How many still give out trick or treat candy?

[blue collar]

We will, but we don't have nearly as many trick or treaters as we used to.

Also, is it still a big deal where you're at?

[SnyderShrugged]

we sually do, but this year probably wont. There are only 2 other kids in the new hood. It was always a big deal though, in all the cities/states we have lived in so far,

[DeanCollins]

we get a lot more kids in our new neighborhood, but we just set a bowl of candy out for self service.

[Kosher Ham]

I normally would but I will be out of town this year.

[blue collar]

We live off road so kids actually have to leave the main road to get here. The first couple of years we would literally run out. But the last few years, we've only gotten a few.

[twa]

We give out bags to neighbors and friends kids ect ,not too much on the strangers.

We have about a hr open to all ,then it is shut down.

[Prosperity]

I'd do it, but I rather go out and get trashed and try to pick up scantily clad chicks in costumes.

When I mature to the point when that's not fun... I'll start sitting at home giving away candy

[GhostofSparta]

My wife and I do....well, she will, I have to work on Halloween night.

[Destino]

I party on halloween and we don't get too many kids anymore anyway. It's odd, when I was younger the streets were packed with kids. Shame.

[Special K]

Yes, we will be giving out candy to any little kiddy who comes by our home...that is, until it's time for us adults to go out and pah-tay. :D

[SkinInsite]

I'll be out and about in Georgetown, but will leave a bucket full of Kit-Kats for the ankle biters.

[Heidenreich]

I would if I was going to be home, but I will not be........

[Mark The Homer]

What do you mean ...still give out? Why wouldn't we? It's as american as apple pie.

[mardi gras skin]

Swarms of kids in our neighborhood. My wife and I will stay home and pass out bucketfulls while Grandma and Papa take our kids out to load up on sweets.

Edit: the bigger question is how do you give it out. I'm not diplomatic at all. If I like the costume, you get more candy. If you're considerate, you get more candy. If you're barely able to get to my door because you're so tiny you're tripping on your oversized costume, you get more candy.

The 14 year olds that barely put any time into their costume and push the little ones out of the way running from door to door? I scratch them out an after dinner mint or a lemon drop or something.

Lousy candy grubbers.

[Burgundy Burner]

Still give it out. We have a decent number of kids who live in this condo complex and the numbers are good each year. It's on a Saturday this year and we will have more kids than ever. Gotta love it.

[Capt. Kaos]

Swarms of kids in our neighborhood. My wife and I will stay home and pass out bucketfulls while Grandma and Papa take our kids out to load up on sweets.

Edit: the bigger question is how do you give it out. I'm not diplomatic at all. If I like the costume, you get more candy. If you're considerate, you get more candy. If you're barely able to get to my door because you're so tiny you're tripping on your oversized costume, you get more candy.

The 14 year olds that barely put any time into their costume and push the little ones out of the way running from door to door? I scratch them out an after dinner mint or a lemon drop or something.

Lousy candy grubbers.

This!

The kids in my heighborhood are fully aware of the "no costume - no candy" rule at my house. And no a pair of jeans, tshirt and bandana do NOT make you a rapper!

[Califan007]

I usually hand out soy sauce packets...

[MissU28]

I usually hand out soy sauce packets...

i'd like that, i get DOWN with soy sauce

[Mark The Homer]

We give out good stuff - snickers bars, reese's peanut butter cups, stuff like that. Handfuls at a time. Thing is, we only get like 5-6 kids.

[zoony]

I usually hand out soy sauce packets...



:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

i don't know why that struck me as so funny, just did

[zoony]

Trick or treating is huge around here.

However my neighborhood doesn't get many. First of all there are only a couple families with kids, and second the lots are huge. Many 5 acres. So it takes a kid 1 hour to hit 4 houses.

Oh, and a couple of the houses are straight up on top of a hill. Kids are too obese nowadays to make the journey.

