So, how many did you get?

[Abby Normal]

We were down to about 150.  Usually over 200.  Lots of left over candy.  DS stayed home last night and was stingy handing it out.  Limit 1 piece.  Towards the end of the evening- I start giving it out by the handful to get rid of it if there is extra.  One lucky kid last year got the rest of the bowl because I was ready to be done for the night.  I think DS was hoping he would get to eat the leftovers, but alas, I brought it to work.

[Timberwolf]

We had 20-25.  I was suprised when no kids had shown up by 6:30, then I went and checked the doorbell and low and behold the doorbell didn't work, so I don't know how many we missed before then.     We had to put up a sign to knock on the door. 

I decided to give out non-chocolate treats this year, so maybe the kids (or thier parents) figured out it wasn't as advantageous to come here.  We also had a ton of leftover candy.

[Angel!]

I didn't give out candy this year  . 

I had bought the candy, but when we got home from ToTing ourselves at ~6:30 I realized I just didn't care this year.  I still had to feed the kids & feed the dogs - one of which has to eat inside because he eats too slow & fatso has been finishing his bowls, which means he would run to the door every time we get someone.  Plus all my neighbors had their lights off.  Our neighborhood has never been popular so we never get a lot.  This year I was in a row of about 10 houses that all had their lights off & the few ToTers I saw were being driven between houses because it was so far between houses actually giving out candy.  I felt guilty, but just didn't want to deal with it & now have a bunch of candy that I don't want.

[sesfw]

We haven't had any kids in about 5 years.  And 5 years ago we got 2 kids and they were early teens. 

So yesterday late afternoon DH and I dressed as clowns and went to the local party in the downtown area of our little town.  Saw cute kids and parents dressed up, dogs in tutus, high school band and cheer squad performed, all kinds of kids activities, a free photo booth, etc. 

We left when the sun went down and working parents were bringing more kids down.  It was a great evening and something we'll do next year.

Bought a couple of bags of candy and to keep me from eating them I took them to the local community center today.  So did a lot of other people.  LOL

[travelnut11]

Nov 1, 2013 14:30:23 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

Nov 1, 2013 14:23:20 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

How can you get that much demographic data while they're in costume?  I get several every year that are in full masks and whatnot.  Would be pretty hard to identify an ethnicity based solely on how they pronounce trick or treat.

I was wondering the same thing. When I first read the post I thought the 7 AA were from Alcoholics Anonymous. Took a minute to register. 

It's not a perfect science and clearly I'm missing/miscategorizing multi-racial kids so it's just a rough estimate.  Honestly there were only 2 or 3 that were totally covered or masked and in those cases I assumed they were with their parents/siblings and made an educated guess.  To my knowledge there were no members of Alcoholics Anonymous.  :-)

[Regis]

Our trick-or-treating night got moved from Thursday to Friday due to thunderstorms and tornadoes.  Not sure if that resulted in less than normal.  We probably had around 40 last night.  Previous years has probably been 60 or so.

[Deleted]

Where I used to live the town declared what weekend night would be TOT.  I loved that because you didn't have midweek costuming & TOTing.

0 in our neighborhood.  We're out in the woods & all the kids have grown up.  Just teenagers racing cars around anymore.

I did decide that my co-worker is a genius.  Shop Costco during TOT night - she was right, it was EMPTY!!!!  Front row parking, no lines - I was in and out in 15 minutes!!!

DD thought she'd get tons of kids because there are a lot of them in the apartment complex.  Just 3 mid sized groups of TOTers.  She said the funny thing was that EVERY little girl was in a witch costume this year.  Not sure what's up with that, but DGD had asked to be a witch too!

Work had costume day & that was fun.  Some very elaborate & some super simple.  This was the first year I dressed up in a long time.

[Anne_in_VA]

We had about 15 kids.  Some of th little ones were soooo cute!  I just got back from a business trip at 5:30 and I had the first kid at 6:30 or so.  The last couple of kids got handfuls of candy since I didn't want to keep any of it or I'd eat it. 

Our church does a Trunk or Treat and DH gave out about 7 or 8 of the big bags of candy (at least 50 pieces in each bag).  I was really upset at having to miss that since our grandkids went, but at least he took lots of pics. So cute.