Halloween bummer

[yougetthesmiles]

It is a family tradition for us on Halloween to come to my parents house who goes all out on decorations! They have a nice screened in porch and they just decorate it all up!
So we make a big pot of chili and have all sorts of goodies to eat and warm apple cider.

So all the kids started coming to the door and we invite them in to pick there candy (mind you mom buys regular size candy bars for her trick or treaters)
The kids have to come up to Nelson who is a human size weird looking guy who talks and moves and he is holding a tray of the candy for the kids to pick from.

Now I was shocked at the kids that were NOT even dressed up, they had a bag and was going door to door without a costume.

Then you had the kids who was very inpolite and did not say trick or treat or even a thank you!

And what about this lady who was pushing a small baby around in a stroller who obviously was not the one eating the candy lol

I just find it sad how the kids are now days

Anyone else have anything to share about there trick or treaters?

[Keno]

where I am, some people leave an bowl of candy outside and let the kids pick the candy by themselves. Sp basically, it has become a walking candy tour ... and yes, parents came with babies in strollers and no costumes either... ...

[pepe mint]

Originally Posted by Keno

where I am, some people leave an bowl of candy outside and let the kids pick the candy by themselves. Sp basically, it has become a walking candy tour ... and yes, parents came with babies in strollers and no costumes either... ...

I have to say that we leave the candy bowl out while we are out trick or treating. but when we are home, we hand the candy out. we leave it out because we want to kids to be able to get candy from us, but we have a 6 year old that goes door to door (yes, she is dressed up LOL) and we are usually out doing that during the peak trick or treating time.

i'm thinking that the people with the strollers should maybe not go door to door...but go to the mall or something like that. i only say this because i know when i was a new mom, i wanted to dress my baby up and take her out it's cute!! but i agree that the mom getting candy for herself is a little "funny".

i was angry last night when we had only gone to about 5 houses and returned for my daughter to use the restroom...and someone had dumped the whole bowl of candy in their bag. that HAD to be what happened because there was a LOT of candy in there and we were only gone a few minutes. that irritated me. but i figured that it was bound to happen i'm just glad we didn't have all that candy left over LOL

[Txgurl06]

we seen tons of this last night!!!!

Some kid threw his bag on the bar and said "Gimme some candy"!! And my dads friend "and you say?" then the boys said "Oh yeah trick or treat" Guess what tho for the rude ones we had surprises! We had mushy gushy fake eyeballs and thats what they got in their bag lol!!! Also soo many came with no costumes!! Thats what makes Halloween is dressing up!!! next year im gonna tell my dad to make it a rule no costume no candy! I mean i know some people dont have a lot of money but dang get a sheet cut holes and be a ghost!

[browniesmom622]

there were very few kids this year here they were all over 11 & no costumes i didnt see not one little kid

[pepe mint]

Originally Posted by browniesmom622

there were very few kids this year here they were all over 11 & no costumes i didnt see not one little kid

wow...that's sad.

i came home from work yesterday at like 4 and there were people trick or treating already!!! i was shocked. my bff says that is normal but i have never gone that early. a lot of people aren't even home from work yet. it was almost 6:30 before we went out. LOTS of kids walking around our neighborhood...all with costumes. i hate when is see the big kids wearing scary or bloody costumes...it scares the little kids!!!

oh, i also had to call the cops on one of my neighbors at 2am...their music was SOOOOOOOOOOO loud. I couldn't sleep at all. i was ticked. this happens a lot but this time i called the cops. i was over it.

[yougetthesmiles]

Originally Posted by pepe mint

wow...that's sad.

i came home from work yesterday at like 4 and there were people trick or treating already!!! i was shocked. my bff says that is normal but i have never gone that early. a lot of people aren't even home from work yet. it was almost 6:30 before we went out. LOTS of kids walking around our neighborhood...all with costumes. i hate when is see the big kids wearing scary or bloody costumes...it scares the little kids!!!

oh, i also had to call the cops on one of my neighbors at 2am...their music was SOOOOOOOOOOO loud. I couldn't sleep at all. i was ticked. this happens a lot but this time i called the cops. i was over it.

trick or treat here was from 5-7, and most people dont even get off work till 5

[myteddybear]

We don't hand out candy because we take the kiddos trick or treating. I don't leave the candy on the doorstep for just the reason mentioned above.

We saw lots of kids walking around with thier bags of candy going door to door and had not even a hint of a costume on. My hubby made several remarks about it through the night , it really irritated him.

I used to take my babies because I was taking the other kids so I would dress him up and take him too. The babies always has fun and if they got candy it would just go in the pot with the other kids candy. We didn't take the babies for the candy, if we really wanted candy we could just buy it, we took the babies because they always loved being part of what was going on.

My babies are all walking on thier own now so I took Teddy last night and I have to say the rudest thing I got all evening came from grown men who had to make smart @ss comments about Teddy. One guy went by and said "Hey, look at the gerbil" (sp?) Teddy wasn't even dressed up, he just wore a cute halloween vest with a stobe light on it so nobody would step on him. One guy was riding a golf cart around and felt the need to stop and look at Teddy with a smart look on his face and just shake his head before taking off as though he was saying "What the heck is that?" or something. Extremely rude. He never even spoke to us just looked and shook his head. Whe the heck do people think there is something wrong with small dogs???

