Adding that today, Diwali, is the newest NYC holiday so the high school kids (and CUNY kids too) don’t have school today.
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We eventually got kids, but it was much later than normal (maybe kids were enjoying the summer like temps). It started closer to 6 and petered out by like 7:30. Mostly kids in grade school, some younger middle school I would guess. Got a couple of teenage (?) girls who kind of looked like tik tok influencers, and were kind of snarky with the candy I had (I tend to do non chocolate stuff, bc kids get a lot of that and seem to appreciate stuff that isn’t, like sour patch stuff, I had blow pops and things like that this year). But there was one thing that really touched me, this little girl (her folks said she was 3 and a half) dressed as a princess, a little red head. She was so proud coming up the steps by herself, and saying very politely trick or treat and thank you. Made my night. Lot of the kids didn’t have costumes (which is fine), most were polite and said thank you. I would guess probably 30 or so by the end.
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Our Costco had the bags for $20/ea and they shrunk down to 135 pieces of chocolate. We went through 270 pieces between 6-7:05. Someone remind me to buy more candy next year. 
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Still a lot better price than the grocery or drug store prices I think! But yes, candy is no bargain !
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I live in a smaller town in northeast NJ, where many stay for generations so there are a lot of references to the good ol’ days. My kids are 4th generation. The street was blocked off for a half mile, about 80 houses, plus side streets. Over the years the issue seems to be too many cars since a lot drive here, this year still a ton of people but at least no vehicles on dark roads.
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The Costco $20 bags were double the size of the $20 Walmart bags. And Walmart is cheaper than Target which is generally cheaper than the grocery/drug store. I suppose you had more choices of mixes at Walmart, but I thought the mixes they had were great.
And H always reported that at school, the kids went gaga over the Skittles, sour patch kids and Air Heads. Chocolate? Notsomuch. What is wrong with kids these days?!!! 
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I read somewhere that non-chocolate candy were supposed to be big this year.
I had a return to do from Walmart.com. There was a HUGE pile,of returned bags if candy that were being reshelved. I guess people bought more than they could use.
But the good news! I make a mix of salted dry roasted peanuts and candy corn, and had not done it this year. I got my candy corn for 50% off! So…I can make my one batch of this mix. Try it! The sweet and salty is really really good!
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Truly the demise of civilization. Not a world I want to live in.
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Amen. 
That is what I have found the last several years, kids like the non chocolate stuff (this year it was oriented towards various kinds of lolipops, not sure I would do that next year). First of all kids like variety, and chocolate is the dominant thing with halloween candy. I found that sour patch, skittles, tropical lifesavers, starbursts went over well, as did more sour tasting what we used to call jawbreakers (my favorite used to be the atomic fire balls, really spicy).
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You can tell this is a different generation. Our house was popular because my mom made popcorn balls and kids loved to eat them while trick or treating, she also one year made candy apples. After all the years of reports of pins, razor blades, chemicals, etc being in halloween stuff (most of which from what I can tell turned out to be urban myth), this would never happen today.
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LOL, two things I used to love but would not dare to bite into anymore. My incisors are basically just for show now.
I must be younger than you. My parents (in the 70s and early 80s) wouldn’t let us touch anything until they inspected each piece and anything homemade was tossed. The razor blade thing happened when I was little, I believe.
With mine, they never got anything homemade but I never bothered to inspect it either
This is one of my childhood Halloween memories - the popcorn balls that the neighbor across the street always made - they were delicious - at least back then!
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A few years ago my kid’s band did a trunk or treat - it was high school. Just a bit of fun for the band and the parents because marching band can be so much work. Anyway, I made homemade monster cookies, three to a sandwich bag. I heard a mom asking her kid ( one of my son’s bffs) “ where did this come from? These aren’t store bought!”
Like, it’s a band event and a small band at that - it’s just us. No allergies. You think I poisoned the cookies? Her daughter was so embarrassed!
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