Thread: The Official Halloween Trick-or-treaters Head Count

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Well, we had probably 75 to 100. We just moved in a few weeks ago, and didn't know what to expect. I had an LED skeleton fogger on the porch, lighted bones, the BEWARE ROCK, a blowmold pumpkin, and a gravestone. They loved it. I was too generous early handing out 4 or 5 pieces of candy to the kids. Dug deep for pretzel bags and other snacks. Next year I'm putting up tables in the driveway and setting up a haunt. And buying more treats. After living on the mountain for the past 15 plus years and getting zero TOTers, what a drastic change. Welcome me to the ranks of Home Haunters! It's official.

So how many?

Well we had 640 pieces of candy. My wife handed out 1 per tot. so I would have to say 640 lol.

First ones didn't show up until about 6:15 this year. Got the last one's around 8:00 and it's almost 8:30 with no one since, so it's probably time to shut 'er down. Got almost 50 again this year, so I guess that's our norm now; We only got about 2 dozen the first couples years at our place, then we had 50 the last few years, but didn't know if it was because it was on a weekend or not.

Weather was great...Don't know how we get it nice every year, but it's always good for TOTing hour. Around 8C and cloudy with low wind.

I hope everyone had a great Halloween, I love coming back to this forum every year.

Moving on to Christmas mode pretty much starting tomorrow...LOL. Join me at http://www.mymerrychristmas.com/forum/ for those of you who are Christmas junkies as well.

All the best and see you next year!

This is our first year in the new place. Only had about 40 or 50...sigh...used to have a couple hundred. Still made a few very classic scares. They move up the drive way past Jason, Freddy, Michael. The mad doctor leers at them in the distance. They pass the reaper holding a very real scythe, then he moves toward them...screams...omg that one's alive!!!!

I can't believe the numbers some of you peeps get..that's just amazing..here in Canada we get a great number of TOT's but it depends on where you live...I got about 70 or 75 it was pretty good and better than last year..

Originally Posted by Paul Melniczek

Welcome me to the ranks of Home Haunters! It's official.

Well, welcome then!

We also got somewhere between 75 and 100.

And now I'm stressing out big time because there's only 365 days until Halloween 2012 - so much to do, I'm running behind!

Originally Posted by Sleepersatty99

Well we had 640 pieces of candy. My wife handed out 1 per tot. so I would have to say 640 lol.

Sleeper, at first I thought, "Wow 640 tots?!" Then I saw you were from Philly and had to laugh. Sounds about right, I grew up in Philly; we used to go out with pillowcases and fill them.

Down here in Port St Lousy (Lucie) I had around 30 tots.

Hey you guys are lucky! Don't complain about only having 40 or 50. I only had 10-15 this year. This was still a better turn out than my first year in my last location (I had like 5 that year). I know this is my first year in my new home and the numbers are only going to go up. I saw a bunch of ToTs that never even made it to my place, but I know they all go to school together.
I still have no idea what to do with all the left over candy...

Yeah about 50% of the kids come from other neighbor hoods. This is the highest I have seen these numbers for here. I have been doing this for 3 years here and it seems
every year the numbers get higher. It makes me very nervous for next year.

Total of 15 here, which is an improvement of 1500 percent from last year!