(we'll probably get about 10 doorbell rings. However go a few neighborhoods down and it's out of control)

[Corcaigh]

Yeah ... we give out good stuff.

Our house has a number of trees about it and looks a little scary in the right lighting, and I pump haunted sounds from behind some bushes. The question is how many kids will brave all this and climb the steps to get some candy from Satan ... before he eats it all himself.

[zoony]

Yeah ... we give out good stuff.

Our house has a number of trees about it and looks a little scary in the right lighting, and I pump haunted sounds from behind some bushes. The question is how many kids will brave all this and climb the steps to get some candy from Satan ... before he eats it all himself.


serious question- what do they do in the UK/Ireland? Is Halloween even bigger there considering its a druid thing? Or less so?

[Park City Skins]

Used to give all kinds of candy. But where I live now,there's a large percentage of seasonal rentals so there's really nobody trick or treating. That and I eat most of it. :)

[stanleys]

Trick or Treat's the greatest night of the year.

Pudding cups or juice boxes for the kids, coffee, beer or warm apple cider with or without Captain Morgan's for the poor adult following the kids around.

Inspired by Punkin Chunkin, last year we had a small trebuchet set up to launch juice boxes at kids brave enough to catch theirs.

When too old kids (old enough to drive) stop, we palm canned goods like sardines, pork and beans, saurkraut or diced beets and drop them in their pillow cases when we drop in a juice box.

[STBonecrusher21]

50 cents per handful!!

How else am I gonna pay for all that candy?

You give and you shall receive..

[Rdskns2000]

If I am free that day, I avoid the house during the times when they give out candy. I did it for a few years. There's a lot of kids in my neighborhood.

[Ax]

We do, when we're home.

Snickers & Reese's FTW.

[Monte51Coleman]

Our homes on our street are mostly decorated and my wife is more excited about the festivities than the children. Yeah, we're all in.

[Corcaigh]

serious question- what do they do in the UK/Ireland? Is Halloween even bigger there considering its a druid thing? Or less so?

In Ireland it's been very popular for a long time.

Where I lived in England it wasn't popular. Guy Fawkes Night on November 5 is marked with bonfires and fireworks when the Catholic Fawkes (he tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament) is burnt in effigy. Damn religious terrorists. Guy Fawkes Night used to be a big deal, but I've heard it's less popular now and the commercialism of Halloween has been imported to replace it.

I think Scotland has practiced Halloween for a long time though.

[Bang]

I bought one very small bag of Snickers, and my bet is I get one trick or treater.
In 20 years here I can count the number that have come here on 2 hands.

I like Snickers.

~Bang

[Thiebear]

I end up giving out approx. 3 big bags of the small candy bars..

3 pieces each... about 300 kids come by.

[hockeysc23]

i think it just depends on the neighborhood. When I was little my brother and I and maybe 10 other kids were the only ones that went around. My sister is 11 and the same neighborhood will now get about 50+ kids coming around.

Maybe it's because my dad started giving out beer to the trick or treater's parents that walk around with them. Several other people started getting in on it. I love taking my sister around door to door. I usually get candy and beer :)

[Botched]

Oh man did I ever love Halloween when I was growing up, and in fact I love it just as much now. When I got too old to trick or treat myself I found it was just as much fun to stay home and scare the kids that came for candy.

I used to put on a costume and sit on the roof of the garage and move one arm in a mechanical motion, pretending to be some sort of prop when trick or treaters came up to the house. They'd always look up at me and say "Cool, look at that!" or something to that effect, of course thinking I was nothing more than an automated decoration.

Then as they were getting their candy I would jump down and hide behind the bushes. As the kids were walking back they'd look up at the roof to see the "fake monster" again. But of course I wouldn't be there, and they'd start getting freaked out. At that point I'd jump out of the bushes and scare the hell out of them. Good times.

Don't get any Trick or Treaters where I'm at now. :( Boy do I miss that.

