How many trick-or-treaters did you get??

[Hoosiermomma]

0

 

[GrayDragon]

None. We are too far out and the temp dropped to below freezing + wind.

Didn't get any last year either, so I didn't do much decorating.


We had the usual town busy-body trying to scare folks away from Halloween by talking about non-existent safety issues and the threat of all the children catching swine flu from candy wrappers.

She actually made the ludicrous claim that 100s of kids were killed each year by tampered candy. I took a bit of glee in directing her to the FBI website that points out only two children have ever been injured by candy on Halloween, one of which was poisoned by his own father, the other got into a family stash of heroin and the parents tried to cover it up by putting heroin into the candy and claiming he was killed by that.

Stupid spoil sports trying to ruin what should be good-natured fun.

 

[debilorrah]

Zero and we knew it would be zero. We live in the boonies.

 

[wombat]

We had the usual, zero. We live down a dead end road, and only one other house on our road puts on the porch light. Nobody's gonna make the hike for two handouts.

We had rain all afternoon, so I took my kids out a bit later when it had subsided. We didn't see any other trick-or-treaters the whole two hours we were out; just a neighbor's tarted-up college age daughters passing us on the way to the end of their driveway to catch their ride to a party. That was the highlight of the evening ... girl in too-high heels and too-short skirt passing by, and my five year old boy asking "where's her PANTS?"

 

[DuckLady]

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[Horsewell]

we had a party with the entire outside of our house decordated awswell as a tunnel filled with smoke (smoke machines) and the whole inside house decordated, so we have about 50 come by!

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

We had about 250-300

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Yes, 200-300. But, I was working at Wal-Mart and got to hand out the candy.

At my apartment...no idea.

I was talking to some parents last night and they were telling me that it's simply not safe anymore. In neighborhoods that look decent, there could be predators that would easily snatch up a kid that wasn't being watched too closely. If you have 3-5 kids, one may get "lost in the shuffle" especially if the other parent were talking to friends/ working, etc.

Then there's the old worry about "needles, injected foods, etc."

Many said that they go to Mall-o-ween or Trunk-or-Treat and never go Trick-or-Treating anymore.

Sad.

 

[GrayDragon]

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Sad how so many completely fictional stories have done do much to ruin Halloween.

 

[twentynine]

We got 2.

Best holloween ever was 2 years ago. Went to Valdosta, Ga. to visit my granddaughter. He daddy is in the AF. Moody AFB, on base housing complex. I have never seen a group of people spend more time going out of their way to make sure kids have a safe and happy holiday. Air Force police patrols, policeman on every corner, lost kid patrols, hundreds of houses decorated, thousands of kids in the street. They shut down all the streets to auto traffic. As an adult I had a blast.