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In Reply to: RE: Wishing everyone a spooktacular evening! posted by vinyl survivor on October 31, 2016 at 15:34:03
And haven't for the last 6 years since we moved here.
I always bought a couple bags of candy, just in case.
This year, I passed. We didn't finish last year's bag.
-Rod
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...you were forcing trick or treaters to listen to your Bose speaker system before you treated them with a penny in their candy bag. ;-)
The United States is a collection of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.-Frank Zappa
I give them a bite size snickers if they stay for a minimum of two sides of the vinyl.
-Rod
Cause that's just spooky.
nt
The United States is a collection of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.-Frank Zappa
Went through $50 worth of cheap candy (the $9.99 250 piece count bags) in an hour and a half. But that's OK...we got the majority of the kids and ran out just in time to turn out the lights on the teenagers.
We used to live in a nice development where the houses are fairly close together with nice street lighting and lots of younger kids. It was so busy that you couldn't even get back to your seat before the doorbell would ring again and at the peak, it was just one group of a half dozen or more coming up the walk as the last group was getting their loot.
I swore that they must be busing the kids in and I was right. Mini-vans lined the streets with hoards of kids piling out from nearby neighborhoods. We could never have enough candy and I'd buy lots of the cheap stuff because the little guys like suckers better anyway.
Now, we're at the top of the hill with a 200 yard driveway up a steep grade past a couple of house on the way up. Nobody will walk up here in the dark, they drive over to our old neighborhood where the pickings are better.
-Rod
Big disappointment for my wife, who had decorated our window with all kinds of ceramic jack-o'-lanterns with candles inside. Halloween is her favorite "holiday". We started with two $25 boxes (36 bars each) of Almond Joys plus a partial box of Hersheys, plus some supplemental candies from See's. I have a student who owns her own pharmacy, and I know she sells Almond Joys there - maybe she'll take a box or two!
When I moved in about fifteen years ago, the neighborhood was crawling with kids. I used to enjoy giving out candy, especially when some of the young moms would dress up as a sexy witch, or nurse, and accompany their kids.
I remember saying, "Well aren't you precious?" while putting candy in the three year old Princess's bag, but staring at the mom. Mom got a sly smile on her face, 'cause she knew what I was up to.
Ahh, memories.
No porch lights on anywhere around me, so I guess the Trick or Treat practice has faded, at least here.
Supporting your local dentist is not as fashionable as it once was.
Although I don't eat candy hardlu ever it is possible to eat it and be cavity free with a good brush floss regimen. My uncles three kids did and he was a dentist.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
We have lived here for 30 years. This was the first time that we didn't get any trick or treaters. I have 3 bags of candy. My wife is going to take it to work and leave it in the lunch area.
Active neighborhood for kids - even if they don't live in ours!
just thought I'd point that out ;-)
all the best,
mrh
I live on a street that's pretty dark with no side walks, plus it's kind of winding. No way I'd walk a with small child the way cars fly around those corners. Been here 4 years and have never seen a trick or treater.
....a few pre-teens. Most came in groups of 3 to 5 so not much doorbell activity. All done by about 8pm.I convinced my wife to buy more candy this year. Guess who gets the left overs! ;-)
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Enjoy! Abe.
I'll give much of it away or my sweet tooth will turn me into a blimp!
Groups getting bigger and bigger --- like multiple Moms and Dads. With 15 or 20 kids. Sure is a lot different, than even 20 years ago.
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Most don't trust their kids to knock on unknown doors these days I guess, and we have more kids in this part of the city (Outer Sunset San Francisco) now than in the recent past due to the tech-boomer millennials beginning to reproduce.
Scary, that one!
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