What Are You Giving Out to Trick-or-Treaters?

[Thanks for the Crepes]

I kept my porch light on until 8:45 when husband went to bed. He actually turned it off, I found a half hour later when it crossed my mind. We had no trick or treaters again this year. Some years lately, we have two or three groups of usually older/borderline too-old groups. A few have been scary, and not in a Halloween way. 

 

This neighborhood used to be a good one, in the heart of old downtown Cary, consistently awarded safest city to live in the country kudos. Not so much anymore, at least in my nabe. I moved here in 1989 when it was a working class bedroom community. Now some low-income housing has surrounded us, and I no longer feel comfortable walking in my neighborhood. I used to not worry about locking the doors every second. No more. 

 

I so miss the cute little ones that used to come in the early years, most of whom I knew, along with their parents.

 

One year, when I was still in my twenties, an adorable little girl in a mouse costume I handed candy to on Halloween asked me what I "was supposed to be". I hadn't taken off the dress I'd worn to my office job, though I can see why she may have thought I was a fairy princess or something. It was cornflower blue with three ruffly flounces edged with white lace in tiers down the skirt with ruffled sleeves with the same lace.

 

My husband bought 2 bags of fun size M&M's, although I clearly stated in my note to only get one. Neither of us need to eat candy, but I'v already had two of the little bags with about 16 candies in it. I only counted the first bag.

[suzilightning]

Two years ago the kids in my town didn't even get to go trick or treating since the island was still under a mandatory evacuation order, and some of the kids are still living in motels or with friends or relatives because their homes are still uninhabitable.

 

And the year before that we had Snowtober - 17" of snow on 29 October.

A lot of places up here and down the shore have replaced door to door trick or treating with "Trunk or Treat" where folks congregate in a central location and bring the candy they would have given out and the kids are able to be in a supervised location.

[SylviaLovegren]

We are in downtown Toronto and get tons of kids.  I adore Halloween -- the kids, be they 3 or 15, are just too cute.   We try to get a real assortment of candies because I know some kids don't like chocolate (there really are people who don't like chocolate, can you imagine?).  So lots of gummies and stuff like that.  But this year, we got a number of Hindu and Muslim kids who asked for items with no gelatine (hadn't thought of that) and kids who wanted to make sure their were no peanuts.  Very tricky! 

 

And, of course, now my niece is shaming me about buying slave produced chocolate.  

 

I still love the kids...and chow down on the leftover candy.  Although I'm having trouble with the texture on the gummy rats. 

[GlorifiedRice]

We are in downtown Toronto and get tons of kids.  I adore Halloween -- the kids, be they 3 or 15, are just too cute.   We try to get a real assortment of candies because I know some kids don't like chocolate (there really are people who don't like chocolate, can you imagine?).  So lots of gummies and stuff like that.  But this year, we got a number of Hindu and Muslim kids who asked for items with no gelatine (hadn't thought of that) and kids who wanted to make sure their were no peanuts.  Very tricky! 

 

And, of course, now my niece is shaming me about buying slave produced chocolate.  

 

I still love the kids...and chow down on the leftover candy.  Although I'm having trouble with the texture on the gummy rats. 

 

 

BBM Hahahaha!