<p>Once again, I am running out of candy!!! I’ve had 95 kids (and I had candy for 105)!!! I think last year was 70 and the year before was 60. What next year??? Soon I’ll have to resort to handfuls of boring hard candy…</p>
<p>OK, I’m guessing that you aren’t in the USA…
or else, the traditions in your part of the country are a bit different…</p>
<p>I broke down and opened one of the bags I bought, I just had to have an Almond Joy…fortunately there is only one day left, and with any luck all the candy will be given out tomorrow so that I don’t feel ‘obligated’ to eat it myself…</p>
<p>We will have about 300 kids starting at about 5:00 with the real little ones to about 8:30 to the high school kids that just cannot give up the habit. Living on a cul-de-sac in an area that has only one entrance lends to lots of kids. My wife really enjoy seeing all the costumes and the little ones as they walk up the walkway with apprehension. My wife and daughter will carve the pumpkins tomorrow afternoon and we usually get some remarks to the pumpkin artistry. I bought 4 bags of 150 candy units at Costco for $45. We usually like to give each kid two pieces of candy. My wife then also gets tootsie pops for the real little ones. I remember trick or treating as a kid and we would have two costumes so that we could cover the neighborhood twice. First time around you go as the theme that the group came up with such gangsters, cowboys, or hobos. Then after you did recon and knew who was home and gave out good stuff you would make a second round as a ghost by putting a sheet over your original costume. Usually had enough candy to last through Thanksgiving. Remember coming home with all the loot in the pillow case and sorting the candy and trying to trade the lousy stuff like bit o’ honey to your younger siblings. Great times.</p>
<p>New Hampshire had Trick or Treat tonight as well. Every year our town (and most others in the state) have trick or treating on October 30. They call it beggars night.</p>
<p>(it is always from 5-7 pm) Good for the younger kids. No teenagers this year! My own D and her friends handed out the candy. (I didn’t get home from work until the very end.)</p>
<p>We get fewer than a dozen every year. We live on a quiet street which is right down the way from a development with sidewalks (we have none) and tons of kids. So everyone goes to the development, and only a few stay in our little area. We always have leftover candy, which I happily eat!</p>
<p>We have the Halloween experience tomorrow night, and for the first time in years H will be home…he said he was wearing a mask! I noticed there are very strict township curfews all weekend for those under 18. If the kids are under 18 they have to have an over 21 parent with them. How in the world they enforce that if there is a teen mom, I cannot imagine. I have two big bags and two small bags handy…enjoying those kit-kats, and I notices some other wrappers in the trash the other day…hmmmm…maybe I better take inventory!</p>
<p>I’m trying to get my head around the idea of having trick-or-treat be on a different night than Halloween. Why?</p>
<p>Me too!
Schmoo-- where do they have early trick-or-treating?
Or did I miss Halloween?? (my 10 y/o will be ticked off!)</p>
<p>And the trick is to buy candy you don’t like, so not to be “tested.” No Snickers at our house…</p>
<p>Trick or treating was tonight in my small city in Michigan. Our city and the adjacent to it both have high school football teams in the playoffs and due to games tomorrow night, they moved trick or treating to tonight. Silly.</p>
<p>We were just talking about this. I remember one time Halloween fell on a Friday - probably was 7 years ago - they changed it to the night before because they were worried about the wild weekend drivers/partyers etc. being out on a Friday night. I remember thinking that was a sad reason! </p>
<p>I love Halloween - simple, good, clean fun! (well, most of the time!)</p>
<p>I see. I also remember occasional curfews in certain towns on occasion.</p>
<p>We celebrate tonight and almost every area sets the time as 6-8pm. I’ll get 300 kids, of which 250 won’t even be from the neighborhood. It gets a little frustrating, but I just tell myself that most of these kids are from areas that don’t hand out candy or that just aren’t safe. </p>
<p>Just north of us, in Detroit, an awful tradition called “Devil’s Night” occurs on Oct. 30th. I believe it started out with kids playing tricks on people, but has turned into arson on hundreds of vacant buildings. I hope things were better last night.</p>
<p>[The</a> Associated Press: Thousands to douse annual Detroit arson tradition](<a href=“http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5htxP8wH2UA01LzLe74mlbrcwXVNQD944ME0G0]The”>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5htxP8wH2UA01LzLe74mlbrcwXVNQD944ME0G0)</p>
<p>I do remember as a child my hometown often did trick or treat the night before for some reason. </p>
<p>We live outside of town so don’t get as many trick or treaters. I think we’re now up to about 20-30 neighborhood kids. I buy a box of full size candy bars at Sam’s Club and it’s more than enough. The neighborhood kids have learned that rrah’s house gives out good treats so usually stop by before their parents drive them into town or a larger neighborhod nearby. Most of them are here before 6:30 or so. I think the town set the time from 5:30-8:30 this year. </p>
<p>This will be the first year I don’t have a child going out for trick or treating. I think both of our children plan to get together with some friends and visit a local haunted house.</p>
<p>In my part of the country there is a Frankenstein radio production at 7 P.M. Hope I will be able to listen :)</p>
<p>This is the first year I won’t have a kid out trick or treating too :(.</p>
<p>We get a lot of trick or treaters here, but I’ve never counted them. Just hope I bought enough candy, as I’ve run out in the past and had to resort to giving out my kids’ Halloween candy. This year, I won’t have that option.</p>
<p>I’m glad Halloween is on a Friday - much more fun for the kids. Mine are both going to parties, so I’ll be alone dealing with the trick or treaters until H comes home.</p>
<p>Update from central NJ: we had very few trick or treaters last night…instead of 25-30 groups, there were maybe 8-10…lots of leftover candy. Perhaps the kids did parties instead of going around to houses, since it was not a school night. I am surprised.</p>
<p>We had 7 good sized bags of candy and ran out by 7:45. At least I won’t spend the weekend trying to ignore the left overs this year! I never buy candy I like, but this year DH bought the candy; it is good that we will not have leftover reeses peanut butter cups and twix lying around here calling to me.</p>
<p>We didn’t get many trick-or-treaters last night, which makes me sad because we’re in an area with loads of kids. We got five groups of three to six kids, but had candy for a lot more.</p>