[Rocky21]

People get confused when I tell them my story.

Most folks I know have around 15 - 20 kids that come to their house trick or treating on Halloween. We had 175 kids last year and it was a down year. We usually have hundreds. Seriously.

[IbleedBnG83]

Depends on where I have lived. Growing up, there were a ton of kids in my neighborhood and we would give out candy.

The past several years, there haven't been many kids so we haven't given any candy.

We just bought a place in a neighborhood where almost every house has at least one kids, so we will be giving out candy this year!

[Corcaigh]

I'm not sure how many kids we have, but we get through two or three of the giant 'fun-sized' bags of chocolate bars, so it's certainly around a hundred plus.

[IbleedBnG83]

People get confused when I tell them my story.

Most folks I know have around 15 - 20 kids that come to their house trick or treating on Halloween. We had 175 kids last year and it was a down year. We usually have hundreds. Seriously.

Thats what I am accustomed to. 15-20 sound pretty low. Especially when many times there are large groups of kids that come where we would get 15-20 between two groups a lone.

[Art Monk Fan]

Trick or treating is a very big deal in our development. My teen-age son stays behind and hands out candy and tries to scare kids when they come by, while the wife and I take the little ones around the neighborhood.

We've been in this house four years and I buy more candy every year, but still always run out before the kids stop.

[lovetoaster]

I bought a bunch of candy last year and had maybe two kids come by. But now I have moved into a much bigger neighborhood and there are a lot more kids around, so I bought a good amount of candy, and I might get more. All stuff I like of course, you know, just in case there is extra left over. :D

I would normally be going out and participating in some sort of stupidity, but all of my friends are going out of town. I was going to go with them, but I promised a friend that I would help him move. :mad:

[HailYeah]

We live in a new neighborhood now with tons of townhouses and tons of kids. I'm expecting it to be very busy.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Oh man did I ever love Halloween when I was growing up, and in fact I love it just as much now. When I got too old to trick or treat myself I found it was just as much fun to stay home and scare the kids that came for candy.



Something tells me you started this tradition just last year. I think you were an old trick or treater!

:hysterical:

[Forehead]

There was certainly more of it going on when I was growing up. Not too many kids come by our area now. My wife and I are going out of town.

My favorite Halloweens were from ages 14-18. At age 14 and 15, I did what Capt. Kaos hates...some friends and I, obviously was too old to trick or treat, put zero effort into anything and went knocking on doors. I think my costume one year was the word "Ghost" written on a piece of paper and taped to my chest. Lot of scrooges closing the door on us, let me tell you.

Once we could drive, we just drove around looking for houses that put out bowls of candy and took it all. I got the best hauls of my lives those years.

Look, I know it was jerky, but seriously, why anyone would put out a bowl of candy is beyond me. Have you never heard of teenagers? If it hadn't been my group, it surely would have been another. At my house, it goes only two ways. Either I'm home and have something to give out, or the house is dark. Definitely no bowls of candy on the front porch.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

I bought one very small bag of Snickers, and my bet is I get one trick or treater.
In 20 years here I can count the number that have come here on 2 hands.

I like Snickers.

~Bang

I would imagine most people just go to the Tiki Bar, no?

[ljs]

I should get a good amount of kids, not hundreds though- I like to decorate with cornstalks (from garden), pumpkins and ghosts- I'll dress up since I'm going out later- nice thing is that most kids trick or treat before it gets dark-or shortly after.

[Corcaigh]

As for a Halloween costume, I'm tempted for my wife to dress as Taylor Swift and me as Kanye.

Then I get to interrupt her for four hours.

[Redd]

Yeah I do. It's only fair considering Adults use to give me candy for Halloween when I was a kid.

[RammsteinSkins]

Every age should be able to trick or treat :(

[China]

We're the last house on the edge of the neighborhood and only get a couple of trick-or-treaters every year. But we always have treats ready. Go one block over and it is packed with kids.