ok for ghetto kids to go trick or treating in afluent neighborhoods?

[brainhulk]

should they provide I.D. to get candy?

 

[PliotronX]

Uh, no. They should just be younger with costumes and not TPing houses or smashing pumpkins i.e. hoodlum shit that kids from all walks of life sometimes do..

 

[squirrel dog]

go for it .

 

[OverVolt]

do it if ya bad

 

[Capt Caveman]

should they provide I.D. to get candy?

Make some fake ids for your kids, just in case. :biggrin:

 

[Leyawiin]

I moved to a new subdivision and was looking forward to first Halloween. Then I noticed a literal traffic jam of cars carrying kids from out of the neighborhood. I mean WAY out of the neighborhood. I often had a line like a movie theater ticket stand outside my door that stretched to the sidewalk. After I went through $100 in candy in 45 minutes I turned off the lights. It was ridiculous. When I lived in my older house in a dicer part of town we had trick or treaters, but a more normal flow and number. Its obvious the poorer folks purposely hit the newer neighborhoods hard. The next year I just went out for dinner and didn't come home until after the rush.

 

[pauldun170]

How would you describe a "ghetto kid"?

I'd like to know what to look for when the kids knock on my door.

 

[lupi]

Who cares.

 

[edro]

No, they should stay in their neighborhood and eat dirt candy.

I would actually RATHER give candy to poor kids because the rich kids aren't grateful for it.

This is my first year handing out candy. We never lived in a neighborhood that had trick or treat.
I'll report back after Saturday night.

Hey, can I deduct trick or treat candy?

 

[QueBert]

hummmm do affluent kids have ID? I've never seen a child with ID before, but then again I never had an affluent friend either.

 

[Newell Steamer]

What do I care? The help always answers the door for me - I am too busy making billion dollar deals to bother with answers doors.

 

[BoomerD]

Our neighborhood in CA was one of the places where they would literally bus kids in to trick-or-treat. Church buses would drop them off at the entrance to our sub-division, then pick them up a couple of hours later.

 

[Harrod]

I moved to a new subdivision and was looking forward to first Halloween. Then I noticed a literal traffic jam of cars carrying kids from out of the neighborhood. I mean WAY out of the neighborhood. I often had a line like a movie theater ticket stand outside my door that stretched to the sidewalk. After I went through $100 in candy in 45 minutes I turned off the lights. It was ridiculous. When I lived in my older house in a dicer part of town we had trick or treaters, but a more normal flow and number. Its obvious the poorer folks purposely hit the newer neighborhoods hard. The next year I just went out for dinner and didn't come home until after the rush.

This is what me and my wife do, several years ago I bought a house and asked my neighbor how much candy people buy each year, he said something like 300 dollars worth. Thats when I decided to go out of town for the night and shut all of the lights off in the house.

On another note, my older brother who lives in Rochester MN, has a cotton candy machine, he says that he is able to serve around 100 people for about 6 dollars, thats the way to do it if the weather co-operates.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Our neighborhood in CA was one of the places where they would literally bus kids in to trick-or-treat. Church buses would drop them off at the entrance to our sub-division, then pick them up a couple of hours later.

If you can't handle the transfer of a little candy while living in such a neighborhood then you need to have your house TPed and egged.

 

[Leyawiin]

If you can't handle the transfer of a little candy while living in such a neighborhood then you need to have your house TPed and egged.

You've obviously never lived in such a neighborhood. Its not a "little" candy to a few kids. We're talking hundreds in a short period of time.

 

[Matthiasa]

As a general rule kids should trick or treat in their own neighborhood regardless of socioeconomic status.

 

[QueBert]

For next year I'm going to make a mobile app that uses GPS so kids can geo-tag who's giving out the good candy and who's giving out shit like Candy Corn & Circus Peanuts. As a child it sucked having to spend 3 hours walking in HOPES of finding the candy gold mine houses.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

You've obviously never lived in such a neighborhood. Its not a "little" candy to a few kids. We're talking hundreds in a short period of time.

I'm the poor kid who, for the first time, caught a glimpse of a wealthy family. Who was convinced "real people can do this" by a handful of good candy. I live in such for the first time since I glimpsed that hope.

I'm giving out snickers and butterfingers .

 

[Kelvrick]

If you're in costume, you get candy from this year. If you're not, you get leftover candy from past halloweens.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

It's funny, when I was a kid we went trick or treating to a slightly more ghetto area although it was really from middle-middle class to lower-middle class. Neither area was ghetto, but my cousins lived in an area with smaller houses with smaller yards packed a little closer together so that every block had more houses. It was like 12-14 houses to a block instead of 8-9 in my area, so it was a greater candy density. My parents brought us there and we went trick or treating with my cousins and if we were willing to hustle we really cleaned up. We'd get like 25% more candy there than we would in my neighborhood. Now I live in a nice area that's not too far from a lower income area and we get hammered by kids carpooling in from that area. I can't complain though, kids go where the candy is and where the parents feel they'll be safer.

 

[SearchMaster]

I moved to a new subdivision and was looking forward to first Halloween. Then I noticed a literal traffic jam of cars carrying kids from out of the neighborhood. I mean WAY out of the neighborhood. I often had a line like a movie theater ticket stand outside my door that stretched to the sidewalk. After I went through $100 in candy in 45 minutes I turned off the lights. It was ridiculous. When I lived in my older house in a dicer part of town we had trick or treaters, but a more normal flow and number. Its obvious the poorer folks purposely hit the newer neighborhoods hard. The next year I just went out for dinner and didn't come home until after the rush.

A friend of my son's invited him to come trick or treat with him in his neighborhood a couple of years ago. When I drove into the neighborhood, there were several police cars directing traffic. This neighborhood is maybe 75 houses that really is just a single loop around. There were cars parked pretty much on the whole loop with several kids collecting candy pretty much all the time. This was all new to me because my neighborhood is probably 75% elderly and I'd literally had ONE trick or treater in the almost 20 years I've lived there (only 4 houses on my street and it's a half mile trek uphill to get there). I can't imagine spending several hundreds of dollars to rot the teeth of kids who I don't know.

When my oldest boys were trick or treating, we would often go to my brother-in-law's neighborhood. They made a big party out of it, most streets had a "beer table" where the adults could come get a cold beverage and chat while the kids would go around the cul-de-sac. Everyone pretty much knew everyone and as far as I could tell there were very few outsiders walking around. That place was awesome.

 

[BoomerD]

I'm the poor kid who, for the first time, caught a glimpse of a wealthy family. Who was convinced "real people can do this" by a handful of good candy. I live in such for the first time since I glimpsed that hope.

I'm giving out snickers and butterfingers .

Meh...poor people should buy their own candy! (ahd trick-or-treat in their own neighborhoods)

 

[freeskier93]

Did you just watch this weeks episode of Blackish?

 

[FeuerFrei]

No, they should stay in their neighborhood and eat dirt candy.

...

It's funny 'cause it's true.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Everyone should stick to their own neighborhoods. Going to nicer neighborhoods would just inspire envy. Besides, it's not like making trick or treating worthwhile in their neighborhoods is going to break them. If every house bought $15 worth of candy and left their porch light on things would be fine. Not being willing to put forth the effort to do things like that is a big part of the reason they're in ghettos to start with. Sounds harsh, but it's true. I believe giving a shit is 90% of the battle.