Sad State of Halloween
Posted by jen October 31st, 2006 in Jeneral.So Halloween trick or treat started at 5:30. I thought I’d log the hordes of kids I had (Last year I had SIX) as we get them.
My first kid comes at 5:45. He’s about 10, and wearing a ghoul mask and a cape thing. Not bad.
5:51: Girl about 11, in Pj’s with a bottle, for some reason (and the prerequisite coat since it’s 50 degrees and wet outside.), it’s a pretty sorry costume. With her is probably her mom with a baby dressed as a bee.
6:05: Two girls about 10, one is a witch and the other is a pirate. (best costumes thus far)
6:15: One little girl about 6, in a feathery green/black ensemble that I think was a witch. Cute though. Her parents were dressed up as love bead wearin’ psychedelic shirted hippies complete with glasses and wigs. They got candy too!
Total: 6 (and 2 adults)
And that’s it. It’s 7:30. It’s done. We had *5* kids. I should have given the whole bowl to the last family.
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It’s about the same here for us… We bought full size candy bars since we normally get all of 10-15 kids. We ended up offering candy bars to the parents just so we wouldn’t end up stuck with all of them!
And, yeah, a lot of lame costumes, mostly the older kids. I mean, jeez, put a little effort into it if you’re gonna try to trick-or-treat when you’re 13/14 yrs old, eh?!!?
Best costume at our house was gum stuck under a table. She had a table on her head complete with tablecloth and place settings. Very cute. We got about 25 kids in total.
We had a pretty good showing. Only a couple of low-quality costumes. I think we had about 35.
Jen, I think your problem is the spooky steel plant on the hill is scaring most of them away.