What will you be handing out to trick or treaters?

[prolesunited]

I found a good sale and have some coupons, so we're splurging on Snickers and Milky Ways. I just have to hide them from my husband until then.

[Ghost in the Machine]

1. Heart Attacks

I'm gonna hide in the bushes and throw firecrackers at the brats..

[MorningGlow]

2. Our life savings

Halloween on our street is unreal--hundreds and hundreds of kids. We learned the hard way last year NOT to run out of candy. Nobody "tricks" if you don't fork over the treats, but they just DO. NOT. STOP. KNOCKING. Door closed--knock knock. Porch light out--knock knock. Living room lights out--knock knock. Sign on door that says "we are out of candy"--knock knock and the repeated sound of "Mommy, what does this sign say?"

Sigh. So this year we take out a home equity loan and stock up on more candy than is sensible for one household to purchase. It's more honorable than hiding under the bed.

[prolesunited]

3. Do you live in one of those "good" neighborhoods

where they practically bus them in?

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. I used to live in one of those neighborhoods....

It was such fun. We got more than 400 kids a night. I miss that. I won't be buying any Halloween candy this year.

[MorningGlow]

13. Well, it's different, that's for sure

It's hard to explain--we live on a main street in a small village, in a county made up mainly of small towns and villages, and yet this village is the ONLY one in the area (and I've lived in a few and spend time/shop/visit friends in many more) where everyone is scary-friendly. The kids are all well behaved. The teens are all polite to their elders and talk in complete sentences. There is no crime to speak of. We've lived here two years and I CAN'T GET USED TO IT! It's Stepford, I swear to gods.
:rofl:

I do suspect some busing for Halloween, and yet nobody gets crabby. Nobody hides so they don't have to give out candy. The kids all WAIT IN LINE, patiently, at each house for their turn at getting candy. The neighbors sit out on their porches or on their lawns around chimineas and make a party of it because there's no point in closing the front door--you're only gonna open it a nanosecond later, over and over again for hours.

I'm just waiting for the day somebody rips off their mask and I get to see the circuitry...

[Generic Brad]

4. I won't get no stinking trick or treaters

I live high in the sky in a secured building. We bought tons of candy and we're eating it all ourselves.

[Solon]

6. Guns and knives, should make for an exciting Halloween. n/t

[JohnnyLib2]

7. As little chocolate as possible.

It's mine, all mine!

[graywarrior]

8. If the retired elderly in my "gated community" dress up as fucking clowns

I'll be sitting in the dark not anwering the door.
:hide:

[Richard Steele]

9. Kinda odd last year:

I had a bowl of what we used to consider "good stuff":
Mini chocolate bars, smarties, the bubblegum with so much sugar
that it makes your teeth hurt...

And a bowl of apples, just so the parents couldn't TOTALLY hate me.

When offered both bowls, HALF the kids took an apple.

WTF is WRONG with these kids today? :shrug:

[prolesunited]

10. And they weren't afraid

of razor blades and poison?

Poor you, stuck with all that candy.

[pokerfan]

11. Carrots and snap peas

(not really)

Weather permitting, I set up the telescope and treat the kiddies to views of the cosmos.

And hand out Milky Way and Mars bars, of course.

[Omphaloskepsis]

12. I turn off the lights and put out..

a empty basket with a sign asking "to only take one."

[Dr. Strange]

14. Carrot Top porn

Same thing I always got when I went trick-or-treating as a kid.

[flvegan]

15. Vegan propaganda and PETA memberships.

Gotta get to the kids.

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Gotta get to the kids.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. I bought three packs of the 150 milk duds, reese's, etc

at Target. 8.99 each. Sometimes we get a ton of kids, othertimes not so much, but I want to give out something decent since my youngest is trick or treating.

[petronius]

17. Chick tracts and mini-bibles -- gotta save the young 'uns from their satanistic parents

;)

[KitchenWitch]

18. I am not entirely sure that we will have any this year.

Our air quality is horrible.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. oatmeal

I just want to see their little faces light up.

Just kidding...We haven't gotten candy yet. Depends on what's on sale, I guess.

[TK421]

20. Black Olives...un-pitted

you gotta train them sometime....

[clyrc]

21. Mostly chocolate candy bars

I live on a University campus in the Middle east, and since it is an American University with some Americans scattered here and there, we have Halloween for the kids. Every year it's the same thing, kids new to the University and the Halloween concept see other kids going around and getting candy, and they think trick or treating is a good idea. So they throw on a quick costume and join the fun. My first couple of years here, we had a list of houses and kids participating, but we ended up with at least twice as many kids coming around for candy. This year there is no list, but I'm getting tons of candy.

I'm not always happy to see the Americanization of foreign culture, but I'm glad my American expat daughters get a real Halloween.