Is Halloween ToT happening in your area this year?

I live in rural town USA, we did it last year, we will do it this year unless someone in my house has an active Covid case.

Yes. We will have a table set up blocking ourfront entry area with 2 buckets and a sign that says tricks and treats. One bucket will have candy goody bags and the other sensory, non food goody bags.

Last year we did not pass out anything.

I live in a neighborhood, but it is in a rural area, so we don't get many TOT except for kids in our neighborhood (and their friends). That said, we still get as many as 70-ish TOT.

I will probably do what I did last year: put the treats in a bowl on the front porch and sit by an open window to great the kids/parents. That worked well last year because it was a cool evening, but not hot. If it is too cold this year, I will just leave the treats on the porch with a note and not bother with the open window.

No idea what we're doing.

We live in red trump county so I'm sure it'll be nuts out there just as it was last year.

My 10 and 5 year old want to ToT but I'm not sure if we're going to do it or not. We live on the top of a hill and no one comes up here. The house we usually make our destination and turn around point is being sold and our friends are moving to Washington state so I'm not sure what it will look like.

I answered Other. Since Halloween is on a Sunday this year trick or treating will be on Saturday in my area. We'll be out of town until Saturday night so we'll miss the trick or treaters. If we were going to be home I would have answered Yes. Heck, in Utah they trick or treated last year so I fully expect T or T-ing this year.

I assume so, only b/c it was still on last year when there was no vaccine. We had about the usual number of trick or treaters, too.

We handed out candy last year & will do it this year. We don't get a lot of kids, but I have no issues with doing it, just like last year.

Yes, and we did last year also despite covid. Everyone said it was one of the best Halloween's ever. Everyone brought tables out to the front of their house and set candy out for the kids to take. Some people who have steeper flights of steps in front of their houses made candy chutes. Those were very popular as the kids loved trying to catch the candy in their bags. Everyone was polite, stayed away from other groups, etc. We had SO many kids go by, even more than usual (and my neighborhood is known for Halloween, lol). 

In fact I just said to my dh that this year I want to do the table out front again instead of waiting for kids to ring the bell. 

I chose "Other" because it's not worth it for me to answer the door to three kids ... my area just doesn't have many kids anymore ... I keep my outside light off and hide     

We gave out candy last year and will do so again this year. Last year I set a 6’ table in front of the door so the kids could come up to the porch but not all the way to the door. I was able to see when there were kids coming so I could go out and put the candy on the table from my side for them to take from the other side. It worked out so much better than usual because they typically come up in groups and crowd around the door so much that I can’t even get it open to put the candy in their bags. Plus with my dogs going nuts behind me, it just adds to the chaos.

This year I’m going to gate off the hallway so the dogs can’t get close to the door on the inside and out the table up again on the porch blocking the door like I did last year. Only this year I’ll cover the top of the table with Press N’ Seal and use a big Sharpie to write “PLEASE WAIT HERE!” in big letters. Maybe also stick some printouts of stop signs and stick them under the Press N’ Seal too.

After the fiasco that was ToT last year for my own kid, she is going to a friend’s house and will ToT with his family. Last year my kid’s only real friend from the neighborhood moved out of our neighborhood. We have a half sized hay wagon that we would always pull with our side-by-side so DD and the neighbor kids could ride between houses because the neighborhood is so big and the houses are so far apart. The other kids in the neighborhood now are 1) all boys, 2) not her same age or grade other than one kid she doesn’t really know, 3) half of them go to private school so they don’t even go to her school. Those are the kids who went with her on our hay wagon.

The private school brats started running to each house that had an unattended bowl and whoever got there first would empty the entire bowl into his own bag. Turned out this went on most of the night, so all the kids who were at the middle or back of the pack (namely my DD and her one friend who came from the cabin to ToT with her, and the two little kids they were helping at the back) got nothing from half of the houses because so many just had unattended bowls out.

DH was furious and called their parents to rat them out, but at that point the damage had been done. Their parents did make them apologize to DH and to DD but that’s a small consolation when they got all the freaking candy. So this year, DD is going with her friend that moved and we’re not using the wagon at all. Those entitled little jerks can go on their own and they can WALK to get their treats. Being a jerk has consequences. 

I will day that last year I sanitized my hands as I was walking to the door

We didn't last year and we probably won't this year. We are vaccinated, but most trick or treaters aren't. And since mask usage isn't big in our area, I don't trust anyone.

We always enjoy handing out candy and a few months ago, we thought we would be able to do it this fall. But no, not with numbers going up in our area.

We haven’t in years. Why? Because the kids stopped coming. The last year we handed out candy maybe 2 groups with about 4-6 kids showed up. So we stopped buying candy. It does make me a little sad because I want to decorate the outside, but I don’t want to have to buy candy for 4 kids.

I imagine we will have trick-or-treating again this year, since we did last year. But I never get a lot of kids (the house is lit up, but it’s at the end of a dark court off a bigger dark court) and got even fewer last year. I’m hoping for more kids this year. Like every year.


ETA I’m vaccinated but will wear a mask when I answer the door.