Hallowe'en

I had only 1 trick or treater this year... a wee skeleton that i didn't recognise from the neighbourhood. 

We had about 10, split in 3 groups.  We gave out bags of a Haribo & candy corn mix...because the past 3 years I've bought things to hand out and had NO ONE show up.  This year I refused to buy anything, and got caught out, of course, and had to dip into my own stash. 

Of course, I'm just sitting here smiling at the fact that now some parents may be going mental shortly trying to find candy corn if their kids like it! 

Of course, I'm just sitting here smiling at the fact that now some parents may be going mental shortly trying to find candy corn if their kids like it! 

 

Mike tried to disconnect the doorbell just in case any kids came by.  He couldn't figure out how to do it but no kids came by anyway.  The streets in our neighborhood were empty.  Not a lot of kids right around our place anyway--mostly young professionals without kids and older people.

Same last year though we were in a different neighborhood.  Mike and I made a little "Samhain fire" in our wood burning stove.  It didn't even feel like Halloween or Samhain. 

We had a whopping three. All from our street. But that's actually a record high!

I've actually never liked Halloween to be honest, but I I always pick up some candy anyway just in case.

We had not a one, but as we live in a predominately student area, I wasn't surprised. We did drive by an area where it seemed like there were some kids out.

We had ZERO trick or treaters... and I bought loads of candy.  Ahh well, guess I'll just have to eat it all 

Here's my tip for when you're stuck with loads of candy and don't want to be tempted to eat too much of it at once: 

Stick it in the freezer.  Best case scenario is you'll forget about it for a while.  Worst case scenario you'll try to eat it frozen and it will take longer to do that, so you won't be eating quite as much of it!  Also you can take a little out at a time and let it defrost--sort of rationing it off.

LOL. The problem is that some candy is better frozen!!! I used to freeze Reeses - and that definitely did nothing to keep me out of them!   

Milkyways are better frozen too. 

We bought a tin of Heroes  ...zero trick or treters  ..and we even had  a lit pumpkin!!   Took DD out to visit the relatvies   though..

My mom said there was 2 tricker treaters all night. She bought like 4 bags of candy! Thinking we'd have a huge turn out. It seems every year the numbers of kids doing it just dwindle because it's not safe anymore. Those were the days when you would walk down the sidewalk and could bearly do so without steppin on the person infront of you or their pillowcase!

I went to a party last night and the neighborhood had kids everywhere but throughout the night there was only like 5 or 6 actual door knockers. I even saw parents driving the cars door to door!!...crappy!  just not safe...or too lazy? lol

Here's my tip for when you're stuck with loads of candy and don't want to be tempted to eat too much of it at once: 

Stick it in the freezer.  Best case scenario is you'll forget about it for a while.  Worst case scenario you'll try to eat it frozen and it will take longer to do that, so you won't be eating quite as much of it!  Also you can take a little out at a time and let it defrost--sort of rationing it off.

My parents eat all their chocolate candy frozen. It's so funny to open their freezer and find mom's Dove and dad's snickers.

Ha Ha!   You guys are right, some stuff is better frozen.  I agree with Reese's p-b cups.  also, i discovered Kit Kats are very easy to eat while frozen as well!

Yes but the commercial aspect and the trick or treating didn't origate here.  When I was little people had hallowe'en parties but you could't buy all the decoratsions etc in the shops that you can now. You couldn't even get pumpkins, I had a swede lantern! The article is right though, what we have now is not really the American tradition either, it's a bastardisation.

Although Halloween was first commercialised in the US, it really wasn't so commercial until very recently.  There were pumpkins, of course, but those are around at Thanksgiving too.  I remember as a kid in the early 80's that buying a pumpkin, and sitting at the dining room table with my mom and my sister carving it, was most of it.  Costumes were starting to become popular then, because I do remember getting excited about my mom buying a Darth Vader costume.  The other years I either wore a sheet and went as a ghost or dressed up in a clown costume (lol).  And of course lots of candy was purchased. 

I don't remember people decorating their garden or their front door with orange lights and all the bric-o-brac that's around now though - at least a couple of aisles of every CVS, Walgreens and Rite-Aid here in the US is devoted to that stuff starting in mid-August!

Our house (my parents') got "t.p.ed" ("toilet-papered" - toilet paper spread all over the trees) one year.   There's the occasional egg-bombing or pumpkin smashing but that's it.  No firecrackers, that sounds odd - but I guess it's a Guy Fawkes Day thing.  The last place I rented was a house in a sort-of-bad neighbourhood and some of the neighbours celebrated their own holidays, in the middle of the afternoon or at night, by shooting off fireworks.  South Carolina is one of the few places where you can legally buy, year-round, a lot of fireworks ("bottle rockets", etc.) that are banned in other states.  People actually DRIVE here from all over the East coast to buy fireworks!   I guess everyone's gotta celebrate pay-day!