Go in the trash…
But all the candy was gone by 1930, friends dropped by, and fun was had.
Grandkids got all dressed up and went trick or treating in Cali…
And as soon as they got back, Jace ditched the costume and started going through his stash… LOL
And the kids will be on a sugar high for the next week…LOL
Hey Old NfO;
And the best part is that the parents have to deal with it…not you 😉 Modern problems require modern solutions.
She is the most adorable pirate EVER!!!!
And I had to look at the picture six times, because the ninja kept vanishing into thin air!
How is it possible that we wound up with such fantastic grandchildren? Is this not a most palpable demonstration of a miracle?
Happy All Saints’ Day!!!
We got only one trick or treater.
We spoke to the mom, and she said that people with their lights on had mostly left a bowl with candy at the door with a sign that said take only one.
That means that the two children in their late sixties that live on our house will be the ones with the sugar rush!
Sad to say I am not super into Halloween, I don’t usually decorate and I almost never leave the lights on. Don’t know why. My ex-wife’s favorite and so it worked out back then. That being said, seeing fewer kids every year in our town.
The whole “community” Halloween where all the kids are downtown on Saturday afternoon seems to be taking off around here. Took me 15 minutes to drive through a nearby downtown when I accidentally turned that way.
My buddy in a residential neighborhood in a large city said down to 45 from 250 last year. Another buddy in a development just outside a medium city said hundreds this year after nothing last year. Guess it just depends.
None. Zip. Nada. Last year maybe a dozen at the most. Got to get rid of this stuff before the dentist sees another implant opportunity.
Take the pumpkins to your deer lease. The deer and hogs love them.
Adorable.
It was fun being around the grandkids for Halloween, and Wolfgang loved all the attention he got from them and their friends.
It was a good move for us coming to Florida.
We had a steady flow from 1800-2000. Lots of littles, not too many bigger kids. I also did a Trunk-or-Treat at my place of worship and we had at least 650 kids in 90 minutes.
I live in a rural area so, no trick-or-treaters. It’s too far to walk. However, my mom still lives in the old neighborhood and she gets them by the hundreds, almost all of them escorted by parents.
My mom is quite elderly so my brother and I go over on Halloween night to give out the candy. My mom sat on the porch swing and enjoyed the kids and their costumes.
My brother loves getting a laugh out of the older kids. They would come up to him and say: “Trick or Treat!” And he would reply: “Okay, Trick!” The looks on the kid’s faces were priceless. He would make them do some kind of trick, usually something simple like, hop on one foot, or stick out your tongue and touch your nose. (Almost all of them would try and a few of them could actually do it. But the ones that got the most candy were the few that stuck their tongue out at *him* and then touched their nose with their finger.) Anyone doing any kind of trick got a handful of candy, not just a single piece. There was this one really cute little girl about 8 or 9 who really wanted to show off, so she did a cartwheel right there in the front yard. She was amply rewarded.
Most parents would stay out at the curb and send the kids up to the porch. When they did that, we would always give them a few extra pieces of candy and tell the kids: “This is for Dad …or Mom.”
A good time was had by all, but this year there weren’t as many kids as last year, which surprised us because not only was the weather great this year, but last year was the height of covid hysteria.
We gave out copious amounts of candy but still had a couple of bags left over.
Oooh, I like your “trick”! I think I’ll do that next year, if I remember!
In addition to the kids whose parents escorted ’em but stayed at the curb, the kids with a parent following in a pickup truck (as the evening went on, the tailgates dropped for tired feet to catch a ride), we had a hayride: the guy lives “a ways” out of town, and rounds up the rural kids “nearby”, then hauls ’em up and down the streets of our town.
All- Thanks for the comments! We had more than last year, but not a lot more. And we gave them enough candy to float a boat! I’d say maybe 75-80 kids total. We’d carved pumpkins Saturday night for fun at our supper, and we got the leftovers. I would take them to the deer lease, but it’s 3 1/2 hours, so a bit far for just those few.
I live in a liberal poop-hole. Which I didn’t know about until it was too late. When living in the ‘burb, we had few to no trick-or-treaters.
Now that I’m living in the city directly, absolutely no trick-or-treaters, even though there are kids everywhere.
Maybe has to do with all the warnings and cautions that the local media and city commission and cops put out about the evils of tainted candy (never happened, was one lady way back when before Munchausen’s by Proxy was a known thing) and creepy child predators (hey, they’re out of school, so they’re mostly away from creepy child predators (fact: more teachers predate upon children than clergy, by percentages. Yeah, it’s safer to send your kid to the Vatican than to the local Public School…)) and so forth.
Glad the children in your area get to play and be children.
Beans- That’s odd… And yes, good to see kids being kids…
Man, Your GrandDaughter is a Dollie. Reminds me of My Niece’s Daughter, She has the exact unruly mane. 😉
We had a blast. Went through ALL the candy we’d bought just as it started raining, which meant end of activities.
My son and I put up lights, scary stuff, headstones, etc, and he set up his fog machine for extra effect.
Had about twice as many as last year, mostly kiddies, but a few older kids.
Grandkids! Load’em up with sugar and chocolate and send them home to their parents. And laugh.
Costumes. A collegue got all dressed as a weird old man in a rocker with candles, in a dark hall. Eventually he gave up, turned on the lights and put the bowl of treats out front. The kids would look in the window, see his costume/decoration, scream and run away. He’ll make a good “Grandpa” some day. I just stay in a dark closet. When I have wandered out, I scare the parents on the front walk (Hey! It’s not a costume, I just look like this after dark.). Must need more garlic, or something. The police have been very understanding. They didn’t taser me a single time. An older Officer laughed. I bet he is “fun” on his nights off……
Happy Halloween (survivors.).
Pa- Good to hear from you! And yes, curly… LOL
drjim- Perfect timing!
Mike- LOL, that we did… And I’ve been thinking about a costume for next year…
Way back when I accompanied my young’un, I dressed as if for an office job carrying my briefcase labeled IRS. Scared all the adults. My kid said I looked like a dork. I had fun.
Aside: it warms my twisted little psyche to see commenters using the 24-hour system like proper people do. Sure wish the rest of the US of A would get with it- so much more satisfying than that AM/PM nonsense.
Loved that!
Chickens love pumpkin, and its a dewormer to boot. Could have given them to the Dawg. Fatte up the neighbor birds and keep me healthy forbwhen Phlegmmy’s hellhounds eat them.