Surprisingly busy this time actually, last year I could count the number on one hand this year we hardly could sit down before the door went off again for a couple hours

We didn’t get any visits either, second year this has happened. I’m definitely cutting back how much candy I buy next year. I think parents are preferring trunk n treat or whatever controlled halloween exchanges are going on these days. Aww well, guess I’ll just have to eat all this myself.

I can sense the disappointment, I’m sorry to hear that.

I noticed in my neighborhood, all the kids and parents went trick or treating last Friday. Why, I have no idea, kind of fucking dumb. It’s getting dark at 6PM, there should be no problem that Halloween is on a week night.

Reach out to friends who have kids and tell them to come by on Halloween for free candy. Also be sure to decorate your house.

Also if you’re in Nextdoor.app you can add yourself to a list of houses handing out candy.

It all depends on the average age of families and density of family dwellings in your area. My neighborhood had scads of kids. We handed out a ton of candy. It was almost non stop trick or treaters for two hours.

Yeesh that sucks. Least you have coffey snaks for days to come. I move to my place like 6–7 years ago and I’d be lucky to get through a small box of chocolate. Each year it picked up to the point where this year I had 2 full size bars left from the 50 I started with.

I live in a small town where the local businesses on the two main cross streets hand out candy as well as have trunk-or-treats in the parking lots. Hardly any kids go around the neighborhoods anymore. It’s a bummer

We used to prepare for Halloween when we first moved to this house. Gave up after we only got 2-3 kids a year. No one seems to go house to house anymore, they all get funneled to the sanctioned downtown street party or the school parking lot event. Now Halloween is just about the only night of the year we turn the porch light off, just in case those 2-3 kids come by on accident.

First time in a house this year as well and we had only one group of kids knock so far. We didn’t really prepare though and only have one bag of candies so I hope that was it lol. We already prepared a sign saying we ran out in case it does happen later.

Just happens in some places. Your neighbors or previous occupants may have been inactive or terrible treat givers.

My neighborhood has gotten worse over my tenure here. Three houses (including me) in a two block stretch that hand out candy.

I’ve had two trick or treaters come by my house in 15 years. One year I got the king sized bars and I was going to try to build a reputation. But no one came by.

This thread is sad.

As a kid, my parents(read: mostly my mom) would see 400-500 kids over the night. Was really fun, you’d see everyone out having a great time.

In my last place it was mostly childless renters in the neighborhood but we’d still get a good ~100.

Awww I’m sorry it sucks to be prepared and get no one. We’re in a big trick or treating neighborhood but on a side street and last year we only got like 5 visitors. This year we just took candy over to our neighbor on the more popular street and didn’t hand any out at our house. One street over from our house and the entire sidewalk and street was mobbed with under-10’s. I think it’s highly neighborhood- and street-dependent.

Ask your neighbors where the good trick or treating spot is. It may be far away from you and people are just driving there instead of sticking around the neighborhood. Or it’s possible if you’re in a less walkable area that people might do more “trunk or treat” instead where they coordinate and go to a parking lot to do trick or treating.

First year after we moved in, we decorated, bought candy, the whole nine yards. No one came. Next year we bought a smaller bag of candy, and ate it all ourselves. Left a bowl of candy out about 6 or 7 years later, after more kids started appearing on the street. Still not a one.

There’s a bunch of kids on the street, and a few people do put up some nice decorations, but we found out that everyone either does this trunk or treat thing at the church at the front of the community, or goes downtown, where they block off the streets and all the big houses decorate and have movies in their yard and stuff.

I’m too old for trick-or-treating and was never really into it as it’s not my culture, but I’m on the receiving end of trick-or-treaters every year. I don’t know if they’re what one would consider a tough crowd or what, but they really, really haven’t liked what I handed out. One year it was fruit and I guess that’s a no. Last year it was cotton candy and I got complaints because it took up peoples’ Halloween bags to carry cotton candy around. This year I gave out candy canes and they complained again, this time because they thought I was adding to the feuds surrounding premature Christmas products.

After trick-or-treating was all done, I also stepped outside to sort through the trash and discovered someone threw up on the side of my home. Was it a kid who ate one candy too many? Was it an adult who was drunk on cider? Was it an animal who tried to get involved in the holiday too but got carried away? Who knows. I just know I have something to clean up before sunrise.

I originally cosplayed as Stephanie Dola for the day, but it rained for the first half of the day and I got soaked, so I cosplayed as Yoko Littner (another anime character) in a way that was as presentable as possible without looking out of character. At one point I put some warm clothes on over the cosplay because it was cold but didn’t take off my cosplay, knowing people might still recognize the character underneath a green sweater and a jean shirt and jeans. A young autistic boy came by and recognized the character I was and noticed I was wearing clothes over it and asked if he could take a picture of me and him without the clothes, but he asked it in a way that made his family and peers, who didn’t recognize the character and/or may not have known it was a cosplay at all, think he was being “inappropriate” thinking he was just asking me to get undressed, and it would be an understatement to say I can tell he felt bad when he was scolded in front of everyone, but I didn’t know how to step in without it backfiring. I still feel bad for him and I’m hoping he shows up again somewhere so I can grant his request.