I live at the end of a long driveway in a development with very few kids right now and none have come to the house for several years.

We are going over to a friends property in about 30 minutes. There will be 50ish people with at least 20 kids. We're going to grill some burgers and dogs for dinner. My friend has a 80 acre wooded property with trails cut through the 'haunted' forest with spooky stuff set up here and there. After dark the kids walk along the trails where the adults have their ATVs set up and decorated and pick up their candy. The kids love it!

I have an assortment of full size Twix, Kit-Kat, Skittles, Starburst, and some Halloween Pez dispensers.

We get 70-100. which is really not a lot as they come in clusters.

I buy the chocolate assortment from Costco.

I pull out the Alomnd Joys:)

No candy here. Pre-pandemic, we never used to get more than a few door knocks, so I always bought party favors and other non-perishables that keep, year after year. I haven't even put up any decor this year - again. There are hardly any kids on our block, and anyway, another part of the neighborhood has held a big parade for years now. Residents on that street are the ones handing out tons of candy.

Our church is doing a Trunk or Treat and I did contribute a big bag of the good stuff (Snickers, Nestle's Crunch, Milky Way, Twix, etc.) and lots of balloons. Kids love balloons, FYI 🙂

It's raining lightly here. I just took the Halloween light that projects onto my house out and changed the batteries in the light that goes inside the pumpkin. Giant Tupperware bowl is full of candy and some glow-in-the-dark creatures.

It's supposed to start in about 8 minutes. I opened a 1000 piece puzzle box that I bought to take to work last year but then the pandemic hit so I never took it. We all quit doing puzzles because of the virus. We were taking turns during our breaks but then it didn't seem like such a good idea.

The bad thing is that if I don't get rid of the candy tonight I can't just take it all in to work anymore. All but two people are at home now.

We live in a mountain community with acres between each home and no sidewalks or street lights, so no. But instead, for the past 36 years, we meet up at our best friends’ home on Halloween (in a subdivision) for our annual homemade soup, salad and homemade breads dinner. We used to take all the kids out from there afterwards. Now, it’s their grandkids.

I don't usually get many at my house due to all the local events. I make sure to buy candy we like to eat. I have a werewolf mask to answer the door and the candy is in a cauldron.

No trick or treating expected at my house. Like Lynn, I live somewhat remotely, on a private road with few houses and surrounded by woods. And darker than dark!! Have not had any TorT'ing here since I moved in about 6 years ago and don't expect that to change. And my front entry is not visible from the road anyway....you would have to do some serious hunting in pitch darkness!

My sister and I are going out for dinner tonight but tomorrow the dog and I will hunker down and watch something spooky on TV.

Isn't trick or treat supposed to be on Halloween?!??!? Why does everyone do it early?

Well, I guess i am one to talk. I am taking down my halloween display at work tonight, because its my last night and I do not return until the 3rd, and I do not want to leave it up that long. I put it up early so I am taking it down early, to be replaced by a giant inflatable turkey and a turkey clock, and that is it. Gotta save energy for Christmas!

As for the candy thing, I do not get trick or treaters ever. It would be highly inconvenient for someone to stop by my house and no one ever has.

I did spend over $1500 this year on candy and snacks for the truck drivers. Its all gone now. I had chocolate (the good stuff) regular candy and lots of snacks like chips, granola bars,fruit snacks,takis, rice krispy treats, animal crackers,Muddy buddies, and whatever else I could find in "trick or treat" packages.

I am looking forward to the rest of the holidays! Love this time of year!

Halloween is a big deal on my street. Some neighbors will block off the street around 4 pm and we have a block party just for the neighbors. At six we head home and then every kid for miles around comes to our street to trick or treat. This year i have 300 pieces ( minus one I ate) and will turn off the lights when I run out.

i have not decides whether I will stand at the door and pass out candy or just put it on a table and watch through the storm door. Some people on my street go nuts with the decorations. . Other years Ive played spooky music out the window. Last year we only allowed kids who live here to go door to door, so I dressed up a mannequin and put her next to a table with treats. Here she is.

We’re expecting a crowd tomorrow. lots of young families have moved into our neighborhood. It seems that more people have decorated this year then past years. Good to see,

I did buy candy but don't expect much activity. Most of the homes in our neighborhood are set back from the street with long driveways. Going from door to door here takes more time. I think kids (and parents) prefer easier/faster access to front doors.

I still laugh at this pic someone posted here a couple years ago...

One year I gave apples. Several years later, a neighbor girl commented that I was the one who "gave apples on Halloween." She never forgot. So disappointing, I guess....lol.

I think most people stopped giving apples when there was the scare that someone was sticking needles or razor blades in them. ugh.

