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To: Forgotten Amendments
New (older) neighborhood for us. Took the kids around. Including ours, there were four houses with candy, and the lights on. The rest were either not home, or not handing out candy.

We'd hoped for some kids, as there are several families in the neighborhood.

After lucking out in our own neighborhood, I took the kids to another neighborhood with some friends, we walked for about 1.5 hours, and I'd say well over 30% of the homes were participating. The kids easily scored 5 lbs of candy each.

My wife stayed home to hand out candy. Not counting the kids in our group, my wife had 8 people visit. A group of seven, and a single kid. Both of which came after 9 PM. We were bummed.

My folks' area (Idaho, we're in New Mexico) seems hit or miss year-to-year, they didn't have hardly anyone last year (we made the trip there, so they had our kids and the neighbor kids), this year, they ran out of candy.

38 posted on 11/01/2015 2:04:36 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
We get a ton because I live in a predominately Mormon area and the families all have 4,5 or 6 kids.

A war broke out on our little message board over Halloween. A transplant from Chicago (we are getting a lot of those, yay us!) asked what the Halloween hours were.

That threw some other neighbor on the board into a diatribe about how this is Arizona and we don't have hours to trick or treat (and a bunch of other things we have or don't have, do or don't so, etc.) and to take that mentality back to Chicago. It was great!

On a somewhat related note, I noticed how expensive the candy was this year and how tiny the packages inside were. $20 for a "jumbo" size bag that wasn't really that jumbo. The packaging has to cost twice as much as the product. I honestly do not know how young families are doing it.

42 posted on 11/01/2015 2:19:24 PM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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