Does anyone else leave a bowl of candy on the porch on the honor system?

[denbot]

for the last few years the kids are off with their friends on Halloween and it's just me and Alley. We often have an invite to dinner at a nearby friend's house. Every other year or so we leave a giant bowl of candy with a "Please only take one sign" and have always got our bowl back.. Shiny clean..

I wonder how many trick-or-treaters it takes to empty the bowl?

[whistler162]

1. Ask Mr. Owl.....

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/285/ ;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear denbot!

We've never done that...

I just love running down our entry to answer the doorbell!

:hi:

:P

[Lorien]

3. I tried that one year

The whole bowl was emptied in about 15 minutes, so it's just took one future Republican.

[denbot]

4. Genius!!

I'll just leave an empty bowl out with the usual take one sign.... :evilgrin:

[Duer 157099]

19. OMG that IS genius!!

I've tried leaving a bowl of candy out in the past, and forget about it, the first teenager that comes by takes it all. Never again.

But an EMPTY bowl??? Awesome idea!! :thumbsup:

[kentauros]

22. Well, I wouldn't want to leave an empty bowl.

But maybe a bowl of ice cubes would do?

:evilgrin:

[rug]

5. I did when I went out trick or treating with my kids. They took the bowl.

[seaglass]

6. Yes, I did when I took my kids out, came back and there was still candy left.

Seriously, it wasn't bad candy.

[sakabatou]

7. Not anymore

About 5 years ago or so, we got our bowl stolen, so now we go by the door.

[tigereye]

8. some neighbors have done that- not sure how it worked

Half the fun is going to the door to see how the kids are dressed!

[Lyric]

9. We've done it, and never had a problem with it. nt

[seabeyond]

10. my husband has. when we are ready to stop. lol. i wonder too. nt

[NV Whino]

11. Naw, they have to stick to the formula doncha know

The greedy little raccoons would take the entire thing. Besides no one but the raccoons can find my house anyway.

[pitohui]

14. yeah that's what i was thinking

i've had a family of as many as 6 raccoons, and i'm not even in the country, people don't realize that most suburbs are full up with raccoonns and possums too,they'll even try to take the bowl

i'd rather not encourage them to boldly climb onto my porch, i had enough of a heart attack the day i found an armadillo on my porch (which is not very big)

[Gormy Cuss]

12. I do, but the sign also warns the tricker treaters that they're on camera. No problems ever.

j/k
:+

[pitohui]

15. my raccoons can't read EOM

/

[Hassin Bin Sober]

26. And get a fake hand covered in blood with a hatchet. And a warning sign.

[siligut]

13. I think they may take more than one piece...

When we have to be gone during Halloween evening, we leave a bowl full of candy out by the jack-o-lantern so it can't be missed. Some candy has been taken when we return, but not all and our bowl has never been taken...yet. Of course, we live across from a xian church that hosts a Trunk or Treat every year, so most of the gangstas, gremlins and goblins we get, fear the wrath of god.

But, I love the kids and costumes, so when I can, I answer the door.

[mike_c]

16. I used to do that....

Came back one year-- about five or six years ago-- to find the bowl smashed in the street along with the jack-o-lantern and other decorations I'd left, and obscenities scrawled in chalk all over the porch where I'd left the bowl. I'm assuming someone emptied it, and someone else objected to finding it emptied. Anyway, that was the last year I put out Halloween candy for trick-or-treaters. Now I just leave the porch lights off and lock the front gate. STAY OFF MY LAWN, DAMMIT!

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. They still do that at some of the houses around here.

[Inchworm]

18. We used to do this as bait when I lived in an actual neighborhood

Then scare the pee-mortal shit out of trick-or-treaters when they reached into the bowl.

Good times ;)

:hi:

[Old Troop]

20. Never. Not because of the honor thing, but my wife and I love seeing

the kids in their costumes.

[KamaAina]

21. I usually do that

and since I've been living in mostly child-free apartment buildings, I've always been able to retrieve the candy the next morning.

Now, however, I'm in a garden-style complex replete with rug rats. I either put the bag (you have a bowl?!) out on the doorknob -- or answer the door... :scared:

[TK421]

23. Nah..we always just wait by the door n/t

[kentauros]

24. I just thought of the perfect way to do this.

Get an old toilet, clean it out, even seal the interior surfaces if you want (most candy is sealed anyway these days) and put all the candy in that bowl }(

[bif]

25. Empty bowl with a sign "Please take one".

[TBF]

27. We do it when we take the kids out -

big ugly plastic bowl that they can take if they really want it that bad...

[wickerwoman]

28. Doesn't that kind of scream

I'm not home/not paying attention. Please TP my house?

I'd be kind of worried about burglars in my neighborhood- but then we don't have any kids either so the point is sort of moot.

[Rhythm]

29. Depends on the neighborhood and the kids...

I've done this on numerous occasions, and with mixed results.

Naturally, there is never candy left, but i did catch someone trying to leave with the whole plastic cauldron once.