Quote Originally Posted by Pax View Post
My neighbor decided to be generous one year, he told the second or third kid of the night "take what you want", the kid dumped the entire bowl into his bag and ran away. Trick or Treating done at that house in five minutes.
WTH??? I've heard of people leaving out a bowl of candy on their doorstep with a sign telling them to take "just one"....yeah right. I can't even imagine over 1000 kids coming to my door, if that happens we are leaving for the night. Interesting to read how different everyone's experience has been. I LOVE getting the kids and I make up little individual bags and maybe put a little sticker or toy ring or something similar inside some years. I couldn't do that if we had such numbers. Last year I was in Florida and saw for the first time more kids going door to door....not walking, but being driven by their parents. What is the fun of that? My folks live in a country club neighborhood, so most of the kids were from other areas. The irony was, most of the older folks who live in that area close up their house and go away for the night, they don't want to be bothered with it.

One story I saw on the news before Halloween which was rather disturbing... they did a survey which indicated that a bigger percentage of kids trick or treating preferred money over candy... MONEY! Who in their right mind would start giving out money? That's not trick or treating that is extortion...can you just see the thugs going door to door for money?? And what if you were only giving nickels and they wanted quarters...even if you gave out dimes and you had 1000 kids...(going to my pocket calculator) $100 right there. I guess you might spend that much on candy, but I could see it getting out of hand.