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Halloween . Do you get trick or treaters (Update)

OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2016 in General Discussion
[:D] I keep knocking on the door and the dogs go crazy. They come out to the living room and I say, trick or treat, and steal a piece of candy[:p]Almond joys and Reese peanut butter cups[:p][:p][:p] No kids will show up anyway and she bought five bags of candy. All the kids have grown up and moved away. They stopped coming around years ago. We might get one or two a year. I take the candy to work for the guys and girls in the office. How many kids do you all get and what are the treats??????

We goth three kids.The last little girl, I dumped the whole bowl of almond joy in her bag. [^]
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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We are in the same boat here, Oakie. The kids here are grown up. I think it has been 2 or 3 years since we got any Trick or Treaters.

    The wife buys 3 or 4 bags of candy just in case. If kids do show up, I give them a bit handful of candy.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    We bought $100 worth last year and ran out and had to get more.[:0][:0]
    We got some this year,but can't afford to do like last year. [:(][:(]
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Our street most of the kids have gone off to college. Although we did have a few turnovers up the hill this summer. So we may have a few. Back in the day we had a lot and all the parents in the cul-de-sac would have a party out in the street so the kids did not have to hike up the driveways to the house.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I GET ABOUT 125 KIDS used to be almost twice that I live in a development with lots one- 4 acres lots all about 40 -50 years old so van loads of country kids come easy walking and loop from one entrance from highway to the other entrance
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just moved to town, kinda looking forward to it.

    KC
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  • BikerBobBikerBob Member Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We've never had them here.

    When the kids were little, we used to have a bunch of us that would all bring chili and add it to a turkey frying pot at a neighbors house, the. Put hay in a cattle trailer and driver the kids house to house on a 3/4 mile long dirt road that a lot of the families lived on. Then all go back and eat.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,370 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    we have lived in the country since we were we married . too far for any kids to venture
    MY wife always liked to buy candy and treats go to my parents house who lived in town and pass out candy , as they both passed we no longer have the fun of seeing all the kids and there costumes
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,161 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nobody comes here even in daylight and certainly not after dark.
    I bought a machete last week and as the girl was ringing it up, I commented I needed a new machete before Halloween. Her eyes got big and she said "Oh my".
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We used to get between eight and twenty every year, but the kids have grown up and moved away and the few that are left go to one or more of the sponsored events in town.

    We bought a pack of candy bars just in case but it will be here Tuesday.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
    We bought $100 worth last year and ran out and had to get more.[:0][:0]
    We got some this year,but can't afford to do like last year. [:(][:(]

    Try getting the bags of Tootsie Roll minis. There are like 480 in a bag for $7-8. Handing a couple to each kid keeps everyone happy...and out of the poorhouse. [^]
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,041 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    40-50- Churches have trunk or treat then kids scatter to the houses. It's all good for a town of 650/
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last road north in the village....across the street acres, of corn still standing. So either the kids are too lazy to walk this way, or the corn blowing in the wind on Halloween night scares the hell out of them.

    Or it could be the chili that we make on Halloween keeps them away..

    I gotta go count the candy....
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  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We live waaay out in he country, so never any kids, but the wife has a store in town. Every year on the Saturday before, the Highway Patrol closes Main St and there is a parade and then the kids go to all the shops up and down the street, for candy. The little kids in their costumes are so cute. it's a really big treat for everyone
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's more fun to give the little tikes an apple and throw it plumb through the bottom of their bag! [}:)][:D]
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    I got a big bowl of candy. They wear me and the dogs out answering the door. I love it. When I run out, I shut off the outside lights, and they don't come around any more.I love having the little kids in their costumes come around,all happy and having a great time. I love to be able to give them a little something, to make their Halloween special. I wish I could afford a thousand dollars in candy for them.I can't, so I do what I can afford.I get a lot of pleasure from it. The dogs? Not so much. They think every four year old child is an intruder!

