Halloween totals

[Spiffy McMoron]

So how many kids came around to your door, asking for treats?

At my place, there were a total of 27 kids (I know there's going to be someone who got about 220 kids or something). Lots of queens, superheros and cowboys, but one kid-10, maybe?-dressed up as a kissing booth.:lol:

[MadMike]

Didn't really count, but it wasn't nearly as many as we had expected. We bought 8 bags of candy, and I think in years past it wasn't quite enough. This time we had quite a bit left over.

Oh, and I've seen the Kissing Booth costume you mentioned. I thought about getting it, but it looked kind of bulky, and the place where the party was is pretty small, and was quite crowded.

That, and my wife might have gotten annoyed. :lol:

[Seanette]

We don't get them in my current apartment building (sigh). I miss seeing all those cute little faces in cute little costumes.

[thegiraffe]

Living on a university campus, we don't get 'trick-or-treaters' per se, but a bunch of kids from the surrounding area (not an area conducive to trick-or-treating) came to campus and went through the residence halls. We had candy, cookies, games... My hall was voted best hall :D. My job? Pin the parts (eyes, nose, mouth) on the mummy. It was SO much fun. We had about 30-40 kids total we think.

[Tanasi]

I don't know I hid in the basement. The wife threw her annual Halloween party for our youngest daughters class and hangers on. There was about 60 kids and assorted parents. I dead-bolted all the doors to the basement and setup my anti-personel mines and just to be safe I assembled and loaded my Browning 1919-A4 to get the straglers.
This party was fun until last year I would fly my Wicked Witch RC airplane (it looks like a witch riding a broom) and scare the kids and we had a haunted barn and even dressed up some of the dogs and calfs. Last year these heathens set my smaller hay barn afire. If I didn't have a fire plan I would have lost all my out buildings. Damn kids stay outta my yard and pasture fields.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I didn't count, but probably 30 ish, give or take.

[kerrisan]

Because I live in campus housing, children aren't allowed to come here. Sadly, neither are residents. :( So I'm buying my Halloween candy today when it's 50% off and just eating it myself. ;)

[digilight]

Went to my parents neighborhood to take the kids trick or treating again this year. They probably had around 200 or so this year. Last year was around 400. The guy who used to live across the street from them used to set up his front lawn and driveway area as a haunted house. They guy owned a business setting up for major concerts/movie shootings and the such and bought the house specifically for the location to do the haunted house. Each year he went thru about 100 - 200 pounds of candy and spent a good week setting it all up including stage lighting, fog machines, theatrical haunted house sounds (that could be heard from almost a block away). Several of the neighbors would go over to his place to help out and keep their lights off and just donate the candy that they would have bought to him to help out. I know that we had people coming from all over the county just to check it out. To bad he moved after last years (he closed the day after halloween and still did the haunted house).

[Becks]

None, as far as I know. I left for work at 1:30 pm, and the man of the household came home sometime after 4:30/5 pm. Besides, our porch light is broken.

[DesignFox]

Not sure. I was working last night...We did, however, get a lot of little kiddies trick-or-treating at the mall! Most stores ran out of candy fairly early (ours included). Luckily, we had other goodies we could give out :)

I noticed that Pirates seemed to be the theme around here!

[Ringtail Z28]

Only one, and that was because I forgot to switch off my porch light.

[Ree]

We had about 120 kids.

There were a lot of princesses, and little kids dressed as animals.

My niece showed up with her two little girls.
Got one pic off the cell phone as my daughter borrowed my camera and forgot to return it. The quality isn't very good. (The picture of her baby sister is still on my daughter's phone, so I have to wait for her to send it.)

[Carolinagirl]

We had about 100 kids!!!! I love Halloween!:p

[Knightmare]

I didn't get any. Probably because I wasn't home. I was over at the gf's place, taking care of my baby girl who was not feeling well.
She was sad that she didn't get to go out, so we played "Trick or Treat" in the apartment. I'd close the bedroom door, she'd knock on it. I'd open it up and she'd say "Twicker Tweet!" She loved it, because I'd pretend to be different people.

So she decided to be someone else, too. Her costume was Tigger. So after we play this for a bit, I close the door again. And wait. And wait. Normally she knocked just after I closed the door, but this time she had me waiting for about 3 minutes.

Finally she knocks on the door, and there she is, out of costume, and out of her clothes. All she has is her shirt on.

She's giggling and says "Twicker Tweat!" (You know how little kids talk), and I give her this :confused: look and say: "Who are you supposed to be?"

She tells me: "I'm naked butt girl!" And then she wiggles it around.

We all had a pretty good laugh at that.


Ah, to be a kid again.

I can't wait for next year

[Kogarashi]

Hubby and I went to a Trunk or Treat party our church held, where we handed out candy from the trunk of our car. Gave away about half of our stash (a large bag of mixed chocolate, plus a smallish bag of Nerds). Several kids came around for repeat treats, but unfortunately for them I remembered which ones did it and nipped it in the bud (by putting our fake skull in the candy bowl. Only one kid took a treat after that, and she wasn't scared of the guy under someone else's candy dish who was grabbing people's wrists).

Because of the party, we got home too late to hand out candy to neighborhood kids. ::sigh:: Perhaps next year.... The previous two years, we had a total of 3 kids per year visit. Ah, the sorrows of living in student apartments.

[lordlundar]

4. that's been the high point since we moved.

At our old place we managed about 140+ as a high point one year, but that dwindled down to about 60 as not many new families were coming in.

[Cia]

We count by bags of candy and our average is between 2-3 bags which means refilling the ol' bed pan at least once. Didn't even refill it this year - so maybe a bag and a half or so.

Yep a bed pan, pre-used from the VA. And yes it has been sterilized several times.

[AFpheonix]

I don't know, I didn't get off work until 11:30, and apparently hubby had to work his day off, too :( he was already asleep by the time I got home.

Just as well, the only candy I have in the place is some leftover christmas and easter candy....