They all go trunk or treating these days.

I live two and a half blocks from an elementary school to which children walk to and from every single day. They're just not trick or treating.

Oooh good question. Maybe it's the person taking the picture?

Where are the Turkey hats?

An amalgam of the two. I’m like kuromi during November

Between 650-700 treats given out, but I have yet to do a final tally on what’s left. Surprising given the rain in Southern California. Almost all were given out to children (a handful of parents asked for one) and few people got more than one.

Up around 100 over last year.

Ah i see, the ol' switcheroo

0 at our house (same count as last year) and oddly no kids at the campground that me and my wife disappeared to. We expected some at the campground so we brought candy, after seeing no kids all day we decided to "reverse trick-or-treat" and walked around giving people candy. Most of the other campers brought candy too but had no one to give it to.

"Trick or treat!"

"ahh, I get to choose?? Then I choose trick! Pick your favorite ketchup" as I hand a bowl of ketchup packets to them

Several years ago, a house one block over set up an elaborate haunted house, the path started in the driveway, went through their garage, inside their house, and through the backyard, it was quite impressive. They did it for several years running. It made the local news. They had a line all the way down the block for a few years before they moved. The street was filled with people showing off big costumes, Stormtroopers, a dude dressed as reaper on his actual horse, crazy shit the last couple of years. Of course, that brought a lot of extra kids to the neighborhood.

A lot of stuff you post would fit on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world , you should join us there!

what do you mean it's not 2029 yet

We got maybe 20 max. About half of them didn't have a costume. I had a bunch of cheap masks that I passed out of they didn't have anything and the kids were ecstatic.

My son was super excited about ramen wherever he got it

I went to the busiest spot I remember with my first, in Portland. Barely a handful of families, barely any houses decorated and half the porch lights off. Its heartbreaking tbh. Im just grateful the youngest got to go at all because it's his autistic special interest. He was so excited. I hope the tradition doesn't disappear.

I got about 50 this year (only around 10 last year)! I decorated a lot more this year though, and started decorating much earlier (wanted to let the neighborhood know in advance that my house was participating). All my neighbors stepped it up too, which I’m sure helped with the turnout.

I haven't had any trick or treaters at all since I moved into this apartment. But I usually see kids in costumes with their parents leaving the complex to go out and about the town. Didn't even see that this year. And nobody had decorations or jack o lanterns.

I live in a 'secured' (locked) apartment building. The first year I moved in, there were kids who lived in the building that came by. Since then, nothing- so like every year since, I have some tiny Halloween candy to eat myself.

My friend's neighbor gives out potatoes. Apparently there's a fight among the neighborhood kids to see who can get one before they're gone.

Neighborhoods get older. In a new sudivision of high density housing near us, you couldn't drive through the streets there were so many kids.

I got <20, but they were super excited for the toys, stickers, and rocks, so I'm happy 💜💜💜 There was also a group of pre-teen/early teen boys that made me happy they hadn't given up on their childhoods yet! 🎊🎉🎊

One of my daughters favourite places when trick or treating in previous years handed out potatoes (actually I think it was a bowl of various produce and she picked the potato). No idea why she loved it so much; she had to be told to throw it out eventually because it was like a pet rock for her, except potatoes eventually go bad.

So this year I didn't bother getting any candy because last year there was only one or two groups (and my kid did trick or treating with her mom, so I was home all night), so I figured I could just hand out cans of pop or juice boxes if the kids that did show up didn't want pop (or their parents didn't want them to have it).

I got a case of the new lemon cherry mountain dew to try earlier that day and figured I'd hand those out so the few that came would get a more interesting one, too.

Good thing I took two out of the case for my daughter and I because the rest were gone before we went out ourselves. Then gave away a bunch of the juices, too.

It was still only like 15 kids total. One of the houses around the corner from us said we were number 55 (not sure if that was groups or individuals). One place that goes all out with their decorations said it was in the hundreds for them.

Not that I'm complaining. 15 is a good number, enough that I felt like I participated but it only cost me a case of pop.

How do you trick with catsup?

I was out trick or treating with my kids, but my father in law kept a tally.

235ish kids.