Originally Posted By smedley We had about 60 or so kids, all in costume, and some of the parents were dressed too, that's a pretty big number considering the size of our village, it was a fun night
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I don't know what it is. I have always been a goth and into the scene. There is a greater proliferation of rock and metal. I love to dress up. I like making the decorations. And I like annoying the evangilists ;-)
Originally Posted By Mr X You're on! (with an impressive head start, I need to get to work!) ***And I like annoying the evangilists ;-)*** lmao.
Originally Posted By -em I had zero which is par for the last few years... Since moving here I've had 2 total. Guess all the leftover candy from my trip to Mickey's Not so Scary is going into work -em
Originally Posted By -em I really think things in most areas have moved from door to door to more parties/retail places/closed communities etc ie "safe" places so kids are getting the same amount of candy just in a different way than before... -em
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I see. I do remember towards the end of my time in the states, we seemed to end up at the mall or theme parks more and more.
Originally Posted By DAR About 30 kids yesterday. Then I went over to my buddy's house and while the mom's took the kids, the men all stayed back and passed out candy. And of course there was a cooler out there.
Originally Posted By RedChorizo62 I ran out of candy in 30 minutes. Figured nobody ever comes to my house boy was I wrong.
Originally Posted By Labuda Turns out it's good that I bought as much candy as I did... while we got off to a later start than last year (last year first kids showed a little before 6 pm, this year, it was about 6:30), assuming there were no duplicate kids, we saw 137 last night at the casa Labuda! I figured out an easy way to keep track - in addition to the "good" candy, I had 250 dum dums and there are 113 left.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie We started getting quite a few kids about 6pm. Then all of a sudden at around 7pm the kids stopped showing up. I figured out that my spoil sport, Halloween Grinch of a husband turned off our porch light. I turned it back on at around 7:30 when I discovered it and the trick-or-treaters started showing up again. What we didn't get is the usual early evening little ones. Just the older kids.
Originally Posted By LuLu I'm often out on Halloween, but over the years there's definitely been a downward trend in trick-or-treaters. It's hard to gauge, as I don't want leftover candy (and I don't approve of the kids gorging on candy anyway - they get so much everywhere they go nowadays). I bought little Teddy Graham packets and will give the leftovers to 2 moms I know, with young kids. Usually I get a range of ages tho. This year the first group was about age 1 (in stroller), 3 and 4, the second group was two 6-year old girls.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 Thanks retlaw. I bring Disney Magic to the board from the darkest depths of the University of Texas campus. I only had one local kid last night. The big group of 15 got driven over to where my parents live. The "problem" is that most of the people around my parents don't give out candy or have kids that are too old/young to trick-or-treat.
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins We had a lot more than usual Lulu, I would guess about 40. One kid came dressed as lego man with a giant block of lego on his head!
Originally Posted By imadisneygal We went through over 750 pieces of candy, probably handing out 3 or so to each trick-or-treater. Our neighborhood is the one where people bring their kids to trick-or treat. Just about every house was handing out candy, and lots of us have over-the-top decorations. Here is a picture of me with my own personal trick-or-treaters. <a href="http://i4.photobucket.com" target="_blank">http://i4.photobucket.com</a>
Originally Posted By disney pete we only had 2 lots of kids come before 8pm but we went out for a meal then and never came home untill 11.30.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 We used to get around 100 trick or treaters when our neighborhood was new and full of young families with kids. Now there are maybe one or 2 older kids on our street AND we live on a HILL so there's not a lot of interest. This year we had 5 groups, total of about 12 kids, 5 under the age of two. We figure they were all visiting their grandparents homes I think most of the kids in our town now go to one street that is decorated and well known or to their own neighborhood where they know who is handing out the candy. One young family told us that they loved our yard decorations, Mickey of course
