How many Trick Or Treaters did you get yesterday?

[NNN0LHI]

We had beautiful weather. Warm, dry. A perfect fall day and all we had was 2 Trick Or Treaters.

Bet we had over a hundred last year. I told my wife yesterday afternoon that I was worried we didn't buy enough candy.

What the hell happened?

Don

[warrior1]

1. zero

as always.

[bif]

50. Tons. Perhaps the most ever.

We live a block from a poorer neighborhood. They come into our neighborhood by the carload. All our candy was gone by 7:15 and we turned out the lights. Droves of kids kept going up and down our street until 8 or so. Even though every light was out. Kind of sad in a way.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. 0 (But we were out). I think the break down of Trick or Treating is due

to the (yes I'm going to say it) stupid "Trunk or Treat" things that local schools and churches do because it's "safer" (yes, people all the time are finding poisoned candy and razor blades when going door to door :eyes:). "Trunk or Treat" is a stupid idea that has ruined Halloween for children who's parents are not church members or able to afford high end schools. Plus, the decorated trunks look stupid too. Phew! Thanks, I'm glad I got that off my chest. :)

http://www.gazette.net/article/20111031/NEWS/710319990/1123/-trunk-or-treat-a-safe-but-still-sweet-alternative-to-halloween&template=gazette


+++Last year we only had about 10.

[seabeyond]

3. not as many as last year and younger crowd, being a school night. 100-150???

lots.

our street is always packed.

[Rambis]

4. 450-500

we live on a main street in a small town. All the kids mass at one end and march up the street. It is only one hour now it used to be two hours and we would run out of candy in an hour anyway.

[rurallib]

12. We only had @ 50.

Back in the day when our kids were young we could expect a couple hundred.

[geardaddy]

5. zero

We live on a block that is all apartment buildings.

[siligut]

6. A total of 15, in 4 groups

I really enjoy seeing the kids, they are so cute. The young ones are not sure what is going on and forget to yell "trick or treat", the older ones are cool and happy to get something good, the oldest ones are slightly apologetic, but still want to play. We have a huge Trunk or Treat across the street from us, I think some kids just finish there and decide to visit us. I carved a pumpkin and put a candle in it, hoping to attract a few and apparently it worked.

[dr.strangelove]

7. We had about 200 over the whole day

Lots of kids because school was closed due to the power outages from the snow in NY. It was fun. I had to go out at 6 and buy 5 more bags of candy and we still ran out. We gave the handful of late comers stuff from the kids trick or treating bags.

[Corgigal]

8. over 80 something

the most ever but I think word is getting around on how we put goody bags together for the kids. I always felt bad for trick or treaters here because this bible belt area thinks "celebrating" Halloween is evil. So I load the kids up.

[charlie and algernon]

9. 40-50

All in the first hour, I thought I was going to run out of candy, so the roommate went out and got more and of course no one came after that. :banghead:

[HappyMe]

10. Not a single one.

[LibDemAlways]

11. 7. Most of the kids around here go up to a

newer tract where the houses are close together and it's more of a party atmosphere. Years ago I had lots of trick-or-treaters. No more.

[Blasphemer]

13. About 30

Probably would have been 50 if we didn't run out of candy. It's really hard to prepare - you just never know. Maybe it has something to do with major Halloween events planned in the area in a given year?

[Ohio Joe]

14. In SE Denver, we got about 20-25

All little kids... maybe 5-9 and out with their parents. We had tootsie rolls (regular and pops), snickers and some kind of gummy candy in little boxes. heh, we made ribs for dinner, the whole house was filled with the smell of them and had more then one parent ask if we were giving any of those away as well :D

[trof]

15. 2 'groups', 4 total.

The two little girls next door and a couple of older (10-11?) girls I've never seen.

[Iggo]

16. Maybe 40.

And almost all of them were between 2 and 3 feet tall.

[edbermac]

17. None. I turned out all the lights and then ate all the candy myself.

[GoCubsGo]

35. Me, too.

I got tired of having too much candy one year, not enough the next. But, what finally got me to quit handing it out altogether was when I started getting more kids who didn't say "thank you" than those that did. Ill-mannered brats.

Besides, all that doorbell ringing freaks my cat out.

[MilesColtrane]

18. Just two!

Dammit, now I have to eat all that candy.

[Kaleva]

19. 9 for us. we live in a small town with few kids.

[Bombero1956]

20. 20 and I'm surprised we got that many

because of the recent snowstorm the mayor had discouraged trick or treating due to fallen tree limbs and power lines. Apparently because the mayor wasn't willing to impose an outright ban some folks did it anyways.

[KamaAina]

21. Same as Palin's IQ

a big, fat zero. It helps to be at the back of an apartment building, with homes with lavish displays right nearby.

