Trick or Treat - a thing of the past?

The day goes by soooo slowly.  I remember my younger days with a plastic mask and some cheap vinyl or plastic cape looking thing -- that would resemble a costume but kids today would still google it.  Tick, tick tick....when are we going Mom?   ....when your Dad gets home from work  ....Dad is HOME!  ....after dinner  .... after it turns dark  ...REALLY how long can you put this off?!?!?!  And then we head out.  Visiting all of our neighbors.  Most of our neighbors went to our church so we got invited in a lot.  Come in!  Let me take your picture!  We would get yummy goodness by the handfuls and then we were off again.  Not before our Dad dug deep in to our bag to find his favorite candy bar to snack on along the way.   If it was cold, we didn't notice.  Luckily our grandmother was "halfway" through the process so we could warm up if we were cold or get a drink if we were thirsty.  We would do the entire neighborhood -- down streets our bikes would never go....just to be sure we maxed out our candy search - and our parents. Then, once we had rung every doorbell, we went home to evaluate our efforts.    A long night worth every step as we counted chocolates and sweet tarts and traded for our favorites.

Those were the days....

Now we have sexual offender finders so we avoid those houses.  We have people lacing swedish fish with marijuana.  We have all sorts of crazy I can't even think of.  We have grown "kids" prowling the neighborhoods and scaring the little kids.  And yet, I still take my child trick-or-treating.   WHY do I do this?  I guess I want her to have that same nostalgia that I have about my Halloween days but it just isn't the same.  Also kids get an abundance of candy from various sources these days.  It's not an elusive "treat" that you won't get again for another 12 months.  As a matter of fact there are stores filled with every possible candy you could ever want.  And kids have money!  So they can go to said stores and buy whatever they want.    There are office trick or treating events, trunk or treats, church events etc.   I would bet money that my daughter will not be taking her child(ren) from house to house - because recreating the nostalgia is just not the same.