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How many Trick 'R treaters do you get?

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None - kept the light off. Tried it one year and went through $100 in candy in an hour. They were literally lined up on the walk coming up to my front door. Too many apartments nearby.
 
50-60? I answered for maybe 20 or so while the wife and kids were out. Once the got home, the kids were put on door duty, so I didn't pay attention to how many per bell ring, but there was probably another 20-30 groups that came by.

So overall a pretty decent turn out for a quiet suburban neighborhood.
 
0. live in an apartment.

parents had a couple hundred in their neighborhood. it seemed like it was tapering off, but a few younger families moved in, which is good. brings the number of trick-or-treaters back up.
 
About 15-20 <10 year kids with their Mom escorting them. Gave them 3-4 mixed candy to each. Most of them said "thank you" which was nice to hear.
It was cold and windy. Left a sign on the door after I ran out of candy.
 
500? I can't keep track. It's like 2 greyhound buses drop off a load of Mexicans that can't say trick or treat. Plus the actual ones from my neighborhood.

Complete fucking dickish kids too, I had a few that tried to literally grab for the candy themselves, putting their hand in the cookie jar basically. The fuck is wrong with parents and their kids these days? Jesus fuck I needed to check my back pocket after every round.

If I had to ballpark it I would say 150+ came to our door.
 
Rained all night so we had zero. I brought all the leftover candy to work today to share with my crew.
 
Probably 100-125 kids.

I tell people that I'm not a socialist with my candy distribution; you gotta earn it. If you're within the appropriate age range (2-14 give or take) and you have on costume, you get candy from the good pumpkin. If you're too old or have no costume, you get the cheap candy. Polite kids get more. Homemade or creative costumes get more. I only had 5 Elsa's, but 3 of them got an extra handful of good candy for saying "Let it go!". The little boys dressed as batman got extra candy for saying [Bale voice]"I'm Batman"[/Bale voice].

Only had 2 adults and 2 babies less than ~18 months with their parents.

I think one of the adults had mental issues and she was dressed up, so she's cool. The other lady with her 14 year old daughter (neither of whom had any costume nor any pretense of a costume) got one mini tootsie roll each.

Overall, it was a fun night!
 
0. We went out to dinner. Usually get about a dozen out here. Friends in the nearby city reported almost 700 kids. Personally, I think they're exaggerating, but then, at least a few hundred.
 
kinev said:
Probably 100-125 kids.

I tell people that I'm not a socialist with my candy distribution; you gotta earn it. If you're within the appropriate age range (2-14 give or take) and you have on costume, you get candy from the good pumpkin. If you're too old or have no costume, you get the cheap candy. Polite kids get more. Homemade or creative costumes get more. I only had 5 Elsa's, but 3 of them got an extra handful of good candy for saying "Let it go!". The little boys dressed as batman got extra candy for saying [Bale voice]"I'm Batman"[/Bale voice].

Only had 2 adults and 2 babies less than ~18 months with their parents.

I think one of the adults had mental issues and she was dressed up, so she's cool. The other lady with her 14 year old daughter (neither of whom had any costume nor any pretense of a costume) got one mini tootsie roll each.

Overall, it was a fun night!
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Awesome. I used to do the same thing, and had no problem giving a litle kid who was polite a handful of candy bars, then giving the older, rude, non-costumed kid waiting in line a piece of rock candy.
 
kinev said:
Probably 100-125 kids.

I tell people that I'm not a socialist with my candy distribution; you gotta earn it. If you're within the appropriate age range (2-14 give or take) and you have on costume, you get candy from the good pumpkin. If you're too old or have no costume, you get the cheap candy. Polite kids get more. Homemade or creative costumes get more. I only had 5 Elsa's, but 3 of them got an extra handful of good candy for saying "Let it go!". The little boys dressed as batman got extra candy for saying [Bale voice]"I'm Batman"[/Bale voice].

Only had 2 adults and 2 babies less than ~18 months with their parents.

I think one of the adults had mental issues and she was dressed up, so she's cool. The other lady with her 14 year old daughter (neither of whom had any costume nor any pretense of a costume) got one mini tootsie roll each.

Overall, it was a fun night!
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For the kids who don't dress up, go with something like salted licorice.
 
We got about 450. Burned through 1000 pieces of candy at two per kid, though a few got 3. Lots of Batman, Elsa and Zombie costumes. We get kids trucked into our subdivision as well but they were pretty much all nice, polite and in costumes. Only one person tried to grab candy directly from the bowl and at that point all that was left was dum-dums, so jokes on him I guess.

I did have one cute little kid in a batman costume that I greeted with "Hi Batman" and he had to let me know he wasn't really batman, he was just in a costume.

Also got one Mario and one Luigi that weren't in the same groups. Several queens/princesses, most of whom were probably Elsa outfits. *shrug*
 
None. I live in a cul-de-sac and nobody bothers to walk down here. There were lots of trick or treaters a block away though.
 
Leyawiin said:
None - kept the light off. Tried it one year and went through $100 in candy in an hour. They were literally lined up on the walk coming up to my front door. Too many apartments nearby.
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Been there done that. Did the same as you this year.
 
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