Happy Spookies, everybody! Do you do the stuff? What stuff do you do?

I put up a few porch decorations: a full sized anatomically correct skeleton, a large CHUCKY doll, a bloody dead on a spike, a spook with a skeleton with wings, bats and spiders.

I don’t get many kids. I had a lot of candy left over from last year but had to throw it all away. All the chocolate candy turned grey and was non-edible.

I don’t get any trick-or-treaters at my place. Just in case we might, my youngest is buying candy. It is absolutely for the kids who won’t come, you understand. It’s not for us adults in the house. Nope. Not for us.

I also bought a bag of candy for the kids. That never come to my house. But it is for the kids.

House is decorated. Animatronic scarecrow, 1000 sqft of webbing, 12 foot inflatable ghost/ghoul, wolf man clawing his way out of the ground, talking skull and pop-up talking pumpkin, skeletons, spiders, lights, etc. We don’t get a ton of kids coming around, but they have been developing all around so that might change as the nomad trick ‘r’ treaters are ferried into the neighborhood. Oh yeah! I have a small army of little skeletons attacking, some riding the backs of plastic pink flamingos.

I’m still a bit off on what I will dress up as. My goal, as always, is to scare at least one teen or older person. Not little kids, though. It’s still magic for them.

Yes, I have fun.

My front door is on a hill, and the kids will usually walk on the main road (which is parallel to a lake) and they won’t usually come up the hill. Also, I’m not big on having kids knocking when the cats may run out (cats are in the house for the night at dark). Soooo, I will stand at the edge of my property with a big bowl of candy and when the kids walk by, I give them candy. If parents want candy, I’ll let them have some, too. The kids and parents usually walk in groups (I call them packs lol) and the parents may have a sippy cup with their adult beverage, or sometimes they’re eating their dinner as they walk. It’s a fun neighborhood for trick or treating.

Once I am tired, in about an hour, I’ll go in the house and make sure it looks dark.

I have over 11 lbs of candy this year, because my daughter wanted to give out two types, chocolate and non chocolate, and we got these huge bags at Costco, 20 dollars each. More than I wanted to spend, and more candy than I wanted to have, but it is what it is.

Never did, never will.

Too far out of town for trick or treaters. I will watch scary movies and indulge in sweet and salty things.

I just gave out about six pounds of candy. I gave each kid two or three pieces because I was trying to get rid of it. After two hours, I came in. I told my daughter that tomorrow, we’ll pick out some that we want to keep and the rest she can bring to school.

It was fun seeing the kids in their costumes and I saw some neighbors who it was good to have a chat with.

I don’t do the stuff. I’m not a party person so I don’t go to Halloween parties and I’m not really keen on dressing up. I’ve never had anybody come to my current apartment in the two plus years I’ve lived here. At my mom’s, we used to get trick-or-treaters but I guess as the overall age of the neighborhood increased, we didn’t get them anymore and so we stopped buying candy. And the apartment I lived in before that handed out orange pieces of paper with pumpkins printed on them for you to put on your door if you were going to have candy. I really appreciated that because since I didn’t give out candy even then, I didn’t have to have people constantly knocking at my door. And besides all that, my cats would get really freaked out if people were coming through my door all the time.

And as a diabetic, it’s not good to have leftover candy left because it would be too much of a temptation to eat. In our county, the trend seems to be to have trunk or treat events at any rate, where people go to churches or schools and trick or treat from people’s car trunks. People have a lot of fun decorating their trunks. I think the going door-to-door thing is getting a bit out of style, at least in my area.

At about 5:30 pm on Halloween evening the doorbell range. I jumped to my feel I thought, “Our first trick or treater!”. I grabbed my spook bowl that contained fresh candy that I stoled from a recent Halloween party and headed for the front door. It was the mail man delivering a package (he always gets to our house late). I said, “Oh, it’s you”. He said, “Here’s your package and I’ll have the Reese’s peanut butter cup”. HA!

@gondwanalon Did you at least compliment his mailman costume?