- My kid was the only kid our whole neighborhood saw trick or treating this year.
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Zero. As usual. Practically nobody trick or treats around here anymore. It's sad.
Last year it down poured so turnout was really low. This year it was higher for our neighborhood so like 20ish. I just put a bowl of candy out front and took my kids around. Counted folk via doorbell camera.
We got 48 which is a pretty average number for us. The previous few years were 52, 36, and 70.
1 group of 4 high school age girls. Walked around the neighborhood and less that 20% were participating. Saw lights and TV on inside many with lights out. Sad. :(
We had about 75. One street over has hundreds, maybe thousands. We sit in the front yard and my husband waves at people so they stop. We gave candy, granola bars, peanut butter crackers, popcorn, and ramen. It was funny how many little kids went for the ramen. The parents would just shrug and say, "they love noodles."
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But the stores in this area (many buildings host ground-floor pedestrian-focused shops) all did trick-or-treating for kids as they wandered by. It was very sweet.
We just moved, our old neighborhood was always pretty slow, and it was raining most of the day Halloween so we werenβt really expecting that many people. We ended up running out of candy (two large assorted bags) in about 40 minutes and there were people on the street for another couple hours after that so I guess we need to stock up for next year.
Candy is very expensive. Some people are having a hard time affording their own groceries and bills, so spending a couple hundred dollars on candy is just out of the question right now.
A lot of the lights on my street were off yesterday (last year was also sparse), and itβs not as much fun to trick or treat if you have to walk a couple of miles because more and more houses arenβt able to participate, Iβll bet.
Iβll also bet some parents are driving their kids to richer neighbourhoods since theyβre more likely to have the goods.
e: and to be clear, my neighbourhood is not poor, but comfortably middle class. People are suffering.
Live in a small town, in one of the "richer" neighborhoods. Ended up with somewhere around 300-400 kids. Definitely down from the last few years, but went through 6 bags of 455 pieces of candy and only had 1 leftover (started giving 2-3 pieces per person, and towards the end were giving larger handfuls).
We noticed the majority of households were only giving out 1 candy per kid at the majority of houses. Only one sweet ravenclaw dressed girl giving out big bars of chocolate and candy
Weather was good. Busiest it's been since I've lived here. Ran out of candy in under an hour.
Any memorable costumes or encounters? I got Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum twins. Very surprising.
There was one kid, maybe like 10, who was dressed as some sort of mad scientist, so when he came to the door I said "Doctor! Good to see you! Any good experiments lately? And completely in stride he just says "yeah, him" and he gestures to his little brother who's dressed like some kind of gremlin/monster thing with horns and wings. It was a fun coordinated idea and I just really liked his confidence, a lot of kids are too shy for that kind of thing!
One girl came dressed up as Wednesday Addams and Thing with her parent dressed as cousin It. She pulled it off really well.
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