We didn’t put on our porch light or have decorations, and had no trick or treaters. (Just in case, I had a bag of candy ready.) Very quiet on our street, much more than usual.
In our area, quite a few people put out bowls of candy on tables, some with sanitizer.
Quite a few of the bowls (and sanitizer) were stolen. One person got a good security photo of the (adult) thief, which they posted on Next Door. He was identified (not by name) very quickly. I don’t know if anything will come of that.
Not much change for me. I last trick-or-treating in 8th grade and that was decades ago. The particular area where I live was never conducive to safe trick-or-treating so I didn’t receive any trick-or-treaters either. I briefly considered setting out a jack-o-lantern 'cause I was in that kind of mood but only 3 other apartment dwellers would ever have seen it so I decided against it.
I heard noise outside last night that sounded like drunken revelers, so someone was having a party nearby. The street this morning was filled with parked cars so it must’ve been a large gathering.
We did almost exactly the same thing we do every year, with one change for Covid. We decorated the yard, set out our fire ring, and built a fire. Lit the tiki torches, put out the teal pumpkin, and set up the scary music. Then we put toys in little bags and clipped them to a clothesline strung between two shepherd’s crooks. We got about half the usual number of kids but many people thanked us for doing something because our house is well known for always being decorated for Halloween.
We put out a small table on our front porch with a sign and a box of treats (bags of Welch’s Fruit Snacks, which always seem to be popular).
Last year, my wife and I took a Halloween cruise, and our adult son threw a party while we were gone. He put a bowl of treats on the front porch in a Halloween-themed bowl, which someone stole and smashed in the cul-de-sac. I think he also put all of the treats out at once, which was a mistake, because the bowl was taken by 7:15 pm, and he had to spend the rest of the night turning kids away. So this year I just used a cardboard box, and refilled it periodically.
We gave out about 90 treats. In past years, we’ve given out as much as 300. If I’d been giving out treats by hand this year, I would have started giving kids two treats each after I saw the turnout, but instead we had a cute sign telling kids to take “one per goblin.”
So now we have several hundred fruit snacks left. We like them at least, so now we have a six-month supply.
Other than that, things were fairly quiet. Our next-door neighbors set up a table in their driveway, with themselves socially distanced about 20 feet away with a fire pit.
Oh, and some of the neighbors down the street threw a party that went late, like they’ve been doing throughout the pandemic. 
I’ll add that my wife was against doing anything for Halloween, saying that we shouldn’t have encouraged trick-or-treating during a pandemic. My feeling is that what other people do is their business, and if you boycott Halloween you run the risk of your house being TP’d or egged.
I left my porch light on, left out a bowl of candy, and left the front door (but not the storm door) open. I got a few trick-or-treaters—not a lot, but no fewer than the last couple of years IIRC. Some rang the doorbell, some I heard coming and waved to through the door, and at least one group came, grabbed some candy, and left before I had a chance to get to the door and see who they were. By the end of trick-or-treating hours, I still had enough candy left in th ebowl so that I and my SO got some.
I had a little Samhain/Day of the Dead ceremony with 2 close friends and a little fluffy dog.
We had a pvc candy chute, and dropped candy through it either with tongs or with gloves on, straight from the candy bag, and we wore masks, of course. We had a sign blocking access to our porch stairs, but a few kids went around it and had to be tod to go back down to the bottom of the chute. We had several instances where there was a socially distanced line. A few parents thanked us for doing it.
I think it may have been one of our busiest Halloweens. Someone else on our block has for the past few years done a huge creepy yard thing, and this year she went all out. There was a whole creepy experience. She had treat bags for kids at the end of it. People had been coming to see it for days, and are still going up to it today. I think it must be getting lots of social media exposure.
For my kids, (both 7) we made super cool costumes – daughter was a cat with wings, and son was the grim reaper. My spouse made a map of houses that had said they were doing socially distanced candy, and they went out for an hour or so. They had enormous bags of candy.
I think fewer people were giving it out, but gave out more/better stuff, and kids and parents were starved for experiences. I think it went well. It seemed safe and distanced, and still fun and communal.
zero trick or treaters. Usually get about 2 dozen and growing as more families with kiddos move in to the neighborhood.
My youngest went thru the back fence to our neighbor in the back, which is down a dark spooky private side road. Said neighbor gave all the candy to my youngest.
Exactly as I would have predicted – the cable networks aired another solid month of the same tired old crappy scary movies.
Same as last year. And the year before that. Our street turns off all the porch lights.
Most of the candy I put out is gone now. There weren’t too many trick-or-treaters, so I think some of the homeless people in nearby parks who scrounge around at night came by late last night and got some. I took the rest down the street to a neighbor who’s taking all the block’s leftovers down to the food bank tomorrow. Mostly Swedish Fish and red licorice left over.
I carved one of my best pumpkin at least.
Wow, that is creepy! Well done.
We don’t decorate the house for Halloween, but we usually get at least a fair number of trick-or-treaters, typically at least a few dozen, and some years substantially more.
This year, we set a bowl out on the front porch, full of candy, with a sign saying “Take Two”. Based on how full the bowl still was at the end of the evening, I’m guessing we had no more than a dozen kids come by.
Our neighborhood decided (via email discussion) that those interested would set up tables at the end of the driveway with bags of treats that the kids could pick up. Most of the neighborhood participated. I prepared 40 treat bags and had about 10 left. My husband sat outside to replenish the table as needed, and to guard my big ceramic jack o lantern and cute Halloween gnomes. I kept him supplied with mugs of hot spiced apple cider with apple schnapps. It was nice to do something for the kids.
It sounds like you did something pretty nice for him too! Next year I’m coming by your house. Have a mug of that cider ready for me?
You got it, I’ll save a treat bag for you too!
Hah! We eagerly unwrapped our new DVD set of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, hoping for some good scary stuff. Sadly, Night Gallery did not age well. Not as well as the Twilight Zone anyway. Maybe it will improve as we work our way through the seasons.
The networks put on Hocus Pocus repeatedly every year around Halloween. My wife loves it and always talks about how scary it is, and how it’s become a cult classic. I thought it might be like A Christmas Story (an old movie that underperformed at the box office but was so good that it gained a cult following decades after its release). So I finally watched it, and found out why it only has 37% on Rotten Tomatoes: because it sucks. 
