We’ll get 200-300 every year in the eight years since we’ve been here. Not bad for a small village (pop 1800) in a rural area.
What happens is all the farm kids come into the village for Halloween. The place will be hopping tonight. I’ll dress up in my scare crow costume to hand out candy to the trick n treaters.
Good thing it’s only once a year. 
Hopefully none. Numbers have been dwindling every year. Maybe 20-25 if we are lucky. Turn out the lights and hope for the best. No candy in the house this year.
Depends on how big they are and how much rope we have…
Jesus, that’s a ton! I remember a couple of years ago we ran out of candy twice that night so I took my son out a couple more times and re-treated it. Is that bad? Mwaaaahhh
We only get about 25. We’re on a dead-end street and not too many kids think it’s worth coming down here. I usually give out 3 or 4 treats to every kid just to get rid of them.
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We will get 800 - 1,000 at our door. They literally bus them in.
They literally bus them in.
LOL…bring the poe folks to the nice hood fo sum goood candy…
Surest way to stop them is by handing out your Carrot Cake Cliff Bars or Power Gels, you amassed but didn’t use that summer before. Spread the love. People. Spread the love.
They will not come back next year.
“Here kids, I’m not going to give you candy, I’m going to give you something much better for you…here…(throwing a cliff bar into each of their bags)…and here…(throwing a vanilla Power gel pack into a bag…)”
we had over 225 last year and had to turn the light off early.
We stocked up this year. 160 bags of popcorn and 494 pieces of candy. We’ll go 1 popcorn and one candy to each for as long as we can, then move to 2 pieces of candy each. I’m anxious to see the outcome.
They literally bus them in.
LOL…bring the poe folks to the nice hood fo sum goood candy…
At least the kids have always been polite. Besides you should see the “costumes” some of the older girls have on.
What’s with the “hopefully none” response ? Kids really look forward to this day. I’m not sure if you recall the excitement around Halloween when you were a kid, but I know in our neighbourhood, it was the biggest event outside of your own birthday or Christmas :-). Come on, put the lights out and buy some Mars bars on the way home, as payment for the free training tips at LP Irontour
and to answer Cerveloguy’s, usually around 100 kids
We’ll see how long those little bastards keep coming when I answer the door in nothing but my ill-fitting tighty whitey’s, aero helmet, suckin’ down some Pabst, handing out baggies of frozen brussel sprouts.
LOL…make sure that the front is not white - rather a dank yellow.
That training weekend keeps coming back to haunt me…in more ways than one.
Okay…maybe some kit kats or coffee crisps. But no MARS bars.
wow… Halloween truly is just American… Over here in the dominican republic that sort of thing, perhaps sadly, truly doesn’t exist. The idea of hundreds of kids running around mostly unsupervised as I did in New York suburbs is just crazy anywhere else…
I end up with bunch of tooth brushes one year because of my business so I passed them put for Halloween, the expression from some of the kids are priceless as I handed them a tooth brush when they were expecting candy instead
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Here in San Francisco, avid cyclist and funny guy, Robin Williams, is also known for handing out tooth brushes. You’re in good company.
Probably 0 like last year. I am not even going to bother buying any candy. I ended up eating most of it last year.
I probably get about the same 2-300 kids each year for the last 3 years. I try to dress up and have fun with it. Already carved the pumpins… and the candy is ready to go.
We get a solid 150-200 then it dies down for about half an hour - until all the minvans pull up at the end of our street - with kids from other areas - looking to get the “good candy”
This happens every year - and it seems to be the same kids coming back - every year - we now turn off the light and go inside - as most of these kids are 16/17 years of age and isn;t that a little too old to be trick or treating?