Time to adjust your Trick or Treat Route Maps (houses, kids)

[LindaleLove]

Originally Posted by modster

You all have not seen trick or treating on overload until you have seen it in Lindale Park. I have no idea why it has become such a big thing over there. It is like a circus and goes on until like 10:00 PM or later. There are the neighborhood kids, the truck loads of kids, the whole thing. Every street is packed for hours. I'm talking packed where you can hardly drive down them. It's hard to think of something to compare it to. You have people in the low-riders and all of that, the pick up trucks, everything. It is an experience, that's for sure.

Um.. YEAH. Last year was my first Halloween in Lindale Park... I had a moderately sized container of candy... It was gone in the first 10 min... PROMISE. It was bad and then the kids keep ringing the bell... I finally taped over it "out of candy" I will know this year to get a little more but I could not financially support enough candy for all these kids. I am talking a like 20 deep at the front door!!

[HoustonRonnie]

Here's what we do:

Buy the best candy and hand it out until 8PM. After that, the lights go off and all the leftover candy goes in my freezer and I munch on it for the next three months. My son takes a small bowl and sits in the darkened garage just daring some smarta$$es to mess with our cool, over the top, halloween decorations on the lawn.

Just sayin'....

Ronnie

[crone]

When my kid bought in the Heights on one of those lights in the Heights streets, they were told to prepare for 4-500 trick or treaters. It was true.

[Houston_2010]

Last year one of my neighbors gave my 3 year old a bag with a toothbrush and her dentist business card...weak! I'm all about hygiene, but Halloween night is not the time to advertise businesses.

In my neighborhood you see the little ones walking with their parents early evening - around 6pm. Then you start seeing the streets all of the suddent congested with cars full of people from other neighborhoods. It's true many of them are adults with no costume. The young kids, I make them walk up to my door and give them a hard time about not having a costume...it's probably not their fault, but their parents. So I do hand out whatever I have left for a while longer, but close to 8:30 I close shop.
I hope since Halloween falls on a Monday we don't see too many kids way past their bedtime asking for candy.

Good luck everyone!

[testmo]

in montrose/museum district last year we got 0 trick or treaters. i am hoping to have a few here.

i'll give candy to anyone in a costume (regardless of age - hey I like candy too) and i'll give any child candy regardless of whether they are in a costume or not. i agree with _2010 it's probably the parents' fault if they aren't in gear


teens hustling for candy sans some type of costume? nope not at my door! i've had one of those try to push their way in to get to my candy bowl. i didn't feel bad finding him on the street later and taking his pillow case full. im an adult!

i close up shop when i run out of candy. i've never run out of candy ever

[Oildog]

I just keep my gate locked.

[lipbalm]

Originally Posted by TimBomb

the trick or treating scene in E.T. was pretty cool. I thought it was really that cool in the US

It seems the tradition has kind of been in decline compared to my trick or treating days (early 1980's).

[DJboutit]

Over here in the Willowbend Meyerland area for the last few yr we only get about 15 or so kids before we use to see like 50 & even the older teenagers coming to the door about 9:45

[TimBomb]

Originally Posted by lipbalm

It seems the tradition has kind of been in decline compared to my trick or treating days (early 1980's).

diversity sucks

[Watchful]

Originally Posted by modster

You all have not seen trick or treating on overload until you have seen it in Lindale Park. I have no idea why it has become such a big thing over there. It is like a circus and goes on until like 10:00 PM or later. There are the neighborhood kids, the truck loads of kids, the whole thing. Every street is packed for hours. I'm talking packed where you can hardly drive down them. It's hard to think of something to compare it to. You have people in the low-riders and all of that, the pick up trucks, everything. It is an experience, that's for sure.

YES - I remember - we had about 300 kids and finally had to turn off the lights. I think it was because most of the neighborhoods in all directions from Lindale Park had very narrow streets and a lot of fenced front yards.