We went through 4 bags of candy between 6pm and 7:15, then we turned out the lights and still had kids knocking on the door. We had a lot of kids who I thought were too old to be out trick or treating, some of them didn't even have costumes. I just give one piece of candy to them, and two pieces to the little kids with cute costumes.

I organized a food drive for our department at work, so far I've collected 3 bags of food and $25. :)

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2002

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Zero. Possibly because I forgot to turn on the porch light until 6 p.m. However, in years past, I've only gotten 1-3 kids. Not many kids in this complex. We have a low income housing complex just two blocks away with LOTS of kids, but they don't seem to come up here. Don't know why.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2002

We didn't get any at the door, but when Bren was coming down the driveway after work, she almost ran over 3 of em leaving. We got none last year, which was disappointing, and when I called the previous owner he said they never got any the 14 years they were here. Our driveway is very long and winding, and goes right through heavy woods, cant see the house at all until almost the end, so its damn spooky at night, so I think they chicken out.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2002

Zero . . . the weather was horrible - all drizzly and murky. Plus our dog is very protective - he lets us know if anything goes near the front gate.

Nobody gets on the property without us being aware of it.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2002

I had 8 then turned out the lights. It was already 8:30 (I was trying to watch Survivor)and the last group were dropped off by a car that waited on the street. Door to door by car.

Last year I yelled because my husband opened the candy before Halloween and I told him and my son not to take any more. When the trick or treaters came, we ran out of candy after 6 kids. Of course, no one was eating them and that was all that came in the bag, right...At least this year I was smart and bought Kit Kats for the house too. And since we had a lot less treaters, we will have Kit Kats for a while. Oh, that is so upsetting :)

Great job on the food drive Sherri!! Do you have families for them to go to already?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2002

The only trick or treaters we had was my granddaughter and my two step-granddaughters. Not enough youngsters in this town, I guess!!

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2002

We never get ANY trick or treaters, boo-hoo!!! I guess they don't like the mile or so walk in between the houses! Would have to be a diehard candy freak to walk that far for chocolate ( I would if I was that age though, hee-hee!) In town (four miles away, if you can call a village of 600 "town") the folks get quite a few considering the low population density.

Up north where my folks live, Mom has gotten up to 250 kids at one time or another during nice weather at Halloween. About 150 during the usually years, that is still alot of candy to hand out!

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2002

I grew up in the country so dad would drive us to go trick or treating. We would go to all the neighbors, people from church, and my uncle's house. We'd come home with a pillowcase full of candy, apples, homemade popcorn balls, etc.

I'm glad that our candy ran out early. I had plans to turn out the lights and lock the doors once "Survivor" came on. :)

Dee, I'm taking the food to our local foodbank. Donations are down and requests are way up due to the economy. One of the oldest foodbank/soup kitchen/shelter closed their doors earlier this year so the others are having to pick up the slack.

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2002

Good for you Sherri

Our church usually does a food drive right about now for Thanksgiving but they don't want any turkeys which is a shame because you get them for free with so much in purchases from the supermarket here.

I finally figured out that I can have the butcher department saw that frozen baby in half (quarters if it's the big one) so I can have a few meals instead of roasting a hugh bird that everyone gets tired of before it's finished.

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2002

I didn't count, but I would estimate roughly 90. That's a fairly good turn-out, I figure 75 is average. The lowest I ever got was about 35 one night when it was sleeting HARD out, and the highest was over 120.

Of course, word gets out that I 'do' Halloween, and everyone comes, even parents, to see what I've set up for the year.

I've still been fighting off this misery disease, whatever it is, and lost a whole lot of time that I thought I'd be able to really whomp up a good fright for the kids this year. Well, that didn't happen -- by the time I could haul my butt around the yard, there were leaves and pine needles to take care of, garden clean up to do, plants to heel in, etc etc etc.

Nevertheless, it was fun. I've got no yard light, so I poked garden stakes into the ground along the winding path to the front door, and festooned strings of purple fairy lights to mark the way. I also gathered up corn stalks in big bundles and stood them along the way, with fake pumpkin jack-o-lanterns on posts in each one. I toss a cyalume light, or one of those flashers in them to light them. I also made up a really good scarecrow with old clothes and an old latex mask from years ago that was pretty ghoulish, and put lighted skulls all around his feet (near the steps, so there would be light to see by).

I took the regular lightbulbs out of the fixtures flanking the door and put in purple ones, draped them with some fake grapevines in green and purple, crowded pots of decorative grasses that had died out for the year around it as well as more corn stalks, pumpkins, a grapevine wreath with a big 'BOO!" black ribbon on it.

I was having trouble with my sound system not cooperating this year, but I had one of those fake flame cauldrons indoors. Everyone commented on how great everything looked.

I live on what is left of the old family homestead and our little town has grown up around it, so I am on the main street (that the deer run down, and coyotes prowl, and grouse strut across the front lawn...). A few years ago, I made homemade popcorn balls, using Mrs. Alton's recipe (a little old lady who lived in our town when I was a kid) and handed those out with return address labels on them, so parents would know who it came from.

As it turned out, most the kids never got the popcorn balls -- when folks saw the labels, they ate them themselves! I even got a few phone calls asking for the recipe. Didn't have time to do anything like that this year, but regular Hershey bars were on a big sale at the grocery store, so that's what kids got.

-- Anonymous, November 03, 2002

I had to laugh at the folks who didn't like having Survivor disturbed 'cause I told the hubby a week before Halloween that he was in charge of the treaters! I hate it when the one thing I want to watch all week gets intruded upon. We only had 3 treaters.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2002