I hate it when they dont have a joke or a riddle or ANYTHING!!! when I was little it was mandatory. My neighborhood is fun, we hand out beer to the adults!!!! 
Trick or Treaters
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Landlocked said:
Maybe you could give those kids leftovers that you were just about to throw out, like that almost-empty jar of mustard in your fridge door. Tell em you would have given them candy, but just didn't feel like bothering to go to the store to prepare.
At our house, I give the crappy candy to the crappy kids who can't even be bothered to get dressed up. You know, the kind that comes in the bag that weighs 10 pounds, but it only costs $3.99 to buy. Kids who make a lot of effort and look adorable get the good candy.
I used to get irritated at the kids who obviously don't live in our neighborhood whose parents are waiting in their beat up cars at the curb (drive by trick or treating
) but I don't anymore. It's not their fault they live in bad neighborhoods and it would be awful to deny any kid Halloween. Most of them, as you say, LL, are very sweet and thrilled to be out. The bad eggs of the bunch get the bad candy. 
Halloween is a blast in our neighborhood because we all know each other. I haven't been out for a while since my kids are past that stage, but when I did chaperone them, I'd get a beer on every street! The parents handing candy out at the door would take pity on you for having to do the rounds, and they'd say, "Here let me give you a drink..and a drink...and a drink." Sometimes I almost staggered home if the weather was balmy and the kids wanted to stay out. :roll:
I used to get irritated at the kids who obviously don't live in our neighborhood whose parents are waiting in their beat up cars at the curb (drive by trick or treating
) but I don't anymore. It's not their fault they live in bad neighborhoods and it would be awful to deny any kid Halloween. Most of them, as you say, LL, are very sweet and thrilled to be out. The bad eggs of the bunch get the bad candy. Halloween is a blast in our neighborhood because we all know each other. I haven't been out for a while since my kids are past that stage, but when I did chaperone them, I'd get a beer on every street! The parents handing candy out at the door would take pity on you for having to do the rounds, and they'd say, "Here let me give you a drink..and a drink...and a drink."
Sometimes I almost staggered home if the weather was balmy and the kids wanted to stay out. :roll:
Yeah, like those waxy pumpkins (a poor mans candy corn), or heaven forbid, the Circus Peanuts!
I grew up in a big neighborhood where halloween was practically an institution, complete with block parties, big groups of kids going round together, and of course Mischief Night the night before. Sadly, we would usually TP the trees or shaving cream the mailbox of those who gave us crappy candy the year before. (well, not me so much, I was a nerd.) If you pretended to not be home to avoid giving out anything, your windows would get waxed.
Are y'all serious about this beer thing? I may enjoy this trick or treat thing. This will be my little boy's first real door to door trick or treating.
What's he going as?!
edit: apparently, all us enquiring minds want to know. In fact, I hope all you parents give us a photo thread.
edit: apparently, all us enquiring minds want to know. In fact, I hope all you parents give us a photo thread.
Kimmifunn said:
Mrs. Landlocked figured that this year would be the last year she could do the "cute, make my son look like a girl costume" so she's dressing him up as a fat little pumpkin. I wanted to dress him as a cave man but she said I have many more years to make a man out of him. So, fat little pumpkin it is. He's 17 months old, by the way. He already points at women with big boobs and looks at me and says, "DA DA! DA DA!"
katie blue said:Yeah, like those waxy pumpkins (a poor mans candy corn), or heaven forbid, the Circus Peanuts!
I grew up in a big neighborhood where halloween was practically an institution, complete with block parties, big groups of kids going round together, and of course Mischief Night the night before. Sadly, we would usually TP the trees or shaving cream the mailbox of those who gave us crappy candy the year before. (well, not me so much, I was a nerd.) If you pretended to not be home to avoid giving out anything, your windows would get waxed.
Same here, if you are not in or pretend not to be in, you get eggs thrown at your house. We're always home on Halloween.
We once had nerdy neighbors. The first Halloween after they moved in, they went out but left a basket of candy with a sign that said "Don't be piggy. One piece only." I went over and grabbed a couple of handsful for myself.
And would you believe they even drew a little oink oink so kids would get the message?? 
I wasn't sad when they moved away. (They had no kids of their own but you probably already guessed that.)Landlocked said:Mrs. Landlocked figured that this year would be the last year she could do the "cute, make my son look like a girl costume" so she's dressing him up as a fat little pumpkin. I wanted to dress him as a cave man but she said I have many more years to make a man out of him. So, fat little pumpkin it is. He's 17 months old, by the way. He already points at women with big boobs and looks at me and says, "DA DA! DA DA!"
Well he looks like he would make a good pumpkin. That's too cute. You have to post pictures. I still think he's one of the cutest kids ever!