I’m thinking of having kids just so I can get back into the candy racket.
I fondly remember the plans my friends and I laid out weeks before Halloween. We would grab a Thomas Guide, chart out the exact neighborhoods to be targeted (where rich people live), and also secure a driver (my mom or dad usually), lay out the needed materials (costumes and a bunch of shopping bags), and finally the exact times for when and where we need to be.
One Halloween I collected 5 full shopping bags of candy. It lasted well until the next year. Good times.
17-year-old trick-or-treater checking in. I went to a party last night, and as the evening went on, a group of us piled in to cars and hit a few neighborhoods. We were all in costume, and here’s the best part: we were trick-or-treating for charity.
They handed out bags at school yesterday from a local organization called Mobile Loaves and Fishes. We all carried them around last night and then dropped the full bags off today to be distributed to the needy. I’m not sure that “Twix for the poor” is really the most important social project ever, but it gives a darn good excuse to go out there and have fun
Dang! You mean I could have gone out trick-or-treating last night?
Actually, I was going to go to Kids’ Night (an alternative to Halloween that my church puts on) to help out with the kids and all, but I wasn’t sure if my brother would be going. (that way, he could drive me home afterwards) Turns out he did. Oh well. Maybe next year.
Since my apartment complex doesn’t allow trick-or-treating, I spent a rather quiet night. (it would be safer inside the complex than outside at night, but never mind that… too much noise, perhaps) Heard fireworks / firecrackers outside… it wasn’t TOO bad as I did get my yearly fix of “Thriller” in.
A teacher in high school told us about his uncle, who would dress up, go trick or treating early, (they knew who he was, and would give him candy because they thought he was funny), and then use the candy he got to give out to trick or treaters.
I once was tempted not to give candy to non-costumed teenagers, but I’m afraid they’d egg my house or something.
ours doesn’t allow ToT either. They set up a table in the lobby for a few hours, and then thats it. The kids who live here know about it, and most of the other buildings around us do the same (all owned by the same company - its their policy), so they just go there. There are a few neighbourhoods a little further away where you can do the door thing.
next year I think I’ll participate in “Tick-or-Eat”. Students from the University go door-to-door and collect perishable goods for the local Food bank. I had too much homework this year to go out but if I have time next year, I’ll volunteer.
Sorry for posting again, but I just wanted to add…
One of my TAs told us that he usually hands out candy to little kids, but if he thinks that they’re too old to be trick or treating (like, 16, 17) he gives them vegetables instead. Usually baby carrots, or celery or pieces of broccoli. He says the kids complain, but even so they still TAKE THE VEGGIES! Carrots are the more popular - the kids often eat them as they walk away from the house. And he uses small veggies for minimal damage if kids decide to throw them (he plans on never giving out potatoes
We took our 1 year-old little girl ToT’ing at the mall because she was soooo adorable in her little bee costume that we just had to share the love. We weren’t the only ones who thought she was cute - a number of people asked us if they could take her picture!
Aye, we did what most of the parents of little ones have reported, and just really wanted to show off the munchkin. Our neighbors have a tot just a month and a half older than the Skeezling, so the four of us took the 50’s girl in poodle skirt and Mickey Mouse (complete with gloves that made it all but impossible for him to hang on to his pumpkin) around to friends’ and neighbors’ houses.
The kids have fun, and we get to say a quick “heyhowaya” and show off the wee ones to the gang.
[sub]Plus, Mrs. Skeezix looks positively edible dolled up in 50’s chic. Treat, indeed.[/sub]
I find it amazing that an adult would spend two hours of their time scamming candy from their neighbors for their “sick child” when all they really have to do is go to the store where for five bucks they could get the same amount of candy. In fact even if the “sick child” was real they could do the same thing. It boggles the mind.
Do y’all think door-to-door ToT is going to die out? In my community, they mostly have parties, and the stores in the mall hand out candy to costumed kiddies. (Worked at the mall last year. My supervisor came as Indiana Jones. One of those classic moments when you never looked at this person That Way before, but suddenly, whoa.) Neighborhoods don’t forbid ToT, but since most kids are at the parties anyway, it’s pretty much moot.
Guin and Quisp: I knew a guy once who, though barely in his forties, was already a Grumpy Old Man[sup]TM[/sup]. He gave out peppermints. I mean those red-and-white cellophaned mints they have by restaurant cash registers next to the toothpick. I told him, “You are just asking to get egged.”
The one year that there were kids in my building, they knocked on my door on their way to whatever. I wasn’t prepared with candy, but I was making candied apples for my and Mr. Rilch’s enjoyment. Two parts awkward (a-what do you do with a sticky apple that you can’t put in your bag, and b-OH MY GOD THE SCARY LADY GAVE US APPLES!) and one part cute. Their mom took the apples back to their apartment while I explained about the apple festivals back east and the tradition of candy apples and how I made them with a good, wide thick base so you could wear your tongue out licking it before you even got around to eating the apple…
