Just wondered about how many kids showed up to trick or treat last night (or whichever night they did it in your area) at your respective places? I was sort of surprised by the low turnout this year at my place. Granted, I live in a pretty small town (under 750 people) but I was expecting to have more than the 30 or so kids that showed up for their candy last night.

Not sure why, but we've always had a low turnout at our place...maybe because many of the neighbors on my street don't give out treats, seems to discourage kids from even bothering...

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I was a roving candy giver. Most people on our street don't do it, but the street next to ours has a *lot* of kids. I put together a bowl of candy and went over there to give it away. Worked fine.

Probably served about 50 kids and then I ran out of candy, so I took a walk around the neighborhood to look at decorations.

However, even the street next to us wasn't as crowded this year as last.

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IowaMan,

We had 60+ of the lovable little vacuum cleaners! Wiped us out. Then again, we did have exceptional Halloween weather - clear and 68F. Coolest was when a micro Latino pointed through the glass of the storm door and squeeked "Gato!"

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there was no-one here to hand it out so i put a bowl of it on the porch. i'd guess we went through three or four bags but i couldn't say if that's two kids that each took half or lots of kids that took a handful.

this is our first year here but i'd guess only 20-25 or so because we live on a looped street just off of a very pedestrian unfriendly road and it's likely it was just the neighborhood kids. we didn’t see more than 20 or so on our trek around last night.

i'm tellin' ya it’s the best kept secret around. the neighborhood is mostly young families and retired/semi-retired couples who love to see the kids in costume so they buy tons of candy and give each kid several handfuls with lots of smiles and oh-my-aren’t-you-just-the CUTEST!!!s.

we had a great time. i told my girl it was the best haul i’d ever seen. i used to have to work half the night to rake in what they got in just under and hour and a half. it would have been even less time than that, ‘cept being new to the neighborhood, and having the cutest kids this side of the mason-dixon , made lots of folks want to chat a bit.

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More Malls and other groups are putting on parties so that the children have a safe time. This has caused a slow down on the house to house T or Ting.

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