Are you dressed fun today? At least something orange?!!
Any events in your neighborhood/house/work place?
Did you buy or make any treats for the trick or treaters…or yourself?!
I dressed down a bit at work. Black Athleta skirt and tights, bright orange Marmot shirt and my glowy orange Nikes! (I have better shoes if I actually have to see anyone outside of my small office).
Brought pumpkin spice drinks into work - Trader Joe pumpkin coffee and TJ pumpkin spice latte drink mix AND some leftover pumpkin spice hot chocolate someone gave me (to me sort of sound yuck…) - and I didn’t forget the whipped cream!
S who is recently married and lives a suburb away is coming over to help pass out “candy” - his wife will join us part way through. Bought cider and made pumpkin cutouts on Friday.
While I have some candy to pass out I actually decided to buy other treats at Costco for passing out - Goldfish, fruit snacks (candy but not chocolate!) and one of those multipacks of cookies/crackers in little packages. We should see somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 kids.
In our old neighborhood (where we raised our girls), we would get many hundreds of trick or treaters. Vans and buses would bring kids over from several miles away, and even further (across the highway), where there are many apartments. We also had many many kids living in our own neighborhood. I loved Halloween. All the kids were so cute and polite; it was a joy to give them candy and play along. I always made a big pot of chili or chicken stew, and DH and I would enjoy some wine with our neighbors. I always spent a fortune on candy due to the huge numbers of kids, but I still always ran out before the end of the evening.
We have since moved to a gated community with very few young children. The first year, I bought a small bag of candy, but we had not one trick or treater.
I hate Halloween -even as a kid. It was the dressing up part -not the candy part. I blame my mom who couldn’t even sew a button on let alone make a costume!
We’ll get a few kids ringing our bell but that’s about it. The kids in my town get dropped off at the development to trick or treat, or the section of town where the streets have sidewalks.
I’m a non-liker of Halloween…probably my least favorite “holiday.” So I’m a curmudgeon LOL. We are going out to dinner with a friend whose birthday is today…
I’m not celebrating it. My kids are all grown/moved out and we live in a rural area where kids don’t come for candy. Hubby and I will enjoy a nice quiet evening. Of course, we bought chocolate - just in case. Perhaps one can count our celebration as “having” to eat that over the next couple of weeks. We just happened to get both his favorite and mine… totally by accident, of course!
At work (school) we don’t do anything special either. The younger grades do and we (in high school) used to, but that’s gone by the wayside over the years. The band and certain clubs marched in the Halloween parade in town a few days ago if that counts.
Fortunately I have rehearsal tonight so won’t be home. I wouldn’t be handing out candy anyway. After 25 years of doing it I declared a moratorium on Halloween a couple of years ago.
I usually get a modest amount of trick or treaters. Since my kids have been out of the house I celebrate by giving away the "good stuff’. Giant movie theater boxes of candy and light up bracelets. It’s such a joy to see how excited kids are when they see what we have!
Come to our house. We live on at the end of a dead end street. We hardly get Trick or Treaters. But we do reward their efforts with full sized bars. :ar!
We used to give out full sized bars… til more were going in my mouth than to the kids. We also gave beer to the dads with their kiddos (and any moms too, but mostly moms wanted water, not the calories).
I hope we get a good turnout. For a while we were one of only 2 houses on the block that gave out candy so not too many kids came our way. There are more now. Guy a couple of fours down has a big inflatable in his yard which helps lure them in Nee people on the corner have little kids and lots of decorations so there’s another fun addition.
My mom LOVED Halloween. She didn’t sew, but always helped us craft the coolest costumes and always dressed up herself. She would find clothes at thrift and discount stores and make them into costumes. She took us around the neighborhood and all the other kids would join us because they thought it was fun to have a grown up running around in costume. Long after we were grown and moved away she would dress up just to hand out candy and do-dads. She was always careful to have no-candy items for allergic kids or those whose parents didn’t allow candy.
We live on a dead-end street and some years we get lots of kids (since a school is at the end of the street, people KNOW there are houses here), but last year we got none. And it often rains so that deters people. But this year the app “Nextdoor” has a map where you can list your house for T or T so hopefully we’ll get a few.
D was born exactly a week before Halloween and it’s her favorite holiday. She even had a Halloween-themed birthday party one year. Today she has to staff the student government office, so is wearing her pumpkin shirt and jack-o-lantern leggings. I’m off to day so I’ll just people watch wherever I go.
One year, next door neighbor mom and I took the kids out and about. Next door neighbor dad and H built a little fire in the fire pit, had a few lit pumpkins, and set up a table with TV to watch a MNF game. A VERY long series of extension cords from our house to the street ensured the power. They even had cooler with adult refreshments. All at the end of the dead end. Still not a lot of kids came out, but they certainly enjoyed their evening.
H’s team was playing the local team. We saw many similar setups while we were out and about. We even followed up on the score a bit ourselves. It was such a nice night and a good game, they stayed out there the whole game.
My 20 YO son is living in a house in a neighborhood for the first time. He and his roommates bought a bunch of full sized bars. They want to be the good house. :). I hope they get a decent number of kids. It was cute how excited he was. His 'hood is older houses and seems to be a mix of people so who knows.
Nee people on the corner have little kids and lots of decorations so there’s another fun addition.