Originally Posted By DyGDisney Last year I counted and we had exactly 150, the year before that we had over 200. It is 7:38 pm and so far we've had about 20. Has anyone else noticed the trick-or-treat turnout is low this year?
Originally Posted By DyGDisney LOL, right after I posted that we had about 8 kids come at once. It's still low turnout for us though.
Originally Posted By llanatoye I was just thinking the same thing, by now I've usually had 20 or 30, with the night topping out at between 60 or so but tonight only 7, oops, 8, one kid came as I was writing this. I'm a little disappointed, love seeing the kids and their costumes.
Originally Posted By iamsally It is disappointing to me from both angles. We took the grandkids out and only about 1 in 10 houses was giving out candy. And we did not see many other kids which is part of the fun for us. Have they convinced everyone that trick-or-treating is dangerous? I know they have tried.
Originally Posted By ophellia how sad, huh? we live in a tiny village of 300, we had 3 kids last year....none tonight
Originally Posted By alexbook Grand total of 3 kids this year, in a middle-class suburb of L.A. The mall where I work had trick-or-treating on Friday afternoon. We had mobs of kid for that.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I think they were all up in my neighborhood this year...it was absolutely insane tonight.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Yeah, I noticed a lot of lights out in my neighborhood tonight, including some of my immediate neighbors. Maybe that's why numbers were down on my street. The last kids came around 9:00, they both got big handfuls of candy!
Originally Posted By oc_dean Guess it depends city to city ... on the turn out. A friend in Norwalk, CA (suburb in Los Angeles County) said he had roughly 100 trick-or-treaters come to the door. I predict my sister's neighborhood in Orange County to be the same - so, so. But just a mile away ... off of Magnolia Ave. will be the yearly Noble Family & neighbors homes decorated to the hilt .. with a massive number of trick-or-treaters like it's Disneyland on New Year's Eve!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo We had about 100 this year, and we did quite well taking the kids out. It was awesome.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Around here most were on Saturday. I didn't do trick r treat the last few years too many older kids 13 and up. And really jeans and a mask is not really a costume that gets you candy in my world. My sister's neighborhood has a pretty good shindig so I helped pass out candy there.
Originally Posted By poohbear14 I hand out candy and persimmons. :-D We got about 20 between 7:15 and 8:50. Might have had more if someone were home earlier.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon We bought loads of candy and various assorted treats as we usually get lots of cute little trick or treaters. Then a medical appt. of mine got changed to this evening and right at the time when we get most of our trick or treaters. So, we actually got to see about 6 or 7 of them and had to leave! I was so unhappy. I hoped we'd get home before they all went in for the night. But we got back at just after 9 and no one came to the door. Very disappointing. I guess we'll have to eat all that candy ourselves. Hmmmmmmm...maybe it's not so bad after all...
Originally Posted By wahooskipper We were down too and I suspect it was because it fell on a school night. Brought a lot of candy into work today.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight We had exactly 6 trick or treaters lastnight. It was sad. There was hardly anyone out this year compared to past years. I hope it picks up again next year.
Originally Posted By iamsally It was weird on our local news channel this morning. Some people were calling in saying they had hundreds of kids and ran out of candy. Others said they only had a few. Maybe the kids know where the best candy is? Sorry we missed you Tinkeroon. We did drive by but looked like noone was home
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS We had 63 kids /adults trick or treat last night. This is the first time in years that I've been home to hand out candy so I'm not sure if that's good for our area or not. It sure was fun, though. I give extra candy to the adults
Originally Posted By Rsey103 $40+ worth of candy Zero Trick or Treaters I think the kids are going to more organized events at schools and churches now.
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney None in our neighborhood..and I think we were the only people on the block willing to give out candy. We actually took DD to another neighborhood so she could trick or treat. How sad that this tradition is dying.
Originally Posted By iamsally >>>>>I give extra candy to the adults<<<<< Good for you. I get sick and tired of people complaining about older people trick-or-treating. If you've got the guts I think you deserve the candyLOL
