How many trick or treaters...

[disneychrista]

How many trick or treaters do you get each year? this is the first time I have had to buy candy and I have no clue. I have always either been working or taking my own kids. This year DD will be handing out candy instead of trick or treating.

So how many trick or treaters should I plan on??

 

[Harley Chick]

For the 3 years we've lived at this house, we've had none. I still buy the candy though .

 

[RUDisney]

It really depends on your neighborhood.. and on the weather.

When my DH was living in a house before we were married, we planned for loads of kids. It was a very "Irish Catholic" neighborhood. lol I think the adults procreated there as a pasttime. BUT... it rained on Halloween night, so they all kept their kids at home. We had a ton of candy, so rule 1: Get what you like in case your stuck with it.

The neighborhood we live in now has very few kids, so I only buy a little. I make up special bags for my kids better friends that they play with all the time, but as for regular trick or treaters, we don't get alot.

Sorry I can't help you more. Maybe you can ask your neighbors how they plan.

 

[Towncrier]

Some years we've had over 300 trick or treaters. As more and more houses have been built in our neighborhood (and considering that our home and neigborhood is now nearly 20 years old), the numbers have been steadily dropping to a more reasonable 200.

 

[CEDmom]

The past few years we haven't gotten very many, maybe 30-40. That may be because DD goes to bed at 8pm. After bedtime we move my car out of the driveway and turn off the front light so no one rings the bell.

 

[sharbear]

500 give or take the night and the weather. This year's it's on Friday night, I could only hope that people are going to HS football games. It's really too much.

 

[jwsqrdplus2]

We usually get a couple hundred. We live in one of those neighborhoods where kids from other neighborhoods (read less well off) are brought in. You can actually see vans and busses unloading kids at the entrance to the subdivision.

We also have the same problem as CEDmom, but we put the kids to bed by 8pm, and sit out on the front porch. That way no one rings the doorbell and I get rid of all the candy I bought (and the stuff I don't want DDs to have from their own bags). All my neighbors do the same thing, so it becomes one big party with all of us talking and having fun.

 

[dianeschlicht]

We have lived here 23 years and never had even one trick or treater, even when our kids were of that age! We live in the middle of the woods with a 350' long driveway. I used to buy candy when our kids were that age, but when no one came, I quit doing that years ago.

 

[circus slim]

We get somewhere around 100. It's been pretty consistent at that number for quite a few years.

 

[grinningghost]

Seems every year it's less and less. I don't know if more people are afraid to take their kids out or what, but last year I know I had alot of leftover candy.

 

[disneychrista]

Thanks for the answers. I am planning on 100 or so, we are making up little bags, so at least next year I will know whether I bought too much or not enough.