I moved to a house (my first) recently and we bought full size chocolate bars and beef jerky sticks to give out (in case someone doesn’t want chocolate).
Not a single child came. I didn’t see or hear anyone under 20 the entire night. We all stayed out on the porch for hours.
The only chocolate bar we gave out was to the pizza lady.
Does nobody trick-or-treat? We have kids in the neighborhood. I see them rising bikes during the day.
How was everyone else’s Halloween?
Edit: We got one! Long after trick or treating hours were over, a little cowboy knocked on our door. I gave him like 5 candy bars and 2 jerky sticks. He was very happy. His dad stopped in a car and he got out to knock on our door. I reckon it had to do with the fake neon LED “trick or treat” sign we hung on the porch.
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.
It’s always neighborhood dependent. We live in a kid-heavy town but trick-or-treating just sort of naturally condenses into certain streets/neighborhoods, and the town even shuts down Main Street for it. So the kids on your street might go to other neighborhoods to team up with friends, etc.
The only way to know is to ask neighbors who have been there for a while what the vibe is usually like on your street.
Our kid is 2 so tonight was his first time trick-or-treating. Our street always has some houses with candy but we went to a different neighborhood to go with friends. One of the houses we went to said they weren’t prepared because in 20 years they’ve never had anyone come! They were excited to see people, though.
For us this is exactly it. My street is full of kids (I think my husband and I are the only ones without them) but the last few years neighborhood block parties several blocks down have become the thing and everyone, kids and adults go there. Lots of fun and we now go there too but it does make me sad that we don’t really get trick or treaters. My husbanded gave out pretty much the whole bowl to one group at the end of the night
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.
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.
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
