Posted: 10/28/2014 5:25:34 PM EDT
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When I was young we always walked from house to house trick or treating.
Did the same with my children years later. Many kids today arrive by car. Seems like cheating somehow, especially since many of these folks are not from our neighborhood. Anyone else experience this? |
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When I was young we always walked from house to house trick or treating. Did the same with my children years later. Many kids today arrive by car. Seems like cheating somehow, especially since many of these folks are not from our neighborhood. Anyone else experience this? Yup around here it's pickup trucks full of kids in the back unloading like troops. |
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The last time I bothered with this about 8 or 10 years ago I had a big display outside the house and a big bowl of candy. Turned my back to talk to somebody and the first wave of kids that came through cleaned me out and ran off. Got disgusted with the kids out there these days. Gave what I had left in a couple bags to a little girl and shut the lights off and went in the house. These days my house is dark on Halloween. |
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Our kids are young. We don't live in town. We have to drive them. This year I think we're dropping them off in town and going to the bar.  We do the same for the same reason. We have found a few neighborhoods that really do it up and have big crowds. Lots of fun for the kids. Edited to add: We have lived in our house for 15 years and have never had any trick or treaters come to the door. |
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Quoted: You mean kids from crappy neighborhoods will go to good neighborhoods to get better candy? |
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Bringing their shitty lives to your neighborhood for free candy. Some say we see the world not as it is, but as we see ourselves. How far do you have to drive for candy? Guess you missed my earlier post. Nice inference. |
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Bringing their shitty lives to your neighborhood for free candy. Some say we see the world not as it is, but as we see ourselves. How far do you have to drive for candy? Guess you missed my earlier post. Nice inference. I have a great life , thanks. |
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Bringing their shitty lives to your neighborhood for free candy. Some say we see the world not as it is, but as we see ourselves. How far do you have to drive for candy? Guess you missed my earlier post. Nice inference. I have a great life , thanks. Undoubtedly. |
Last year ARFCOM taught be that opening my door to masked inner-city youths late at night was a bad idea... I had never thought of Halloween like that before. 
Any other night of the year it would be foolish. 
Usually the good neighbor kids have come around by 8pm and I know most of their folks too. They get the good stuff. |
| Kids don't get to pick where they live. Who cares where they are from? When I was a kid, I was the tall one of the group and was told that I was too old for trick or treating. They would give candy to my shorter and sometimes older friends and I would get stiffed. If you trick or treat at my house, you get candy. I don't care how old you are, where you live or if your costume sucks. It's candy for kids. No reason to over think it. |
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You'll be dead in an hour. |
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As I've done for over a decade, I don't hand out candy - I hand out cyalume light sticks.
The kiddos LOVE them, and it makes me happy to help keep them safe 
Every year it gets bigger - over 300 kids showed up last year. Last night I finished making my 400th breakaway lanyard. I'll attach them tonight and tomorrow to give out Thursday night. |
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Kids don't get to pick where they live. Who cares where they are from? When I was a kid, I was the tall one of the group and was told that I was too old for trick or treating. They would give candy to my shorter and sometimes older friends and I would get stiffed. If you trick or treat at my house, you get candy. I don't care how old you are, where you live or if your costume sucks. It's candy for kids. No reason to over think it. When you are 27, wearing baggy gym shorts and tanktop, shove a pillow case out without saying a word, and have the look of "curb stomp, what kinda tv you have or candy" I don't open the door no matter what night it is. |
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We don't mind giving candy to the little ones. It's their big brothers and sisters that are way too old to be trick-or-treating and aren't even dressed up, but yet have a candy basket that pisses me off. These days, I keep my pistol in arms reach on Halloween night. Heard too many stories of knocks at the door and it not being kids looking for candy...
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| I've been here 16 years and have only had maybe 4 trick or treaters, all of them neighbor kids I know. I'm out in the country though and so no streetlights or sidewalks etc and not real safe for them to be walking about on the road alone and so by necessity their parents have to drive them. The neighbors are too far apart around here for it to be worth an outsiders time to drive their kids out here though. |