Thread: Any tips on how to get a lot of Trick or Treaters to come to your house?

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Every year for Halloween we only get 5 or 6 trick or treaters. My neighbours don't celebrate Halloween and they turn off all there lights and we are on a hill. Do u have any tips on how to attract more Trick or Treaters? lol

Haunt it and they will come!!

well, first of all ... you need to get rid of that hill. No parent or ToTer wants to struggle with that.. j/k

I'm with Killed by Death (btw-love that username)... Haunt it and they will come.

And good luck to you.

@creeeepycathy

thanks! =)

Originally Posted by pumpkinspirit

@creeeepycathy

thanks! =)

Anytime.... Glad I could be of help. j/k

I dunno... I put up a lot of decorations, including string lights and stuff that lights up in hopes it will draw in the trick-or-treaters but most years I only get a few groups! I wondered if they were too scared, or what! (I also have creepy music playing out the window...)

I got 10-20 ToTs the first year so the next year made a couple of tombstones from bead foam. Just cut out the shape, no paint or fuss so a car driving by could read it fast and easy off the white, took a wide Sharpie (they have huge ones that are like an inch length) and wrote on them
THIS WAY IF YOU DARE
and an arrow
(on both sides)

I put one down the street on the corner of the main thoroughfare and one on the second busiest corner. Each were next to the street sign pole.

I got almost a hundred kids and now keep getting more!

I don't get all fancy with the sign tombstones because every year they get trashed by some idiot(s).

Full Size Snickers

Originally Posted by pumpkinspirit

Every year for Halloween we only get 5 or 6 trick or treaters. My neighbours don't celebrate Halloween and they turn off all there lights and we are on a hill. Do u have any tips on how to attract more Trick or Treaters? lol

Are there ToTs to attract? I've pretty much maxed out my hood at around 150 - 200 and I know folks here in Utah that get 3 to 5 times as many. Bottom line is location, location, location.

As Wilbret says...full size snickers helps. The better the goodies, the more word of mouth you get. You have to have something about your haunt that gets the kids to talk about it the next day at school. It'll take some time but people will notice.

Oh yeah I forgot to add... I live in a big city neighborhood and I still can't get trick-or-treaters! I give out big handfuls of candy too (because we always buy too much for the small # of people we get.)