{"id":459431,"date":"2026-10-07T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459431\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:50:11","slug":"halloween-porch-light-etiquette-explained-for-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459431\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Porch Light Etiquette, Explained For Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Halloween has rules.<\/p>\n

Nobody wrote them down or made anything official.<\/p>\n

But somehow, we all know them.<\/p>\n

Or…we think we do.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest questions every October is:<\/p>\n

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Is it rude to turn off your porch light when you run out of candy, or if you don’t have any candy to begin with?<\/p>\n

I’d say, no.<\/p>\n

Eventually, we all gotta close up the candy shop.<\/p>\n

You can’t just hand it out all night long…not in this economy.<\/p>\n

In 2026, the kids are just lucky we aren’t handing out cotton balls and Q-Tips.<\/p>\n

(My dad gave out granola bars one year and someone egged his car.)<\/p>\n

Some years, I run out of candy in a hurry.<\/p>\n

I never seem to be able to estimate how much I really need to buy.<\/p>\n

Other years, I hardly get any trick-or-treaters and end up turning a big-ass bowl of candy into several expensive cavities.<\/p>\n

But tell me, do you switch the lights off when you’re out of the goods?<\/p>\n

It never seems to stop kids from knocking and ringing the doorbell.<\/p>\n

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Do they know about the porch light rule? Or is it just something my grandma made up?<\/p>\n

I was always taught to never knock on a door when the porch light was off.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing sadder than telling a bunch of Spidermans and princesses that you’re out of candy. They always look so disappointed.<\/p>\n

Really makes you feel like you had one job and totally blew it…<\/p>\n

So, tell me, dear Lubbock:<\/p>\n

Are we all on the same page with porch lights?<\/p>\n

Have you told your kids to avoid homes that don’t have one on?<\/p>\n

Or are we all just doomed to sit in the dark and listen to the knocking and ringing until 11 pm, no matter what we do?<\/p>\n

Share your Halloween etiquette tips with me at Chrissy.Covington@townsquaremedia.com, and I’ll pass them along to the rest of the town!<\/p>\n

Watch Out For This Crazy Stuff In Your Kid’s Halloween Candy In Lubbock<\/p>\n

We’ve got to protect the children.<\/p>\n

Home Depot Halloween 2026<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Nessmania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently, Halloween has rules. Nobody wrote them down or made anything official. But somehow, we all know them.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-459431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}