According to designcrave.com, in 2011, on average, Americans ate 1.2 pounds of candy on Halloween. This number is equal to 33 fun-size Snickers, or 56 fun-size Twix, or 127 starbursts, or 280 M&Ms. The amount of trick-or-treaters that went out on Halloween in 2011 was approximately 41 million kids from ages 5-14 years old.
“This year I’m going to be whatever my parents need me to be for our haunted house,” sophomore Austin Cope said.
Every year Cope puts together a haunted house in his backyard. After every corner there is a new scenery. In past years, the haunted house consisted of a butcher shop, a possessed little girl, a doll room, a guillotine, a spider cave, a graveyard, a swamp, a scarecrow,a ghoul, and an inmate in an electric chair. One man that went through the haunted house spoke with Cope and said,” I paid money to see less than this!”
“We do the haunted house because when my mom was younger she didn’t get much of a Halloween so she wanted my brother and I to have the best opportunities to have a great Halloween,“Cope said. “My favorite parts of the whole thing are doing what needs to be done, scaring people, and the construction.”
According to sophomore Connor Dutton, picking out a costume is his least favorite part of the Halloween experience.
“This year I’m going with my older brother and his friend but I still don’t know what I’m going to be. We all thought about dressing up as the powderpuff cheerleaders, but I dread going. It’s fun and all, but it is just so hard to choose since there are so many,” Dutton said.
Some, however, avoid the holiday.
“I think this year I’m just going to stay home, I have been too old to trick-or-treat since seventh grade,” Kelly said.