We had even fewer kids than last year. Maybe 30?
One thing I found interesting, we decided to clear out some of the boxes of Mardi Gras beads accumulated in our NOLA years. I put candy in one bowl and beads in another (these were nice ones, I had winnowed out the junk over the years). I expected limited interest in beads over candy but every kid wanted both. Our last doorbell was a kid ~ 11 in a football uniform. I offered him the bowl of candy but he pointed to the other bowl and said “ can I have some necklaces, too?” “You surely can, take as many as you want. “.
I’m only disappointed that I didn’t think of this years ago. One child ran back down the walk hollering “candy AND TOYS!”
We live in a 1950’s neighborhood and some of the houses were really cute. Lots of spider webs, scarecrows, pumpkins. We had more kids than usual, but that’s not hard as some years we’ve have one or two groups. This year about 15 groups?
As I expected, people waited until the Bronco game was over and then a bunch of kids showed up at 5:30. All done by 7:15 as it is a school day tomorrow.
Had 150 kids this year. Seemed like more than past years, but the weather was absolutely perfect. I had 120 full sized bars and thought that would be plenty. Once those were gone I went through our hurricane prep stash of trail mix. I’ve got nothing left here now.
Had 3 carloads pound on the front doors at 10pm.
I don’t take a firm count because some kids take more than one treat. My guess is we had about 100 kids, down from usual 150ish? A good amount of very polite and appreciative teens - this made me happy to see kids holding onto a childhood tradition.
My pup - this was also his 1 year anniversary “gotcha day” and we celebrated his 3rd bday (estimated since he’s a rescue!)
Also I had to chuckle. Our T or T is 6-8pm. Lots of neighbors had their fire pits in the front of the house, we sat on our porch Adirondack chairs. I brought out a table a few feet from us and had two baskets on it. One large basket filled with candy and one long basket with goldfish packs (the food), mini bags of choc chip cookies and packs of hot chocolate. Encouraged kids to pick the item they wanted. One kid looked at the selection and then asked me “do you have any drinks?!” 
On our neighborhood facebook page we were told to expect 100+. Instead we had barely three dozen. I buy full size bars which always get the kids excited. When it appeared we’d have a lot of candy leftover, H began telling kids to take a second one. All of the kids, from 3 to 15+ were very polite.
No one came after 8:00 so we turned off the outside lights at 9:00. This morning I put a variety of candy bars in a bag attached to a package awaiting a return pick-up. Not sure what we’ll do with the rest.
We had maybe 50 but we typically have 200+ In Northern San Diego County
@Marilyn.
Our street was dark, but a number of neighbors decorated elaborately.
Last ToT was about at 7:40. Assuming work schedules on Sunday night impacted trick-or-treaters?
Truck or treat ended at 8:00, my light went off and my pajamas went on! I was watching that clock lol!
Just heard on Kelly Ripa show that people are using a Halloween candy locator app for best candy locations. What???
We usually get about 150 kids - but got about a 100 this year. After our first year in this house, we know that we need to buy the big bags of candy from Costco.
However, I have kind of lost interest in Halloween. Was fun when my kids dressed up and went outdoors and I knew several of the kids that would stop by. These days, I don’t know any of the kids (several people drive to our neighborhood, park at the beginning and send the kids out). But also, except for the very little kids, most of the kids appear just rude these days - no one says “trick or treat” or even “thank you”. They just grab the candy and go. And some of them gave me a glare when I said “please take one”. Have others seen this?
Do you try and engage with them? I greeted everyone that came with some comment.
“Happy Halloween!” " I love your costume - who are you?" “Trick or Treat!”
If you are not passing out (literally putting the candy in their bag) I think you need to clarify with words or a sign “take the 1 you like”.
The night is for the kids. I enjoy Halloween but besides being safe and generally pleasant I am not going to have standards. I can remember going to houses as a kid where I felt the adults passing out weren’t too pleasant! - works both ways!
