My apartment complex doesn’t usually get (m)any ToTers. In the past, I’ve done as Lynn does and made up treat bags with pencils, erasers, stickers, candy, etc. This year though, I’m participating in a community Trunk-or-Treat. I’m doing a scarecrow and hay bales in the back of my truck and dressing as a witch myself to hand out candy to the little guys.
Don’t expect any kids, but bought some candy anyway. (bought my favorites)
Same plan.
No, since no one comes to our door. We live on the second floor of a walkup (Montreal-style, outdoor staircases, in a neighbourhood full of them) and no one bothers to climb up and down all these stairs if they can avoid it. We are also on a busy street, and the trick-or-treaters usually stick to the smaller roads in the neighbourhood rather than this one. I’m not even sure the ground floor dwellers get many people.
I will have a bucket of candy ready by the door, but this is our first Halloween in our new house, so I’m not sure how many kids we will get. This is a kid-friendly neighborhood, but there are several other options for trick-or-treating nearby (the mall and swap meet) so parents may take their kids there instead. I’m excited to see if any do show up though. 
Absolutely; our neighorhood has lot’s of kids and also seems to gets a good number of non-resident trick-or-treaters so we always stock up with an assortment of fun-size candy bars. I also keep a bowl of off-brand cheap candy for the teenagers who come knocking without any attempt at a costume.
Yes, of course. However, the number of trick or treaters has been in quite a decline over the past few years. When we first moved into the neighborhood five years ago we got over 50 visitors. Last year we only had about 20. And no, we’re not handing out healthy snacks or Chick tracts.
In my town most people seem to go before dark. I’ll be at work then, and there aren’t that many treaters in my neighborhood anyway. It also freaks my dog out.
“The forgotten option”: No, because I won’t be home that night.
I’ll be attending the last in a series of four lectures, which I’ll go to right from work, and I won’t get home until at least 9:30pm – well after the trick-or-treating “rush.” I usually do give out candy on Halloween, though, and will kind of miss it this year.
I clicked the last option because I would give out candy if kids actually came to my house, but given where I live, they don’t.
Play-Doh, upon my wife’s insistence. The kids actually seem to respond positively.
Can’t that be construed as toxic? Does that matter?
We get 75 - 100 kids or so. I don’t mind the neighborhood kids, but I hate to see the vans that pull up, open their doors, and let so many kids out it’s like a clown car at a circus.
No, because there are no children in my neighborhood. If there were trick or treaters we’d gladly hand out candy, but we haven’t had any since our next-door neighbor’s children grew up.
gary - My sister always gives a choice of candy or Play-doh. The kids, even the too-big-to-be-trick-or-treating kids, love the Play-doh. You could hear them calling down the streat, “this house has Play-doh!!!”
I don’t have any trick-or-treaters. My nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile away, and most of the people on my road don’t have kids. Presumably those that do have kids take them into the suburbs to ToT.
StG
I don’t see how the pets would be disturbed any less if you didn’t have candy to give out.
Anyway, like several others, no one has ever come to our house looking for candy. We have a very long abd steep driveway and it’s simply not worth the effort I guess.
Any meanies giving out rocks?
Only to kids who cut too many holes in their ghost-sheet costumes.
We get around 200+ kids, and I love to see them. I don’t even mind the kids that come in from other neighborhoods. The adults who trick-or-treat used to bother me, but now I just kind of feel sorry for them.
I live in one of those good neighborhoods that kids from surrounding areas get dropped off in to ToT. Some of the neighbors get annoyed with it, but I’ve always kinda looked at it as a reminder of my good fortune in living somewhere that other people want to go. I’m glad to have been able to raise my kid in a good area that’s safe to ToT in, and feel a little sympathy to those kids who don’t live in decent areas.
My parents are retired and living in a rural area, they always come stay with me over H’ween because they miss all the cuteness too. When mine was little and I needed to walk with him, it helped having a parent around to do the passing out in my absence. Now they just do it because it’s too much fun not to see all the little ones in costume. We’re not very decorated, but we’ll drag the fire pit to the head end of the driveway and have some music playing so we can sit outside for the heavy traffic couple of hours and not have to get up and down repeatedly.