<p>What time do you stop answering the door?</p>
<p>I don’t stop, but the trick or treaters generally thin out between 8 and 8:30. I expect they’ll be out a little later tonight, since it’s a Friday, and it won’t get dark as early this year, since time hasn’t changed yet. We usually get a few stragglers, mostly old kids, up until 9.</p>
<p>8:00 or whenever you start getting all teenagers is when I stop.</p>
<p>When I run out of candy. We get about 200/300 ----our street is popular, we all decorate, the houses are close together and there is a general happy neighborly vibe, so we attract plenty of families. I sit on the porch all night and give out apple juice for the thirsty kids. My FAVORITE holiday!</p>
<p>Us too- when we run out. Sometimes we don’t 
so at least by 10 we put the lights out.</p>
<p>Usually by 8:30. It is wierd that the last couple of years with Daylight Savings Time lasting until the first week of November. You get some of the little ones knocking when it is still light out. I usually will blow out the pumpkins by 9:00. My daughter at 16 will still go out and trick or treat with her friends. Her best friend has a 2 year old sister and they will take her out. My son last year as a high school senior still went out with his friends. My kids have a great approach to childhood. We told them they will be adults for a very long time; so be a kid as long as possible.</p>
<p>We’re still waiting. This will be the 4th year with no trick-or-treaters :(</p>
<p>A) there are hardly any other little kids in the immediate vicinity, B) we live on a busy main road, which is not at all conducive to trick-or-treating and C) it just doesn’t seem to be done in this neighborhood – I’d take our kids around for an hour and a half and they’d end up with maybe 3 or 4 pieces of candy. Either no one is home or they just don’t “do” Halloween. One poor woman felt so guilty that she brought down a box of costume jewelry for my daughter to choose from! Very nice, but very awkward!
Another year when the boys were young S1 (Batman) convinced H to dress up as Robin. When they arrived at the neighbor’s house the man answered the door, said hello, and basically wondered what they were doing there in their capes. In his defense they are a bit older and have no kids, but still…!</p>
<p>I was just downtown earlier, where D2 (10) is having a ball handing out candy to the little kids who stop by her friend’s house. There must be 100 kids on the street.</p>
<p>We don’t get any kids…Our house is off the beaten path.</p>
<p>We get hundreds, and the weather is as good as it can be. Though I bought a lot of candy this year, I think we’ll run out by 8 PM.</p>
<p>We get lots of kids. Generally it trickles out around 8pm. I’ll blow the jack-o-lanterns out at 8:30.</p>
<p>I don’t answer the door. I sit on the front porch dressed as a scarecrow with a mask on, and no-one knows I am real until I jump up and they get the fright of their life. Har har har. They get 2 candies in return for my thrill :)</p>
<p>We had absolutely gorgeous weather - totally uncharacteristic for our area at this time of year. I was sure we’d have lots of kids stop by. I was so sad - only a handful came to the door. We live in a subdivision, but we are on a cul-de-sac. Our house was the only one of the 5 on our cul-de-sac to pass out candy this year. The other houses were shut up tight. Unfortunately, my house cannot be seen from the end of the cul-de-sac.</p>
<p>S carved an awesome jack-o-lantern, which the few kids who stopped by loved. Our porch is decorated with a spider web, hay bale, cornstalks, and pumpkins. We had lights on, and we were out on the porch. By 7:00, the trickle had stopped. I didn’t notice many kids on the streets at all.</p>
<p>I will be donating candy to our church food pantry, I guess.</p>
<p>We have wonderful weather, and have in years past had 300+ kids. I bought one 150 candy bar bag at costco… still have most of it. I guess we are in a “maturing” neighborhood. I know there are lots of 6-14 year olds in the greater area, but I guess they get enough and quit.<br>
In the first years we were here, there were cars of parents dropping off kids but that has stopped, I guess the fringe of what’s worth trick or treating has moved outwards. </p>
<p>I"ll have a mini butterfinger and bag the rest for… no, don’t do that! Throw it in the trash!!!
Food pantries do’nt need junk food. Kids who are food panty clients don’t need candy.</p>
<p>THROW IT AWAY !!!</p>
<p>Even poor kids like a treat now & then. Most likely, though, the church will use it for whatever they see fit - which is fine with me.</p>
<p>Gorgeous weather here. We get a lot of kids coming by. We turned out the porch light at about 8:30 when the kids started to get big.</p>
<p>Youngest son was grounded at Halloween a couple of years ago. Usually I go all out with the decorating of the porch, even had the dry ice in the black kettle this particular year. I talked the boy, who was 14, into sitting/slouching teen style on the bench outside by the front door. Pretty normal clothes but a very oversized hooded sweatshirt, hood up and covering his face and sleeves over his hands so no flesh was visible. Certain little girls in our neighborhood are probably still having nightmares. One of them kicked his foot to check “it” out. Blood curdling scream. He was quite the story that year.</p>
<p>So far only 1 big group of age appropriate children (Pacific Time). Are they all at parties this year?</p>
<p>Perfect weather here too. Our neighborhood has aged. <em>sigh</em> We probably had 30 kids. In years past we have had 100. We have a candy drawer at work, I’ll take some in for there and donate some for the upcoming Boy Scout Scouting for Food drive. Okay, the almond joys aren’t going anywhere. ;)</p>
<p>Our township sets a time. Trick or Treating is allowed between the hours of 6-8. We still get about 150 kids every year. Our neighborhood is flat with lots of houses so is popular with those who live in the outlying rural areas.</p>
<p>Wow we had a great night. I especially liked some of the older kids and teens costumes.Mostly hand made and REALLY creative. We had five boys and girls (around 15 yrs old) in faun costumes—ala Nijinski in Apres Midi d’un Faun (sp?). Another group of about 7 kids had a chinese dragon costume–they seperated at the door and then after getting candy–rejoined in the yard and did a little dragon dance.How sophisticated was that?! Surprisingly no political costumes.</p>
<p>Apparently nobody came to our house last night - my parents said there probably wasn’t more than a dozen trick-or-treaters. Our neighborhood used to be one of the two “destination” neighborhoods in town, and probably a couple hundred kids would come trick-or-treat. They did say a lot of the neighbors didn’t have their lights on, but that’s still so weird to me.</p>
<p>I think that a lot of the churches in the area have alternate activities for the kids, and I know the city does something downtown. Either all the kids are going there or they’ve found a new neighborhood to go to :(</p>