You are way more creative than I am. Sounds lovely. I have to ask though for the things you are making, do you know the kids? I remember always even when I was trick or treating that anything not factory wrapped was foridden to eat. ( other than if a friend or neighbor we knew well gave it to me).

I have to hold off buying anything until a few days before because I have zero willpower. Usually we give milky ways, reeses peanut butter cups, hershey's chocolates etc.

DH came home from Costco yesterday with a huge bag of dum dum lollipops. He said he figured it wouldn't tempt me. I said for sure that's correct!

I told himi we would be very unpopular.

We may return it and get something more desirable. Then I think maybe it's me? Do you LIKE dum dum lollipops? I mean, they do sell them and people must buy them?

I was asked to photograph the "trunk or treat" event my HOA is putting on. I'd like for my hubby to dress as Frankenstein wearing his drywall stilts to add 2.5' height....while I give out candy and shoot photos. I'll buy something chocolate....haven't shopped for it yet....and his Frankenstein mask from years past disintegrated.....need to buy him a new one too. 🎃

I have one big bag of Snickers and one of mixed candy bars. "Bite sized," which is quite tiny. Earliest kids are always the smallest so one or two pieces is fine for them. By the time the older elementary kids come around, we'll have a better estimate of how many trick-or-treaters are out there, and can adjust the amount per kid accordingly. Goal is to give all the candy away so I don't eat it all myself.

Arcy, a full sized Reese's pumpkin is a generous treat -- the kids must love your house! :-)

No trick or treaters here. I live on a private lane off another private road surrounded by woods and it is dark, Dark, DARK at night!! Also no kids in the immediate vicinity, Trick or treating here is limited to more traditional suburban neighborhoods or the CBD.

I have two bags of candy from Costco, one with choclate candy bars and the other with stuff like skittles. I will put three bars in a bag and hand out the bags. I get tired of the kids picking through to get the ones they want. This way, they each get the same thing, like it or not! I get hoardes of kids so I have to keep,them moving. Right now rain is predicted so I hope they show up. I don't want to be alone with all that candy.

I found a sale on mini Payday candybars and bought them, thinking I'd enjoy any leftovers. Payday is my favorite, but I suspect they are not too popular. When I mentioned to my husband that the kids might not like them, he told me that he always considered Halloween a chance to try new kinds of candy. It's true, that's where I learned about Smarties (Mmmm) and Necco Wafers (blechhh). But just in case, I also picked up a big bag of foil-wrapped chocolate coins which are always popular. Any leftovers will become Hanukah gelt.

For the first time in years, I've decided not to participate in Trunk or Treat this year. Just not into it, which is a huge surprise to myself. I love TT. Besides, I haven't heard a word from the church if they are even having it this year.

However, I did browse the candy isle at Dollar General yesterday. What I found were small bags of candy with even smaller pieces inside for more $$. What's going on? The mini candy bars were, as mentioned above, tiny. The dum dum suckers were teeny. Bags with more than 25 pieces were no where to be seen, but then it is late so perhaps those had been snatched up already. I like the boxes of individual packs of chips and pretzels. Last year they were fairly cheap, but there wasn't even a price on the boxes this year and only 18bgs per box.

I have until 4pm. this Saturday to decide if I really want to sit this one out. I'll probably regret it if I do. Hope everyone has a great night.

We've got a neighborhood Halloween parade on Saturday and I'm hoping there's enough left over so I don't have to go shopping for more on Monday.

Fun size Snickers for us.

Someone posted this here a few years ago. Still makes me laugh.

My dad was a huge jokester and used to pass out potatoes and onions before bringing out the candy. The looks on those little faces were pretty funny.

We won't have many in this neighborhood. No children on this dead end street, and it's wooded, somewhat dark. It's only about a block down from a main populated busy street, but that block is houseless and timbered. Our weather forecast isn't promising either - Rain.

Friends will bring grandchildren, and we'll have nieces and nephews. I bought a Costco box of full size Hershey (both almond and milk chocolate plain), Kit Kats, and Reese's Cups. I've got bags of M&Ms for the littles.

I did buy a string of orange Halloween lights this year to frame the outside hallway door to this office, direct any kid traffic to this entrance. Haven't put them up yet though.

I put together 4 little gift bags for the family smallest, ages 9 mo next week and 3 more under 7 years old. Their moms have said they'll be coming by in costume.

Even the Dollar Tree is into the Trunk and Treat--I saw they have decor for your car!!

They're having it on Halloween night this year so I can't hand anything out, have to work.

That looks wonderful, Arcy, I love it!

Sadly, we don’t get kids out on Halloween here. Mountain communities like ours don’t have sidewalks, street lights or houses close together making it too dark and unsafe for kids. This is the first year that they are doing a Trunk & Treat, though, down in the parking lot of our village grocery store. Before that, we had to take our kids to friends’ homes/streets in nearby towns.

We don't get kids since we live on a private road, so we go to the township's trunk or treat. The township provides a DJ, games, costume contests, pizza and drinks, and crafts for the kids. We are taking our 4 grands with us. I bought bags of chocolate candy bars and some Fun DIps for any kid that might not like chocolate. What I have left over I will take some to camp and some to my daughters to give out on Monday night. I have to remember to vacuum out the back of the Jeep and throw some decorations in there.

salonva for years I made caramel corn and put it in individual bags. I usually added spider rings or plastic flies. Warned parents of the youngest tricksters. We live in a fairly remote subdivision so only get our own neighbors trick or treating. Kids always have mom or dad along so everyone knew my food was safe. In fact they looked forward to my treats! When we went with the pumpkin theme that ended. The grave yards I did individually with crushed sandwich cookies instead of pop corn or cereal, one year--put a small plastic shovel to eat it with in each bag. This year I will be scooping out of a large bowl into cups for students. They all know me and I them. There's never been an issue.

