<p>We’ve had a bunch of kids so far and I hope we don’t run out of candy! They’ve been coming in packs of 6-8 kids at a time.</p>
<p>One of the houses down the road is serving hamburgers and hot dogs to the kids. Every year, the family sets up a big table and a grill in their front yard and feeds the trick-or-treaters. </p>
<p>We had one kid dressed up like trash—he cut out the bottom of a plastic garbage can and put shoulder straps on the top to hold it up. Then he glued (or duct taped) empty wrappers and chip bags to the outside of the can. </p>
<p>It’s refreshing to see how polite a lot of the teenagers have been-----most saying “thank you” and asking how many candies they can take. Very nice.</p>
<p>We ran out of the mini bags of chips. The older kids seemed to go straight for the Doritos.</p>
<p>We are giving out the big bars (Sam’s Club boxes) of Kit Kats, Twizzlers and 3 Musketeers. So far, 3 Musketeers seem to be the most popular (and my son won’t be pleased, since that is his favorite and he hopes for many leftovers). We have had about 30 kidlets so far and I expect more in the next hour. We will turn off all the lights when we have had enough. Ding dong!!! Bye</p>
<p>Our neighborhood has a party for the kids, and then when it ends (at 6:30) they come to the houses. Its been drizzling tonight so the turnout is lighter. There are a lot of cars out front and people who are not from the neighborhood too. They drive over from other areas . We had a few adult-looking folks as a well. That was a new twist.</p>
<p>I want a hamburger, nysmile!! Thats great, seeing as how in today’s paranoid world, few would let their kids eat foods that arent prepackaged. I used to love getting toffee/caramel apples at houses, clearly homemade by the lady of the house. That would never happen these days. The hospitals here even offer to xray your candy for free before you eat it!! What has this world come to??</p>
<p>Had about 150ish as expected - it was quite busy the first hour and quite dead the second hour. </p>
<p>Best costume I saw: someone dressed up as laundry in the laundry basket - had a laundry basket around him and assorted clothing thrown over him. Great. </p>
<p>Best treat or treat strategy: a boy who took a piece of candy then politely said, “can I have a second piece if I tell you a Halloween joke?” I said sure, listened to the joke and gave him the candy. He does this every year and every year he has a new joke to tell. Nice kid.</p>
<p>Neighbors brought their darling little girl over, with baby brother. She’s VERY allergic to everything, so I get her a My Little Pony or something (bought on clearance afer last Halloween). Chunky board book (ABC’s from Target) for her to “read” to baby brother. She had a blast, and my DD was happy to dress up as Alice in Wonderland to fuss over her. I have M & M’s on hand if we get any additional–hilly, mostly older neighbors so not too many trick or treaters…</p>
<p>Lighter crowd than usual this year, kids in the neighborhood are getting older and the weather is wet, windy and rainy. Passed out <em>my</em> favs, m&ms, peppermint patties, hershey mint bars. Biggest hit was the skybar ‘New Moon’ assorted chocolate bars with the actors pics on the wrapper. Had a group of 6-7 young teen girls that squealed when they saw it, Taylor Lautner is so dreamy! One girl grabbed a bar and gushed, “I’m never going to eat this candy!”<br>
Fav costume, young kid dressed as a banana, and his brother said, look, it even says certified organic.</p>
<p>Phew! We just turned the lights off and shut the front door. All is now quiet and we’re hoping for the Yankee game to begin. </p>
<p>The trick or treaters were wonderful and hats off to their parents for raising such nice kids. They were friendly, polite, and thankful for their treats.</p>
<p>I’m in CT. Just before 8 the heavens opened and that was that, though I had planned to extinguish the pumpkin and call it a night at 8 anyway. (We grownups want to eat dinner in peace.) 60’s was warm for us because it was down in the 30’s just a few days ago, and it’s usually in the 50’s for Halloween. All the kids were very sweet. I especially love the little ones who are struck dumb when the door opens and need whispered cues from mom and dad. Listening to the “Glee” kids sing the national anthem (gorgeously) to start the World Series tonight was a lovely way to continue the evening!</p>
<p>We normally don’t get many, but I bought the 150 bag at Costco too, just in case. I keep candy on my desk at work so I knew it would get eaten.</p>
<p>My husband said somehow the word must have gotten out that we had candy, plus the weather is great. Giving 2 each, I went through the whole bag from 6-8, and had to turn out the lights! It was lots of fun for me. Most of them were brought in cars. We also had parents with bags, and not as many older teenagers as usual.</p>
<p>We have fewer every year, but all cute and polite kids this year. I started giving out handfulls to the last few groups just to get the chocolate out of the house. Still have too much.</p>
<p>We give out toothpaste and yo-yos…Just kidding. I give out full size Nestle Crunch to the neighborhood kids…and fun size assortment handfuls to the kids who are driven in. I went for about 10 yrs with no kids at all in our previous home so I love to see all of the kids</p>
<p>My son talked tonight at dinner about how he remembers EXACTLY the house that passed out toothbrushes for a “treat” a few years back- let me tell you, he thought that was a RIP OFF!!! :)</p>
<p>^Awwwww!!! There’s still a few trickling threw, but lot’s left over here too. Glsd I got some pretzels ( which were VERY well received by a few, BTW).</p>
He does this every year and every year he has a new joke to tell. Nice kid.</p>