We had had only three--one solo, and two together. Most of the people on our street leave their lights off, and so only Trick-or-treaters who decide to brave what looks unpromising get here. I hang up a string of pumpkin lights and leave the porch light on. The last two gals squealed with delight when they saw I was giving out Butterfingers.

I had bought two bags of Butterfingers and one of Three Musketeers. That's more candy left over than I would have liked.

We never have any as we live way out in the country and are down a very long driveway they have to back out of.

We had a little boy probably 15 years ago and that is all we remember. I always have a lot of nice things I could hand out if someone comes. I buy a lot of seasonal items from Oriental Trading that would make nice hand-outs for the kids. Each month of the year, I fix 3-4 boxes or so of pretty seasonal goodies for our local nursing home residents. They appreciate my things so very much. Oriental Trading has the best things I can use to brighten the residents days. For Halloween, I gave them 24 bright orange/white chevron round tubs with a snack cake and a Halloween rubber duckie and a Halloween ghost pencil. So, even though we don't have trick-or-treaters at home, I have lots of fun putting together fun things for my nursing home buddies.

We live out also and we only get one little girl every year.I worked with her mother years ago.She get's all the candy her mom brings her here and to her grandmothers home.

Mike, what a neat idea to give out small toys and such. Maybe we'll do that next year.

We live on a street that gets loads of traffic (pedestrian and cars- it's kind of scary) from all over. I gave away less candy than usual mostly because I limited how much I bought. I had about 1500 pieces that were gone after 2.5 hours.

Lots of people give away full size or movie theater size candy. Our next door neighbor was out in his driveway with a movie theater candy counter.

Several years ago a man who lived down the street gave out half pound Hershey bars. He had pallets on his driveway and hired kids from the local college to hand out the candy while he watched. He grew up poor and Halloween and Christmas were the only time he ever had candy so he loves to give it out himself. He has since moved a block east. One of these Halloweens I'll have to walk over and see how he is doing.

Where I live the streets are narrow and dark and tree lined, we have no street lights except for the occasional gas lamp. And a number of people decorate for Halloween. So it's a neat place for the kids. We didn't get a lot of neighborhood kids, some of course. But then the kids from the surrounding villages and towns come in by the van full. This year wasn't the most but not the worse either. I had a 100 count box of tootsie roll pops which I gave to each little goblin along with some other candy. I gave away all the pops so we had over 100 little tricksters. I kept the Butterfingers and Nestle Crunch bars in reserve and I didn't get into that. All in all, not a bad showing.

Thank you Cwcdesign! It feels pretty good but I don't know if it's fully sunk in yet. A feeling of relief too because I fully expected this since the start of the baseball season this year. But post season is an unforgiving bumpy road that often takes down the team with the best record. So I was kinda tense throughout it.