[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Trick or Treating..... RIP???? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/1/2013 8:15:48 AM EDT
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Last night we had 11 kids between 5-10.... 6 of which were kids from the block. Nice NW Omaha area. Last year we had lost count and the year before was in the 100's! Is trick or treating dead? What the fuck am I to do with 300 extra dum-dums  |
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Quoted: They were all in the Florence area of Omaha. There were tons of kids in my neck of the woods.  Lights on, decorations out and me and my BIG bowl of suckers was on the porch  Had the camera out for the great costumes we normally see, so the lady could see the good/cute ones (she works till 9pm). I had a group of 4 come and 3 were Spider Man and the 4th a princess. The rest were neighbors |
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Quoted: I don't think I would sit on the porch with a camera in hand and a bowl full of candy waiting for kids to show up. ... Nice try tho Herby.I was dressed up and out talking with the other neighbors doing the same! We simply had no one come up our block! |
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Camera was not in my hand, it was in my pocket ... Nice try tho Herby.
I was dressed up and out talking with the other neighbors doing the same! We simply had no one come up our block! Quoted:
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I don't think I would sit on the porch with a camera in hand and a bowl full of candy waiting for kids to show up. ... Nice try tho Herby.
I was dressed up and out talking with the other neighbors doing the same! We simply had no one come up our block! Sounds like you went to plan B. Go to the neighbors house and say trick-or-beer. That's how you salvage a slow Halloween. |
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Last night we had 11 kids between 5-10.... 6 of which were kids from the block. Nice NW Omaha area. Last year we had lost count and the year before was in the 100's! Is trick or treating dead? What the fuck am I to do with 300 extra dum-dums Sounds like the same thing we had here. Just moved into our house a few months ago and this was our first Halloween so we didn't know what to expect. We got 3 bags of mixed candy and had maybe 15 kids  . It seems like everybody just goes to the mall or churches now. I feel like the old school trick or treating is dead. At our end of the street everybody was giving out candy but the next block up nobody was doing anything. Now we are stuck with a year supply of Butterfingers, Hershey Bars, KitKats, PayDays, and everything else 
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Quoted: Sounds like you went to plan B. Go to the neighbors house and say trick-or-beer. That's how you salvage a slow Halloween. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I don't think I would sit on the porch with a camera in hand and a bowl full of candy waiting for kids to show up. ... Nice try tho Herby.I was dressed up and out talking with the other neighbors doing the same! We simply had no one come up our block! Sounds like you went to plan B. Go to the neighbors house and say trick-or-beer. That's how you salvage a slow Halloween. My neighbor was trashed and had no spares... Was kinda funny  |
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Last night we had 11 kids between 5-10.... 6 of which were kids from the block. Nice NW Omaha area. Last year we had lost count and the year before was in the 100's! Is trick or treating dead? What the fuck am I to do with 300 extra dum-dums You are in ARFCOM GD. That's the obvious starting point. |
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Sounds like the same thing we had here. Just moved into our house a few months ago and this was our first Halloween so we didn't know what to expect. We got 3 bags of mixed candy and had maybe 15 kids . It seems like everybody just goes to the mall or churches now. I feel like the old school trick or treating is dead. At our end of the street everybody was giving out candy but the next block up nobody was doing anything. Now we are stuck with a year supply of Butterfingers, Hershey Bars, KitKats, PayDays, and everything else Quoted:
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Last night we had 11 kids between 5-10.... 6 of which were kids from the block. Nice NW Omaha area. Last year we had lost count and the year before was in the 100's! Is trick or treating dead? What the fuck am I to do with 300 extra dum-dums Sounds like the same thing we had here. Just moved into our house a few months ago and this was our first Halloween so we didn't know what to expect. We got 3 bags of mixed candy and had maybe 15 kids . It seems like everybody just goes to the mall or churches now. I feel like the old school trick or treating is dead. At our end of the street everybody was giving out candy but the next block up nobody was doing anything. Now we are stuck with a year supply of Butterfingers, Hershey Bars, KitKats, PayDays, and everything else I'll IM my address for the Butterfingers and any snickers you may have. |
| I haven't had a single trick or treater in three years. This was my last year buying candy as I just have to dump it on the office folk the next day. We live in a pretty safe and populated neighborhood but ever church around here does the whole trunk or treat thing now and the parents just drive their kids to the parking lots, load them up and go on the the next church. Trick or treating used to be huge here when I was a kid. Pretty bummed out that they don't do it anymore. |
| We had fairly normal turn-out here even with the bad weather. That being said, very few folks were in costumes and mostly the ones that were half-assed it. Of course, several families with small children moved into the neighborhood since last year. Without them, the count would have been way down. Also, my next-door neighbor who is either a saint or a weirdo, works with a youth group and brought in a short bus load as well. |
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It was pouring rain here in Saint Louis last night (as it is oft wont to do on Halloween) so we had the usual 5 or 6 groups of neighborhood kids and outlying kids between 6 and 7pm.
7:15pm lights go out... because after that is when the teens and "kids not from around here" show up with no costumes. Edit: I did hear a knock on our darkened door around 7:45pm though. |
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Really? Never heard that. I did know some Baptist kids growing up who weren't allowed to trick or treat. Quoted:
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I had one group of about 20 kids,that's way more than I've seen in the past few years.I do live around a lot of Mormons,they don't allow it. Really? Never heard that. I did know some Baptist kids growing up who weren't allowed to trick or treat. I can't speak for all of them,but that is my understanding. |