A guy across the street goes all out decorating his house for Halloween so kids come from everywhere. The people on his side of the street get 400 kids trick or treating. Fortunately, there are two flights of stairs to our front door so we only get around 200 kids. How many kids show up at your house?
Usually 10 or fewer. I live out in the 'burbs with houses on 1/2 acre lots well back from the street. A pretty good workout for kids to go trick or treating around here.
Over 700 when the weather is nice. You can't even leave you front door when you hand out candy.
The location
-"Nice" neighborhood in the heart of NE Portland
-lots of kids around
-wide open street that other nearby narrow streets funnel into
-people put in the effort to decorate their houses
-some houses hand out full size candy bars.
100 or so
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My neighborhood has 5 acre lots with long driveways. Too far for kids to walk.
We had 4.
15-20 groups of about 2-4 kids on average, most come from outside the neighborhood
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250
The last 10 years we have averaged between 20-30. Tonight we had 26.
ZERO.
Lights out and parking the car on the street are my go-to moves.
We had 125. That is higher than other years because we had nice weather in northern Illinois.
We had 144 kids tonight. I only know this because we started with 144 Hershey bars (4 boxes @ 36 per box) and closed our door and turned out our lights when we ran out (around 815pm). My wife stays home to distribute candy while I escort my daughter and friend around our neighborhood.
I would say that over 1/2 the kids are from other neighborhoods but come to ours given more folks giving out candy, better candy, etc. than in their own.
Godwin wrote:
ZERO.
Lights out and parking the car on the street are my go-to moves.
Improve your game. Set out a big empty plastic bowl with a sign, "Take only 1 please. Happy Halloween!"
We get about 35 a year. We give out trinkets (teddy bears, glow necklaces and sticky crawlers this year). Never any candy.
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We dont get many, its a decent neighboorhood but we live on a cul-de-sac thats off a busy road so its not exactly ideal. About 20 is common but this year it was rainy so we only saw about 10. Wish we saw more i miss my old area where the streets were crawling with trick or treaters
And people who dont hand out candy are lame as hell
I don't think you get 700. I live in a city of 3 million, in one of its richest and densists neighbourhoods (also one that totally embraces Halloween) and no way we get 400 even.
I have been to Portland, and I can't see it at all.
Shahs had wrote:
I don't think you get 700. I live in a city of 3 million, in one of its richest and densists neighbourhoods (also one that totally embraces Halloween) and no way we get 400 even.
I have been to Portland, and I can't see it at all.
No way you can make that assertion. My brother and his wife live in a smallish town, but because it is a little bigger than the surrounding burbs, all the kids from everywhere go there. They get over 1000 every Halloween.
Flagpole wrote:
Shahs had wrote:I don't think you get 700. I live in a city of 3 million, in one of its richest and densists neighbourhoods (also one that totally embraces Halloween) and no way we get 400 even.
I have been to Portland, and I can't see it at all.
No way you can make that assertion. My brother and his wife live in a smallish town, but because it is a little bigger than the surrounding burbs, all the kids from everywhere go there. They get over 1000 every Halloween.
Still don't buy it. My hood has about 500 hundred houses all separated by five feet each all set back ten feet from the road, most with primary school kids in it. Prime pickings for Halloween. It is a known hood for people to "bus in" for easy candy. This hood is in the middle of a very dense and young part of Toronto Canada which is part of one of the densist cities in North America. And we don't get close to 700 hundred kids. So I still can't see it.
Suburban Philly guy wrote:
We had 144 kids tonight. I only know this because we started with 144 Hershey bars (4 boxes @ 36 per box) and closed our door and turned out our lights when we ran out (around 815pm). My wife stays home to distribute candy while I escort my daughter and friend around our neighborhood.
I would say that over 1/2 the kids are from other neighborhoods but come to ours given more folks giving out candy, better candy, etc. than in their own.
We also had to turn out the lights early. The 200 pieces of candy and 30 oranges ran out at 7:25.