    Peace

    Dan
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    None here for over 20 years.
    I get all the candy. [:)]
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,637 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a new little home on the far NW side of Indy when I got out of the army in '65. I had a lot of kids come by as the area became populated. I even gave out beer to the moms & dads. I moved 20 miles west of Indy on a few acres in '82 and never had anyone come by to this day.
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not too many here, maybe 30-40 and that was way up from past years

    Perverts and sick child mo;esters ruined Halloween a while ago- you know them -they are the demonrats. NAMBLA [future KIA's] supports killary.
    Halloween was great when we grew up in the 50-60's We'd trick or treat till 9-930p in our old Newark NJ neighborhood [try that now and you'd be KIA by obozos sons]
    My kids had good trick or treat time in the 80-early 90's but we were in a area [jersey shore] with a ton of families with kids and our neighborhood watch was strong. it's a shame how scum ruins everything with the total blessing and aid of the filthy demonrats
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  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have never had any. It's not because I don't try either[}:)]
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never.
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  • cranky2cranky2 Member Posts: 3,236 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We haven't had any the last 3 years. We are just out of town and I guess to far to make it worth while.
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    None here for a long time. I never cared much for Halloween anyway.
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We use to go big time when our kids were little but now our sheltie barks so much we don't
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  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We usually get several but not a lot. This year the wife bought the candy (I normally pick it out) and she came home with enough for the next 4 years [:0]
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  • tajjntajjn Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Usually over a hundred, we sit outside dressed up, and scare the little ones, then I get their candy. [}:)]
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have not had a trick or treater for mabe 10 years. If by chance one shows up I would just give a quarter. They can buy the candy that they prefer.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The last year we lived in Jasper, TN back in 1997 my wife counted 312 trick or treaters we had that year. We lived at the bottom of Monteagle Mountain and those people back upon the mountain would bring the kids by the hay wagon load to our subdivision. My wife and youngest son always looked forward to decorating the house and yard for Halloween. We never had any thing bad to happen. Those people were nice people and their kids were well behaved.
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this will be my 16th Halloween at this house, I have never had a trick or treater. I didn't even buy candy for it this year. I have a bag of quarters on the counter, if anyone shows up I'll just pitch a couple of quarters in their bag.

    My ex is taking our 10 year old trick or treating tonight, I told him I get all the chocolate. Of course I tell him that every year, it's yet to work.
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  • riflemikeriflemike Member Posts: 10,599 ✭
    edited November -1
    we go to inlaws house

    100s of folks come from miles around to their neighborhood

    they go all out, gorillas costumes, werewolves, vampires in caskets, even scary clowns[}:)]

    , good food and beer[:D]

    no Hillary mask , no one would come up the drive
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kids around here are too lazy to come around...
    "What is truth?'
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  • WMClarkWMClark Member Posts: 821 ✭
    edited November -1
    We get none around here. Too far out in the country. However, for those who want to participate we set up a "trunk or treat" down by the mailboxes. From 6 to 7 those who want to give out treats turn up and hand out treats to the kid from the valley. It's a great way for us neighbors to get together, and the kids don't feel left out on Halloween.
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  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Haven't been in the U.S.for Haloween for 15 years.

    The country custom is for entire families to dress up and walk around the town central park and get candy. Most don't ask, if you like their costume, give them a treat.

    City provides music, entertainment, tents and lots of local food and drink vendors have set up kiosks , wagons, trailers etc.

    Even the dogs dress up,, with help I'd assume. Photo taken 2007.
    halloween02.jpg

    Like this place because the first time visited, it reminded me of the Rural Town I grew up in 60 years ago. Except TV, Cells, and internet.

    Need to buy some candy and head to the park,, the normal park is being "remodeled" and need to find out if/where the festivities are located.
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  • patt7638patt7638 Member Posts: 369 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    44 years ago when I moved into this neighborhood there were a lot of kids but they have grown up, moved away and their parents have died. A few show up and I give them an apple. This is a really big deal for the young ones and I enjoy it.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by patt7638
    ...I give them an apple...


    This would get your windows soaped or your yard rolled when I was a kid. [:D]
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,771 ******
    edited November -1
    I bought candy on sale a couple of weeks ago.......Now it is all gone![:0] Dang sweet tooth[:I]

    No trick or treater's are going to climb up my 1\4 mile driveway out here in the boon docks anyway!
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  • kissgoodnightkissgoodnight Member Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sadly we do not live in an area that has kids. I buy candy and send it to my wife's work. They have kids Trick or Treating there.


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  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bah Humbug!!


    Oh, sorry. Wrong Holiday.[}:)]
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  • bearman49709bearman49709 Member Posts: 503 ✭
    edited November -1
    If I get one tonight it will be the first in the 20 years I've lived in this house.
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We get two kids a year.

    I buy a big bag of candy to give just to them...[^]

    Trinity +++
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