Trick or Treaters drove into other communities

[hereonceagain]

What are your thoughts on this? Are you guys totally ok if you live in a nice area where kids are bussed in (parents bringing carloads and dropping them off) from not so nice neighborhoods just to get the good loot?

My opinion is that I'm fine with kids coming to our nicer neighborhood and in fact prefer it if it means they are safer, yet I'm highly annoyed at the volume of kids and the driving of their parents.

[Deleted]

Kids are kids and Halloween is Halloween. I grew up in a neighborhood where no one passed out candy. If my mom didn't drive us somewhere, we would not have had a holiday.

[crazycakes]

There are a lot of kids in my neighborhood, but no one trick-or-treats here because it's...well, it's kind of the 'hood. No one hands out candy (self included). I hope parents take their kids somewhere else to trick-or-treat, or I would be very sad for those kids.

[jackie011]

There was a full page story in our newspaper the other day with a map to all of the "good" neighborhoods. Let me tell you how annoyed I would be if I lived in one of those neighborhoods. I have no problem spending money on candy for my neighbors, but I would not want carloads of people roaming our neighborhood because they think it's a "good" neighborhood.

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Oct 31, 2012 18:28:12 GMT -5 @libgrl said:

Kids are kids and Halloween is Halloween. I grew up in a neighborhood where no one passed out candy. If my mom didn't drive us somewhere, we would not have had a holiday.

Same here. We lived outside of town and had they not drove us to a neighborhood we never would of been able to.

[chessie]

I think that is sorta crap, you get candy for neighborhood kids. My town doesnt do t/t though, they host treat or trunk by town hall since there are no lights on the streets and its safer.

[carfar]

Is there really "better" candy? I can understand the safety concerns, but doesn't everyone buy their candy from like Target or something? Well except in my granola crunching area , (chocolate needs to be fair trade here 😋 ) I went in a few different types of areas growing up, and it was all the same crap.

[ddi741]

They did this in my old neighborhood, it got so busy we had over 350 kids one year. The next year the police blocked the road and only residents and their guests were allowed.

[explorer2001]

You can see the elementary school from my driveway. We are NOT the richest nicest neighborhood, but we definitely get kids bused in and inordinate numbers of kids.

[Myrrhine]

I am fine with it; those are the only tricker-treaters we get. In my old neighborhood, moms and homeless men would come trick or treating. I gave them all candy.

[Deleted]

I don't have a problem with it. I doubt anyone specifically comes into my neighborhood though. We usually get 30 kids or so.

[kadams767]

I couldn't care less, but I might live in one of the neighborhoods that kids get driven out of to go elsewhere.

[hulley]

I don't care who gets my candy. I always buy plenty. I'd rather they come here than not get a holiday. I remember going to my aunt's neighborhood because I wanted to go TOTing with my cousins.

The homeless TOTing makes me sad. I'd give them candy, too.

[Doggy Mommy]

I don't really care. When the weather is nice (like this year), we get kids from the neighborhood across the street, which is considered a less nice neighborhood but I'm fine with it. When it's cold, we only get kids from our neighborhood.

I grew up in a neighborhood with big houses that were fairly far apart with big hills, and we never got any trick or treaters. We always went TOTing in our friends' neighborhoods. I LOVE getting lots of TOTers now!

[mishap]

I think those who are bothered by this need to unclench. Buy the amount of candy you want to buy, then turn off your lights when you run out.

[Deleted]

Yeah, I live in a 'rich' neighbourhood and kids totally get dropped off out here. We don't care, but I do laugh at the kids hauling a giant pillowcase FULL of candy and then giving me a 'look' when I only give them 1 or 2 individual chocolate bars. One of my neighbours gives out full chocolate bars.

When its $15 for 95 small chocolate bars and you need like 3 boxes, Halloween gets pricey!!! LOL

[SusanBAnthony]

The town next to us does trick or treating the week before. We drove over bc it was 70 degrees last week.

We went to a nice subdivision, bc it is the only neighborhood I am familiar with (bc the kids' babysitter lives there).

