My kids tired out early, after only about an hour or so. When I was a kid, I remember trick or treating all night and this was in Wyoming, so it wasn't uncommon to trick or treat in the snow.

Something I've also noticed the last couple years is the number of teens trick or treting and some don't even have fucking costumes on. Ridiculous. Go to a party or something, but to trick or treating is age inappropriate.

AMEN!

Just getting the next generation ready for handouts....

I'm also hating the Britney Spears influence on some of the older trick or treat teens...
these feelings of guilt suck ;-)))

I swear 16 year olds don't look like they did when I was that age....geez..I'm going to have daughter in a nunnery by 10...that's what scares me on Halloween....hopefully by then (2 years) the nun look will be in with the teen and pre-teen crowd ;-)

We took Ryan out to about 5 houses, all people who are neighbours that we know. After all, he's only 18 months old. We were done by 6:30. The only kids coming by after 7:30 were teenagers...

Ryan had a nice Eeyore costume. He looked hella cute. :)

Chris, ya gotta come do my neighborhood next year... major candy fest here! I close the door at 6:45, when the ages start to go up a little too high. There is a limit to good taste.

Alex

Sometimes it's nice living on a 4WD road in a gated retirement community :)

My sister went with a little group of kiddies so I kinda wasn't invited. :(

We were unable to be home for trick or treators, so Katie left a bowl of candy out with some candles and such. We live in a very upscale community - someone actually STOLD the freaking ceramic bowl!!

I am livid!!!

What is this world coming to?

we had {1} trick or treater this year and as usual,
we pretended we are not home.
;-=)))

no "handouts" from us, Mike
;-)

I had one gaggle of 6 teens, one of them in coustume, THREE of them chattering away on cell phones. They each got one "package" of Starburst (2 in each pack).

Three little kids came up while they were leaving, in costume, actually said "Trick or Treat", and told jokes. They got HANDSFUL of candy. The teenieboppers were PISSED.

Made my night, it did ...

ah, chattering on cell phones, that would annoy the shit outa me. that's why ya gotta have some choco laxatives around.


was your house served eggs for breakfast?

Nah ... that's the advantage of living in a town of 1700 where Barney (the only full time town cop) lives right across the park from me.

You can go to jail over the choco-laxitives, kid ... people got NO sense of humor about that kind of stuff.

Yeah I need to let my Jewish side out more!!

Well Alex, if all goes as planned we will be living in St-Lazare this time next year. We've been looking at new houses out there for the past couple of weeks. Going out again tomorrow afternoon...

Stay tuned for house warming party details. B)

My boys had a great time... I almost took them up to Nicks neighbourhood but it got too late. Maybe next year!

I always go to my sisters in Queens Park.

Awesome trick or treating.

Over 400 trick or treaters visited.

You shoulda discreetly pointed a video camera out a window to watch the action.

Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me. Most parents dont make their kids behave today. I wont how many kids took an "approriate" amount before one came along and dumped the whole bowl. I would guess a parent probably took the bowl, nice example they set if so.

Being in a good neighborhood doesn't insure anything at halloween. Parents haul in their ill behaving rugrats from bad neighborhoods to turn 'em lose in the more affluent neighborhoods for safety and better candy.

Gate community slows it down a little, but even people in gated communities tend to get visits at halloween from friends and relatives with tons of kids in tow who want to come over to trick or treat in their neighborhood.

The kids from the affluent neighborhoods can be just as bad, if not worse, than those from the less affluent areas that are brought in :(

The kids from the affluent neighborhoods can be just as bad, if not worse, than those from the less affluent areas that are brought in :( [/b][/quote]
True enough.

But when i was growing up halloween was a neighborhood thing....everyone knew each other and the kids. There'd be the occasional imported truckload of cousins and stuff. But now you get folx loading up however many kids they can fit in the SUV and hitting every nice neighborhood they can in hopes of getting more and better candy. Kinda defeats the concept of community.

I heard some bitching that they were getting loaded up with stuff like granola and fruitbars in the ritzy neighborhoods...hehehe.