Trick or treat; tell us your favorite treat and your best trick.
It’s a rainy Friday, the day before Halloween and who’s got the stomach for a topic on some weighty issue like health care or the Afghanistan war? Not me.
So weigh in on the time-honored tradition of Halloween, where kids of all ages and costumes will ring your doorbell in search of treats. Is there a tradition behind what you hand out? Or is it just whatever bags you grabbed as you pushed your shopping cart down the aisles of the local store? At our house, we buy in bulk because we get hundreds of trick-or-treaters. 
Do you ask the kids to do a trick, or tell a joke? Sometimes we do, but often we don’t. What we do insist on, though, is that all but the littlest goblins at least say something. If a kid does nothing but shove a bag my way, nothing happens. Eventually, they figure it out and say those three little words.
So tell us your Halloween traditions, your preferred treat, your favorite trick. And have fun out there on Saturday night.
I love Halloween. When I was a kid the streets were packed with trick-or-treaters. It’s a shame things have changed so much. It seems like we get fewer and fewer kids each year. When we do, though, I ask the kiddies if one of them has a joke or trick but no one does. I really like to see the costumes and makeup. A tradition over the past few years has been my wife and granddaughter getting together to make my granddaughter’s costume. This year she’s a vampire.
I grew up in the Chicago area. I never heard of the telling jokes thing until I got here. I never ask them for a trick or a joke, the jokes just keep coming. As long as they say “trick or treat” I’ll put candy in their bag. We get very few trick or treaters. Less than 15 a year. I live at the end of a cul de sac where most everyone else on the street is 65 and up, and only one or two of them hand out anything. So most of the kids are wise and skip our street. I’m going to fix that, though. This year I’m handing out full size Hershey’s, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, and Kit Kat candy bars I got in a 30pk. Take THAT, recession!
I don’t have a preferred treat, but I have some that I feel are disgusting and/or super lame. Take note, candy hander outers. If you’re handing out Dubble Bubble bubble gum (in the yellow and blue wrapper), kids hate you. If you’re handing out those orange and black toffee peanut butter abominations, kids hate you. Also, if you’re handing out pennies, kids hate you… It’s halloween, quit acting like the wellfare tooth fairy. I’ve also heard that Candy Corn and Smartees are highly unpopular. I like them, but if you’re handing those out, beware.
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You’re right that some kids hate Smartees and I think they’re fabulous. Totally agree on pennies, the nasty black/orange concoctions and that horrible gum.
We will get 200-300 trick or treaters, because I live in a small town with plenty of rural areas where the kids can’t T or T, so their parents bring them in to their friends’ neighborhoods. I don’t mind at all; seeing all the costumes is a lot of fun.
My wife was the one that always ask if they had a joke for us. Most did, they were will prepared. What I liked most about Halloween was when our kids were little many moons ago, everyone handed out Smartees and the kids didn’t like them. They were glad to let me go through their stuff and pick them out. I also got all the sweet tarts.
Now that we are old, we just get out of the house on Halloween. It seems like there are more 16 to 20 year old trick or treaters every year. They come as late as 10:00 with no costume. Not for us, we go to the casino on Halloween night.
My trick was turning into the old butt head in the neighborhood that we hated as kids because he never gave out anything…never even came to the door. That’s me now. Don’t worry, my wife takes care of it.
My favorite treat is when I get to make a profit and the liberals don’t redistribute it to corporations, welfare recipients and illegals. My favorite trick is when I get to make a profit and the liberals don’t redistribute it to corporations, welfare recipients and illegals.
My favorite trick is making a conservative shut up, but you’ve never seen anyone do that before.