Get Any Trick or Treaters?

[warsawdaddy]

I haven't had any in 10yrs.I miss them.Use to have lots of fun with them when we lived in town.Back in the 70's we lived in town and had a tree next to the sidewalk with a real low limb.Had an old white cat and she would lay on that limb and hang a paw down when the kids walked by.I use to tell the kids that was my albino black cat.Some would believe and then I'd get some uh-uh's from others.Wife would spend two-three days making treats up.Wish we could turn the clock back more than an hour.

 

[naturegirl]

Oh I know what you mean! We live on a rural road, so we wouldn't get many anyway, but it is so sad to read the local newspapers of these very small towns around here, and see how most of the candy is handed out downtown because of safety concerns, fewer and fewer people can believe it's safe to take their children to the neighbors house. Very sadly, that's understandable. I miss the days of "The Great Pumkin" too. However, we did wake up to this in our yard:

 

[GPURS]

Come to my neighborhood! I had 76 trick or treaters last night. I enjoyed most of them, but found that only about half said "thank you" .. Some really good costumes this year, most looked homemade. Naturegirl, I give out really good candy(lots of Reese's cup, Hershey's, kit kat's) as a bribe to the kids so they wont tp or egg my house. So far so good .. Good luck, Gpurs..

 

[ivan salis]

due to the lil girl being grabbed locally and killed --somer --- no treat or treaters this year ---folks were scared to let their kids go out with real "monsters" on the prowl

 

[Libralabsoldier]

We had a lot of kids this year. I live in a rural town, so it was not uncommon to see groups of two or three kids walking together.

As far as egging and TPing...it is part of it. I have never been hit......but I did my fair share of it as a teen. Easy way to get the tp off is to hit it with a water hose for a while. I also noticed quite a few homemade costumes last night as well.

 

[naturegirl]

Gspurs and LIBRAlabSOLDIER

We think we know the tricksters, and they are very much "40something"! I've been laughing all morning. I enjoyed the innocent ribbing. It'll take a few carmel cappachinos to keep this from happening again, just a handful of candy won't do. Do they make candy-corn cappuchinos?

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(Harmless fun everyone needs some!)

 

[RGINN]

Everybody passes out candy here on Main Street. It's not so much a safety concern, but there's so many second home owners who aren't here and lots of condos and apartment bldgs., and lots of folks who just don't want kids trampin thru the yard. Me and the grandson were banned by the police from goin out due to a tp incident the night before, but we snuck out anyway.

 

[DOGMAN ( U.K )]

I'm hoping to hire this fella next year to scare the little buggers off!!( I don't think my son was scared somehow).

 

[lonesomebob]

@ my great grandaughters. Bob

 

[onfire]

Great ,kids are great. 30$ worth of candy and alot of thank yous Had some fun towards eve and told the kids we were honoring Obama halloween and asked if we could take there candy and give it to kids who dident have any. sorry to say the looks were priceless and had no takers. Whats up with that?

 

[Jimmy(PA)]

We had about 50 this year, were I use to live we would easily get 300 to 400.

 

[mikeofaustin]

I felt a sort of awkwardness when I looked out my window and saw a mom and dad taking there [probably 3 year old kids, two of them] down the street around 5 o'clock with the sun still out. Maybe that's just too young? No kids of my own so I don't know.

 

[pygmy]

Naturegirl, in your post #1 here, is that an open sewer running through your property.
I havn't visited rural US , but have spent time in India and Indonesia,
that's why I wondered.

 

[warsawdaddy]

I felt a sort of awkwardness when I looked out my window and saw a mom and dad taking there [probably 3 year old kids, two of them] down the street around 5 o'clock with the sun still out. Maybe that's just too young? No kids of my own so I don't know.

That's one of the best ages!

 

[21stTNCav]

I felt a sort of awkwardness when I looked out my window and saw a mom and dad taking there [probably 3 year old kids, two of them] down the street around 5 o'clock with the sun still out. Maybe that's just too young? No kids of my own so I don't know.

That's one of the best ages!

Yeah, It's one of the best ages, for the parents. I lie with you not, they show up to trick or treat with children in strollers. Most of the kids really don't get it until 5yrs old. Sure, they get excited about it at 3, but they really don't get why they are putting a costume on. It's mostly about the parents or grandparents if they taking their 3yr old out. Of course this being said, I would rather have a child being taken trick or treating too young as to have them not trick or treat at all. Happy post Halloween.

 

[GPURS]

Great ,kids are great. 30$ worth of candy and alot of thank yous Had some fun towards eve and told the kids we were honoring Obama halloween and asked if we could take there candy and give it to kids who dident have any. sorry to say the looks were priceless and had no takers. Whats up with that?

Obama Halloween!! Funny stuff Onfire .. Seems like those kids are probably like their parents in that they are willing to be very generous in giving away other people's stuff,,,,,but not so much with their own ... Good luck, Gpurs...

 

[Tank69]

Everybody passes out candy here on Main Street. It's not so much a safety concern, but there's so many second home owners who aren't here and lots of condos and apartment bldgs., and lots of folks who just don't want kids trampin thru the yard. Me and the grandson were banned by the police from goin out due to a tp incident the night before, but we snuck out anyway.

a tp incedent huh RGINN lol hate when that happens lol

sad to say me an the RedHead took the minnie miners out an played hell trying to find a place for them to go not many around seemed intrested , we hit a few stray house an ran across a church parking lot that had a small hot rod show going on where the folks say around their cars with music going an passing out candy so it was cool , we took Red's new puppy an got lots of attention cause of it .

what happened to the days where you could fill a pillow case an go till 11 pm

 

[21stTNCav]

Same thing that happend to getting a choclate chip cookie, a ginger bread man, a Carmel apple, a small piece of fudge,or a piece of fruit. Our society went nuts, and instead of fixing it by making a deterant to crime, we built insular community's and made Oasis's or safe zones inside the war zones. In a zoo the dangerous animals are behind a fence. These days the animals have been set loose to roam at will while we sit inside our cages all night.

 

[onfire]

horaw 21st sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo true.........

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

None for us - only 2 houses on our street - guess its not worth it

They all trick-or-treated on Friday - the evening the town designated (why, I do not know), and they stayed in the main part of town. Hopefully, next year, the house will be totally complete and we will make up a haunted house thing, and invite kids. It's the one thing I liked when we were in town.

Of course, in my home town, the girl who used to fly her mother's bra up the courthouse flagpole and decorated the courthouse cannons with her underwear, and hung signs all over the outside of the high school, to quarantine it for a lice infestation, and threw roles of toilet paper on the bushes, is all grown up now, and is part of a forum that is talking about missing halloweeners.


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