[Jokerman]

22. Close to 250 - A new record for us.

We had 220 bags of popcorn and we had to resort to the Tootsie Rolls as backup for the last 20-30.

Our neighbor puts on a free haunted house and the kids arrive by the van load.

[Lucinda]

23. Zero

As usual.

Maybe the day of the week was the issue for you? Maybe they went to weekend parties instead...?

[ceile]

24. About 10

And the last group was 13-14 y/o and didn't even dress up. Typical for the neighborhood though.
More Butterfingers for me!!!

[NNN0LHI]

29. I have been eating Butterfingers non-stop since I woke up this morning

The ones I had with coffee were great!

Don

[ceile]

30. Butterfingers and coffee?

That sounds good!

[sakabatou]

25. About 40 or so.

[snacker]

26. about 220

I think it was the most we ever had.

[RebelOne]

27. Only had one large group of 10,

including the moms, who also had trick or treat bags.

[BlueIris]

28. None. (Boo, hiss.) After I invested in the healthful treats, too.

The excellent, high end, no-artificial sweeteners candy. And no little rug rats to feed it to.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

31. Traditionally we haven't had any these past few years

So I was really surprised when we had quite a few this year -must have been about eight altogether

[Cali_Democrat]

32. ZERO!

First time that's happened.

[LiberalEsto]

33. 25-30

Lots of leftovers!
:9

[Brother Buzz]

34. Twelve

Lowest in twenty-five years.

Perhaps forgetting to turn on the porch light until 7:30 contributed to the low number.

[qanda]

36. I may be exaggerating if I said we got 10

Very sparse this year. I have a lot of candy to eat. :(

[Phentex]

37. 56. It was a record and I think the weather helped here...

it can be warm and rainy but it was cool and dry last night. We had mainly teens.

We usually get around 15 max.

[Skittles]

38. zero

I worked all evening/night

[OriginalGeek]

39. My bosses kids do that trunk or treat

HE loves it because it's easy (to be fair, he has to wrangle 4 kids between 2 and 10 years old). Take em to one spot, he knows everyone there, they get filled up and done in 20 minutes and he's home watching Monday Night Football.

I just shake my head and bite my tongue though - It just seems sadly non-halloweenish to me.

Man I remember being 6 or 7 and going to the K-Mart to get Spiderman or Superman or Batman costumes that were little more than glorified pajamas made of flame retardant nylon and a crappy plastic mask with an elastic band that ALWAYS pulled my hair and ended up around my neck about 3 houses in and me and my little brothers and friends would take off at one of the neighborhood and not come back til well after dark with pounds of candy. Our folks didn;t come with us because they knew everyone in the neighborhood and folks stayed at home watching everyone else's kids. We thought we were off the leash but my mother once assured me that we were well watched the whole time.

Wouldn't even consider letting my grandkids do that these days. Their daddy took them up and down the street though so at least they didn't have a crappy Trunk or treat. And the night before they had a Halloween party with their friends.


After all was done we got close to a hundred this year and they cleaned me out. All I got left is a couple shitty Dumdums.

[InvisibleTouch]

40. Only about 10 or so.

The numbers have been steadily going down, year after year. Kinda sad. I enjoy seeing the costumes and doing a bit of decoration, even if it ends up being only a carved pumpkin. It seems like it's a tradition that's slowly falling prey to paranoia and laziness. This, however, is why you buy candy that you like, yourself - because you get to eat the leftovers. ;)

[MrsBrady]

41. monday happened

weekend Halloween days are better

[dimbear]

42. The usual none, and now I'm finishing up a bowl of candy. n/t

[femmocrat]

43. None. I don't even buy candy.

Of course the weather was awful here.

[Riftaxe]

44. Just one, the others

ran to fast... }(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

45. ~0~

trick or treaters don't know how to get to the middle of nowhere.

[krispos42]

46. Four.

I need to practice my aim.



:hide:





I dunno, I was out with the Krispos Kid getting a bag full of cavities.

[Odin2005]

47. 0. I live in an apartment.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

48. bout 50.

Nobody else had their lights on within half a mile of our house. Don't know if anybody else handed out candy.

Those stupid church trunk or treat things are probably taking over.

[ButterflyBlood]

49. None

I live in a secured apartment. And my neighborhood isn't the place I'd take any kids trick or treating anyway. I did see some in residential areas in southeast Minneapolis while driving though.

[dixiegrrrrl]

51. kids next door came, no one else.

We rarely have more than 10-15 show up, last year and this year only the small kids from next door.
I heard that LOTS of kids are driven to a more "exclusive" neighborhood to do trick or treating.
Our neighborhood is mostly retired/single families.
Plus, many kids are taken to church events instead of being allowed to go trick or treating.
Seems a shame.
Not at all what it used to be like when my kids were little.