little festival with a costume contest and the shops giving out candy and stuff like that. It's a lot safer for the kids and the parents don't have to worry about their kids freezing in the event of early snow, or having to bundle cold weather gear under costumes.
The only time we turn our porch light on is if we're going out and coming back during a new moon or stormy weather, or if we're expecting visitors, which is pretty much never.
In the 12 or 13 years that I've been up here, we've never had kids come to the door.
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For us, for Halloween: picture it. End of October. 9,000' up on top of a mountain in the middle of a forest. There are kids in the neighborhood, but not many: my next door neighbor is the school superintendent. What they do is the village puts on a little festival with a costume contest and the shops giving out candy and stuff like that. It's a lot safer for the kids and the parents don't have to worry about their kids freezing in the event of early snow, or having to bundle cold weather gear under costumes. The only time we turn our porch light on is if we're going out and coming back during a new moon or stormy weather, or if we're expecting visitors, which is pretty much never. In the 12 or 13 years that I've been up here, we've never had kids come to the door.