Our neighborhood gets absolutely slammed most years, so unless I want to buy a shitton of candy to last the 2 hours we're open for business I only give one piece per kid. Then I save the gross kinds for the teenagers who show up sans costume.
A couple of pieces to a handful. Some Halloweens have been pretty busy with kids walking up and down the street, other Halloweens have been slow and I had only a saw a few kids all night. I think I gave an entire bag away one year.
Post by rosiedozie on Oct 27, 2013 19:01:59 GMT -5
It's our first year in a new house/new neighborhood so I'm not sure how many kids we will get. I bet we'll just do two pieces per kid and then shut down when we're out of candy. I want to have as little leftovers as possible
Post by thatgirl2478 on Oct 27, 2013 20:07:42 GMT -5
Depends on how many 'customers' we've had and how much candy we have.
The first year we were in this house we had like 20 kids - but bought enough candy for around 100... Needless to say, by the end we were sick of waiting for kids (our tv is in the basement, so we would have to sit in the front living room where there is NOTHING entertaining) so we dumped the entire bag of blow pops in the bags of the last 2 middle school girls who were SERIOUSLY excited about blow pops. Made their night.
Post by janiejones on Oct 27, 2013 20:53:27 GMT -5
I said depends.
Some years I buy candy & a toy thing (ring, playdoh, super bounce balls etc.) so at least one of each. As the night wears on I adjust to accommodate for flow/traffic. I never rewards good costumes unless they show at my door alone. I can't reward one clever kid in front of his poorly dressed pals. Also, I don't care if 14/15/16 yo kids come. It's hardly causing trouble. Plus when I gave out silly bandz they were embarrassed to take them. It was funny!
Post by chickadee77 on Oct 27, 2013 21:00:47 GMT -5
Huh.
I do tend to give extra candy to kids that actually wear costumes. I kinda want to be the biotch that gives ketchup and mayo packets to kids in regular clothes with pillowcases that can't even be bothered to say, "Trick or treat!" I mean, for real, get off my lawn.
But I always give candy to everyone because I'm nicer in person than I am in my mind.
People come from everywhere to TOT on our street, last year DH spent $200 on candy and was handing out FOUR pieces to every kid, and dude bought pretty much all chocolate.
We are not spending that much this year because he is banned from this activity.
I give a handful, and teenagers are welcome. I love Halloween. It's like the last vestige of community spirit. When else are kids encouraged to (safely) knock on the doors of strangers and interact??