Is Trick-or-Treating becoming a dying tradition?

Two years running I put a length of cord across the front steps with a sign saying, no candy, be safe.

My daughter and family has been doing celebrations from the get-go in the pandemic world with people in their own germ bubble. The number of people in the group(s) have grown but most are immunized and have been around each other often. Traditional trick-or-treating for them is out but they do trunk or treats and other outdoor and some indoor events.
 
OldAFRet said:
Nice weather last night, 200 homes in our hood, at least half with the porch light on, and we had 2 families with a total of 6 trick-or-treaters. Even during last year's mess we had better attendance.

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OldAFRet said:
Nice weather last night, 200 homes in our hood, at least half with the porch light on, and we had 2 families with a total of 6 trick-or-treaters. Even during last year's mess we had better attendance.

Who wants the leftover candy?
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Same issue here, poor pup was all dressed up and only got to meet like 10 kids.
 

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our neighborhood moved it from the township Friday to Sunday due to weather. We had about 100 trick or treaters, and DH and i turned the lights off after an hour...we were getting cold.
 
We have a parade in the neighborhood. Been doing it like that for 30 years. It's a 2K circle. Everyone comes out to the end of their driveways.
They start all together at 1800 and everything is done by about 1900. We offer adult beverage refills as well. Last night was margaritas.
Had about 60 kids and around a dozen adults. Saw some good costumes. :)
 
OldAFRet said:
Nice weather last night, 200 homes in our hood, at least half with the porch light on, and we had 2 families with a total of 6 trick-or-treaters. Even during last year's mess we had better attendance.

Who wants the leftover candy?
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@OldAFRet. Depends on what you got left. I’ll pass on the Good and Plenty, individual jaw breakers, and black licorice🤣 The cool Navy families on our block were passing out Snickers and Hershey’s (king size), Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (double pack, king size), Twix (king size) and other favorites by the hand full. Excited adults, with masks, also partook after seeing what the kids got. Here’s hoping your Halloween foot traffic is better next year and that you have few Navy neighbors🤣. Beat Air Force!
 
OldAFRet said:
Nice weather last night, 200 homes in our hood, at least half with the porch light on, and we had 2 families with a total of 6 trick-or-treaters. Even during last year's mess we had better attendance.

Who wants the leftover candy?
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We only had a few Trick or Treaters in our neighborhood which has more retirees than average but of the children that we saw at our neighborhood Halloween parade, very few actually went door to door. Even though we did not expect many "customers", I bought a large supply of candy as my wife and I will distribute the rest* to our very appreciative college students later this week.
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* The rest being the portion other than Reeses cups which somehow remain here until consumed.
 
We purchased a Solo firepit this summer and love it. Its transportability allowed us to set it up at the end of our driveway. I think the parents appreciated the warmth more that the kids enjoyed the candy. I for one enjoyed my hot toddy...

We used to have 200-300 kids. Yesterday was maybe 100. My now 21 year old daughter was home for the weekend to help out. She reminded me that pretty much all of parents in the neighborhood had kids around the same time, and we never moved away. There are so many empty-nesters in our neighborhood these days, the trick-or-treating population just dwindled down.
 
We gave out 6 bags of candy on Saturday night. Every kid (up to older teens) trick-or-treats in our neighborhood. Our kids went out on Sat in our neighborhood and Sun in the neighborhood next door. They have a great time hanging out with their friends and walking around talking to the everyone outside. Now, what do we do with the obscene amount of candy that they don't really care about?
 
brewmeist said:
We purchased a Solo firepit this summer and love it. Its transportability allowed us to set it up at the end of our driveway. I think the parents appreciated the warmth more that the kids enjoyed the candy. I for one enjoyed my hot toddy...

We used to have 200-300 kids. Yesterday was maybe 100. My now 21 year old daughter was home for the weekend to help out. She reminded me that pretty much all of parents in the neighborhood had kids around the same time, and we never moved away. There are so many empty-nesters in our neighborhood these days, the trick-or-treating population just dwindled down.
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Copycat! I love my Solo Firepit. When you're done, just stop feeding it for half an hour, and it burns itself out. I used the heck out of the thing on Boy Scout camping trips.

