What do you mean “just around the corner”? I have already been holiday shopping for a while now (mostly the unusual gift finds)

I immediately need more!!! This looks incredible. Also I want that dress. Well and a body it would look good on, but I love that dress!

I mean 17th.

For me, Halloween “season” starts September 1st and lasts until sometime in November when I can finally be bothered to take down the decorations.

Halloween is October 31st.

Good lord, Kevin. Halloween always on a Tuesday? Half-hour only? Forget killjoy, you’re a fucking monster. Do what you want to your own kids and the rest of us cool parents will allow our kids this one night to go crazy. It won’t kill them.

Actually, it’s more of a 5 to 2 ratio. As a former proprietor of “That Scary House That Gives Out Full Size Candy Bars,” I can assure you Friday and Saturday Halloweens are both pretty busy. (Sundays are still pretty mellow, though.) The biggest difference is the teens are out a lot later - the really littles are…

It needs to stick to the 31st. Halloween celebrations happen throughout October up until the 2nd of November. You can get your fill of it while still waiting for that one day to actually trick or treat. We never had issues trick or treating in the dark. In fact, my friends and I usually waited until it was dark to…

I worked for a Halloween event for a few years. My Halloween started in September and went until the first week of November.

And Kevin, why don’t you just limit the amount of candy your kid can eat on Halloween night?  It doesn’t have to be 30 minutes for that.  You can limit his trick-or-treating time, or just not let him inhale a bag of candy.

“Plus, that’s leaves a whole Sunday to eat leftover candy and watch football.”

Is there a counter-petition? Because the more I think about this the more against it I become.

Look, my friends throw adult Halloween parties, and I do enjoy them more and more as I get older and older. But you don’t need the actual holiday to be on a Saturday to throw a dang Halloween party on the weekend. Leave the actual holiday for the kids to go out and do fun kid things, man.

To me, the big thing isn’t what day it is. Shoot, make it a week long event, I don’t care. The big thing is what time does it end. Come 8:30, and I gonna start sorting through what’s left in the bowl to take all the Reeses and Twix. Don’t come knocking at 8:45 and expect anything less horrifying than a fat guy covered…

Keep it on the date, don’t make it an “x weekday of a month” holiday. Having it cycle through the week means that there are the mellower weeknight Halloweens, then every so often there are weekend Halloweens, that are more tolerable because it’s not every year and one is more prepared. Switching to an “always on a…

Halloween should be removed from the calendar entirely if it’s gonna be like this, it’s being ruined by adults trying to “fix” it. Halloween should be October 31st, and Daylight Saving Time ending should never have been pushed forward from Nov to Oct to ensure that kids are Trick-or-Treating in daylight (this is…

Same. Halloween is far better when it falls on a weekday. DINKs get to have a drink, watch Fear Fest, pass out candy. Parents get to be parents.

This is the correct answer.

For kids: Last Thursday of October, from 6-8 p.m. If your porch light is on, you have candy.

Oh, you sweet, summer children. Halloween begins in the second-to-last week of October and ends during the first week of November.