I don't have kids, but my first Halloween around here was in 2006 at Reston. I dressed up, spooked up my condo, and had full sized candy bars from Costco ready to go. No one came. My first trick or treater arrived in 2013 and I had no candy give. I assumed the kid was new to the area and didn't know that no one comes to our complex on Halloween. If I was a trick or treater, I'd hit up the condos for candy concentration within a little distance.

So, where do trick or treaters go around here? Door to door single family or TH's? I was extremely disheartened when no one came. Halloween is so much fun.

With the recent Bigfoot sightings in the last few years, trick or treaters have taken to staying indoors.

lol, why do you want to know where the kids go? You know they don't go there so that's all you need to know. Stop trying to stalk the young.

Nostradamus Wrote:
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> lol, why do you want to know where the kids go?
> You know they don't go there so that's all you
> need to know. Stop trying to stalk the young.


yes, yes, yes. yes. yes yes yes. agreement. stop stalking. and especially on halloween. stop stalking on halloween. on halloween, stop stalking.

They don't give out candy in third world countries, so people know to avoid condo complexes. You go to the nice single family homes to trick or treat.

Is this a trick question?

Someone's looking for children

Where will the youngest kids be at?


I'll be in my Toyota again tonight.

It depends on the condo complex. You know black folks are afraid of ghosts.

I lived in a condo for 17 years, and most years, no kids showed up. A few years I had one kid show up. I think kids are not inclined to trick or treat in condo complexes, and I understand there's little traffic in townhouse communities as well, though someone can correct me if I'm wrong. It seems most of the trick or treating is done in single family home communities.

Kids are too lazy to walk up stairs

Where Wrote:
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> I don't have kids, but my first Halloween around
> here was in 2006 at Reston. I dressed up, spooked
> up my condo, and had full sized candy bars from
> Costco ready to go. No one came. My first trick
> or treater arrived in 2013 and I had no candy
> give. I assumed the kid was new to the area and
> didn't know that no one comes to our complex on
> Halloween. If I was a trick or treater, I'd hit
> up the condos for candy concentration within a
> little distance.
>
> So, where do trick or treaters go around here?
> Door to door single family or TH's? I was
> extremely disheartened when no one came.
> Halloween is so much fun.


OP - does being to the sexual predator list preclude you from giving candy out to children or trying to seek them out?

We've been in a single-family home for 24 years. The first year here, we bought a couple of big bags of candy, and I made three runs to the store that night for more (by the last one, I was buying individual bars).

Since then, it tailed off. A few years ago I started keeping track; last year we had a total of 30-odd kids (some odder than others, heh).

This year we had over 80! Go figure. And we didn't even have any of the teenagers who don't bother to dress up. Those are the ones who really irritate me.

The kids who ask "How many can I take?" are rude but at least they ask.

Best one tonight: tiny kid, younger than 3, toddles up and *puts a piece of candy in my bowl*, takes another! I laughed, his mother laughed, I made sure he wound up with both of them. Hey, he was unclear on the concept, but he understands a fair swap!

Fair Oaks Mall was packed with trick-or-treaters

Greybeard Wrote:
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> We've been in a single-family home for 24 years.
> The first year here, we bought a couple of big
> bags of candy, and I made three runs to the store
> that night for more (by the last one, I was buying
> individual bars).
>
> Since then, it tailed off. A few years ago I
> started keeping track; last year we had a total of
> 30-odd kids (some odder than others, heh).
>
> This year we had over 80! Go figure. And we didn't
> even have any of the teenagers who don't bother to
> dress up. Those are the ones who really irritate
> me.
>
> The kids who ask "How many can I take?" are rude
> but at least they ask.
>
> Best one tonight: tiny kid, younger than 3,
> toddles up and *puts a piece of candy in my bowl*,
> takes another! I laughed, his mother laughed, I
> made sure he wound up with both of them. Hey, he
> was unclear on the concept, but he understands a
> fair swap!



just means you are getting older!

mister obvious Wrote:
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> Where Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I don't have kids, but my first Halloween
> around
> > here was in 2006 at Reston. I dressed up,
> spooked
> > up my condo, and had full sized candy bars from
> > Costco ready to go. No one came. My first
> trick
> > or treater arrived in 2013 and I had no candy
> > give. I assumed the kid was new to the area
> and
> > didn't know that no one comes to our complex on
> > Halloween. If I was a trick or treater, I'd
> hit
> > up the condos for candy concentration within a
> > little distance.
> >
> > So, where do trick or treaters go around here?
> > Door to door single family or TH's? I was
> > extremely disheartened when no one came.
> > Halloween is so much fun.
>
>
> OP - does being to the sexual predator list
> preclude you from giving candy out to children or
> trying to seek them out?

I don't believe I asked where I could seek kids out. I asked where they are trick or treating out of curiosity since, as I said, I don't have kids and kids aren't stopping by on Halloween. As a victim of childhood sexual assault, your response surprised me somewhat. But what else should I have expected here?

I do appreciate those who answered genuinely.

When we first moved to this neighborhood, it was all older folks and empty-nesters. Just a few kids came at Halloween. But as all those folks passed or moved on, a wave of young couples moved in and the place was soon crawling with kids. Halloween was a very busy time then. Another decade along, and we're about halfway back down the cycle again. I bet similar things play out in other neighborhoods as well.

Hondo Wrote:
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> I lived in a condo for 17 years, and most years,
> no kids showed up. A few years I had one kid show
> up. I think kids are not inclined to trick or
> treat in condo complexes, and I understand there's
> little traffic in townhouse communities as well,
> though someone can correct me if I'm wrong. It
> seems most of the trick or treating is done in
> single family home communities.

I live in a townhouse community in Annandale, and we had roughly 100 trick-or-treaters on Halloween