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Post by compeateropeator on Oct 31, 2015 15:20:21 GMT
It is cabbage night in my area.
It doesn't seem like it we have the problems/pranks/destruction these days like we did when I was a kid...which is good. Do you still have issues in your area?
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Post by cannes on Oct 31, 2015 15:25:09 GMT
We don't call it anything!
No pranks or acts of destruction here. I don't remember this ever being an issue in my neck of the woods.
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Post by MichyM on Oct 31, 2015 15:25:05 GMT
The night before Halloween  or Halloween Eve. Maybe I live in a bubble but I don't recall an over abundance of destruction or pranks...either in the past or currently. Although with it falling on a weekend this year I'm sure last night was more rowdy than a typical Friday night. |
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Post by lindas on Oct 31, 2015 15:28:39 GMT
When I was a kid it used to be called Mischief night.
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Post by peaname on Oct 31, 2015 15:37:11 GMT
October 30th
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 15:37:52 GMT
Chicago was the only place I knew that had a name. Devil's night. I remember that horrible newscasts of it
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 15:41:13 GMT
We call it "the night before Halloween." We're clever like that |
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Post by iowgirl on Oct 31, 2015 15:41:31 GMT
Beggars Night.
It isn't always the night before Halloween - but it usually is. That is when the kiddos trick or treat. Iowa is nutty like that. Almost every town sets a "Beggars Night" for the kids to TorT and it is never on Halloween. Nuts.
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Post by chaosisapony on Oct 31, 2015 15:52:57 GMT
There's no name or event associated with the night before Halloween here. We don't really have issues with pranks or vandalism. Maybe the odd smashed pumpkin but that usually happens after Halloween.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 31, 2015 15:56:36 GMT
Beggars Night. It isn't always the night before Halloween - but it usually is. That is when the kiddos trick or treat. Iowa is nutty like that. Almost every town sets a "Beggars Night" for the kids to TorT and it is never on Halloween. Nuts. I just learned about this from my niece who lives there now. I was telling DH about it and LOL he said, "No Halloween? I'd move!" He wasn't kidding either. The man just LOVES Halloween! |
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Post by grinningcat on Oct 31, 2015 15:57:50 GMT
Some areas call it Devil's Night because of the trouble some idiotic people get up to, but most places don't have that problem. It's pretty isolated, but it's too bad that some people like to ruin things for others.
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Post by grinningcat on Oct 31, 2015 15:58:34 GMT
Beggars Night. It isn't always the night before Halloween - but it usually is. That is when the kiddos trick or treat. Iowa is nutty like that. Almost every town sets a "Beggars Night" for the kids to TorT and it is never on Halloween. Nuts. Do you know why they do it the night before? I find it so odd that some places do Hallowe'en before Hallowe'en... what happens on Hallowe'en? |
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Post by tincin on Oct 31, 2015 16:10:34 GMT
It's Devil's Night here. Of course we have an issue with arson almost every year in the urban areas.
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Post by buddysmom on Oct 31, 2015 16:14:43 GMT
We used to call it Mischief night.
I read that that is just a Jersey thing, though.
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Post by freecharlie on Oct 31, 2015 16:14:53 GMT
October 30th
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Post by myshelly on Oct 31, 2015 16:15:18 GMT
We don't have a name for it and we don't have any problems.
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Post by gillyp on Oct 31, 2015 16:24:15 GMT
It's called Kick e'door-ie night here. Where kids knock on doors and run away, pelt houses and people with raw eggs and generally make a nuisance of themselves. I had thought it was dying out but there were quite a few gangs roaming round town last night and I know the police were making arrests. It's quite horrible and really upsets the older folk.
I'm quite surprised to hear of Devil's night and Mischief night. I hadn't expected this sort of thing to be international for some reason.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 16:28:26 GMT
We call it Mischief night.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 16:34:17 GMT
Devil's Night, and I don't think pranks or destruction have ever been a problem in our area.
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Post by disneypal on Oct 31, 2015 16:59:18 GMT
We just call it the night before Halloween 
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Post by Country Ham on Oct 31, 2015 17:01:23 GMT
This year we called it Friday.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Oct 31, 2015 17:01:59 GMT
No name for it.
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Post by happymomma on Oct 31, 2015 17:03:47 GMT
Devil's Night
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Oct 31, 2015 17:12:23 GMT
Beggars Night. It isn't always the night before Halloween - but it usually is. That is when the kiddos trick or treat. Iowa is nutty like that. Almost every town sets a "Beggars Night" for the kids to TorT and it is never on Halloween. Nuts. Same for my area also. When I moved here I learned that depending on your town Halloween TOTing may not be on the actual day itself. I know the first year I was here it was a week later! So stupid. |
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Post by StephDRebel on Oct 31, 2015 17:16:39 GMT
This year we called it High School Football Friday Night. We trick or treated on Thursday. The only mischief I know of was my kids toilet papering around town. (No old people were disturbed, other than my dad  and the local cop actually helped them. They only TP their friends and they went around this morning to clean it up. Just good, clean fun around here. Best part? One of the moms collected the toilet paper and put it in a basket in the bathroom to use so it didn't go to waste. Poor kid, I bought the cheap stuff! (atrb_partsz) |
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Post by padresfan619 on Oct 31, 2015 17:22:08 GMT
The night before Halloween. I have also never lived in a community that dictates the date of trick or treating, it is on Halloween no matter if it is on a Friday or a Tuesday.
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Post by akathy on Oct 31, 2015 17:59:04 GMT
The night before Halloween. I have also never lived in a community that dictates the date of trick or treating, it is on Halloween no matter if it is on a Friday or a Tuesday. Same here. |
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Post by SabrinaP on Oct 31, 2015 18:06:45 GMT
October 30th. Never heard it called anything specific.
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Post by PLurker on Oct 31, 2015 18:07:01 GMT
It was Beggars night when I was growing up. But I don't think my kids would know of or call it that. I think kids were more "free range" (gasp!) back then and now it is more regimented/scheduled by adults so things have become more homogenized.
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Post by Princess Amy on Oct 31, 2015 18:51:58 GMT
Beggars Night. It isn't always the night before Halloween - but it usually is. That is when the kiddos trick or treat. Iowa is nutty like that. Almost every town sets a "Beggars Night" for the kids to TorT and it is never on Halloween. Nuts. I grew up in Eastern Iowa and had never heard of Beggars Night until I moved to North central Iowa. Apparently it's a Des Moines thing. I grew up trick or treating on Halloween. The town I currently live in always trick or treats on Halloween as well. Beggars Night history |
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or Halloween Eve. Maybe I live in a bubble but I don't recall an over abundance of destruction or pranks...either in the past or currently. Although with it falling on a weekend this year I'm sure last night was more rowdy than a typical Friday night.
and the local cop actually helped them. They only TP their friends and they went around this morning to clean it up. Just good, clean fun around here. 
