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I picked up a half-hearted pack of Caramilk bars on the weekend, an ode to the children who would probably not show up at our house on Halloween night.We live in an inner city neighborhood, so I guess it's understandable that we don't get many trick or treaters. It's mostly retired couples and young professionals in this area, there are a few toddlers Nolan's age, but that's it. We carved our pathetic pumpkin (I didn't post pictures yesterday because...well, it's that bad, folks) and set it up hopefully on the front porch.
I gave out a total of 8 caramel bars, to two trick or treaters.
I thought perhaps it was just our area of the city, but I've spoken to a few of my girlfriends in the suburbs last night and they had the same experience - small trickles of kids and bowls of leftover Cadbury. Now, perhaps I am remembering my childhood with rose-coloured glasses, but I am quite sure we had hundreds of kids at our door in the eighties. I remember ducks and ghosts and clowns stumbling up and down the rainy streets with sagging pillowcases full of wrapped caramel and mini bars.
Where are all the Trick or Treaters? Are they in the mall? Or just in other neighborhoods?
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11-01-2006 @ 12:30PM
mckenna said...We went to my friends' house in Laverne, CA and it was insane. They made 3 runs to the store for more candy, bought 4 big bags at a time, and ran out in 10 minutes flat. The lines were out the door and around the corner. I took my 2 yo to 3 houses and got fed up with the packed street. This neighborhood really gets into it, though. Almost every house was a haunted house, so I can see what draws the throngs of people.
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11-01-2006 @ 1:12PM
pbl said...we are guilty of leaving the city and going to a diff neighborhood, but it was to join my sister and nephews in her suburban neighborhood, which was packed full of neighborhood kids out from the end of school well into the night. I think it depends on the age of the families in the neighborhoods, hers has lots of families with kids and it's a working class neighborhood so people really have fun with it. it was so great to see all the moms and dads dressed up and enjoying the time they had to socialize with each other as they met on the street- one smart mom handed out those glow-light necklaces to every kid and adult she saw and I thought that was one of the smartest things i'd ever seen for halloween. back here at home we had lots of candy but only one trick-or-treater. it's cause our neighborhood doesn't have too many kids, I guess, which is so sad for our little one. so we'll probably keep taking her out to go with her cousins instead!
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11-01-2006 @ 1:55PM
Lynne said...Our (suburban) town had a very popular Halloween party at a park. Apparently all the trick or treaters went to houses near the park, because we only got five kids at our house. Admittedly, we live on top of a hill, so we usually don't get many kids. I grew up in a city during the '70's, so Halloween will be a different experience for my son than it was for me.
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11-01-2006 @ 3:00PM
ann adams said...It may be candy snobbery in some cases but I just didn't think my neighborhood was safe even when I was walking with the girls. Only one of the girls is even slightly fussy about candy and she hands her rejects over to me and grandpa. (We'll eat anything). We'd go to the few houses I knew and then drive out until we found a well lit decorated street with kids.
Meantime, we left someone at our house to hand out candy so I didn't feel so much like a freeloader.
No more. We have a small amount of candy here for the very young kids who come early with their parents. That rush is over by 5:30 or so. Parents don't want to be out after dark either. After that the light goes off and we leave.
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11-01-2006 @ 3:08PM
Big Grown-Up Mommy (Heather) said...We live in an older city neighborhood and we had 100 kids easy. My sister who lives 5 minutes away (and over the line into the 'burbs) got maybe 10.
We do have one house on our street that is super popular and does a big display every year. Folks come from outside our neighborhood to trick-or-treat on our street because of that one house.
I do drive my son to my sister's and nephew's houses, but the main part of his trick-or-treating is done on our own blocks.
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11-01-2006 @ 4:00PM
Jessica said...We moved to our suburban Houston neighborhood about 6 months ago. Our neighborhood is filled with lots and lots of young families. We had between 60-70 trick or treaters which worked out perfectly for each of them to get 3 or so mini-candy bars and for us to have a very small stash left over for snacking. Our big problem last night was that it was hot, humid, and the bugs were out in full force!
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11-01-2006 @ 10:00PM
ann adams said...Weigooksaram (hope I got that right).
True about urban legend but I don't let my kids go off after dark Halloween or any other day. Actually Halloween might be a little safer because of the number of kids on the streets at once (and all the parents). I still don't want them any further than across the street or next door at a friend's.
It's more about living in a city with serious gang problems and kids being caught in the crossfire than my worrying about my child being singled out for harm.
That's not so likely to happen in a church parking lot or on the outskirts of town as in the downtown area where we live.
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