A big fat THANK YOU to those who handed out candy last night

I agree! There were so many houses in our neighbourhood this year that were dark. Dd and I were pretty much the only ones walking at 7:30. Many people were just pouring their stuff in her bag because they hadn't seen many kids. I was shocked because our neighbourhood is full of younger families.

Last year we had over 100 kids, this year DS said he maybe had 45. We have sooo much candy left over plus what dd was given.

That is so sweet of you! And you are most welcome!

My kids are 29 and 32 and I feel like I have certainly paid back for the years my kids went trick or treating. But I like being part of the neighbourhood/community, that house that gives out the full size candy bars. Love seeing the kids in the neighbourhood, talking to them. Just a fun night overall!

Yeah.  The bond it creates with my neighbors, many of whom I rarely talk to at length, and many of whom are quite different than I am, is priceless.  We live back in the woods, way off the main road, and kids still come back, darkness all around except for the carved pumpkin and one yellow porch light, to get candy.  The teens are the most fun and the little tiny ones are the cutest. 

Thanks for reminding us that community matters.  

I love to hand out candy and see the TOTers of all ages. Halloween parties are great, but nothing beats knocking on a stranger's door for candy. I go to my Mother's house to hand out candy so she can see the TOTers.   When we lived in a neighborhood, my DH would give cold beer to our friends TOTing with their kids.   

Every year every part of me says, "I'm done this year," but then I think - it's only 2 hours. I live where people park behind my house from other places so I got inundated with people. But I gave to every stroller baby, every dressed up parent and I watched my 150 candy bars go down to about 12 after just over an hour, so when there was a break in the crowd and no one headed my way I unplugged my light up pumpkin and made a bee line for the house.

It would suck to have another rush of kids and have to turn someone away. when my kids grew up there most houses were decorated. I saw almost no jackolanterns. Mine is an old plug in light up one that I drag out every Halloween at 5 pm.
On my street I think maybe every 3rd or 4th house gave out candy.

I think next year I will just bite the bullet and buy the huge bag of candy bars so I can make it the entire 2 hours.  I love that so many kids still go out and trick or treat - very nostalgic.  I never bothered with trunk or treat or mall shop trick or treating.  I hope when I have grandkids someday they will still be able to trick or treat door to door.

Post a picture of this!! I love the idea of doing this at one of our local historic places!

Aww, thank you for the Thank You!

I love Halloween. Absolutely love it. All my kids are adults now but we still get into TOT big time. I love decorating inside and out - a funny the other day was when I asked DH for more batteries for the latest Halloween decor-thing I'd brought home. He looked around and asked just how many battery-operated Halloween doodads did I have?

So I counted...83.

And that was just in the great room. Outside, we set up a big cemetery in the front yard - complete with a life-size Grim Reaper, skeletons, a boneyard spider, flashing lights, fog machine, spooky sounds....pretty much everyone that comes by takes pictures of their little TOTers in front of it. So fun.

We set up a fully decorated table in the driveway with the candy in a big 'cauldron' and just have a blast with all the kids - young AND older - that come by.

It's the best night of the year.

when I was little my dad took all 4 of us out and my mom gave out candy. It was cold as a witches bootay and we had winter coats under our costumes. I totally recall with your post that there was a house one street over from ours that had their garage open and had hot cider, coffee and old fashioned cake dunking doughnuts. We always stopped there for a quick visit. I had not thought about this for decades until you just mentioned it!

We just moved last weekend to a neighborhood where we actually get trick or treaters.  I loved it!  Our old house was on a main road in town and we would only get a half dozen or so tops.  Last night we had about sixty.  It was so fun to see all the kids dressed up, meet the neighbors etc.  

I hope your daughter had a good time!

I came a torrential downpour right in the middle of TOT'ing that sent many kids running for home base. One family got stuck on my porch so I drove the mom to her car about 1/2 mile away so she could follow me back and get her family home. Any other kids/families I saw walking I offered rides to - most declined because they were laughing and having a good time in the rain. For the kids who braved the rain I left the bowl of candy in a chair on the front porch with a sign that said TAKE TWO or THREE and told them "Happy Halloween" through the microphone in my RING doorbell. The kids got a kick out of that, especially the older ones when I used a spooky voice.

We had 9 kids which is 5 more than usual! It was a hopping night at my house! The costumes were so cute and the little boys next door get cuter every year! We had such fun!

I hand out full size candy bars, and I loooove the reactions from kids over that. Some don’t even notice, some just look at it with confusion, while others say ‘awesome’ or ‘those are huge’!

We had the most polite trick-or-treaters last night. I've never heard so many thank you's in one Halloween. Granted, we had very few kids on the street. I think parents were bribing their kids to stay home and watch the game. Still, it was refreshing to see happy children w/manners. I have a bowl full of candy here that I would have gladly given out had more kids come by.

I have 2 full boxes to return today. I've never returned before but really, dh and I do not need these in the house and returning them will pay for a Christmas gift for one of our grandson's, a holiday decoration, or whatever I find!