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Trick or Treat | pad patter 10.30.18

mcurtt said:
At our first home, we'd get barraged with kids. We'd buy bags & bags of candy. One year was particularly insane, I am guessing kids got bussed in. DH had to run out to buy more candy, and in the interim, I was handing out dimes (it was a LONG time ago). We moved in 1993 to the home we are living in now. We live out in the middle of nowhere, our nearest neighbor is at least 500 feet away. No streetlights and a long driveway = no trick or treaters ever. We turn on our lights, open the doors, usually have at least one bag of candy just in case, but we always end up eating the candy ourselves.
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If we run outta candy, I'm gonna turn off the lights and hide in the basement... hehe!
 
We usually have about 25, not too many. Whats funny is DH buys a bag of candy and always wonders if it's enough, we usually have half the bag left.
 
The first year we lived here, there were lots of ToTers. The past few years, not so many. Perhaps because it's been a school night? IDK. I do know we should have more than enough candy. I bought a box of 60 Airheads and a big bag of chocolate-y treats. I also have tattoos for kids with food restraints.
I wish we would start to celebrate Halloween on the last Friday of October, regardless of the date. (Kind of like how US's Thanksgiving is always the last Thursday of November.) Wow, that is NOT what this thread is about, is it? Please, can someone take my hand so I can get off this soap box I've built myself? Thank you! :)
As for candy: I'm sure we have enough. But I can't wait until tomorrow so I can grab some half off! :pigout
 
We live in a gated community (gate closes at 5pm) but there are a lot of kids in our neighborhood. It's nice because we know most of them! They are either our neighbors or friends of neighbors who can get inside the gate! The Hubby, kids & dog go just throughout our neighborhood & still end up with WAY more candy than they could ever eat! I stay home & hand out candy! Win win! ;)

The neighborhood just below us gets thousands of trick or treaters! They bus people in! I think that's crazy.
 
So yeah, it's raining. All evening, 100% chance. We usually get a lot of trick or treaters. We love it because we've never lived anywhere that got them til this house. Our neighbor is a "legend" in the area. She is "Grandma D" and gives full size candy bars on halloween to everyone. She even insists the parents come up and get one. So since she gets the word out, people always come to her house and we are right next door so we get most of the traffic. I think it was the year before last that a player from the Dallas Cowboys came by. Him and my husband chatted about jeeps and his adorable son was dressed as a lion.

I think tonight I am going to turn off the lights and hunker down with movies and wine.
 
We don't get a ton... maybe 40-50 kids. City trick or treating is interesting... when the kids were little we would trick or treat throughout the neighborhood and even the corner bars had candy for the kids. We got way too much mileage out of "Tinkerbell, Dorothy and Cinderella walk into a bar..." :giggle

Anyway... back to us having ToT'ers... we're on a bit of a busier block compared to some around us. Kids can generally do both sides of a block and have full bags, so they usually skip ours. We did full sized candy bars last year, but I didn't get them ordered from Amazon in time this year. I just went to Target to pick up a back up bag of candy and the entire aisle was nothing but those candy corn pumpkins... yikes! That was it! I found some miniatures in the regular candy aisle though. Oh... and generally how people know which doors to go up to is by the Halloween decor outside (since every front porch light is on all of the time). I didn't get anything up this year, so I hope people still stop!
 
We get over a hundred or so but it is supposed to rain heavily this evening so the numbers will go down. < evil grin > more for us to eat.

About two weeks ago I saw an event on my outlook calendar that said “candy and a number.” Having no idea what it meant, I erased it. Aha, later I remembered , it was the number of candy bars we gave out last year (to help us purchase correctly this year). Of course I don’t remember the erased number.
 
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Our neighbor’s kid dressed as a Plague Doctor, complete with her two pet rats climbing all over her. We could tell where she was in the neighborhood by the screams. It was pretty funny. I didn’t get a photo because it was too dark outside.
 
Our subdivision has over 120 houses and one road leading in; we get a lot of kids dropped off! This year, my husband bought juice pouches and mini-rice krispie treats to give away; based on the number of treats we had left, he thinks we had about 229 kids.

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(The pile of empty juice pouch boxes, as he emptied them.)

We probably have 50 pouches left over, but the kids will pack them in their lunches, so they will disappear quickly. :)
 
We used to go to my ILs' neighborhood to ToT, and now that we live up here, we go to my sister's to ToT.

Last night DH & I took the kids around (and my teenage nephew & his dog tagged along for some of it) to ToT while my sister & dad handed out candy at her house & my mom made us pizza. We have Family Dinner every Thursday at my parents' so the week of Halloween we switch it to whatever night that is & have it at my sister's.
 
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