I love trick or treat! I have 3 boxes of full size candy bars (from Costco) waiting. Hopefully they will all be given out, but I’m not sure what to expect as this is our first year in this neighborhood. I welcome all - young ones and teens alike, no costume requirement, not required to say “trick or treat”.
I’m also baking some “pumpkin” shaped sugar cookies (just a small batch) for family.
The only fly in the ointment is that D and SIL’s (very loud) beagle will be here (they are having work done at their house). Thankfully I’ll sit outside in a lawn chair to pass out the treats as the dog will likely be howling loudly
Just like to remind people who get upset when older kids come by for candy, sometimes not even dressed up…
There are MANY worse things they could be doing than going door to door for sweet treats. Be kind to them too.
We will be setting up our moveable fire pit near the end of our drive (most everyone in the neighborhood does this), getting out the comfy camp chairs and getting our 5 boxes of full size candy bars ready for trick or treaters.
D23 and S24’s friends in the neighborhood already asked if there would be full size bars again this year. We welcome all trick or treaters - high school kids are definitely still kids; being kind is a great example especially on holidays.
Absolutely nothing happening here except H and I might go watch a movie (not horror since we don’t like those). No TT’s come by, our kids are grown and have moved out, no grandkids, and neither of us have ever been into any of the adult Halloween stuff. I don’t even buy candy anymore knowing we’ll have to eat it later since no one comes to our door.
I’ll admit to feeling a bit nostalgic for when the kids were younger and we’d send them to school in costumes, then go TTing later.
We have tricker or treaters (so cute - the young families who 've moved into our neighborhood in recent years).
Have some full-sized bars for them - but didn’t think about work (thanks, abasket!). May get some mini-sized candies (we are all trying to be healthy, LOL) and put them outside my office.
I used to be a rabid celebrator of Halloween. I held a crazy party every year and loads of people came in costume. Tons of food, tons of booze. Adults behaving badly!
I passed the torch once the kids headed to college because it was too much work and I just ran out of steam. I still have a small gathering every year. Mostly, we tell spooky stories around the fire. Everyone hams it up. It’s a still a hoot.
I buy one small bag of candy for my friends for the above-mentioned gathering. There’s tons left over so I take it to a local house that gets hundreds of kids. I don’t get trick or treaters because I live in a semi-rural place not in a neighborhood, which is kind of sad but it’s been this way for many years.
I’m wondering why some of you are buying full sized candy bars for the kids. Honestly, I would never do that. Not to be a scrooge, but they will get soooo much candy. I remember how much candy my kids got, and I always gave the extra candy to the dentist, who collects it for overseas troops.
@Lindagaf DH started buying the full size bars when we moved to our neighborhood because there weren’t that many kids at the time and he remembered fondly how excited he got from the 1 or 2 full size bars he wold get as a kid trick or treating each year.
And wow, the kids do get excited! I don’t know why either because as you say, they are getting a TON of candy but somehow the full size bars hit different.
Now, of course, there are a lot more young families/children in our neighborhood as it turns over from the many elderly families who have either retired elsewhere or passed on. But DH now feels honor bound not to stop with full size candy bars. He always says, “That would be betraying the children! I can’t betray the children.”
I choose to look at it as a very sweet and generous gesture at this point. I think he enjoys seeing their faces with those big bars almost more than they enjoy getting them. Happy Halloween!!
I live in a small MA town where most houses are not close together, with the exception of those on the Town Comon (Center) and a few streets nearby. As a result, almost all the kids in town go to the Comon–there are 40 or so homes. People in town can make “candy” donations and bring them to a central location so that the folks who live on the Common don’t have to spends thousands on Halloween candy. Lots of people donate–I usually do. Trick or treat is always on Oct. 31 and it’s from 5-7pm. Even if the weather isn’t great, it’s never canceled (only exception COVID). One local civic group sets up a tent and gives out free hot dogs and popcorn. The general store on the Common has free chili.
Lots of parents accompany their kids (even older kids) and often the parents dress in costumes foo. It’s a really fun night. My kids thought it was one of the best reasons to live in our town. I have a good friend who lives on the Common and for the last few years, I’ve gone over to help her hand out candy. There is a constant stream of kids for the entire time. I enjoy seeing the kids and all the costumes!
Just got home from our annual neighborhood Halloween fest. We did a house crawl the last two years, but this year, decided to just do an outdoor thing in one location on the street. Just about everyone came, and the food was terrific as it always is.
I am going to see my granddaughter on Halloween. She is going to get dressed up and we are going to sit at their stoop with wines to pass out treats. GD is 22 months old and is dressing up as a monkey. After trick or treat we are going to have a pizza party, which is one of her favorite foods.
My mom always made a cheat version of homemade donuts to give out at beggar’s night in Iowa. (Oct. 30th). We lived in a small town of less than a thousand people and she routinely gave out 300 donuts. One year my younger sister and I had to raid our candy bags to give out candy at our front door because mom and given out all the donuts she had. The doorbell stopped when people realized there was black licorice instead of hot freshly made donuts.
For years we had very few trick or treaters. We always gave out chips because then we could take the extra ones to lunch. For the last two years we’ve had more and more kids, and most do live in the neighborhood (or grandparents do). Many of the neighbors have the houses all decked out.
We’ll be going back to our old neighborhood to sit in a circle of old friends in the driveway of the house next to our previous home to pass out candy and catch up with each other. Tomorrow will mark 20 years of this tradition, seven since the tradition passed from our driveway to the neighbor after we moved and many more since any of us had any trick or treaters of our own. Passages.
