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Up North 10-31-2012 06:16 PM

How Many Trick or treaters
 
How many trick or treaters did you get? We live out in the country and had 10 tonight the most I have ever had is 12

DogHouseMom 10-31-2012 06:21 PM

I live in town, although it's a very very small town. They started at 4:00 but I don't get home from work until 5:15. I got about 5.

Bamagal 10-31-2012 06:27 PM

They do a hay ride in my neighborhood. Everyone hits at once ! Maybe 12

Up North 10-31-2012 06:29 PM

What do you all give for treats? Looking for new ideas. I gave activity books pencils and puzzle along with a candy bar

Lori S 10-31-2012 06:42 PM

I had very few , bought 4 bags of candy( usually go through about 3 or 3&1/2 )... only went through 1. Not sure why the number was so low this year...

Up North 10-31-2012 06:47 PM

My disabled dad looks forward to it and had his candy all ready this afternoon, they used to get over 100 now about a dozen. He lives in a small town and there are no kids living on his block anymore

Veronica 10-31-2012 06:49 PM

I had about 10, didn't think that we would have any after Sandy.

Up North 10-31-2012 06:54 PM

I figured they would have canceled trick or treating in the stricken areas maybe just help a group party somewhere so 10 was great!

kathdavis 10-31-2012 06:58 PM

We had about 100 and went through two very large bags of candy. Finally shut off the lights at 8:50 after our last trick or treaters came by.

Tartan 10-31-2012 07:05 PM

We only had about 10 but we live on a dead end street. There are people that get over 100 in the big subdivisions.

lynnie 10-31-2012 07:24 PM

I live in a condo
We had 13, thank goodness(houses not a highrise)

I packed my bags with two gift cards a handfull of pennies, glow in the dark bandaids, m&ms
a few other candys like those cool pops you get a michaels individually packed, stickers friendlys coupons
hershes bars and two ther things i cant remember.

frog54 10-31-2012 07:54 PM

we had at least 100. had to go buy more

icon17 10-31-2012 08:26 PM

We live just about 2 streets from city limits of everett,wa. Not at All a small city our area is quite built up very busy Yet we get very little, tonight only 6 not counting My Gran girl Kate, And of course My hubby counts as 100+ LOL.

icon17 10-31-2012 08:28 PM


Originally Posted by Bamagal (Post 5626722)
They do a hay ride in my neighborhood. Everyone hits at once ! Maybe 12

Boy That would be so Nice would Love to Do that! sounds Like a Old Movie.:)

Scissor Queen 10-31-2012 08:38 PM

We get around 100. The majority of them went all out on costumes too. There were a lot of really cute costumes this year.

crtwelvecats 10-31-2012 10:20 PM

the neighborhood here doesn't seem to celebrate it . so we had 1. last year we counted 15 and before that there were none. so holloween is no fun here i loved seeing the kids dressed up. at least DH got to dress up for his job (school bus driver) and we put label on packages of gummy worms that had a bird eating worms saying it was deadly
night crawlers. nothing real scary though cause he has handicap kids and we didn't want to upset them. One kid last year was bigger than DH and went off about something and started on a little female teacher and dh retained him till he calmed down but had no buttons left on his shirt. apparently the kid likes to rip at buttons off people when he gets upset.

gramajo 11-01-2012 04:43 AM

I live in a small town and had 50-60 kids. Previous years the Chamber of Commerce had a weenie roast at the elementary school 1 1/2 blocks away and I've had 150-200 kids. This year the roast was moved to park district property 1/2 mile away, so didn't get near as many. Lots of cute, innovative costumes and some of the parents even dressed up. It was great seeing all the dads taking the kids around. When my girls were young, I had to hire a babysitter to take them trick-or-treating so I'd be home to hand out candy.

GrandmaPeggy 11-01-2012 04:55 AM

We live in the city, in a subdivision with about 100 homes. We live in the second house from the entrance, so we get everybody. We had tons of kids again this year, from newborns to young adults (a/k/a teenagers). It was great to see all the parents walking their kids up and down driveways or sidewalks (none came across yards), reminding kids to say "thank you", and "take only one" reminders.

The only "issue" we noticed was a group of teens running. Later we found out from another teen (he was furious), that a teen had knocked over a little kid and stolen the candy. The group running was chasing him/her. Someone even called the police, so we had 2 police cars at our entrance for a while. Otherwise, it was great fun for these grandparents.

Unfortunately, I again bought too much candy, so the grandkids will have fun visiting our pantry.

lovingmama 11-01-2012 05:21 AM

We usually have 300 and more Kids, our neighborhood celebrates good and plenty. Many garages are small haunted houses and the Kids enjoy it.

