Halloween Discussion Forums, Costumes, Horror!

We get about 80 kids each year usually. This year because of the tropical storm winds and sporadic rain, we only got around 30 kids.

We usually make the house as spooky as possible. My mom comes over and she and my boyfriend dress up in costumes (they vary each year) and hide then jump out at the kids, or even chase them down the street. The kids LOVE it! So we draw a lot more kids than the normal numbers for our area.

I made a spreadsheet that I update each year with the total so we can keep track of it. lol, yeah sometimes ocd can be useful

I am getting less and less trick or treaters every year. Many years ago I can have a huge crate of candy and still manage to run out, but last year I only went with a single medium size bag and still had to give out double the serving near the end in order to empty it

yea, last time i went to the mall on halloween, last year, theyre were ALOT of kids,, it makes me wonder why people have to be so untraditional... i was ther cause i cant trick or treat anymore. but how the heck is it safer when ur in the mall
either way you are with parents... maybe its the parents fault cause they have a short attencian span and cant keep track of their kids but when they are in the mall they can go to security and ask where's my kid?

On the street at night there can be all kinds of weirdos. But in the mall it is more safe. But it still makes me sad to read that trick or treating has to happen in a mall. It is so boring. I would rather go through a town at night getting candy than in a mall. YUCK!

I love Halloween, and when I was a kid, I would go out right after I got home from school, and be out until 9 or 10, then go to the Park spook house that would be opened until midnight. It was a great time, and I brought home a huge bag of candy.

Now a days, people are afraid to open their doors to trick or treaters, and they are afraid to let their kids go ot trick or treating because of all the perverts that are out there these days. I feel really bad, but in my town, trick ot treat is STRICTLY limited to four hours on Halloween. 3:00 to 7:00 and very strictly enforced. I can't blaim the cops for that, either. The world we live in is a damn sight more dangerous then the one I lived in when I was a kid on 111th and Drake.

Mike

This will be my first Halloween in the house I live in now. We bought the place in 2006 and I was in Iraq that Halloween and the year after as well, but from what I've seen so far there are a lot of kids in the neighborhood. The only thing that has me concerned is the lack of decorations I've seen thus far. I took a drive yesterday and only spotted three houses with decorations out. Here's hoping we get a good turn out.

I've noticed a lack of decorations as well.
If I get paid before Halloween, after finishing my costume...
I might pick up SOMETHING for the house.
(We cannot afford decorations right now, but we're picking stuff up after for cheap.)

I can understand why parents won't let their children go trick-or-treating, but they're the ones that are too lazy and thus ruin it.
My mom used to drive behind our group and we'd go for HOURS.
(Mom would always eat our candy that we stashed in the car as payment.)

We don't have that problem in my town as far as the Halloween decorations go. There's still plenty of Halloween spirit. It's just that parents are more and more aprehensive about letting their kids go out TOTing because of all the predators out there. I wouldn't say that ToT is going out of style completely, but it's certainly nothing like it was wh en I was a kid.

Mike

The most ToTers I ever got was 10 I think. All the neighborhoods I lived in were very quiet.

I think for the past couple years we've had about 70. We live in a more mature area so there isn't always as many kids around, and I don't think there's more than a couple little ones of TOTing age on the street. But there are a lot of families in the area and the street has generally been good for TOTing. (Although there are street lights, the trees tend to block them making the street fairly dark so that the pumpkins show up well.)

i really do hope that its not out of style.. where i live there just aren't many children lol

but my house before we would have easily over 100 ToTs
possibly over 200 it was so much fun

Oh please, I hope it never goes out of style!

i don't think it will this year there were MORE trick or treaters at my door and they all varied in ages