Only two of our 15 visitors were little kids, the rest were middle and high schoolers. They were all dressed in actual costumes, said trick-or-treat, and thanked us. Personally I’m not a fan of handing out candy to grown kids, but my husband thinks if they are in the right spirit of the day, why not. So I let him answer the door.
Our grown kid (33 years old) asked me to save some left over candy for his early December visit. Why he thinks dark chocolate Kit Kats will last a month in my house is a mystery, but he said please, so I will try to hide some from myself.
When we had foreign exchange students staying with us (twice), they were curious about Halloween, so dressed up and went out with our kids (who were younger). A couple of adults commented to us/them about being kind of old for it, but when we mentioned they were exchange students all was well with everyone. They had a lot of fun.
Most older kids probably aren’t exchange students, but I quit judging after that because one never knows. I figure they have a reason if they’re out. That said, we haven’t lived anywhere where someone has come to our house in decades.
Handing out candy to over 1000 kids for a dozen plus years, I think I’ve seen it all. But, we tend to hand it out early. I used to go through 20+ pounds of candy in 1:30 starting from when I got home from work. We don’t have set TOT times here. Anyhow, most of the kids we get are young, but not all. I don’t mind, even if they are older and not dressed up. Halloween is fun, at least it was fun pre-covid.
Many of the kids don’t say anything, but I assume it’s because they are shy or overwhelmed at being at a stranger’s house. I do not let kids pick from the candy cauldron bowl. Several do try each year. I do also roll my eyes at the parents with the bag for the 'sick kid at home." Uh huh. I used to get dozens of those every year (that did not seem sincere). Fortunately none said that this year!
Also, a lot of the kids come up to our house without parents. They have to climb 6 steps, walk up the sidewalk, and then another 6 steps to my porch. Parents don’t want to do that! They wait on the street. I typically won’t come down to the street unless they send kids up who are too little to climb steps by themselves (age 2-3ish). They’ll be tripping all over their costume up the steps. Ack. just no. I had to do that more times this year than I can remember.
We had almost 90 last night - I know because we give out full size Hershey bars (bought from Costco). The kids get very excited about that.
This year (like last year) I set candy bars out on a card table and sat nearby. Talked with all of the kids and not one was rude. Some of them were older (teens) but that doesn’t bother me. Let them have some good old fashioned fun!
It does make me sad that the kids on my cul de sac and down the street are grown and I hardly know any of the kids who come by now. It was nice to see my one neighbor’s 11 year old and have another neighbor’s 17 year old stop by to say hi.
I am a US citizen but grew up overseas for all my elementary school years, so never got to go trick-or-treating like my older siblings did. When we moved back, I was in the 7th grade and REALLY wanted to go, but I was embarrassed I was too old. So I decided to go as a ghost with the cut-out eyes so no one would know who I was! I am also short so that probably helped.
In the city where my kids grew up, there is one neighborhood that gets a TON of trick-or-treaters. We didn’t live in that neighborhood, but one of my son’s best friends did. My son went over to his house while they were in HS to help hand out candy and couldn’t believe how many there were.
A friend who lives in the neighborhood posted on FB they had 1,700 kids last night, not counting parents. And I think that was down a bit due to Covid. That is a LOT of candy!
Where in the Halloween rules does it list an age cut off? 
I was more concerned about some teens who were on their bikes screaming in the dark and driving their bikes reckless than the teens who chose to trick or treat, a harmless activity. Darned if they do, and darned if they don’t, poor teens.
Sure it’s fun to see the 4 year old princesses and 8 year old Spider-Man’s - but what about the 1 year olds who have a basket? Whose eating THAT candy?! Should we have an age MINIMUM too?! Lol.
I was 5’6" at 11. That year many adults commented that I was too old to be trick or treating. My friends with me who were shorter were up to 15, but I was singled out.
Actually our city code does specify an age limit for TOT. Technically it’s only for kids under 11, though nobody checks.