I always thought the phrase was Trick OR Treat? Which is it?

Why do people say trunk or treat?Originally started by church groups with the aim of providing a safer environment for trick-or-treaters on Halloween, trunk or treat involves a community coming together in a parking lot, either on the 31st or shortly before, so that children can trick-or-treat out of the decorated trunks of their cars.Sep 19, 2016

Trunk Or Treat: New Tradition Could Change Halloween As We Know It

Thanks for this thread, Arcy. No one comes T or T ing to our house because we have mountain lions and are in the boonies. I was thinking about a thread — most off beat treats you have given out.

Here is ours to a 5 yo neighbor: a tin of King Oscar double layer Sardines! He loved them.

Can people send photos of anonymous Trick or Treaters in costume? I wish kids would come to our out in the boonies house. I miss the fun of being spooked, treating the and laughing with them.

I'm so over Trick or Treaters but my husband adores handing out candy. He would be happy to give several king size bars to each child. I stocked up on granola bars and pencils this year. Grouchy me also resents that I expect between 7 and 40 T R Treaters. Hard to plan ahead. I did tie the pencils with black and orange yarn plus applied pumpkin stickers.

My Colorado grandson lives in an area with lots of space between houses. The Dads get together and socialize while pulling the kids on wagons.

Thankfully we don't get any trick-or-treaters. Many years ago when I lived in the suburbs we got at least 70 and kids were rowdier back then too, soaping windows and throwing corn. When we moved down the road to a small town I bought a lot of candy as I always had and got no one. But my house has many doors and is surrounded by a picket fence with handpainted signs on the gates...Shut gate> dogs out. Could that be the reason?...lol However this area can't get its act together. My town did it tonight and my daughter's town 1/2 mile away will do it on Halloween as are most of the towns now.

The church in my town has Trunk or Treat the same night as the town TT night. Lots of kids for two hours. I give indiv. bags of animal crackers (when I can find them) to the babies and toddlers and dog biscuits to the dogs.

Some dogs will gobble them right up, others will ignore the hand out so the owner pockets it "for later", and other dogs take the biscuit then drop it. lol I buy Milk Bone brand, nothing fancy.

Okay, so I decided to go buy some candy and do the TT tomorrow night. Found out from somebody that I didn't get the memo that the church TT was happening, so there will be others there.

Several years ago we had a nasty Halloween night. Wind, sleet, snow, just miserable. The family next door was having a Halloween party. and during a 15-minute lull in the weather we had their maybe 20 trick-or-treaters in 4 doorbell rings, and that was all. The kids got to maybe 6 houses total right on this little stretch of street. If they hadn’t had a party. we’d have had no doorbell rings at all!

We never know how many to plan for, and I don’t keep track! We don’t have a Costco membership now so we don’t do full-size bars now. And, we are on the short side of our block, and no sidewalk. the “long sides” have sidewalks, mainly the blocks leading to the school, so kids tend to walk up and down those, staying on the sidewalks, and only about half venture on our cross-street. depending on the weather, and if it’s a school night. It really impacts our handouts.

Some community organizations including churches do Trunk or Treat a weekend before Halloween. We never went, though.

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Big administrative decisions made and carried out- we went ot Costco and returned the lollipops and bought one giantbag full of mixed chocolate candies ( I think it's hershey's). I am NOT going to have any before Monday.

salonva, but those Snickers and Kit Kats will be calling out to you. I bought candy yesterday, and I'm already into it. I just have to wait about an hour more then hopefully it'll all start being given away.

After abojt 45 minutes of this, I need to go shopping for Monday.

Our local Brewery is having a Trunk or Treat today. There will be 100s of kids come through I am told. Am I supposed to believe that these same kids will not be out door to door on Monday? Seems like when you attempt to celebrate early all you really succeed in doing is doubling the party!!

After abojt 45 minutes of this, I need to go shopping for Monday.

Why are they getting candy today?

There's a bit of a push in the force to 'celebrate' on the weekend vs a school night. Our local Brewery isn't open Mondays so they would do their event today or tomorrow.

Well, I'm back. TT ended at 6pm, but the crowd thinned and eventually came to a stop about 5:45pm.

I don't think there were as many kids as in the past, still a lot tho. And most all were in great costumes. Even the adults escorting them when way out this year dressing up. Dogs too. My 10 dog biscuits just made it, but the last dog totally didn't want his and the owner put it in his pocket. I would say 8 out of 10 dogs were dressed as tacos!

I have to admit I gave out the bags of pretzels and most of the mini candy bars first, then actually started to hold back on the candy bars hoarding them for myself! lol The church takes in donated candy, so the pastor replenished my treat bag with more candy bars. Too bad I had to end up passing those out, came home with a few.

And I heard so many "thank yous" from little and big kids. Even very little kids, parents encouraging them.

Good to see people out and about, visit with others I haven't seen, well for a year, and more sometimes. Beautiful afternoon, only starting to get chilly around 5:30pm.