and speaking of trick or treaters....

[elfworks]

what do you do for yours? get bags of candy mix? specific candies? toys? baked goods? do you have a specific container for doling the stuff out?

how do you greet your trick or treaters?


xo

[elfworks]

heehee. i failed to answer my own question!

i have some creepy music and sounds playing. (danse macabre <saintsaens> and lots of other classical scariness) (danse macabre is my fave piece of classical music, just fyi...)

change the outside light to a green bulb. put the candies i a fabulous paier mache pumpkin thatlooks really real. and i greet them in costume. scary living dead kind of thing. i usually do that costume and them something else for any parties i might be attending.


xo

[sheepsnot]

I generally answer the door in a not too scary mask. We're at the top of the stairs and I'd hate to send some poor kid down a flight of stairs over a piece of candy. We give out candy bars, usually. Healthy treats are soon discarded, I have found.
:boo:

[mrshfromjersey]

I already bought our candy, but then we ate it so I have to buy more. BUH! I have a new halloween decoration. It is three pumpkins one top of each other doing See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil. The top pumpkin is hollow and I will put the candy in there when I hand it out.

[Ervserver]

no costume....I'm scary enuff, I hand out mini candy bars. All kinds.

[elfworks]

no costume....I'm scary enuff


awwwwww. you forget... we have all seen your pic!



xo

[TwinkleLights25]

We always have a mixed bunch of candy that I think mom would buy in a bag/bags. This is my first Halloween away from home (unless we go over there), so if its just me & the hubby, we might have to buy a mixed bag! I don't know how many trick or treaters we'll get around here though. :-o

[sheepsnot]

I already bought our candy, but then we ate it so I have to buy more.
I have found it safe only to buy candy a few minutes before the kids start showing up or else it's gone. One year I left them a message to meet me at the store and I would buy it as needed. Good plan. None showed up.

[Christy Carol]

I try to get a mix of chocolate bars and hard candy. I am not sure how many kids we will get this year, this will be our first Halloween in the new house. Last year we only had a few friend's children over.

I did see at the dollar store last week they have pre-made, pre-packaged popcorn balls so I might pick some of those up. I don't know how well they will go over but I used to like getting them as a kid.

[Ervserver]

my folks handed out mini bags of potato chips one year.....actually kids went for em

[sheepsnot]

What option do you have once the door is open? I never got chips as far as I can remember, but over the years we did get some unpopular snacks. I've heard of people giving out toothbrushes. That's something that would have ended up thrown at their cat on the way out.

[dvdguy]

"oh lovely a toothbrush, I cant wait to use this, rassin frassin....."

<throw> MROW!

[Ervserver]

I hope they were soft bristled

[dvdguy]

it was one with the pick on the end

[Ervserver]

Dentist recomended

[Christy Carol]

What option do you have once the door is open? I never got chips as far as I can remember, but over the years we did get some unpopular snacks. I've heard of people giving out toothbrushes. That's something that would have ended up thrown at their cat on the way out.

We actually had a dentist in my hometown that did give out toothbrushes and little sample packs of toothpaste.

[Ervserver]

I love that free stuff !

[silver bells]

Thanks to my excessive clumsiness, I will be home on Halloween night instead of working like I had orginally planned. I have worked the past 3 years so I'm looking forward to handing out candy this year. I bought mine last night, a mixture of mini candy bars, some individually wrapped eye balls (chocolate balls filled with goodness) and a mixed bag of nerds, gobstoppers and sweet-tarts. My oldest son is planning on dressing up to scare the kids before they get candy.

[Ervserver]

Would be fun to dress up as a nerd and hand out nerds

[Christy Carol]

They are calling for a 50% chance of rain here Tuesday so it looks like we are gonna have alot of left over candy. I can just see those poor children having to wear slickers and boots over their Halloween costumes. Guess they can all go as Columbo.

[sheepsnot]

We've got 65º and "a few showers." The kids will be out, but not in force. They never are here. I'm gonna give out chocolate covered dog biscuits and save the real candy for myself.
:devil:

[Ervserver]

Thatta boy !

[ChristmasFanatic]

Trick-or-Treat is tonight on our small town, but not sure how many kids will stop, as it's raining hard and cold, that may keep some kids out of the fun. We have a huge bowl of various kinds of goodies, if I was a kid, I;d want to come here, but then we buy just the stuff we like, so perhaps that's not what's high on kids lists. :o

[Ervserver]

Bummer you may end up having to eat all the candy

[sarahelizabeth]

I greet them depending on what they're wearing. Usually I'll just say "Hello there, awww now don't you look cute/scary!" Depending on their costume. We get several bags of different candy and generally I'll let them each take a handful, but even though we had several bags this past Halloween, I realized at about the middle that if they all kept taking huge handfuls, we might not make it to the end, as we get loads and loads of trick-or-treaters, usually. I started just dropping two per bag in their little bags/buckets and they seemed happy with that. :D They can never tell when it's dark anyway. :D

[Merry Sage]

They don't really "do" Halloween over here. I have to scare myself and eat all the sweets on my own. Tough work, buuuuttt, someone's gotta do it. cheesy

[dvdguy]

you poor thing

[Merry Sage]

you poor thing

Your this close to sincerity. I can feel it. cheesy

[dvdguy]

closer to sarcasm cheesy

[dominick]

Sarcasm? What's that?

