How many Trick or Treater's do you get?

[sharbear]

I live in a neighborhood where the houses are close together. I get between 200 and 500 people, depending on the weather. I have to admit that I am beginning to dread Halloween. It is just not that much fun and I am spending 50+ for candy. I love seeing the kids and I esp. like seeing kids from our neighborhood but we get a lot of people who drive in for the night.

I get adults and packs of teen-age kids. It scares me sometimes when the kids are so big and they demand for more candy. The best are the adults who tell me that the baby is in the car. And the adults that drive their cars down the street and follow the kids.

I am sorry if this sounds mean and I am sure that some people would love to get more trick or treaters but this is crazy. At our last house we got a lot of trick or treaters but it was more managable.

 

[newmousecateer]

Wow! 200 to 500 people! We get between 75 to 85 average.

(I'd like to see a teenager "demand" more candy from DH!)

 

[CamColt]

200-500??? Send some our way.
We always buy tons of candy "just in case". We leave the bowl out on the steps since we are always out trick or treating and I dont think anyone comes. I should note that we live on a dead end street with no street lights and only 4 houses(1 you cant even see). We always leave our light on, but the others dont because no one comes. It bums me out!
We go to some houses out on the street that ours if off of, then we go around the corner(1/2 mile) to my parents house and more in their neighborhood.

 

[amid chaos]

I had an elderly neighbor tell me that she wants to see and give candy to the neighborhood kids but she couldn't afford to give candy to the "drive ins". She also doesnt get around well and the constant getting up was going to be very difficult for her.

So, the neighborhood kids go all together in one BIG group. After the big group leaves my elderly neighbor turns off her lights.

it works for her and the kids have a ball all together.

 

[browneyes]

I get 10-30 TorT'ers. A majority of them are my SO's relatives (about 98% of them are related to him).

 

[snowball22]

We get about 50 kids. This year I think we will have more since our development is now finished. One year we left a huge bowl of candy on our front porch with a sign saying take 1 candy per person. When we got home the bowl was gone. I guess I should not have been so trusting

 

[chelsea&austinsmom]

We live off the road about 300 feet so we usually don't get any children but family and friends. We usually get around 15 or so. That is if we are home we are usually out ourselves with the kids.

 

[musicfan]

We're more into the 200-300 category. We have to buy pounds of candy, which I don't mind, but it does irritate me when parents DRIVE their kids over to this development and follow them around in the car. We always had a rule with our son -- you can only take candy from people whose houses you can walk to under your own power. No being carried, no stroller, no bike, no car. If we lived way out in the country, I guess we'd throw a halloween party instead of going trick or treating. I just think it's too dangerous to be driving around with all these kids in the road in dark costumes. What are those parents thinking?

 

[jldriscoll]

I never counted but at the old house we would go through 30 bags of candy. New house last year......3 (only 2 houses on our street.) I miss the old trick or treating.

 

[Meriweather]

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We used to get in the 200 range at the house we lived in before and really enjoyed it. The neigborhood "adult" guys would get dressed up and set up coffins and haunted houses in the garages. It was so fun.

We moved out to the sticks, at the end of a long gravel road with only 3 other house on it and none of them has any kids.
We really miss it.

 

[Robinrs]

For the past two years I've gotten none.

 

[Deb in IA]

Like Robin, we have NONE since we moved out to the country. Of course, our nearest neighbor is about a mile away, so it is kinda hard to go door to door.

Our kids usually end up going trick or treating at a local mall . . .

 

[Jennyfyar]

25-50. I usually make up little treat bags and by the end of the evening I'm giving handfuls away. I miss the good ol' days when there were hundreds of kids out. Times are different. That's why this year we are going to MNSSHP!!

 

[Cindy B]

I'm not certain, its hard to keep track.

We usually buy some candy but when it runs out.. that's it!

We get drive-by's as well as other kids, not just on our street.

 

[aprincessmom]

About a hundred last year. This year there'll probably be more. We've noticed a trend of parents driving up to the beginning of our street and dropping their kids off (it's a dead end with cul de sacs, kind of L-shaped). Each year we get more and more kids that way. Outside of the 40 we have as neighbors, I don't know the majority of trick-or-treaters.

 

[cats mom]

We also live in a neigborhood where we tend to get lots of people driving in from all over

I've started keeping two seperate sets of treats.
The good stuff for the neighborhood kids and school and church friends I recognize
then another bowl of the small tootsie roll / smarties type candies for the drive-ins

 

[Kteacher]

I can never tell, some years I get tons of kids, some years I only get a few. My own kids have almost outgrown it, but we always just took them to houses of people we know.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

Really depends...we live on a dead end street so sometimes we get very few (but DH hands out fists full of candy), other times I'm afraid we're going to run out.

I've never heard of drive ins.

But a friend told me this story several years back. The actor Joe Pesci has a house at the Jersey shore. I'm not sure if it's just a long circular street or several streets...but basically there's only one way in or out (otherwise you'd end up in the bay). She said that they BUS kids in from one of the larger towns just to go to Joe Pesci's for Halloween. (I do believe his mother is in charge of the candy brigade). Her family ended up with tons of kids they'd never seen before because of this bus load that made it's way around!

 

[coqui]

We don't get that many. All the kids go to the "richer" section of where we live. They get king size Candy Bars there.