That’s all - just wondering.
We won’t be. First off, the one year we did decorate and buy candy, all of 20 kids might have shown up. Secondly, we’ve got critters who will be freaked by the doorbell and a cat who will do his damnedest to get outside. But mostly, we just don’t want to mess with it.
No, because we won’t be home due to trick or treating with the little Whatsits. And before anyone gets in my grill about helicopter parenting, my youngest is only 4 and still requires at least occasional supervision. 
Yep. I don’t even get 20 kids but the ones who do show up deserve candy.
Yes, if any kids show up.
I live in a little trailer park in a rural area. Beside the park is a bar, in front of the bar is a liquor store, half a mile down the road is another bar, and across from that bar is a second liquor store, so I don’t know how many kids will be coming to my area.
Not to mention my trailer is tucked away around a curve down into the woods, so it makes my place hard to spot.
I didn’t think it was an option really.
When I was a kid, we had one house in our neighbourhood where the people would either leave, or just shut off all the lights on Halloween; I’m not sure which, but we hated those fuckers for that.
Option 6: No because we’re taking our kid out trick or treating and no one ever ever ever comes to our house anyway so it would be a waste of time to stick around.
Mine’s not quite a full-blown “yes” so I availed myself of that last option.
I will be buying enough candy for us to have if nobody shows up. This year it will be Kit-Kat, Twix, and maybe some fun-pack plain M&M’s. But the last several years, most years in fact, if I turn out the lights and watch TV in the dark, nobody will show up to claim any of it and it will be MINE!
The biggest turn-out we had in the past few years was maybe 12 kids over a two-three-hour period. We live in a great neighborhood for that sort of thing!
Is there a counterpart to “Bah, Humbug” for Halloween? (We sent out Xmas cards one year with “Humbug Happens” as the greeting.)
No. I work the evening shift and won’t be home till midnight. One of the big downsides to my job.
Yes. Last year there must have been 100 kids who knocked on my door. Plus I recently got married, and the wedding favors included candy. I wildly overestimated how much candy I would need, and I have about 30 lbs of candy in the closet right now.
We will - Halloween is just starting to take off where we are in the UK, and we have a growing number of young families on our street.
We don’t just do sweets [candy] though - last year we drew pumpkin faces on satsumas and called them mini-pumpkins, and they were v. popular.
Nope. I’d like to, but we have too many cats who freak out at doorbells and I don’t want to shut them away for the night. I don’t think any of them would try to get out (they never do when we just go out that door) but I don’t want to take the chance. So we’ll either leave and go do something away from home, or just stay home and turn the lights off and watch TV.
No, for the first 5 years of living on my own I always got candy and left my light on, but I got perhaps 5 trick or treaters. Total. Not per year. So now, I don’t buy candy, and I leave my light off. I’ve had only a very few number, perhaps zero but I can’t remember, parties knock disappointedly at my door in the past 7 years in which I didn’t give out candy.
No one comes down my street for Halloween (not many houses, so it’s not a high-density candy area), so I buy candy for the Pediatrics inpatient unit at the hospital I work at; they give candy, toys, and various goodies to the poor kids stuck in the hospital on that night.
No, there is only one house in sight and it has no kids living there.
Yes, indeed. I live in one of “those” suburban neighborhoods that attracts carloads and vanloads and church busloads of kids from the nearby city. They swarm us! It is getting a bit expensive, handing out all that candy, and I tell myself every year that I’ll cut back next year.
It’s so much fun, though, even with the ditsy parents holding up newborn infants (when it’s near freezing out) and hollering “trick or treat” and the annoying 18 year olds who just got off shift at the factory. All part of the holiday festivities.
I said “other.”
Kids don’t come to my house. I’d give candy if they did. They don’t, so I don’t.
Yum, mini-Snickers. Any left on Monday can go towards the urchins.
I always get candy. When my kid was younger and I had to walk with him, I’d leave it out on the porch (knowing full well some kid would probably take 2/3s of the bucket). But, hey, it’s Halloween and I like to be part of the experience.
We live in a neighborhood that “does” Halloween - not everywhere in Norway does, by a long shot - but we’re on the main street, and I think some parents caution kids about the traffic. Some years we get a decent number of kids, other years hardly any. We’ve got candy, we’re ready for 'em if they come.
I live in a condo that doesn’t have a private entrance – that is, you need to be buzzed into my building just to get to my front door. And all the other residents here are old bags of bones. I think I’m the youngest person in my building by at least 20 years and I’m 46.
If one of those old ladies knocks on my door looking for candy, there will be other issues to consider than a lack of Kit-Kat bars.
No. I won’t be home and on the off chance I am at home when someone knocks on the door, I’m a diabetic and rarely have treats home.
The problem is, Swedes haven’t really grasped the concept of Halloween. They seem to think you can celebrate it and any point a week either side on the 31st. Hell, there’s a Halloween parade in Stockholm on November 5th.