[Deleted]

We used to go to our old neighborhood (which for the record wasn't as nice as our new one) to TOT because it was safer and easier to walk between houses. I think there are many valid reasons for TOTing in a neighborhood not your own. My folks never get TOTers because our house in spread out from other houses. Some neighborhoods have better set ups. A variety pack of candy costs a few bucks and it's fun. Bring em on.

[SusanBAnthony]

The other thing is that our town and the town next to us carefully monitor the hours. 5:30-7 only, so even if it is busy, you don't need to buy *that* much candy.

[eddy]

All kids deserve to have a fun tot experience. If that means coming to my neighborhood then bring it on. I think it is sad when people judge this.

[Deleted]

This thread is vaguely reminiscent of the Christmas wish kids shouldn't ask for bikes thread.

I don't buy Halloween candy for neighborhood kids, I just buy it for kids. Why would I care where they live?

[drloretta]

I'm fine with it.

It happened to me a long time ago and the only issue was that I ran out of candy and had to get more.

Where we last lived, we were in a very hilly neighborhood and I didn't expect parents to drag their kids up and down hills. There was a neighborhood closer to the middle of town that decked out all the houses for Halloween. I vowed to take DD there when she was old enough to ToT.

I'm actually kind of sad that we moved, and now live in a neighborhood where no one ToTs. There are just organized events the week leading up to Halloween, which takes the edge off.

[rubytue]

We tend to have a lot of kids brought in, in my stereotyping, I suspect they come in from Baltimore city. I have no problems. The nearest city neighborhood is not too safe, our neighborhood is. Kids are kids and deserve Halloween, even if they live in neighborhoods where it isn't ok to walk around after dark.

Eta - we live in a small townhouse community. We know most of the families or at least have seen them around. So the large groups from outside the neighborhood are easy to spot.

[satama]

We get tons of kids driven here. We are a townhouse development right outside the city limits, so I know parents come because the houses are close together and it is safer.

The only time I ever side eyed was when a pregnant teenager had a bag for her and another for her fetus. I would have given her two things for herself. It made me sad if she was doing it because she really needed more food, I wanted to give her some real food or money if that was the case.

[statlerwaldorf]

We live out in the country, so you can't trick or treat out here. I took DD to a friends house to ToT in their neighborhood. We've always either lived in the country or inner city, so we've never gotten a lot of ToTers which is sad.

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Oct 31, 2012 18:37:31 GMT -5 ddi741 said:

They did this in my old neighborhood, it got so busy we had over 350 kids one year. The next year the police blocked the road and only residents and their guests were allowed.

It is like this every year at my SIL's house. They go through over 500 pieces of candy every year. The entire neighborhood gets into it and the police block off the neighborhood to all traffic.

And a house at the very end was giving parents hot buttered rum last year ;D

[Deleted]

I live in one of those areas and I love it. We get kids lined up down our sidewalk. It's a nice 'hood and the houses are close together, and since it's a popular place, the police even sit around the street and direct traffic. All of our neighbors decorate and sit out on their porch to hand out candy. I think people come here because the surrounding areas are pretty rural.

[statlerwaldorf]

The town we went had their ToT last Thursday. It was very nice out which is rare for Ohio. A bunch of people ran out of candy. One lady said she went through 400 pieces in an hour.

[giantsgirl]

It is definitely happening to us this year because we are one of the few neighborhoods in the area with power. We do live in a nicer 'hood, but I am just happy to see lots of kids in costume and having some fun, after getting through the storm.

[jackie011]

Let me clarify- I want all kids to be able to experience a safe and "bountiful" Halloween, but I do not think the newspaper needs to publish a map to direct people to the "good" neighborhoods.

In my old town we all lived in apartments. My one friend with a house routinely threw a Halloween party and it would be fun to hand out candy to the ToTers. It was obvious kids were being dropped off and parents were trailing them through the neighborhood. I asked my friend what that was about and she said their neighborhood is a lot safer than the neighborhoods even a mile over, so she figured it was just parents wanting their kids to experience Halloween safely. I think that's a great idea.