We live on a 1/2 mile long cul-de-sac with 30 houses, each at the end of a rather long driveway. To do our block would take about 1.5 miles of walking. Nobody is coming into this neighborhood to trick or treat. Too much walking for too little candy. We’ll be lucky if we see the next door neighbors’ kids.
My wife, nonetheless, bought 10 lbs of candy. If it goes like last year, we’ll put the excess in the freezer and finish it around Easter.
And if you want to blow the minds of late adolescents or teenagers, when they hold out their bag and say “Trick or treat!”, say “Treat, thank you.” Then reach in and take something. You get the most dumbfounded expressions as the mumble “but, but…” before you give it back.
I used to dress up in a scary costume. When the kiddies knocked I would quickly open the door, yell and jump out waving my arms. It would scare the sh*t out of them. The next year, the repeaters would stay 20 feet from the door and let the newbies ring the bell. Makes for a memorable experience.
My favorite cartoon had a kid with his hands on the handle of a detonator and his friend saying “trick or treat”(I assume the wires didn’t connect to anything?)
I could never afford to give out full sized candy bars! Always kinda weirded me out when people did that when I was a kid. This year is the first year I will have lived somewhere people get trick or treaters and I’m so excited! I have like bags of reeses and crunch bars and skittles and stuff and I can’t wait to hand them out!
We have been giving out Grandma’s Cookies two-packs for several years. The number of kids has been slowly dropping over the same period, but I don’t think the cookies are the reason.
lightenup Premium Member over 10 years ago
They’re very orderly. In my area, there’d be bigger kids pushing the smaller ones out of the way, grabbing and then running off with no “thank you”.
jtviper7 over 10 years ago
I live in a gated community, hundreds of kids and their parents some how get it. I run out of candy every year no matter how much I buy…
Jonni over 10 years ago
I don’t live in Mars and my name is not Hershey, stay away!
dflak over 10 years ago
We live on a 1/2 mile long cul-de-sac with 30 houses, each at the end of a rather long driveway. To do our block would take about 1.5 miles of walking. Nobody is coming into this neighborhood to trick or treat. Too much walking for too little candy. We’ll be lucky if we see the next door neighbors’ kids.
My wife, nonetheless, bought 10 lbs of candy. If it goes like last year, we’ll put the excess in the freezer and finish it around Easter.
TheSkulker over 10 years ago
And if you want to blow the minds of late adolescents or teenagers, when they hold out their bag and say “Trick or treat!”, say “Treat, thank you.” Then reach in and take something. You get the most dumbfounded expressions as the mumble “but, but…” before you give it back.
I used to dress up in a scary costume. When the kiddies knocked I would quickly open the door, yell and jump out waving my arms. It would scare the sh*t out of them. The next year, the repeaters would stay 20 feet from the door and let the newbies ring the bell. Makes for a memorable experience.tuslog64 over 10 years ago
My favorite cartoon had a kid with his hands on the handle of a detonator and his friend saying “trick or treat”(I assume the wires didn’t connect to anything?)
tuslog64 over 10 years ago
At least we don’t have the outdoor outhouses to be tipped over anymore!
Miba over 10 years ago
I could never afford to give out full sized candy bars! Always kinda weirded me out when people did that when I was a kid. This year is the first year I will have lived somewhere people get trick or treaters and I’m so excited! I have like bags of reeses and crunch bars and skittles and stuff and I can’t wait to hand them out!
JP Steve Premium Member over 10 years ago
I live on a busy residential street, still only get 4-5 trick or treaters every Halloween. I give out full-sized candy bars as reward!
cknoblo Premium Member over 10 years ago
We have been giving out Grandma’s Cookies two-packs for several years. The number of kids has been slowly dropping over the same period, but I don’t think the cookies are the reason.