Back in my day, we didn’t care what night of the week October 31 fell on. Halloween was Halloween.
It was pretty much understood that trick-or-treating started at dusk. If someone’s porch light was on, that was a participating house. If no light was on, we left those people alone. We went around collecting candy in our plastic pumpkins or pillowcases until we got too cold, got tired of walking, or ran out of porch lights.
Times have changed.
There’s whining and moaning every year that Halloween falls on a “school night.”
Halloween 2026 Falls on a Saturday
Luckily, since Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, we get a year off from that annual gripe. Nobody’s got to hurry their kid home from school, squeeze in dinner, and try to turn a third-grader into Spider-Man in seven minutes…