[nvnvgirl]

Well, we (my husband and I) haven't gotten any trick or treaters ever. I lived in an apt before we got married and then we lived in gated communities that were pretty much adult only, so it's been a long time. Now we live in a neighborhood, but very few young children around and off a busy street with no sidewalk.....but I was out last night which is unusual, and this is how out of it I am.....I was driving home around 9 pm and I see all these people walking in groups, alone, one on a skateboard, parents with babies in strollers and just 'kids'; it seemed like almost a carnival atmosphere; ....I was thinking "wow, how strange to see so many people out at this time of night and it's not even summer anymore...it's almost like they're going to some function "....and then I realized it was HALLOWEEN!
It might have occurred to me sooner if even ONE PERSON had a costume on, but nope.....nobody had one on. I did notice that several of them were carrying pillowcases though . My, how things have changed since I was a kid!

[Txgurl06]

Originally Posted by pepe mint

wow...that's sad.

i came home from work yesterday at like 4 and there were people trick or treating already!!! i was shocked. my bff says that is normal but i have never gone that early. a lot of people aren't even home from work yet. it was almost 6:30 before we went out. LOTS of kids walking around our neighborhood...all with costumes. i hate when is see the big kids wearing scary or bloody costumes...it scares the little kids!!!

oh, i also had to call the cops on one of my neighbors at 2am...their music was SOOOOOOOOOOO loud. I couldn't sleep at all. i was ticked. this happens a lot but this time i called the cops. i was over it.

you wouldnt have liked my families costumes then lol! I think the more scary the better!

[celstu1]

I did not pass out candy this year. honestly I couldn't afford it. I live in a townhouse complex that lazy parents bring their kids to so they can hit up more places in a shorter distance, and last year I went through $70 in candy! Thats A LOT of candy! The kids were rude, not saying trick or treat, taking FIST FULLS from the bucket, the older ones were still coming around at like 9pm, when trick or treat ended at 8pm. This year my complex did trick or treat on Oct 30th to try to avoid the people who drive over from other areas to take their kids trick or treating. It didnt work, the 5 mins I was home there were cops there, kids EVERYWHERE and cars parked up & down the road from people who do not live there!

I remember when I was a kid, there was a townhouse complex 1 street over, and I lived on a road with like 5 houses on it. My dad walked with us trick or treating but we WALKED to the complex (which was about 1.5 miles away) to trick or treat... not just drove there and jammed up their parking lots!!! Kids are sooo lazy these days! (not all, but some)

[chachi]

We had a couple of adults trick or treating but they were dressed up. I dont mind that. We had alot of kids. I love halloween. Jewels was dressed up and she went trick or treating and got some bones. Alot of people in our neighborhood dont give out candy. The ones that do though tend to give out alot

[myteddybear]

Originally Posted by Txgurl06

you wouldnt have liked my families costumes then lol! I think the more scary the better!

Funny...we walked by this one house where there was a guy standing at the end of the driveway in a scream costume (i hate the scream costume, I think it is way over used and creepy) with a shovel in his hands. He was kinda swaying back and forth and every so often he would smack the shovel on the ground and make sparks. Ewwww, he gave me the creeps and he must have given everyone else the creeps too because the was a person sitting on his front porch to give out cand but nobody would go past him to go to the door. Everyone just walked right past the house going out into the street to walk further away from him. LOL I thought it was funny.

[yougetthesmiles]

Originally Posted by myteddybear

We don't hand out candy because we take the kiddos trick or treating. I don't leave the candy on the doorstep for just the reason mentioned above.

We saw lots of kids walking around with thier bags of candy going door to door and had not even a hint of a costume on. My hubby made several remarks about it through the night , it really irritated him.

I used to take my babies because I was taking the other kids so I would dress him up and take him too. The babies always has fun and if they got candy it would just go in the pot with the other kids candy. We didn't take the babies for the candy, if we really wanted candy we could just buy it, we took the babies because they always loved being part of what was going on.

My babies are all walking on thier own now so I took Teddy last night and I have to say the rudest thing I got all evening came from grown men who had to make smart @ss comments about Teddy. One guy went by and said "Hey, look at the gerbil" (sp?) Teddy wasn't even dressed up, he just wore a cute halloween vest with a stobe light on it so nobody would step on him. One guy was riding a golf cart around and felt the need to stop and look at Teddy with a smart look on his face and just shake his head before taking off as though he was saying "What the heck is that?" or something. Extremely rude. He never even spoke to us just looked and shook his head. Whe the heck do people think there is something wrong with small dogs???

My daughter wanted to take one of the yorks, but I said no, I just didnt want to take a chance since I was not walking with them. Last year I did take Lillie with us and we got a lot of the same looks as you got.

[MeganS]

on the bus to school yesterday, there was this spoken song playing about the "uncostumed teenage trick-or-treater" and it was very funny. Most of us kids around here dress up....and we're usually polite at the doors haha.

Everyone in my town goes all out...it's tradition. There was one guy standing on a corner dressed as Michael Myers, and he took half a centimeter step towards me and my friends, and I went flying to the other side of the street I was so scared lol. it was hysterical. When we went over to him (after I had calmed down) he said I scared the heck out of him because he thought I was going to get hit by a car lol.

The only really bad expierance I've had was one year we left the candy bowl out cause I was out trick-or-treating, and some one not only took ALL the candy, but took the bowl with it.

Our trick-or-treating goes fromo 3:00 (when the babies come out) to 9:30. My friends and I like going later, because then everyone wants to get rid of the candy so they're like "Here - have 16 handfulls." haha.