As a kid we used to get apples, even homemade baked cookies and popcorn balls. I doubt that ever happens now.

Lot of kids after no one for a long time. I started giving out handfuls. Then more came and had to cut back. An hour left and things are slowing down. I may have to go back to handfuls again.

That's my problem. I never know how many pieces to give, hard to judge if there will be many more kids towards the end of the evening. About 5:30pm, I was giving handfuls and should have just given double handfuls, because now I have leftover candy and none of the stuff I really like!

The sour candies were a hit, as were the Pop Candy I spoke of. I admit I was snacking on the mini butterfingers between waves of kids.

Tomorrow is Halloween and kids in town TrT from 6-8. We will have less than a dozen, no street lights, looong driveways. For a few years we had no knockers..but some young families moved in so we get to participate once again!!

I just took out all the "good" candy, just in case and gave a kid two giant handfuls. I only see one other family coming down the road now.

It’s going to be chilly tomorrow, about 50° for TrT from 4-8, but otherwise nice. So we may get more TrTers than I have candy for. I’ll pick up more candy after church. I got a bag last week but it’s all kiddie-bite-size, so we would have to give out handfuls of it and will run out.

We are in a kid-fiendly neighborhood, but we are at the short end of the block with no sidewalk, between two long streets with sidewalks. So it’s kind of hard to predict who will make the zigzag or cut across or whatever to hit our 4 houses.

Oh chloebud - that's hilarious! Thanks for the laughs 😄

I have so much candy left over. I should've poured the rest of the bowl into the last kids' bag, like I almost did. I was worried I would have more kids come, though. No one came in the last 45 minutes, which surprised me.

I bought about 40 movie theater box sized candy as this is a new house and I was told that we don't get many trick or treaters.

But 35 showed up tonight! And it's not even Halloween. Guess I need to get more candy tomorrow. :)

Huh, I’m puzzled about the reason some of you have t or t-ers tonight, rather than tomorrow.

Our township had T or T tonight (Saturday) . Why? Who knows. We have 2 grands every weekend. There was a trunk n treat at the community park today with games, DJ, food and crafts for the kids. It was overcast, but the rain held off. No T or T at our house - private road. We took the kids over the hill to the housing plan. Rained the whole time. Great neighborhood, within 4 blocks we walked 2 homes offered shots of fireball. Of course only to the adults. Dinner tonight was spiders, bats and pumpkins with blood. Neurotic eyeballs, and spider eggs. Translation- Halloween pasta with spaghetti sauce and meatballs. Black olives stuffed with purple cream cheese. Parmesan cheese was shredded ghosts.

I live in Utah so we had some trick or treaters last night because they can't on Sunday for religious reasons. I'm not sure if we will some tonight or not!

Trick or treating will start at 6PM tonight. I was going to ignore it this year, but my husband and family shamed me. I am going to the store soon and hope I can buy a couple of bags of some candy. I have no idea how many kids to expect. It has been different every year.

Chi - I'd say the word got out that you were giving something great! lol

we bought a bag of mini almond joys in case someone knocked ... no one did.

bag's gone

Well I'm all garbed up in my black sweat pants and bright orange corduroy shirt. I didn't comb my hair after showering so I'm Boris Johnson tonite. Waiting for our only 2 TOTers, a 6 &7 YO from next door. She'll be Cleopatra and he'll be a Mummy.

I'm ready when the kids are! Candy is ready, jack'o'lanterns carved and out the steps. It will be getting darkish in an hour.

I decided to hand out candy myself -- I'll be wearing a (covid) mask, and will sanitize my hands frequently. I have about 200 pieces of decent-sized candy, will start with giving 2 per person and increase or decrease as the evening goes along. I hope the kids have fun. Last year was such a bust.

There were several posts on FB and Nextdoor about "which night ..." 100% of the responses were "Halloween night, of course!"

update: very few kids. Lots of candy left over. The kids who did come were young, preschool to maybe first or second grade at most. I wonder what happened to all the middle school and slightly older kids. Oh well.

Currently handing out candy. Lots of kids.

Bought a big bag of candy, DH said it was too much. Bought a couple more smaller bags this morning. I had the candy just inside the door, DH said the city prefers people leave it outside. 3rd batch of TrTers and I refilled the bowl. Then again. Then again. In the first hour, and we have three more to go on a perfect-weather Halloween. I’m going to move the bowl back inside and control the distribution.

I live in a very very old neighborhood, with very very narrow streets. In front of my house as a parking lot. It's not unusual for people to have their party guests to park in the lot, and golf cart them to a party. I've lost count of the number of golf carts today.

