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Poll: ToT and passing out candy-how do you handle it?
If you have kids, how do you handle passing out candy vs. taking the kids around the neighborhood?
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Re: Poll: ToT and passing out candy-how do you handle it?
My answer is that my parents pass out candy while Rich and I take the kids out. Halloween is my mom's birthday, so if Halloween doesn't happen to fall on a day they are babysitting the kids, then they are at our house for dinner/cake anyway.
If our situation were different, I'd probably leave a bowl of candy at the bottom of our steps. We have a small street with not very many trick or treaters, so I don't really feel obligated to be present for passing out candy. Once the kids are older, I'll probably stay back while DH takes them out.
None seem to really apply exactly. We both take dd out for a little bit. We leave our light out but when we get back home we turn our light on and pass out candy.
i will say where I live is different than Pittsburgh area with TOTing. There is no scheduled time so I feel like people ToT all night!! Seems like some start before 6 and then we will have people after 9. So we went out last year around 6 and probably did an hour or so and when we came back there was still plenty of kids that came around that we passed out to. So we can do both. Although I kind of wish we had specific times because it lasts forever! We eventually shut off the light because dd needs to go to bed (and she goes to bed late that night). Otherwise she wants to hand out candy every time the doorbell rings.
This is the first year we've really run into this issue, so that's why I'm asking
When we lived in our old neighborhood, Jake was too little to ToT, so we usually paraded him to a few neighbors just to show off his costume, then hurried home to pass out candy in time.
Our first year in the new house, I was newly pregnant and feeling viciously sick at all times, so I had no problem staying home and passing out candy. Last year, Liam was too little to care about going, so again...we showed off his costume at the parade my neighborhood does before ToT started, then I went home with Liam.
This year, I know Liam is not going to want to go home when Jake is staying out! I want to be with both of the kids and I know Brian does, too. For a neighborhood with lots of kids, we get very few ToT'ers on our street (we're at the bottom of a large hill and on a cul-de-sac, so I think most of the kids hit up the upper part of the development) so I hate to stay behind to pass out candy to all of 15 kids or so (which is about what we got last year). I'm tempted to put a bucket at the end of the driveway and leave our lamp post light on with a sign that says Happy Halloween, take one please!
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
My three sons!
How time flies! Caileigh (9), Keira (6) & Eamon (3)
The past two years Heather has gone out with a friend from another part of the neighborhood and both kids needed enough assistance that we both went out with them, and left a bowl of candy out on our front steps. The first couple of years we lived in the house, I kept a tally and we get 100-125 TOTers each year. So both years we have come home to an empty bowl. I think in the next couple of years the kids will need less assistance and it won?t be necessary for both of us to go with them. Todd also didn't have as much stamina as Heather did last year, but I assume that he'll keep up better this year.
The last time Halloween was on a Saturday, my parents came that weekend and handed out candy while we took the kids out. That was perfect, but it?s rare.
My thought for this year is that one of us can take the kids up and down our block to see all of our neighbors while the other passes out candy. Then all four of us can meet up with Heather?s friend and his family on the other side of the neighborhood to TOT with him and his brother. And we?ll leave the bowl on our steps while we?re gone. This increases the chance that we?ll get to hand out candy to the kids on our block, but we won?t both have to totally miss seeing the kids trick or treat.
It?s also possible that Heather will want to TOT with some of the kids on our block since she?s getting to know them, too. I?m sure if I plan it too much, she?ll throw a wrench in my plan. :-)
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We usually only 2 like 2 blocks and he is done so we make it back before its over. then Adam and DH and BIL sort candy and make hot cocoa and sis and I do the handing out til the end!
Married, September 23, 2006