only 20 kids

[dave54]

trick or treating by our house this year.

Cold and rainy, and there not many young families at our end of town anymore.

I miss seeing the kids all dressed up. I also get a kick when I recognize the accompanying parents and remember them as coming by our house 20 years ago with their parents. They evidently know where the good candy is given out.

Now I have to get rid of the surplus, else I will just eat it.

[RichardCullip]

152 kids came by our house. Quite a few were in groups of 10 or more. It's fun seeing all of the costumes.

[balzaccom]

We got four. Kids, not groups. But it was also pouring rain.

[giantbrookie]

In any given neighborhood this may change with time, depending on the how many people are moving in or out of a neighborhood. I recall two places I lived in where many folks bought into a neighborhood at approximately the same time and stayed on in the neighborhood: one of these is where I went to elementary school through high school myself and the other is where my wife and I owned our first house for 15 yrs. In both cases there was a time when there were lots of young kids trick or treating but as this wave of kids got older and the numbers slowly diminished as new families were not moving into these neighborhoods. My kids went trick or treating in a new neighborhood for the first time last night, having just moved in August. There were lots of kids out. This could have been predicted in the sense that there are a lot of kids in the neighborhood and there are many houses that where folks really went all out in decorating. Of course bad weather can put a damper on things in any given year.