We had NO kids, zip, ziltch, zero, none, come trick or treating!! Damn! Now I have to eat all the candy I bought by myself!!
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Trouts don't live in ugly places
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We had NO kids, zip, ziltch, zero, none, come trick or treating!! Damn! Now I have to eat all the candy I bought by myself!!
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Trouts don't live in ugly places
Depending on if the local elementary school has a party for the kids or not, the number of trick or treaters varies a lot here. We finally figured out buying something we liked worked out well. So if there are few kids this year, I'll thoroughly enjoy my foil-wrapped chocolate eyeballs. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/biggrin.gif
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Betty/LadyFisher;
I can hear my blood sugar rise!! I too am out in the boonies and keep a supply of quarters handy just in case. Let the little one buy there own cavities!!
We get 50 one year, & 5 the next! Go figure! What we do now is split up & Grandma & Grandpa hand out candy at sons' & daughters' while they are out with the kids & then we look up the neighbors' kids & sugar 'em up good!!!
Mike
ps...I like your "quarter" idea, Jack.
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Last year we went through 17 lbs of candy.Ran low wife sent me to wally world.I made 4 trips the last one I bought 6 bags and figured that was IT.
This year we had 1 kid at the door and gave 2 bags out while walking the dog.
I QUIT.hehehe not I'll have candy next year probly left overs from this year all 12 bags.
wife says we have the same 5 kidsas we have for the last 5 years .... 4 grandkids and a nephew. This year we gave candy apples to our grandkids and divided up one bag of candy for all 5.
For the most part, when our kids and our friends kids came home with 'homemade' type stuff or fresh food (like an apple), it got trashed. I think that is the norm. At least it is around here.
No one came to my door last night. Maybe when parents, they usually accompany the kids, saw 3 large dogs looking out my window and barking, they decided not to bother.
Allan
We moved to our new house this spring . The last 8 years we lived in a quiet neighbourhood and used to get 2 or 3 kids on Halloween no big deal . This year holy cow we got 47 . Not a problem as we live 217 steps to the supermarket . My wife and I had a huge good time greeting all the little goasts , goblins , spidermen , Dracula?s , witches etc etc . They were all cute as anything . We hadn?t realized how much we were missing , what a lot of fun seeing all the little kiddies . The Halloween of our childhood was given back to us this year in spades . This Gramma and Grampa are thankful for this small blessing . Some of the kids on in the evening were a little older but I never worry about that , if they are going around getting candy they are not egging houses or soaping windows . My Dad always hasseled the older ones "your getting a little old for this aren't you ?" I think he did it cause it bugged my Mom . If an 90 year old comes to my door he gets candy and no hassels .
Allan, I think more than the dogs it was the road kills you have nailed up around the place that scarred them off.
Normal 70 to 80 here . In past years large groups of teenagers, 15 or so in a bunch would show up later covered with shaving cream. This year the older ones didn't come around.
Lots left over and it is going to the nearest kids as soon as I see one with out their parents around...I don't want it coming back! I'll keep a few snickers and Reeses peanut butter cups but that's it for this year.
In 12 year in this house we've had maybe a dozen kids total.
Most of those were the first year.
I think that they wanted to see who moved into the "haunted house" (we even have an old family graveyard in the back, 1820-1903)