What is your fave?
What are you giving out?
How many trick or treaters do you generally get?
No one knocked on our door last year.
Apparently the protocol in our neighborhood is to leave a bowl on a table out at the edge of the driveway or front door. Takes some of the fun out of things.
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I had one last year - my little 4-yo buddy.
Faves: Butterfinger, Snickers, Milk Duds
Giving out: got a ~5# bag of assorted stuff from Costco: Twix, KitKat, Snickers, Butterfinger, M&M’s, etc. Mrs. Ti also put together treat bags for dogs.
We did trick-or-treating yesterday from 2-5 p.m. (the village has always done it this way) and we may have gotten 20 kids. The ones that came late scored big as we were trying to minimize leftovers, but we’ve still got at least half that bag left.
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A good reminder to throw out the remainder of last Halloween’s haul.
We either leave a bowl at the door (if we all go), or the dog and I stay home to hand out treats.
Our neighborhood is slowly swinging back to younger families, so hopefully we get a few more trick-or-treaters this year. It’s also temperature dependent- snow/rain slows down the crowds.
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I was at Costco yesterday and didn’t see that bag. I got the one with all the sour candy/Twizzlers/gummys/etc. Whatever is left, I’ll take into work next week.
My Fave: Heath bar or Reese’s PB Cup
We get two bags from Costco. One with chocolate bars and the other with sour candy/ gummies. the kids in the neighborhood prefer the non-chocolate ones. I think that is because most people just buy the chocolate ones and they want the variety. I know we will give out less than half a bag even for a Friday night Halloween, but I still have to buy two because my wife has trauma from the one year we ran out in our old neighborhood. The old neighborhood would get families bussed in from the rest of the city. Plenty of families around our current house, but the street just isn’t optimal for a good trick or treating route so we get skipped.
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There is one family young enough to have kids that trick-or-treat on our road, and the child is 2.5 years old. I bought a bag of Twix just in case he comes by.
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We get zero trick of treaters. What makes our neighborhood amazing in terms of privacy and seclusion makes it terrible for Halloween. And this is a kick to the nuts because it’s my favorite holiday!
But I do keep candy in the office in a bowl for patients, their kiddos, the workers, and any Halloween parades the village/plaza might host.
I’m a fiend for butterfingers, Milky Way dark, and sour patch kids. So I generally buy the bulk mixed bags of those plus skittles, Reese’s, nerds, etc,
But it’s gotta be the best tiniest ones, the bite sized pieces. Simply because it makes me feel better having one at a time regardless if I have 10 a day.
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Snickers. Wife will hand out full sized candy bars. I’ll hand out a few bourbon’s.
30-40. Lots of little kids on our street (thanks Covid….)
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My favorite is also the crowd favorite here — the Reese Cup. If the weather is ok, we get 75-100 kids.
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I love hearing stories like this! I have such fond memories of trick-or-treating as a kid, so it warms my heart to hear the tradition is still thriving in different areas.
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Looks like chocolate is popular (at least with this group).
Local news was reporting that chocolate is averaging just over $8/lb. Candy is around $5/lb. Expectation is that there’ll be more candy and less chocolate going around Halloween.
We get a few dozen kids.
We usually just buy a Costco pack of candies and leave them out in a bowl as we will be out with our kids.
KitKat, coffee crisp, aero, smarties and caramilk. Nothing spectacular.
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Our town is semi rural and there aren’t many sidewalks except in the half mile around town center. So the town organizes a candy collection at the town library in the run-up to Halloween, which then gets dispersed to the houses close to town center that see most of the trick-or-treat action. It works pretty well.
We’re contributing bags of mini Kit Kats, Snickers, Almond Joy, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups this year.
Our last house in Boston was old school. Door to door trick or treating and it was known to be rich pickings, so it was mobbed with kids from 4:00 pm til after 9:00. There were lots of cops and firemen who lived in the neighborhood, so they’d close off entire blocks to traffic on their own authority. Leaving candy in a bowl on the stoop was absolute foolishness - it would get emptied in minutes by opportunistic older kids who’d take it all in one go. It was sort of a chaotic, stressful experience to be honest, but also really fun.
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Amazing
The Despicable Me fart gun is a nice added touch
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That’s not derailing the thread, it’s awesome! Thanks
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Some friends in our city do a haunted house each year and draw 300-400 kids.
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Snickers or Reese cup are my go to.
I picked up bags of haribo, sour patch, and a mix of fun size kitkat/hershey to pass out.
Friday’s afternoon forecast shows upper 30s and raining, in the past 100 kids max. I don’t expect that many this year.
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