I haven't since the first place I lived in DC (15ish years ago), but tonight I got to help give out candy at my parents'. They had like 10 trick or treaters in three groups while I was there, all of whom were little and adorable.

Remember my friend had a baby named Axa? His full name is Axayácatl. Definitely Mayan!

Neighbor kids just stopped by. Lazy little buggers were wearing their soccer uniforms as a 'costume.'

Neighbor kids just stopped by. Lazy little buggers were wearing their soccer uniforms as a 'costume.'

Tell me at least one of them was lying on your lawn, clutching his leg and screaming.

Halloween is HUGE here. We just got back, and the streets were packed. People were running out of candy by seven!

Also really chilly tonight. My fingers are numb. But Hello Kitty had a blast, and hauled home a lot of loot. Which I will pick through once she's in bed.

Ben stayed home to answer the door, and we're almost out of candy. I bought seven bags!

I thought I might get more trick-or-treaters after we got sidewalks a couple of years ago, but not really. There were a couple, and then Mr Peabody became so excited I turned the light off.

I'm wondering if I'll get trick or treaters here--the neighborhood is OK for it, but my place is down a walkway behind another house, so we'll see. Two of my friends came over earlier and we carved pumpkins, so I put that on my porch as a sign. I only bought one bag of candy.

H'ween is my favorite holiday. Both last year and this year I haven't been able to celebrate it due to house sale and moving issues. Sucks.

I've never answered the door because I've always been in costume and out at a party or event. My mom was trying to persuade me to do it here but I told her I wasn't big on kids and she'd be doing the kids a favor if I *weren't* the one on door duty. Particularly because I would withhold candy if someone didn't bother with a costume.

She said, "They could be too poor to have a costume!"

"Mom, the only thing they'd be poor in is drive and imagination. I could make a Halloween costume out of trash if I had to. I'd give candy to someone who had a supermarket bag on their head that they'd drawn a face on."

On another online board I'm at, a woman just tweeted that she got 2 people in their 30s trick-or-treating WITHOUT a costume. She put a candy in the bag anyway and the bagholder said "There's TWO of us."

This is why I cannot be the one doing the door. I'd be in jail right now for felonious assault if that had happened at our door.

mac with the neighbors to a different neighborhood to T or T. I had about 10 kids which is more than I expected, but I had gum and Halloween pencils for them.

The people who were going to come visit today, that I cleaned the whole house for, that I told mac would be coming (as this is HIS friend from NYC) - yeah, they didn't come. When I called to check status they were out shopping. unpleased was me.

The good news is that the house is clean. The parents even came over and helped with some final cleaning after church this morning (I bribed them with BBQ for lunch). SInce we had no guests I pulled another 20 gal of burrs. They are awful this late in the season, dropping burrs really easily, super full. They propagate like mofos.

I do not give candy if people are not in costume and I also wait until they say Trick or Treat. No one has ever given me lip about it.