One Family has a different theme each year, last year it was the Wizzard of Oz, this year it was Toy Story.

This year it was close to 100 children. The weather was cold, rainy and windy, through out the entire time, not very nice.

BellaBoo 11-01-2012 05:22 AM

I had a steady steam for two hours. When the school supplies were on sale at Walmart, I bought enough boxes (.25 each) of crayons to give out with the candy. The younger kids loved getting a box of crayons along with a candy bar. The bigger kids mostly chose just the candy bar.

alleyoop1 11-01-2012 05:42 AM

We have restrictions on Halloween - it's from dusk till 8:00 pm and only for children 12 and under. We had probably 75 kids but some were older than 12.

NJ Quilter 11-01-2012 05:55 AM

Halloween postponed until Mon. 11/5 here in NJ.

mountain-moma 11-01-2012 07:57 AM

Halloween postponed here until Saturday evening dew to the big snow we got and still don't have power

read2me1989 11-01-2012 08:29 AM

The Optimist Club in our town hosts a Fright Night at the grade school. Businesses can decorate a "door" and pass out candy. The library where I work did that and there were nearly 300 ghosts & goblins. I loved it!

Ccorazone 11-01-2012 10:28 AM

I live in a very active neighborhood with lots and lots of children. I live in a cul-d-sac and our neighbor always sets up a bounce house and has music with loud speakers. All this attracts lots of folk. Don't know the number but we ran out of candy and we had bought 4 large bags.

Chasing Hawk 11-01-2012 10:31 AM

None, we live way off the beaten path.

GrandmaNewt 11-01-2012 11:31 AM

Our house is known for our halloween display. This year we had 750 trick or treaters. Amazingly that number is down, last year we lost count at 1030. We had enough candy for 1200 this year, so I have lots of extra.

sewnsewer2 11-01-2012 12:43 PM

Well don't you know I bought a bunch of candy to give out and things fell thru with my son taking his daughter out. So grandpa & I took her and wasn't able to give out the candy.

Good thing I bought what we like! LOL

Jingle 11-01-2012 01:40 PM

I had none, we don't have any small kids. We saw a couple of young teenage girls dressed up and I guess they were going to a party or something. Not too many kids of any age on our dead end street. Not alot of houses either.

gramajo 11-01-2012 01:58 PM


Originally Posted by sewnsewer2 (Post 5628134)
Good thing I bought what we like! LOL

That's the only kind of candy I buy.

barny 11-01-2012 02:07 PM

We live in a sub-division and had about 150. They were lined up from front door to the sidewalk, 25 at a time.ha. I bought at least 15 or 20 big bags of candy. Went right through it. But I had a really good time looking at costumes, while Husband watched TV. And all of the kiddos always said thank you. So nice. Barny

Abby'smom 11-01-2012 03:29 PM

We live in a subdivision city north of Houston -- we had less than 8 groups (2 or 3 kiddies plus parents each time) -- lots of good candy left over -- we were surprised that we had so few!!

chips88 11-01-2012 03:32 PM

none we live to far out...

wanda lou 11-01-2012 07:21 PM

We live in the country and I bought 10 large candy bars to give out and we had zero trick or treaters.

Lyncat 11-02-2012 05:24 AM

We live in a cute community called Verrado. My street is on a dark cul de sac so we put up some spotlights and had a little block party and also invited family. We went through 3 big bags of candy, but over on Main St. there were hundreds of kids. I walked around with my nephews and I've never seen anything like it. People drove their kids to the neighborhood. The Ghostbusters car was driving around passing out Twinkies. We enjoyed our little party so much that we are going to make it an annual event.

Tudey 11-02-2012 06:02 AM

We do trick or treating at our church, we call it Trunks of Treats, providing a very safe environment for the kids. We also do free hot dogs, games, crafts, we have a photographer who does portraits for free (for those in costume) . We had 500 trick or treeaters!

Amythyst02 11-02-2012 06:25 AM

We did not have any, most of our neighborhood does not give out candy. A few reasons, but most importantly the kids are attending church functions, or parties sponsored for them.. Just not safe out there anymore for our children.

JANICE E. 11-02-2012 06:30 AM

None, last year we had 2 . I didn't buy candy this year because I'd wind up eating it.

jhoward 11-02-2012 06:39 AM

50 at our house. There were several parties in our town, for kids attend. That is why the low number. In yrs past would have over 100, while my in laws living 6 blocks from us would have 200.

rosiewell 11-02-2012 06:40 AM

Our whole complex is under reconstruction, raising the buildings 6 inches before we slip into the water! so...I usually get 10 or 12 kids every year, this year it was a big fat 0. We knew that was going to happen, but it did not stop my husband from buying a HUGE bag of candies.


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