Our neighborhood celebrates Halloween in a big way - many houses elaborately decorated, adults in costume (I just spotted my next door neighbor dressed up as Devo, yellow jumpsuit and red flowerpot hat, haha!), firepits ablaze in driveways, music, libations for the adults.... Some years I have given out over 300 pieces of candy - we do get some kids from out of the neighborhood, just because it is a nice area to TnT.

But, this year the porch light is off for me....I got my first dose of Shingrix yesterday and have suffered with fever & chills all day. Luckily I waited until the last minute to buy candy (so I wouldn't eat it LOL), and in the end didn't buy any.

Oh, raee, I’m sorry you’re having a reaction to the Shingrix. Hope you’re feeling better quickly.

We had a lot of kids in the first hour, then a long lull, and had a few more after supper. There’s an hour to go and I hope we get a few more groups. It’ll be the middle-schoolers, and it’s a toss-up how costumed they’ll be. I was oretty impressed with the latest group of 8th grade girls, they were all in costume and had someone’s little preschool brother with them. So sweet!

I am so glad I decided to participate. No candy was left at the supermarket or the grocery store, so I bought individual bags of chip snacks in a bulk bag which worked out fine. I had 36 kids from littles to not so littles. Most costumes were homemade and creative. All the kids were polite, happy, talkative, and adorable. I was glad to see the young teens out with their friends. Two of my grands are not too old to trick or treat and they had a blast with their friends. Halloween, one of the the spices of childhood. It makes me remember when I was the tricker and not the treater. happt memories.

Hope you feel better Raee.

I always get my candy early. All the fire depts, clubs, churches, schools and organizations were back full swing this year with kids Halloween parties this year. They buy lots of the candy.

We live on a popular street and had 157 kiddos before we turned the lights out. I bought a LOT of candy and took the leftovers to my daughterinlaw so she can take them to her insurance office.

I saw some real creative costumes including an excellent Beetlejuice, a neighbor girl about 12 years old.

I came up with the idea of putting candy on a "spider web" last year, for contact free trick-or-treating. It worked so well that I did it again, so that I'm not constantly opening the door during dinner. Occasionally when I hear a bunch of kids at the door I'll open it to see their costumes, and wish them Happy Halloween.

Here's my web:

What a cute idea, Terezosa!

We only had two little kids. Now left with a big basket of candy.

Jane

We did not have any small children at all, even tho there are a lot in the area. Maybe 20 kids, most aged 10-13 or 14 or so. I'd say that's all pandemic-related. Nice kids, they were having fun. Most of the small bags of M&Ms were gone, just a few left for us.

My neoghborhood’s ToT parade starts at noon. I was out and got home around 1:30 so I missed a good part of the rush. Still, by 3:30 I was concerned about running out so I ran to Costco to pick up a few more boxes. Things slowee down quickly and then it rained so no wvening rush.

Oddest thing my kids ever got was from what i giess was an orthodontist getting rid of all his old impressions.

Thanks for the well-wishes, I am feeling fine this morning, other than a sore arm, thank goodness.

Reports from the neighborhood are that record amounts of candy were handed out - many said that they ran out in the first 30 minutes of our official 2 hour window! I had the blinds closed, but I could hear a real party atmosphere on the street then! The large numbers could partly be because many surrounding cities had their official ToT night on Thursday, which had a cold rainstorm, so the kids came to an alternative neighborhood.

Our doorbell only rang 4 times. Lots of Snickers left over!

I chop up the leftover candy bars and put them in cookie dough for Christmas cookies. This year I have almond joys that I am going to put in a sugar cookie base, kit kats that will go in a chocolate chip cookie base, and reese's peanut butter cups that will go in a peanut butter cookie base. Certain candy bars chop better if frozen.

I'm jealous of y'all, and miss where I used to live.

I hole up in my house here. It is the only time of year I do not like where I live. I'm happy to give up 3 hours out of a year.

This morning, my neighbor and I had to go out and pick up garbage all over our neighborhood. Trick-or-treaters here are loud, obnoxious and as I just explained throw trash everywhere. Not just the kids, I found Jell-O shot containers in my yard. Yes houses give out treats to the adults here too.

Which they did in my last neighborhood. Nobody threw trash on the ground there. So why do they here? Same city, different part of town.

Rob, I’m so sorry your neighborhood kids are so disrespectful. My local facebook group last night was full of comments about how respectful kids were this year, even saying ”thank you” to the Ring doorbell for folks who put out a bowl of candy while THEY were trick-or-treating. Today the comments were asking folks to pick up fallen chocolate bars along curbs so that dogs wouldn’t pick them up.

Hahahaha! Someone in the neighborhood was giving out packets of salad dressing!

Several parents posted pics of it in their child's candy!

All of our treat bags were taken by 8:30. I'm disappointed that there's no leftover candy!