Getting many trick or treaters?

[Mik]

We are pretty heavy this year. About 30 so far.

[George K]

None at the condo, LOL.

[kluurs]

About 90 so far. Lots of parents drive kids to more fertile hunting grounds, i.e from the west side of Chicago

[Doctor Phibes]

There’s a ton at the new place - a big change from where we were. Very noisy out there. I’m in the basement looking after doggies.

We live next door to a historic graveyard, so that might be interesting….maybe next year I will do something creative

[Jolly]

We did Trunk-r-treat at the church last night. Must have given out 20 pounds of candy. or better.

We were the Jolly Pirates. Although my daughter accused me of being from a different crew...

Link to video

Arrrgh!

[Mik]

We really enjoyed Veggie Tales. When the Princess was 6 we went to upstate NY to visit relatives. While we were driving to various places she had on her Veggie Tales tape. Whenever this one song would come on she’s just belt out the chorus of “GOD IS BIGGER THAN THE BOOGEY MAN, HES BIGGER THAN GODZILLA OR THE MONSTERS ON TV….”

Lol. I will never forget that.

[Doctor Phibes]

Ours loved Veggie Tales too.

A neighbor reckons 400 pieces of candy should see us through….what have we done?

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Getting many trick or treaters?:

Ours loved Veggie Tales too.

A neighbor reckons 400 pieces of candy should see us through….what have we done?

Moved out of the damn city.

[Copper]

We went to our grandchildren's neighborhood.

It was very busy, there were at least 100 trick-or-treaters.

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in Getting many trick or treaters?:

We did Trunk-r-treat at the church last night. Must have given out 20 pounds of candy. or better.

We were the Jolly Pirates. Although my daughter accused me of being from a different crew...

Link to video

Arrrgh!

I can definitely see you as Pa Grape…

[LuFins Dad]

We were the cool house in the neighborhood this year. Full size candy bars and Sweet Tarts… it was raining so I put ou a 12’x12’ canopy out front with a Sonos speaker playing Halloween Music along with coffee, hot chocolate, whiskey, and beer for the adults. We went through 60 candy bars, 2 cases of beer, and a bottle of Jameson.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Getting many trick or treaters?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Getting many trick or treaters?:

Ours loved Veggie Tales too.

A neighbor reckons 400 pieces of candy should see us through….what have we done?

Moved out of the damn city.

The mean streets of Foxborough?

Actually we’re right on the edge here - we’re in a development, but 3/4 a mile away it’s farms and apple orchards. A good decision, I think.

[Axtremus]

Not really celebrating Halloween this year and did not put up any decoration. That's usually a clear signal to tell tricker-of-treaters that we're not doing Halloween this time. Still, the door bell rang, and four very cute pre-schoolers showed up with costumes (their guardians watched from the curb). Despite not really participating in Halloween this year, we have a metal tin full of candies prepared "just in case," so the little ones left with candies. The kids in this area are generally well mannered and usually stick to the "one candy" rule, and these pre-schoolers were no exception. I told them they can take two each, and that seems to have made them very happy.

[Renauda]

Maybe 10 or a dozen at most. Mostly the little ones. 7:3o pm now and streets are silent. Maybe time to shut it down and watch Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that the teen has cued up on the TV.

[Mik]

We ended up at 63. More than usual. Next year we will be ready for 75 to be safe.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Getting many trick or treaters?:

We ended up at 63. More than usual. Next year we will be ready for 75 to be safe.

Our official count was 48, yet we ran out of the 60 full sized candy bars and candy we bought… Hmmmm…

[kluurs]

We ended up with about 200. We had popcorn balls, Cracker Jack, and full sized candy bars.

[Jolly]

Homemade popcorn balls?

[89th]

We had a perfect night, even for Minnesota standards. Temps around 60, no wind, beautiful half moon in the sky. Kids had a blast going door to door, and had even more fun back home handing out candy. We had a firepit, a half dozen carved pumpkins, my speaker on with halloween music, and I bought a 24-pack of small flickering LED tea light candles to line the walkway to the porch.

[89th]

@Mik Oh to answer the thread question, since we're still in the "take kids early" mode, we aren't home for the main wave of kids, but neighbors said the foot traffic was a tad lighter this year. Maybe 50-60 visits. We have an unopened 150-piece bag of candy from costco we'll be returning.