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NB: Curious to know how many of you don’t get trick-or-treaters, too – or if any of you get a big bunch of them every year.
@gbhnews@mastodon.social We’re close to our downtown, but far enough up a steep hill that we only get a few kids even with the good Canadian treats.
@Carol@wandering.shop tell us more about these Good Canadian Treats 🧐
@gbhnews@mastodon.social Coffee Crisp, Aero, KitKat, and Smarties (real Smarties, not American Smarties which are our Rockets), made in a peanut-free facility. I also have non-edible treats for kids with other dietary issues.
@gbhnews Our block has been throwing a Halloween Block Party every year since 2019. It gets bigger every year.
@gbhnews@mastodon.social We don’t get any because we are blind, so never have lights on. If we actually wanted to hand out candy we’d make it known, but yeah. Kind of just anti-social. This year we have tabletop gaming to do anyway.
@gbhnews@mastodon.social There’s a richer neighborhood not far from here so they all trick or treat over there
@gbhnews@mastodon.social I’m in Salem. I go thru 5 or 6 HUGE bags every year. And for the most part it’s just neighborhood kids, not tourists (I’m just outside the downtown area). That said, our house is also decorated and we make a thing of it. It’s fun.
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We lived 40 years in a condo in Brookline. Never once in all that time did anyone ever come to our door. Not even from within the condo. After the first year we never bought candy. Now we’re in a small city in CO, and we get 40-50 kiddos in about 2 hours. Small urchins w/ parents in tow the first hour, then the older ones, and finally the middle- and high-school kids. We close it down before the college kids show up.@gbhnews@mastodon.social We get between 50 - 80 and they’re all ages. Not all of them have costumes but I don’t care. If you knock on my door on Halloween, you get treats.
@gbhnews@mastodon.social My brother in a medium-sized Maine town gets 100-200 per year (my father loves to count them). Here in Metro West we get… a dozen or so? It’s hopping about a block away, but something about the configuration of our block just doesn’t draw many groups away from the busy area
@gbhnews@mastodon.social We live on a county road in a rural area. The only trick-or-treaters we get are our grandkids.
@gbhnews@mastodon.social Nice
@gbhnews@mastodon.social Growing up I wanted to always be the house that gave out the big candy bars. So now we are known as the big candy bar house and most kids stop by. We usually go through between 35-50 bars on Halloween. I live on a main st near my towns downtown area so we get a ton of foot traffic. I absolutely love Halloween so we have a blast.
@FindingHobbes@mstdn.social me too. when a kid gets an upsize surprise – they’re expecting something good but get more than they expected – the look on their face is just priceless. Wouldn’t miss it.
@gbhnews@mastodon.social There’s a richer neighborhood not far from here so they all trick or treat over there
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@gbhnews@mastodon.social We got 2 last year!! 😢
@gbhnews@mastodon.social So that’s a “no” on the full-sized candy bars?
@gbhnews@mastodon.social Living in a smaller multi-family complex, we don’t get too many or any at all.
Granted, we don’t decorate or have stuff to give out to any trick or treaters anyway 😅
