Our neighborhood sucks for Trick or Treaters.
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We had about a dozen this year, ebbs and flows as younger families age, and new ones move in. Some really cute moms dressed in great costumes. We always stock twice as much candy as we think we will need, some years it all goes. Wife was feeling rough after a procedure, so I got to hand the candy out this year. Car carrier came for the Hemi an hour after trick or treat was done. Treat for the new owner.
gooser
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only 92 houses in this sub only 12 porch lights on i only had 6 kids pass by its not like it use to be
We had one.
r4sedan
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We had at least 200.
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Saw one child walking down the street with her mom. Houses are spaced out here too but not that much. All the lots are 100' wide or more. Was invited over to my neighbors for a get together and to watch the game but that got postponed for today so we'll be doing it again this evening. May have been a few more kids with parents while next door but for the last few years no one came to my door and didn't see anyone out. Anyways, met some new people and had a good time....and the food was great.
YY1
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After several multi-hundred dollar candy expenditure years, we finally started shutting the lights off.
I kind of miss seeing all the costumes and being in costume.
I only looked out 2-3 times this year and only saw about 20, so no idea how many, really.
The first year I was there I went back to the store for more candy four times.
I kind of miss seeing all the costumes and being in costume.
I only looked out 2-3 times this year and only saw about 20, so no idea how many, really.
The first year I was there I went back to the store for more candy four times.
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Remember getting Bible tracts?
I agree! Dozens and dozens of young families the entire 2 miles from the parkway exit to my neighborhood. Local PD shut down our street for 20 or so blocks. Hundreds of kids all dressed up and having fun ..... children and parents, just about ALL of them said thank you. I can't recall a Halloween in recent memory that was so alive.Kids in costumes and happy parents. That's nice to see.
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None at my house although the neighborhood was packed with folks and T&Ter's. I am not much of a fan of this Holiday any more as it is way too commercialized and over the top. Besides just about everything purchased in dressing up and the treats all goes to waste until next year and then another cycle begins. So I just kept my lights off, blinds drawn, and watched classic horror flicks on TV. Saw a classic too...Son of Frankenstein with Basil Rathbone, and Boris Karloff as the monster along with Lon Chaney as Igor. Superb B&W movie and my treat was some Brownie Bites for after my evening meal...cr8crshr/Bill 
Parents Buy Giant Bag Of Candy To Give Away While Sending Kids Out To Collect Giant Bag Of Candy
Oct 31, 2022
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX — With the arrival of Halloween, local parents are engaged in their annual tradition of buying giant bags of candy to give away to trick-or-treaters on their doorstep while simultaneously sending their own costumed children out to go door-to-door to collect giant bags of candy.
"I love this time of year," said local dad Chet Bandoff, "Autumn leaves, a warm fire, and buying $300 worth of candy to pass out so my kids can return home with $300 worth of candy. Yay!"
Sources say most kids are blissfully unaware of the curious paradox of the Halloween tradition, usually choosing instead to focus on their impending meth-like sugar high later in the night.
At publishing time, many parents had reported feeling dismayed to find out that after passing out candy bars to the neighborhood kids, their own kids arrived home with Pixy Stix and Circus Peanuts.
Oct 31, 2022
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX — With the arrival of Halloween, local parents are engaged in their annual tradition of buying giant bags of candy to give away to trick-or-treaters on their doorstep while simultaneously sending their own costumed children out to go door-to-door to collect giant bags of candy.
"I love this time of year," said local dad Chet Bandoff, "Autumn leaves, a warm fire, and buying $300 worth of candy to pass out so my kids can return home with $300 worth of candy. Yay!"
Sources say most kids are blissfully unaware of the curious paradox of the Halloween tradition, usually choosing instead to focus on their impending meth-like sugar high later in the night.
At publishing time, many parents had reported feeling dismayed to find out that after passing out candy bars to the neighborhood kids, their own kids arrived home with Pixy Stix and Circus Peanuts.
ESOXER
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New trend is a trailer with couches behind golf carts and utvs here. My 80 yard driveway has prevented a single trick or treater in the 12 years we've been here. My daughter has double pink eye, so her birthday party in December will be Halloween themed, I'm sure the usual drunks at the bowling alley will be all confused.
Basket case
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when we were getting High School senior aged kids, not from our town, we quit having candy. Plus with all the nut jobs tampering with candy, we're not gonna get mistaken for ones that did it.
At my age (71) I’m somewhat amazed at all the yard decorations and stuff people put up for Halloween now. We have a house nearby with a large front yard that has huge stuff all over the place including 3 of those 12’ tall skeletons and then a hooded ghoul of some sort that towers over them with wispy, bellowing cloth rags hanging from it. It must be about 15 ft tall. And that’s just the major stuff - there’s all sorts of other decorations all over. When I was a kid Halloween decorations consisted of a Jack-o-lantern, hand carved out of a real pumpkin and a Fall wreath on the door. Those that wanted to go all out had 2 pumpkin Jack-o-lanterns. I don’t know where people store this stuff or find the time to set up and take down this stuff.
YY1
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The stuff Big Lots had a few years ago was the bomb-
Borderline animatronic skeletal figures in various sizes including life size and much larger, and in many different species and "non-species", and hybrids.
...and "haunted" radios, TV's and telephones among other things that you could actually change the channel/dial a different number and get a different performance.
They were also reasonably affordable, given the amount to technology involved.
Borderline animatronic skeletal figures in various sizes including life size and much larger, and in many different species and "non-species", and hybrids.
...and "haunted" radios, TV's and telephones among other things that you could actually change the channel/dial a different number and get a different performance.
They were also reasonably affordable, given the amount to technology involved.
Slap Stick
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I live in a 225 house subdivision surrounded by subdivisions. As the population aged there were fewer goblins and I noticed people were visiting their childhood homes with their own kids.
When I was growing up here we could fill a pillowcase two or three times.
Now the population is turning over yet again and not many are taking their kids out due to the tampering from years ago. I used to give out candy but I started hearing mumblings from the parents about, "the old single guy" at my house so I stopped giving candy.
In fact, I saw on the local news about a kid at a Cars n Coffee Trunk or Treat who supposedly got a pack of CBD gummies.
I don't need the grief.
When I was growing up here we could fill a pillowcase two or three times.
Now the population is turning over yet again and not many are taking their kids out due to the tampering from years ago. I used to give out candy but I started hearing mumblings from the parents about, "the old single guy" at my house so I stopped giving candy.
In fact, I saw on the local news about a kid at a Cars n Coffee Trunk or Treat who supposedly got a pack of CBD gummies.
I don't need the grief.
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