While some of us are still in beach-day mode, a whole lot of people have their eyes on Halloween. A Change.org petition is currently up to 123,679 signatures, all in favor of moving Halloween festivities to the last Saturday of October (that would be October 26th this year). Now Snickers—you know, one of the candy bars you hope ends up in your kids’ Trick-or-Treat bag so you can snag it—is throwing its support behind the cause by promising to give away one million candy bars to all of us lucky Americans if the government heeds the petition’s call and makes Saturday Halloween celebrations official.

To be clear about the petition, its writers, the Halloween & Costume Association, say it’s fine to leave Halloween on the 31st. However, they want the official day of trick-or-treating to be on the last Saturday of October to increase the fun and the safety of Halloween for families.

“National Trick or Treat Day will take place annually on the last Saturday of October so families across the country can participate in community parades, throw neighborhood parties, and opt for daytime Trick or Treating,” the petition says. “We will launch the #ALLoween campaign designed to support the all-day celebration of National Trick or Treat Day AND the time-honored traditions of Halloween on October 31st.”

The petition goes on to list statistics and reasons why trick-or-treating and other celebrations crammed into a weeknight can pose a threat for kids (think dark costumes at night without flashlights or reflective tape and children trick-or-treating alone because their parents are working). Halloween and a Trick-or-Treat day means safe celebrating for everyone, and it maximizes the amount of time spent doing it up spooky-style with family and friends.

The deal already sounds pretty sweet, but it’s a whole lot sweeter with a free Snickers in hand. Snickers made its offer official with this tweet:

[twitter align='center' id='1154884264263135232' username='SNICKERS']https://twitter.com/SNICKERS/status/1154884264263135232[/twitter]

Soon after, Skittles, M&M’s, and Twix joined in with their own tweets encouraging their followers to get on board.

[twitter align='center' id='1154886666370330624' username='Skittles']https://twitter.com/Skittles/status/1154886666370330624[/twitter][twitter align='center' id='1154884704325263361' username='mmschocolate']https://twitter.com/mmschocolate/status/1154884704325263361[/twitter][twitter align='center' id='1154885538668851201' username='twix']https://twitter.com/twix/status/1154885538668851201[/twitter]

Clearly, none of them offered free candy (yet), but we are paying very close attention and keeping our fingers crossed. Either way, we’d be pretty excited to have Halloween x2 and a gratis Snickers. With that to look forward to, we may not be quite as sad to see summer go, after all.



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