This is going to be the first Halloween for me in my apartment. Last year I lived in an apartment complex, and planned on a lot of kids, but only 2 showed up
My neighbor was telling us last night that although the town only gives the kids 2 hours to go trick or treating, the neighborhood gets swamped with kids.
I have a pretty good stockpile of full sized candy bars (thanks to the m&m coupons this summer and the current snickers coupons) and thanks to the candy sale last week at Acme and this week at Shoprite I have about 8 bags of snack sized hershey candies. If I run out of that, I have 6 of the 12packs of nabisco cookies.

I got a gift card for McDonalds and was going to use it to get some of the halloween coupon booklets to use for the small kids, but the woman at my mcdonalds said that they weren't doing the booklets this year

So what are you giving out and how many kids do you expect?

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We usually have over a hundred...more each year because our neighborhood is still growing. DH told me when we were first married - no crappy candy for Halloween! We give out the good stuff - Snickers, Milky Way, Starburst, Skittles, Reeses, Twix, Tootsie Pops, Hershey bars, Smarties, etc. I always get an assortment and let the kids pick 2.

Lisa

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We've lived here 10 years and have never had one trick-or-treater. I always buy a bunch of miniatures and go around the corner to my parents that live within the city limits, where 100's of kids come! I love seeing all the TOT dressed-up!

We live in a pretty good sized subdivision and we usually have around 200 or so. We ave have a large rural area to the side of us, and many of those families bring their kids here too.
We stick mostly to just snack sized candy that I go out and get the night before (or we'll start eating it!)

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Nicole

We live in a large subdivision but, we are the the very back section that has big lots, we don't get very many trick o' treaters. I'd guess we get about 30 or so. Mainly just the few kids that live in our section and friends of the kids because they know if we know them they will get a lot of candy.

We usually give Sour Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, War Heads, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Reeces, M&M's, Tootsie Pops etc. Basically things we will eat if we have any left over.

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Ok, I wanna be 8 yrs old again and come live in your area!



Same here. I like to give the good stuff. I usually give each kid a couple-three pieces. Probably with the health kicks we all should be on, I should stop that. Hard to stop though, I enjoy making them smile!

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depends on the weather---if there's no snow, usually have 30 or so. If there's snow or bitter cold--don't have that many.

I give "the good stuff". I have given the Halloween packs of Goldfish, Popcorn, Doritos, etc., just to break up the sugar/chocolate "fix"

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We give out full sized candy bars that I get at Costco. There are coupons every year so far this year a coupon for $5 off a box. We had about 40 last year. Every year it goes down. Six years ago when we moved in there were about 80 to 100 and we almost ran out of little ones. The local churches in our small rural community have special events so many of the kids go there. Some years there are high school football games or U of O Ducks games.
We are one of a few homes that decorate heavily. We have skull and pumpkin lights on the house, a cemetary in the front yard with the cute little fence around it, bats and skeletons hanging from the trees and other various things.
I love the holidays; I consider Halloween the beginning of the holiday season.

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Halloween is my favorite Holiday, because it is all in fun. I live WAY out in the country and my driveway is so long and tree lined that it looks like the entrance to a pasture. I never get any kids, the only ones that know there is a house here are family with grown kids.

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Being in the country is so differnt than where we used to live. Had 300+ kids in town....some years I ran out of candy and had to turn the lights off! Now we get 4 kids, and 2 of those are mine. So I buy full size stuff and fill goodie bags for each kid.

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We are suburban, verging on rural. We can have anywhere from 15 to 75 kids, and it's different every year. I don't buy the big stuff because I don't want 50 or more large size bars left sitting if no one shows up. The small ones, I can double and triple up if it looks like few are coming, but hold back if it looks like I'm going to have a lot of kids. I always have leftovers because I just don't want to run out. And I only buy stuff that someone in the house likes.

I like seeing the kids, but frankly I'm getting tired of it all. It's gotten harder for me to get up and down out of a char and the TV is too far from the front door so I have to sit near the door and read a book for two hours and it's really boring some Halloweens. If the weather is nice enough, (rarely), I'll sit out on the front porch for part of the time and that helps keep the dogs from getting all riled up.

We have foam gliders, water guns, little pop-up animals, and pinwheels, leftover from my son's birthday, and purchased with the idea that they'd be used for Halloween, too. We're in AZ, so we're coming into the season where you can play in the park here. I'll probably grab some candy, too, but IME, the non-candy stuff does better, so long as it's not something like a toothbrush, or a religious tract. In the past, we've done glow stick bracelets, and play dough.

We get . . . maybe 100 kids? We're in a rather quiet suburb, with not too many kids, but there's a lot of rural area around us, so I think a lot of families who live well out there drive into town to trick-or-treat, and I think the crappy economy has added to that, as it's cheap fun for the kids. My parents normally give out full sized chocolate bars, since they live in an area with huge lots (their whole lots is half a neighbor's backyard), and they figure the kids deserve something for walking so far.

We live in a subdivision that has really caught on with some out of towners. I have two separate candy bowls. One for the kids that live here (yes, I know them all) and one for the kids that are bussed in from the city. I got tired of spending a fortune to give candy to kids that came from 10 miles away. Last year we had around 300. About half were from here.

Nothing. I'm a party pooper. We stopped a couple years ago. Before that, we only got about 20 kids and they came about 10 minutes apart, so it was a couple hours where we couldn't get anything done. When there were a lot of kids and a fairly constant stream of them, it was fun. None of them are neighbors now, many hardly bother with a costume and none of them walk, they just arrive in cars. So we don't bother. I think a lot of kids around here just go to parties instead of trick or treating.

Bah humbug. I used to love Halloween.

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