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Most random halloween thing your kids got trick or treating? (1 Viewer)
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Cowboysfan8
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Bruce Dickinson
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A can of Sprite. Not a full-size can, either. One of those 8-ounce “fun size” cans.
Bruce Dickinson
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Northern Voice
Footballguy
Northern Voice
Footballguy
I used to get cans occasionally as a kid. I thought it was great until about 20 minutes later when I realized I had to carry the damn things around another couple hours.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Jules Winnfield
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OrtonToOlsen
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OrtonToOlsen
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xulf
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Ya, no idea. Lady had a giant box and asked if we wanted more. Both my kids asked if we could give them back one house later.
Jules Winnfield
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I got a rock
parasaurolophus
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We got one also. Which is more than the last 10 years combined.Otis said:
Dan Lambskin
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I haven't actually looked yet
GroveDiesel
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Northern Voice said:
Reminds me of a game we played with our Church's youth group called Bigger, Better, Best.
Every team starts out with a paper clip. You then go around and trade the paper clip for something better. And then trade that item, etc etc. Whatever team had the best item at the end wins. They were doing this in addition to a mall scavenger hunt.
The team I was chaperoning stopped at GameStop as their very first stop during a 3 hour scavenger hunt. They traded the paper clip for a 15lb frozen turkey that GameStop had in a freezer in their back room for some reason.
I looked at them dumbfounded and told them they were morons. They thought it was an awesome get for just the paper clip until I pointed out that they now had to carry around a 15lb turkey for 3 hours that was now thawing because nobody in their right mind was going to take a "frozen" turkey from some random teenager at the mall.
They did end up winning the competition though just because of how outlandish it was.
JasonIsBack
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James Daulton
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We only get a few too. Kids these days are smart and hit the houses close together to maximize their return to time spent. Hitting 5 houses in the time it would take to navigate Oat's majestic manor would likely net a 2 - 1 return for their time spent.Otis said:
GroveDiesel
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We had about 40-50 in our neighborhood.
A lot of churches and Civic organizations do trunk or treat now which allow kids to get a bunch of candy in one spot in a safe setting.
I do see a number of FB friends claiming Halloween is dead because they didn't get many kids at their house. Most of them are older and don't have kids that are trick or treating age though. My guess is that they live in neighborhoods without a lot of young families and are so un-neighborly that they don't even realize it.
A lot of churches and Civic organizations do trunk or treat now which allow kids to get a bunch of candy in one spot in a safe setting.
I do see a number of FB friends claiming Halloween is dead because they didn't get many kids at their house. Most of them are older and don't have kids that are trick or treating age though. My guess is that they live in neighborhoods without a lot of young families and are so un-neighborly that they don't even realize it.
kentric
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We have someone in town who gives out books (3-4) per kid. They work for a major publisher.
I saw some silver packaged 3" square objects in the bowl of candy we give out to the trick-or-treaters. I asked our nanny what they are and she said Chinese Cookies. I took them out and found out later they were back in the bowl. I could imagine a kid's parent seeing this in their kid's trove and throwing it straight into the garbage.
Ditkaless Wonders
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We went through 30 bags of candy and then my wife had me run to the store for 10 more. We had a constant stream of kids.Otis said:
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
After 30 bags I think it is ok to put an empty bowl out with a sign that says "please take only one"
heckmanm
Footballguy
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
We used to get around 250. Last night I would say maybe 100. Does seem to go down every year. Weather has not been great the past 4-5 years.
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
There's a dentist in the neighborhood we go to. He always hands out travel packs of toothbrush, toothpaste, floss. Kids always #####. I always laff.
Big League Chew
Footballguy
a packet of duck sauce
and some olive garden mints
and some olive garden mints
packer_junkie
Footballguy
Im crying
Reminds me of a game we played with our Church's youth group called Bigger, Better, Best.
Every team starts out with a paper clip. You then go around and trade the paper clip for something better. And then trade that item, etc etc. Whatever team had the best item at the end wins. They were doing this in addition to a mall scavenger hunt.
The team I was chaperoning stopped at GameStop as their very first stop during a 3 hour scavenger hunt. They traded the paper clip for a 15lb frozen turkey that GameStop had in a freezer in their back room for some reason.
I looked at them dumbfounded and told them they were morons. They thought it was an awesome get for just the paper clip until I pointed out that they now had to carry around a 15lb turkey for 3 hours that was now thawing because nobody in their right mind was going to take a "frozen" turkey from some random teenager at the mall.
They did end up winning the competition though just because of how outlandish it was.
xulf
Footballguy
Johnny Rock
Footballguy
For us it's the opposite. We live in the country and drive from house to house. They don't get many kids in rural areas so you get a haul at each house. I'm talking handfuls of candy bars at one house!
Some give a ziploc bag with 10 things in it. Some give a juice box and a pile of candy. Some give 25 dum dum suckers.
Country folk are the bomb. My kids are super polite and lots of rural people love seeing the kids. Way better per hour return rate imo. Plus no traffic and no bs.
First year we didn't go into "town" to supplement and it was better in many ways just hitting more houses out of town that we sometimes skip.
tl:dr In our experience you get much more out in the country.
Politician Spock
Footballguy
On trick or treat night, our neighborhood has three times as many cars parked in driveways and on the streets.Otis said:
We live near the country, and families out in the country drive their kids to our neighborhood to do trick or treat. They can hit 20 house in our neighborhood in the time it would take for one house in theirs. We probably had 300 trick or treaters last night.
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Kraft...
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My youngest daughter came home with a rolled up piece of paper. Apparently a woman was giving out hand drawn cat art. It was an 8x11 sheet of paper blocked out like a comic book with 6 cat drawings in various outfits. I'll have to take a picture of it and post it, extremely weird. If she was trolling it's pretty funny, if not 
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GroveDiesel
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You don't happen to live in the Pacific Northwest, do you? Ahem, @krista4My youngest daughter came home with a rolled up piece of paper. Apparently a woman was giving out hand drawn cat art. It was an 8x11 sheet of paper blocked out like a comic book with 6 cat drawing in various outfits. I'll have to take a picture of it and post it, extremely weird. If she was trolling it's pretty funny, if not
Frostillicus
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Dan Lambskin
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Kids dumped it all over the floor then mom put it in a big bowl. I didn't eat a single piece... just not a big candy guy
Frostillicus
Footballguy
I'm stealing that Ramen idea for next year.
kentric
Footballguy
I went to my dentist a couple weeks ago and she was almost apologetic about not being able to give out candy.There's a dentist in the neighborhood we go to. He always hands out travel packs of toothbrush, toothpaste, floss. Kids always #####. I always laff.
