I simply say, “Baby, ooh-ooh baby, my sweet baby, you’re the one.”

We only get about 15 groups of kids here. I get a huge bowl; put a whole bunch of the good stuff in there (mini chocolate bars, gum), and the kids just reach in and grab. I tell them to take a good handful. – ‘cause, really, I don’t need any leftovers, or, else Mama (me) will hoover them up.

My opinion is that if you are going to be home, answer the door and offer a bowl when trick or treaters come. But if your going to be out, that doesn’t mean you should skip Halloween. Thnik back to when you were a kid and a house didn’t give candy! So depressing. So if you’re note going to be home, leave as much candy as you possibly can outside.

Usually sit outside with the bowl, unless it were too cold or whatever. But we have a porch at this house, so it’s easy to sit out there on the rocking chairs.
No one ever comes to this house..it’s on a major road…we have the light on and buy candy though.

@pdworkin are you sure you’re not confusing how you give out Halloween candy with how you call your loverboy (girl)?

I have a very unique method of handing out candy.
1. I hear the doorbell.
2. I answer the door.
3. I admire the costumes.
4. I wait to hear “trick or treat”
5. I place candy in the receptacle held out to collect candy.

I know, slightly out of the ordinary, but it gets the job done.~

@SuperMouse I can’t stand when kids don’t say trick or treat! You’re already going door to door getting candy, the least you can do is be nice and polite to the person.
Last year we took our almost 18 month old son out..only to a couple neighbors houses…and we had to carry him because kids would thunder by us..almost knocking us over! And the kids would get the candy and run away. I would be pissed if my child did that.

@casheroo I totally agree. It also really annoys me when they don’t bother to say thank you.

I live on a highway. We don’t get any trick or treaters, but buy candy just the same ;)

Anytime we left the candy outside unattended, kids that were old enough to go around w/out their parents (and old enough to know better) would just grab all the candy. If my husband was home, one of us (usually me) would go around with the little ones & the other would mind the candy bowl. Where I live now, I don’t get any trick-or-treaters aside from grandkids.

We’re not home for long because we are usually out with the kids trick or treating, so we let the kids just grab what they want when they knock on the door.

One year my husband stayed home while I went out with our boys. The first kid that knocked on the door got one huge surprise. My husband said “This is your lucky day” and dumped all of our candy into the child’s bag, shut the door and turned off the lights.

Candy? Is that what’s supposed to happen?

I’ve been giving out scoops of soiled cat litter.

@jonsblond forgot to mention that it was a stormy, windy Monday night and the Packers were playing the Bears. Sheesh.

@jonsblond lol that’s hysterical!

The last few years I have put out a table with a black sequined table cloth, bleeding candles (not lit), spiders, a mummified head and two big bowls of candy. Under the table is a CD player playing scary music like the Halloween and Psycho themes, and Night on Bald Mountain, etc. I have just been leaving the door open and sitting inside because our front porch is too small to sit on with the table out there. But when I see the kids, I don’t let them take candy unless they say “trick ‘r treat.” Some of those teenagers will refuse to say it. Bastards. One year, I refused candy to a group of snotty teenagers who wouldn’t say it, and they came back with back packs and started dumping candy in, so I had to chase them off. I’m pretty sure I said, “Get off my lawn!”

However, this year I’m not putting anything out. Turns out we don’t get many kids, and I’m real tired. I’m just doing the old knock-on-the-door routine. I’m also putting all the good chocolatey candy under the cheap mix in hopes that some will be left for me :)

I have a big bowl and hand out as many sweets as possible!!!

don’t, i am a hallowe’en grinch.

I leave the front gate and door open, (I have no doorbell) and listen for the kids. I then give each one a package of powdered hot chocolate. The walkway to the door is decorated with Halloween stuff.

It involves a potato gun, 3 side by side slip & slide´s, about 5 gallons of olive oil, one giant speaker and several well timed explosions.

After opening the door I greet the kids with a “Happy Halloween” – then I ask questions:
“Who are you supposed to be?”
“You make that costume?”
“Can you growl for me?”
“Do you really eat brains?”
“Where’s your prince?”
– and so on.

They, of course, just want the damn candy. I make them work for it.

Also…teenagers in a no-costume-costume get NECO Wafers (‘cuz they taste like chalk). Really good costumes get PEZ Dispensers or Action Figures.

I don’t. Until recently Halloween wasn’t celebrated in Australia, and I don’t really like the idea of children knocking strangers’ doors at night.

2 hand fulls, per kid.

I don’t get to pass out candy because I’m out with the kids. When my first was little, and didn’t know the difference, I’d take her to the grandparents and neighbors and then run home so I could pass out candy. I guess in a few short years they won’t want to go out on Halloween anymore, so I should enjoy it while I can!

@knitfroggy , too true!

Everyone in the neighborhood sits on their porches from around 5:30 to 8pm, with bowls full of candy. 600 kids troop by, climb the steps, admire the pumpkins and then we throw one piece of candy in every bag.