[dvdguy]

its something i use quite well

[dominick]

I usually keep the people around me on their toes trying to figure out if I'm being serious or sarcastic. It's a bad habit to be in, but I have to admit I get a chuckle from their confusion sometimes. They're not so amused, however.

[Jinglebelle]

I call it smart-cASS-tic... heh heh...

[dominick]

I don't get it.

[Jinglebelle]

UH!! Ok... Are you being smart-cASS-tic or serious?

[dominick]

8-)

[Jinglebelle]

Once again I have fallen victim to your games of confusion...

[dominick]

At least you're too far away to hit me with anything.

[dvdguy]

that would be a heck of a throw

[dominick]

I've been nailed by some good ones, but I don't think any from out of state.

[Jinglebelle]

I throw like a girl... :D

[dvdguy]

so only 2 blocks?

[Jinglebelle]

:snowball: <--- I can throw snowballs... :D

yes, 2 blocks... er uh, crooked though... I can never throw in a straight line... go figure

[Merry Sage]

I've been nailed by some good ones, but I don't think any from out of state.

Clever clogs! Mind now or you'll hurt yourself on that razor sharp wit.

[dvdguy]

was that more sarcasm? I dont think ive ever been called a cog

[dominick]

:?
I think she called me a wooden shoe.

[Jinglebelle]

Wasn't there a clog factory on the Jetsons?? Or was it cogs...

[dominick]

I believe it was Cogsworth Cogs, rival to Spacely Sprockets.

[Jinglebelle]

Yeah... that sounds right!! Ok, she did call you a shoe!! HA HA!

[dominick]

A wooden shoe at that.

[dvdguy]

cogswell

[dominick]

Ah, that's right. It's been too long since I've seen it. Stupid cable company. :sad:

[Minta]

We have not handed out candy in a few years and will not anytime soon. We have 2 small kids that we take out. We only take them to the neighbors that we are friends with and then we head off in the car to visit family and close friends who are expecting us. By the time we get home most of the kids are home too.

When we did hand out candy, hubby would dress up (mask, gloves and army jacket or mask, helmet and football uniform) and sit still in a chair on the front porch and scare the older kids. Would never scare the little ones. Sometimes his brother would join him.
We always had an assortment of mini candy bars to hand out.

[Sunshine73]

DH and I don't get too many trick or treaters where we live right now because the apartment building where we live only has "interior" entrances (the kids would have to enter through the main door and then knock on the doors of every apartment up and down the enclosed hallways) and, for obvious safety reasons, parents discourage kids from entering complexes like ours whilst trick-or-treating.

The few trick-or-treaters we do get are young family members or children of friends so, because we know them, we usually have full-sized candy bars and little bags of goodies for them.

[Head Elf]

Where are you at in Illinois? I was born and raised in Antioch up by the Wisconsin border. We had the same problem in our apartment building, at least most of the people there were nice enough to let us trick or treat there without having to worry about what we were getting.

[kgstyles]

I was born in Chicago but raised in Hanover Park Illinois. Antioch is a nice place if I remember correctly. I lived in apartments my whole life up untill March of this year but in Hanover Park we had a lot of trick or treaters even though it was a bad neighborhood and enclosed apartment buildings. But when I lived in Las Vegas there was almost nobody trick or treating in my apartment complex which didn't have enclosed apartment buildings. I usually put tears of blood going down on my face as a costume and I hand out a mix of chocolate and sweet or sour candy.

[Sunshine73]

Where are you at in Illinois? I was born and raised in Antioch up by the Wisconsin border. We had the same problem in our apartment building, at least most of the people there were nice enough to let us trick or treat there without having to worry about what we were getting.

I'm in central Illinois, about 2 hours south of Chicago. I google-mapped myself so you all can see where I'm at. :cry:

[Head Elf]

I'm in the middle of an old Mormon settlement and the kids here don't really trick or treat, what they do is a Fall Harvest or something called Trunk'r treating. The families all meet at the church and they have all their treats in their trunks or truck beds and the kids are all dressed up in their costumes and go car trunk/truckbed to car trunk. And they have little contests and so on. When I was in California, the kids would go to the Mall to trick or treat, most of the parents thought it was safer than going house to house.