It's interesting, but I've seen the opposite happening with Halloween, sadly. I'm very very depressed to see that fewer people and children dress up, decorate, and celebrate it in my area. I won't get into details why because of forum rules, but I'm so incredibly happy to hear there are some areas that still go have fun with it. I was shocked to read about people who did mini-haunted houses (it used to be that way here when I was a kid) for the trick-or-treaters and had about 300 or more kids come through. Some people who didn't do that much decorating still had a ton of kids come to their door. The last good neighborhoods I lived in for kids to go door to door (for some reason kids don't trick-or-treat here or where my mother-in-law lives), we were lucky to get even 5 or 6