# Did anyone get Trick or Treaters this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596 "2020-11-02T22:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/21 "2020-11-03T15:02:05Z")
Maybe they were cooking and eating supper? We used to do that before taking the kids out, but we’d hand out candy as soon as the first kids came round. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/22 "2020-11-03T17:56:45Z")
My mom got five ‘strangers’ at her house, plus my sister swung by and brought her five kids. So it was a lot fewer than she usually gets. (She used the ‘cookie sheet of little ziplock bags’ approach. Me and my brother and his kid each got a _pile_ of those bags to take home yesterday. Yay!) For myself, I got exactly the same number of trick-or-treaters at my apartment as I have every year since I moved here over a decade ago: zero. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/23 "2020-11-03T19:02:02Z")
Our subdivision has a facebook page and everyone who wanted to participate agreed to go the contactless route. Set a table out front with treats and watch from a distance. My wife made 100 treat bags and at the end of the night we had 3 left over. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/24 "2020-11-03T19:06:47Z")
We got just a little over 50 kids. This is our first Halloween in our new neighborhood, so we don’t really know how this compares to previous years. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/25 "2020-11-03T19:44:19Z")
For the 20th year in a row we’ve had no T/T’rs. Not surprising in an unlighted rural neighborhood on a gravel dead-end and up a long steep gravel drive in the deep woods. Unless it’s a full moon night, I don’t even like hiking up our drive. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/26 "2020-11-03T21:31:30Z")
We set out treat bags on a table at the end of the driveway. About 30 kids came by, about the same as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/27 "2020-11-03T21:58:15Z")
We got one. It’s several fewer than most years. We don’t get a lot since we live on a small cul-de-sac. But ours was Thursday and it was raining and gross. Thanks a lot, Columbus; now I have to eat all the candy! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/28 "2020-11-03T22:13:07Z")
I’ve never gotten many – typically around four or five groups of kids, and that was about what I got this year as well. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/29 "2020-11-04T00:44:49Z")
I think there were a lot but I can’t put a number on it. The first kids I saw were at maybe 3pm. A girl ran up my steps and looked at a table on my porch (no candy there) and ran back down. She didn’t ring the bell. So I picked up my candy bowl and called her back. Then, I saw a few more families walk past and I realized they weren’t going to be ringing bells. So, I made a shabby sign “Please take 3” and put the candy bowl on the front steps. I checked it a few times during the evening to make sure it wasn’t empty and sort of forgot about it. When I looked later, the bowl had been stolen. I have no idea what I was thinking leaving one of my [favorite stainless bowls](https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/blanda-blank-serving-bowl-stainless-steel-00057256/) on the steps on Halloween instead of any of a dozen forgettable containers I could have used. I’d had that one for like 15 years but at least they’re still available and not very expensive. > [@Folly](#): > > NW side Chicago Howdy neighbor. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/30 "2020-11-04T02:51:25Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Howdy neighbor. … Hi! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/31 "2020-11-04T05:39:08Z")
I didn’t get anybody. Not that I had particularly high hopes, mind you. I asked around and was told that the neighborhood (which I moved into a few months ago) isn’t exactly a Halloween hotbed even when there isn’t a pandemic putting a damper on everything. I bought a couple of bags of candy just in case fortune happened to smile on me, but after the night came and went with no little monsters coming around, I ended up eating one of the bags and taking the other one to the office. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/32 "2020-11-04T07:22:05Z")
we had 3 usually we usually have 2 dozen …it was depressing this year ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/33 "2020-11-04T19:04:12Z")
I think I got about a third of what I normally do. And people were coming out earlier than normal, people were starting around 5 when I wasn’t even ready. I bagged my candy and put it on a table this year. I was the only person I saw standing outside. I would say most of the kids were under 10 when I normally I get a wide range of ages. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/34 "2020-11-04T19:25:02Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > I have no idea what I was thinking leaving one of my favorite stainless bowls on the steps on Halloween instead of any of a dozen forgettable containers I could have used. Wow! I, too, left one of my favorite stainless steel bowls on the steps. Unlike you, I took it in (with two candy bars still in it) later that evening. I would have been really upset if someone stole my bowl. Glad you can replace it. ---
**Author:** ![thdudescar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thdudescar/32/4638_2.png) [@thdudescar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thdudescar)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/35 "2020-11-04T19:56:00Z")
Usually get a couple of hundred. This year, about half of that. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/36 "2020-11-04T20:41:37Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I would have been really upset if someone stole my bowl. I guess I should be grateful they didn’t fire it through my picture window. A coworker told the story of the year thieves took the candy, the bowl and the stool the bowl was on. ---
**Author:** ![CorpusNeptune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corpusneptune/32/17561_2.png) [@CorpusNeptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorpusNeptune)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/37 "2020-11-04T21:09:37Z")
I did see some kids roaming around, but no one ever came by my place. Funnily enough, I got a shit-ton of candy for the trick-or-treaters, so I got it all to myself, haha. -Baleaf ---
**Author:** ![yarblek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/71e660/32.png) [@yarblek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yarblek)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596/38 "2020-11-05T01:14:11Z")
This reminded me of something [https://i.imgur.com/WsUMrjX\_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium](https://i.imgur.com/WsUMrjX_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-get-trick-or-treaters-this-year/924596.md?page=1)