Maybe you can; it depends on how determined you are, and how unscrupulous. Whenever a kid comes to the door collecting coins for UNICEF, take some coins OUT of the collection box. E voila! You have spent less than zero!
Oh,right, the question. Typically about ten bucks, just in case the little hobgoblins show up (which they hardly ever do). Then about $30 on November 1.
I imagine he felt differently about your degree of rockitude the following day. Have you ever eaten the kind of Halloween candy the dollar store sells?
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About $20 for candy every year.
I put up a handful of decorations, which ran about $50 each, but they’re used year after year (I’ve had 'em for about 10 years now, and I expect to have 'em for a good number more), so their yearly cost is negligible.
Not really.
The only reason I put up the aforementioned decorations is that I found out that, in this neighborhood, parents hustle their kids past the house if there are no decorations, even if the porch light is on and the door is open.
I learned that the one year I decided to sit outside with the bowl instead of inside. I’m not sure what they thought I was doing with a bowl of candy, but it explained the low numbers the earlier years.
I actually heard one mother say “I don’t think they celebrate Halloween…”–only to have to double back when her kid realized that the bowl of candy wasn’t just for show and I was giving it out freely.
Nope. Candy to trick or treaters only.
I haven’t dressed up for Halloween in earnest since I was a kid.
I say “in earnest”, because, in my recent adult years, I’ve taken to handing out candy in a costume that I stole from NBC’s The Office: “Dave”.
For those who haven’t seen or don’t recall, I stick a name tag to my shirt that says “Dave” on it.
This year, though, I’ve been thinking that I might go as “Fred”.
Less that 0. We wait till after Halloween to buy pumpkins at half price or less. My wife makes a wonderful pumpkin soup; I make pumpkin spice bread; I love roasted pumpkin seeds.
Another zero here, the Doper average so far is about $5 apiece. Somebody, somewhere must put on a helluva $9 billion party.
In the last 13 years we have had exactly 0 kids come by our house for trick-or-treat. It’s an older neighborhood with mostly older residents and just isn’t on the T-or-T radar.
While not on par with after-Easter candy sales, I do loves me some clearance Halloween candy!
Since there are roughly 325 million Americans, that’s about $28 per person, which is the cost of a few bags of candy for the trick-or-treaters. Just to put that $9.1B in perspective.
We do maybe $10 worth of candy. We don’t get too many TTs down at this end of the street.
Around here Halloween actually lasts about a week with different businesses and groups putting on events like TTing at stores, trunk or treats, and haunted houses.
Of course, $28 per person means $112 for a family of four.
I can believe that. Couple $20-$30 costumes for the kids, candy, some $5 pumpkins and paper skeletons, etc.
Sure there’s families where the kids are dressing as hobos or making costumes out of boxes but there’s also families buying the $300 dinosaur skeleton I saw at Home Depot yesterday making up the difference.
Yeah, but once you subtract the 8MM Jehovah’s Witnesses it comes to $28.70 per.
[sub]I have no idea why I thought that was funny. Statistically speaking.[/sub]
Parents, when you take the kids out, remember that the house gets 10%.