Get Any Trick or Treaters?

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.

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:

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..

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

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.

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?

ng
(Harmless fun everyone needs some!)

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.

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

@ my great grandaughters.  Bob

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?

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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.   


B

Wow Mrs. O, quite a hell raiser. I now have new found respect you ! Gpurs...

We're at the end of a dead-end street, a bit out of town, and there aren't any T or T aged kids nearby, so none this year.  Well enough actually, since all our dogs go bat$hit at the sound of a doorbell, enough to scare the poop out of any little kid.

I remember, growing up, that a buddy of mine and I would go to my father's funeral home on Halloween night after we hit 16 and were just too "cool" to dress up.    Believe it or not, there were tons of kids that would come to the front doors of the funeral home and knock, don't know what they were expecting exactly. Anyway, we would get to the funeral home a couple hours before it got dark.  We would string all the lamps in the foyer of the building onto one power-strip, drop a spooky funeral home tunes CD into the stero system, and wait.  When they knocked or rang the bell, we'd start flicking the lights on and off, hit the remote and fire up the spooky tunes on high volume, and start waving potted plants in front of the windows, and then watch the kids scatter. 

One year I got a little more creative.  I pulled the hearse a couple feet out of the garage, slipped on a hockey mask, turned off the garage lights, and waited till the kids walked up the driveway.  As soon as they got close, I'd hit the headlights and blast the horn.   

      We like Halloween!


Question, though.  Does anyone else live in-or near a town that tells the kids what night and what hours they can go trick or treating?

I mean, this year, Halloween was a great night - full moon, weather moderate.  But the town said - no, halloweeners must go on Friday,
and only between the hours of 4 pm and 7 pm. (one councilperson said it would ensure all children would be done and home before it got too dark) - but, this town only has 800 people (I really think its less), and, most people know the people in the town.

I don't get it.  And, I really think it is sad.

B

The number of kids trick or treating has dwindled to almost nothing over the past few years. I suppose some of them grow up and do not go T and T any more but most of the young ones are taken to the safe zones to get their candy. Local Mall and or chuch functions.

A sad sign of the times.

We had probably 10 kids all night, if that many. Use to be at least 50 with their parents and grand parents.

Ray S

Hey Piggy! Yes I live in rural Ok,. but no, that's not open sewer!

Yes Mrs. Oroblanco, lots of the small towns around here do try to set times, and alot of the churches have fall celebrations open to all kids. Signs of the times I guess. (what the churches are doing is great). But I like to see the people who hang on to the old ways of Trick o treat also. A girl I work with goes all out with her yard. We work at an art foundry, so when an artist is finished with thier original sculpture it's usually discarded, or stripped for materials. She asks them if they would mind "donating the original to the cause" meaning the original sculpture is transformed into a ghoul. The majority laugh and and say sure, so long it's different than the original. Her yard is becoming famous. You can't even park close to it come Halloween Eve. She had 260 kids this year, in a small town. Lots of fun. She also is a prankster, and if you make her "list" thru out the year, you better watch out come Halloween week. Her pranks are innocent, unexpected, harmless fun. Maybe it wouldn't hurt for kids to see more
of this kind of fun, intead of the barricading that is happening.

naturegirl

     We like Halloween!


Question, though.  Does anyone else live in-or near a town that tells the kids what night and what hours they can go trick or treating?

I mean, this year, Halloween was a great night - full moon, weather moderate.  But the town said - no, halloweeners must go on Friday,
and only between the hours of 4 pm and 7 pm. (one councilperson said it would ensure all children would be done and home before it got too dark) - but, this town only has 800 people (I really think its less), and, most people know the people in the town.

I don't get it.  And, I really think it is sad.

B

Exactly how would they enforce only going out on a specified date? Technically( although it would be a bit silly) you can go out and trick or treat any day of the year. I am just a sayin . I originally come from a town of 450 in rural Tennessee. When I was a kid we would wear that town out. Dad would carry my sis and I to the 3 different residential quadrants of the town and it would take all night.( at least it felt like all night to a 6 yr old. ) . I guess to 9:30. We started when it good and dark. I don't think any night has ever been mandated other than Halloween night, the night of the 31st. Never was it changed to Sat because it fell on a Monday or Friday, and certainly never changed from a Saturday to a Friday. That sorta seems counter intuitive.
I know for sure we never found panties decorating anything! Growing up in your town must have been intresting!

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.   


B

lol thats we luvs ya Mrs O 

They call it an "ordinance".

There was a few trick or treaters on Saturday, but most porch lights were off, in keeping with the "ordinance".

Actually, its a matter of a bunch of people who like to control what their neighbors do (imo).


B

25 kids and most just stand there with the bag open!
NO T.T.
NO T.Y.
I dont make it easy so I sweat them for "the magic words"
One girl kept saying"May I",Please" etc
WTF is wrong with this country.......
Next year I'll build a pit fall with punji spikes in it.Just off to one side of the front porch.

I just love those punji spikes ; they'd squeal louder than a stuck pig.

I remember this time back in high school... my girlfriend, probably 16 at the time, she wanted to go trick-r-treating and wanted me to go with her....    She dressed up as a 'cat'... and it was about the second house when the person said, "aren't you a little old to be doing this?".   She had a mini-breakdown and I told her... "sweety, there comes a time when you have to give this sort of thing up"...  she never did it again.