<p>My kids and their friends created trick or canning for holloween. They went through neighborhoods and collected food for the food bank while out enjoying each other’s company. The next day the local food bank recieved a pickup bed full of canned foods for the needy. So they continued all the way through HS.</p>
<p>I stopped at about 8th grade as it was getting difficult as I was 6’6" then. I was 6’2" at 12. The looks I’d get.</p>
<p>I give candy to anyone who comes to the door on Halloween. S1 went with his younger brother around our neighborhood when he was a junior in HS, but S2 (now a junior) is just doing homework tonight. I think that many teenagers still have a desire to be kids sometimes. This just seems like a pretty innocent thing for a teenager to do, as long as they don’t smash pumpkins or anything.</p>
<p>I do find it just a tiny bit irritating when people drive into our fairly separate neighborhood, though. I think people should trick or treat within walking distance of their own homes.</p>
<p>when we first moved to the city- there really weren’t many homes with kids for several blocks- Most people were elderly- or housefuls of young renters.
So not many houses were open to trick or treaters- although some of the elderly really do enjoy it- but I don’t blame them if they don’t want to spend money on candy.
So what we did- was just went to our direct neighbors- and to community center parties & storytelling
I really do miss the story telling- for a while it seemed very popular and people like Naomi Baltuck were fixtures in the community ( perhaps they still are and my kids are just too old?)</p>
<p>But now- we have many more families with young kids- some who really get into decorating for Halloween- I am not that consistent- but half the time I am off carting kids around anyway.
( and we used to drive through Broadway on the way home- just to check out the costumes- but after seeing full grown men a couple times- dressed as a baby in diapers walk across the street, for some reason I am not as interested in seeing what else they can come up with) :eek:</p>
<p>I give candy to anyone who comes to the door-afterall-isn’t life supposed to be about having FUN!</p>
<p>In our school district trick or treat night is the Friday before Halloween or if Halloween falls on a Friday, it’s that night. Unfortunately, there is always a football game on Friday nights so my kids stop trick or treating after 8th grade as they have been/will be in the HS marching band. </p>
<p>If big kids come to my door without a proper costume I make them sing or dance for me. This year (last Friday) it was cold and rainy and my son and his friends stopped after just doing our neighborhood of two streets. I felt kind of sad knowing that was the last time my son would participate.</p>
<p>everyone from my high school trick or treats except me. I haven’t trick or treated since 7th. I’m in 10th grade and am doing my homework now so i can watch the first game of NBA season</p>
<p>Since I lived in the dorms all through college, this is the first year I have handed out candy – I lived in the boonies in high school and nobody ever came to our house.</p>
<p>I have given candy to three groups of adorable pumpkins, spiders, princesses, and action heroes so far. This is so much fun! :D</p>
<p>I nearly slammed the door on the rudest bunch of 12-13 year old boys, who put their hands in the candy bowl and just GRABBED like five pieces each. </p>
<p>Maybe 11 is old enough for boys, unless they can be more polite.</p>
<p>My 7th grade boy is out with the 8th grade boy from across the street as I type…:)</p>
<p>I am sitting in a loft of a coffee shop with wireless watching all the neighborhood trick or treaters come in- ( the barista is dressed up like Olivia Newton John- which the dads appreciate 
They are so cute!
( my H has been appointed to hand out candy I don’t need to sit there with it staring me in the face & I still have to go to the gym )</p>
<p>We just had our first two trick or treaters about 20 minutes ago, two adorable little kids. I opened up the big package of Kit Kat bars and handed them one each and they said, “Thank you.” I saw them go back to the waiting SUV and hand the candy to their father who was clearly inspecting it to make sure that it was sealed before he gave it back to them. It made me sad to realize that this was necessary. 
When I grew up in the Stone Ages one of my favorite places to stop was a house several blocks away where the mom handed out homemade peanut brittle wrapped in wax paper.</p>
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My sevie is out right now too! SHIRTLESS, but painted BLUE!!! :eek: He felt like he wouldn’t be a TRUE Cameron Crazie unless he braved the frigid air with only paint tonight. Wonder how long he’ll last?? 
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<p>How sad is this? I carved the pumpkin and — NO TRICK OR TREATERS!!!</p>
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<p>In a resort town with all the tourists gone, there are blocks and blocks of empty houses. Most kids skip the side streets where only one house per block has the lights on and head for one big street where the full timers congregate. I have had only three tonight, all boys and taller than me, but I was happy to see them. And yes, DD has gone out tonight, altho 15, and with 5 or 6 friends. I told her she was too old, but at least they all were in costume.</p>
<p>So it isn’t bad enough that I carved my pumpkin all by myself…But here are the only two trick or treaters that I got!</p>
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<p>I so love to turn off the porch light after they ring the doorbell.</p>
<p>Weenie, I know I’m over the age limit but TREAT OR TREAT! Don’t feel bad - despite the great weather and my predictions, this was the lightest Halloween traffic we’ve had in ten years. Go figure!</p>
<p>Most of my trick-or-treaters had common place costumes, except for two teenage girls who were very clever. They wore white sweatpants, white sweatshirts with a large yellow felt circle sewed onto them, and white caps with devil’s horns. I asked them what they were and they told me that they were… DEVILED EGGS! 
It was very cute!</p>
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<p>Wow, I never heard sevie and 8-ball before we moved to VA (and we used to live in KS)! Cameron Crazie???</p>
<p>Tonight the weather is great here in the DC area. Sevie was a chinese dragon that consisted of a kimono bathrobe and a scary mask. Most of his friends threw on their dads’ BDUs and thought that was good enough.</p>
<p>I used to dress up as a Harvard grad until I reached the age of 18 and was no longer limber enough to shove my head up my ***.</p>