Being a Saturday probably helped, also the weather was nice here.
I got about 30, which is more than last year, but nothing like what I remember from years past. I used to go through four big bowls, last night I only did one.
Zero. As usual. Practically nobody trick or treats around here anymore. It’s sad.
Same here. Very depressing!
Same. Been thinking for a few years about organizing the hood and making it the place to be for kids.
Same, but we’re a single neighborhood without any connecting neighborhoods since the HOA neighborhood next to us pad locked our attached gate as they don’t want non HOA people cutting through there neighborhood
Neighborhoods get older. In a new sudivision of high density housing near us, you couldn’t drive through the streets there were so many kids.
I went to the busiest spot I remember with my first, in Portland. Barely a handful of families, barely any houses decorated and half the porch lights off. Its heartbreaking tbh. Im just grateful the youngest got to go at all because it’s his autistic special interest. He was so excited. I hope the tradition doesn’t disappear.
Why what changed?
Between 650-700 treats given out, but I have yet to do a final tally on what’s left. Surprising given the rain in Southern California. Almost all were given out to children (a handful of parents asked for one) and few people got more than one.
Up around 100 over last year.
0 at our house (same count as last year) and oddly no kids at the campground that me and my wife disappeared to. We expected some at the campground so we brought candy, after seeing no kids all day we decided to “reverse trick-or-treat” and walked around giving people candy. Most of the other campers brought candy too but had no one to give it to.
We had about 75. One street over has hundreds, maybe thousands. We sit in the front yard and my husband waves at people so they stop. We gave candy, granola bars, peanut butter crackers, popcorn, and ramen. It was funny how many little kids went for the ramen. The parents would just shrug and say, “they love noodles.”
Several years ago, a house one block over set up an elaborate haunted house, the path started in the driveway, went through their garage, inside their house, and through the backyard, it was quite impressive. They did it for several years running. It made the local news. They had a line all the way down the block for a few years before they moved. The street was filled with people showing off big costumes, Stormtroopers, a dude dressed as reaper on his actual horse, crazy shit the last couple of years. Of course, that brought a lot of extra kids to the neighborhood.
One of my daughters favourite places when trick or treating in previous years handed out potatoes (actually I think it was a bowl of various produce and she picked the potato). No idea why she loved it so much; she had to be told to throw it out eventually because it was like a pet rock for her, except potatoes eventually go bad.
My friend’s neighbor gives out potatoes. Apparently there’s a fight among the neighborhood kids to see who can get one before they’re gone.
Ramen? I should try ramen next year.
My son was super excited about ramen wherever he got it
I trick with ketchup. Last year, kids went crazy. This year, I almost made one cry and I felt really bad.
Anyway, I recommend a fog machine. Wind can ruin it, but I just let it rip with a clamp on the button. I ended up smoking out the block with an eerie haze that called kids over. I still had poor turnout. I always mean to stroll around myself and see if it’s my block or the town that’s light, but I’m always too busy heckling kids at my door.
How do you trick with catsup?
“Trick or treat!”
“ahh, I get to choose?? Then I choose trick! Pick your favorite ketchup” as I hand a bowl of ketchup packets to them
Ah i see, the ol’ switcheroo
I got <20, but they were super excited for the toys, stickers, and rocks, so I’m happy 💜💜💜 There was also a group of pre-teen/early teen boys that made me happy they hadn’t given up on their childhoods yet! 🎊🎉🎊
- My kid was the only kid our whole neighborhood saw trick or treating this year.
Last year it down poured so turnout was really low. This year it was higher for our neighborhood so like 20ish. I just put a bowl of candy out front and took my kids around. Counted folk via doorbell camera.
We got maybe 20 max. About half of them didn’t have a costume. I had a bunch of cheap masks that I passed out of they didn’t have anything and the kids were ecstatic.
Wife and I sat on the porch. Nothing special, we had 3 kids come by. Boy did we buy too much candy.
I got about 50 this year (only around 10 last year)! I decorated a lot more this year though, and started decorating much earlier (wanted to let the neighborhood know in advance that my house was participating). All my neighbors stepped it up too, which I’m sure helped with the turnout.
1 group of 4 high school age girls. Walked around the neighborhood and less that 20% were participating. Saw lights and TV on inside many with lights out. Sad. :(
I haven’t had any trick or treaters at all since I moved into this apartment. But I usually see kids in costumes with their parents leaving the complex to go out and about the town. Didn’t even see that this year. And nobody had decorations or jack o lanterns.
I live in a ‘secured’ (locked) apartment building. The first year I moved in, there were kids who lived in the building that came by. Since then, nothing- so like every year since, I have some tiny Halloween candy to eat myself.
Candy is very expensive. Some people are having a hard time affording their own groceries and bills, so spending a couple hundred dollars on candy is just out of the question right now.
A lot of the lights on my street were off yesterday (last year was also sparse), and it’s not as much fun to trick or treat if you have to walk a couple of miles because more and more houses aren’t able to participate, I’ll bet.
I’ll also bet some parents are driving their kids to richer neighbourhoods since they’re more likely to have the goods.
e: and to be clear, my neighbourhood is not poor, but comfortably middle class. People are suffering.
A couple hundred dollars on candy?? $50 worth of candy is a LOT of candy. Trick or treating is supposed to be a community thing, where each house only has to give out a little to each trick or treater. I spent less than $20, and it still was a lot of candy.
No one showed, so now the operators at work get a bunch of candy. Point still stands though.
0, there weren’t even kids in the streets on my block.