Our neighborhood is in transition now. When we moved in, our 3 toddlers were nearly all the little kids there were. We saw a few new ones for a while, then nothing. Finally starting to see a few new ones lately. We used to draw a lot of the rural kids since it kind of turns to farm country much west of us. I guess they grew up too.
 
brewmeist said:
...We purchased a Solo firepit this summer and love it...
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I got mine years ago from a Canadian company that was bought out by Solo. It's like the Solo Yukon (enormous) but cost less and was made out of 16 gauge 316 stainless. It will outlive me, I am sure.

The double-wall stainless firepits are the way to go, let me tell you. Mine is way too big to haul to the end of the driveway, but I did make a small fire in a galvanized steel bucket last night. It worked well.
 
OldAFRet said:
Copycat! I love my Solo Firepit. When you're done, just stop feeding it for half an hour, and it burns itself out. I used the heck out of the thing on Boy Scout camping trips.
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THParent said:
I got mine years ago from a Canadian company that was bought out by Solo. It's like the Solo Yukon (enormous) but cost less and was made out of 16 gauge 316 stainless. It will outlive me, I am sure.

The double-wall stainless firepits are the way to go, let me tell you. Mine is way too big to haul to the end of the driveway, but I did make a small fire in a galvanized steel bucket last night. It worked well.
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We ended up getting the Bonfire. One step down from the Yukon. Large enough to burn standard-length logs, but small enough to carry. The new carrying handle they came out with is a huge help!

We normally use it on our deck. The first burn, some of our neighbors thought our house was on fire, so we had to get the word out about our new toy. Love the fact that you can burn it right on top of the deck with no issues. It's very well engineered.
 
THParent said:
We have a parade in the neighborhood. Been doing it like that for 30 years. It's a 2K circle. Everyone comes out to the end of their driveways.
They start all together at 1800 and everything is done by about 1900. We offer adult beverage refills as well. Last night was margaritas.
Had about 60 kids and around a dozen adults. Saw some good costumes. :)
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When my kids were tiny, and a new family with kids would move in, I would invite the dads to walk along with us, so we all got to get to know each other a bit.
Devil Doc said:
Two years running I put a length of cord across the front steps with a sign saying, no candy, be safe.

My daughter and family has been doing celebrations from the get-go in the pandemic world with people in their own germ bubble. The number of people in the group(s) have grown but most are immunized and have been around each other often. Traditional trick-or-treating for them is out but they do trunk or treats and other outdoor and some indoor events.
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Nothing wrong with making informed decisions. In our case, my wife has had a clean bill of health for 3 weeks now, so no chance of being a spreader. We went for it.
 
OldAFRet said:
When my kids were tiny, and a new family with kids would move in, I would invite the dads to walk along with us, so we all got to get to know each other a bit.

Nothing wrong with making informed decisions. In our case, my wife has had a clean bill of health for 3 weeks now, so no chance of being a spreader. We went for it.
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I've had both first and second Pfizer shots and the booster. I haven't been sick in almost four years. No cold, no flu, no viral syndrome of any kind.

I spend 7 hours a day locked up other people's kids so denying them my presence on Halloween seemed like a small sacrificed for them to make.
 
For me personally, no holiday just feels the same anymore, ever since the world went through the pandemic, everything just feels like a "false-reality," that nothing feels the same.

Hence, for the 2 years since this pandemic, there have literally been no trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood. Christmas just came and went like any regular day. I didn't even put up my Christmas-Tree, because nothing feels the same. These holidays that society has known the come, and love, just come and go past like any regular day, and I don't have any idea why. It's sad.

Maybe, it's just me who feels this way.
 
I used to give out several hundred regular size candy bars to these little beggars.

I stopped several years ago and leave my lights off. Halloween is the worst holiday for my goldendoodle, who thinks these people are here to invade my house.

From what I could tell, the numbers were much higher last night than they have been in several years - even before covid.
 
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