[Halloween] How many Tick Or Treaters?

Just one :( . We just bought this new house. It is right next door to the schools...kindergarten, middle, high schools....it was odd, just getting 1. Had Jack O' lanterns and all at the door, etc. Then Wife noticed in the morning that someone turned off the light on the sign that gave directions to the front door. (Very Big house, the front door actually looks like the back door.) (Also was running a D&D session, so all 7 of us just kinda didnt worry about it, till it was over. heh heh)

Was kinda depressing, since its been almost 17 years since i last even bothered to do something like this......
 

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None, although I went to the gym early evening, and when I did finally get in I put my door intercom into privacy mode.


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Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
*sigh* We had seven. Two groups of three and one loner. But, it's better than last year when we had ZERO.
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See, I would have considered zero to be much better than seven. I don't want to rocking up to my door and threatening me.


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No idea if it was busy or not in my neighborhood. I had aerobics right after work, then nipped home for a quick shower and to grab something for the microwave and then back to work until past nine. Strangely, no trick-or-treaters made it past security and up to the third floor of my office building. ;)

-Dave
 

I go help friends with Halloween, since they do a full-out yard haunting every year with a graveyard fence, an arched entranceway lit with lanterns, gravestones, and varying things in the driveway. This year's theme was 'BBQ - You're What's For Dinner', featuring a grill with body parts. Lots of people come by their street to see what they've done. Their son even figured out a way to make the windows look like they're boarded up. (Nail planks in a 'boarded up' pattern, making sure they can support the weight' and use bent wreath hangers to hang them from the top part of the window.)

This year, they had 151 kids and almost that many adults who came by for yard haunting tips and to enjoy the production with their kids. It was down about half this year because Halloween was on a school night so there was not a lot of neighborhood roaming; people tended to stay in their own for the two hours.

No people with no costumes; even the older teens were in full costume. There was a good mix. A few Batmans and Incredibles suits (including one mom who was dressed as Elastigirl with her son and daughter as Dash and Violet - that got a lot of points for guts, but she could certainly handle spandex....) Fairies, undead, a couple vampires, a zombie or two. Three of the older teens were done up as a Victim, Demon, and Exorcist.
 
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We had 5. The number has been going down every year. The peak was 50-60. We haev fewer children in the neighborhood and many parents take their kids to Fall Festivals or Church Lock-ins. I am very wary about these lock-ins. A bunch of horny teenagers with minimal adult supervision locked in together.
 


We had maybe 30.

It had rained the day before & was kind of nasty weather.

1. All the teenagers wondering around with no costume & a Wal-mart sack.

Go to heck, do not pass go, do not get any Candy. That is the most pathetic display of pan-handeling/begging I have ever seen. At least make some effort. At least get an old sheet & cut some holes out for cryin' out loud!

Trully, completly, absolutly pathetic. If I was your parent you would be forking over all that candy (not to me, to a children's charity/food bank/orphange where there ARE kids that rarely get treats).


2. Halloween is best when the kids are 5 or 6. We had one little girl dressed up as a Dinosaur that when my wife asked her what kind she wanted, her eyes lit up & she started chanting 'Rices, ricees, ricees" like a mantra (we had Reece's PB cups). Then when my wife put three of them in her sack, her eyes got as big as dinner plates & she just stared into her bag with her jaw open. She then ran out to her mom & proudly looked up at her, held up 3 fingers & said "Three! I got Three!" (unlike the big lummox in the jacket holding out a sack, waiting for a hand-out).

The little kids make it worth-while.


3. The baby costumes. Even though the kids not on solid food yet, you have him dressed up as a little pumpkin. The cuter the baby costume the greater your candy take (as everyone knows you aren't throwing it in the freezer for 2 years). If you have a matching costume, you WILL need to bring extra bags for the loot.
 

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