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Post by dradtke on Oct 30, 2014 22:39:04 GMT -5
We started by having the kids friends who lived on rural cul-de-sacs come over to trick or treat in our neighborhood. That quickly turned into their parents coming over for drinks while the kids were out, and then turned into larger costume parties. As the kids got older they brought more and more of their friends and we invited more adults until it all peaked in the kind of knock-down drag-out finger-sucking hard party that Bill likes. I seem to remember dropping trou for some total stranger who showed up in a long blonde wig.
With our kids gone and few kids in the neighborhood we gave up and haven't done much for a few years.
Now we suddenly have a new crop of kids in the neighborhood, so we're starting slow again with hot chocolate and snacks for the neighbors while the kids are going around. We'll see where it goes from there.
I expect there will be candy left over. There'd better be.
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Post by RickW on Oct 31, 2014 0:26:52 GMT -5
Our house we lived in, we always had at least 100 kids. Neighbourhood was full of young families, and everyone would decorate their houses, build haunted houses on the front porch, graveyards in the yard. We would have good friends over, and we would have a nice dinner, drink some wine, and go out with the girls in paris.
But since we moved to our townhouse, we're lucky to get 20 kids. Our two younger daughters, 16 and 18, are not going trick or treating together for the first time ever, they are going to parties with friends. So, Susan and I might go out for dinner, but we have done no decorating, no pumpkins, and have bought no candy.
Time goes by, and things change.
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Post by aquaduct on Oct 31, 2014 6:38:15 GMT -5
I live downtown in a third story apartment. My oldest is 24 and living in Richmond and my youngest is almost 20 and will spend the evening with his girlfriend's family. Downtown here we had Halloween 2 weekends ago when all the kids came down in the afternoon and the businesses gave out treats. Must have been a bajillion of them.
But my wife and I will just spend the evening finishing packing for tomorrow's move.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 9:33:19 GMT -5
We are a rural county ... all the "action" is in town where merchants stay open to pass out candy on Halloween. We'll be at the radio station doing our part. Back in the day I'd always comb the kids bags for Kit Kats and Nestle Crunch bars.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 31, 2014 10:19:45 GMT -5
The littlest kids in our neighborhood are taller than I am and in no need of extra calories, which in any case they will be consuming in the form of beer at noisy parties that sound like they're next door but are actually a block away.
Bah humbug.
Oh, wait, that's for later in the year. Never mind.
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Post by Lonnie on Oct 31, 2014 10:20:19 GMT -5
We're painting the trim on the house and the porch light is dismantled, so I don't think kids will stop here. But I'd better go to the store for Snickers and peanut butter cups just in case.
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Post by Dub on Oct 31, 2014 11:29:08 GMT -5
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- Yes but not candy. I buy bulk roasted peanuts in the shell and put them in baggies with a twist tie.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 31, 2014 11:30:29 GMT -5
No one's giving out fried eggs and beer this year?
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 31, 2014 11:31:33 GMT -5
I buy bulk roasted peanuts in the shell and put them in baggies with a twist tie. Thanks, mister. Now which of your windows would you like to have soaped?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 11:42:40 GMT -5
I buy bulk roasted peanuts in the shell and put them in baggies with a twist tie. Thanks, mister. Now which of your windows would you like to have soaped? Much better than the folks that sat on their porch and handed out copies of the Watch Tower, no candy just the Watch Tower.
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Post by Dub on Oct 31, 2014 12:15:39 GMT -5
I buy bulk roasted peanuts in the shell and put them in baggies with a twist tie. Thanks, mister. Now which of your windows would you like to have soaped? Actually, both kids and parents seem to like this. We hear kids calling to each other up and down the street that we are handing out peanuts. Go figure.
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Post by david on Oct 31, 2014 12:46:43 GMT -5
No No Yes, I give out mass quantities of corn syrup and dextrose.
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Post by aquaduct on Oct 31, 2014 13:02:53 GMT -5
Thanks, mister. Now which of your windows would you like to have soaped? Much better than the folks that sat on their porch and handed out copies of the Watch Tower, no candy just the Watch Tower. What do you have against Hendrix?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 13:27:35 GMT -5
Much better than the folks that sat on their porch and handed out copies of the Watch Tower, no candy just the Watch Tower. What do you have against Hendrix? I didn't know Jimi was a Jehovah's Witness. But that might explain why he burnt guitars.
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Post by drlj on Oct 31, 2014 13:57:50 GMT -5
Barb hid the candy so "there will be some left when kids arrive." I think this shows either a profound lack of trust or damned good thinking on her part.
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Post by Lonnie on Oct 31, 2014 14:06:39 GMT -5
I'm thinking of handing out cigarettes, diet pills, and those little plastic containers of non-dairy creamer.
Or baggies of gluten.
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Post by drlj on Oct 31, 2014 14:27:43 GMT -5
What you going to do, Marty. Furnace guys and plumbers are sometimes more valuable than money.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 14:29:37 GMT -5
Sorry LJ I meant that post for the Daily and in the one minute between posting and deleting it you got your post in.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 31, 2014 14:42:43 GMT -5
I've made it to Hendersonville, NC, picked up some groceries and some takeout ribs, and am now snugly ensconced in this cottage, where I shall slumber the next three nights. Not sure yet if I will get to see Yungerdottir tonight or not until tomorrow, but I am sure I will be charmed/startled to witness her baby mogul (past a baby bump at this stage!). I do not expect any trick or treaters, but should I get any, I can always get rid of some unused candy-colored condoms (pat. pending) from the 1970s that I have in my wallet. MartinFever contacted me and suggested that for Halloween, it might be good for me to regale the forum with an account of the time I interviewed Frank Zappa. Geez, I had forgotten all about that, and I sure don't remember anything he said!
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Post by drlj on Oct 31, 2014 16:00:07 GMT -5
Sorry LJ I meant that post for the Daily and in the one minute between posting and deleting it you got your post in. I thought I had gone crazier for a moment.
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