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Post by deeniereenie on Oct 18, 2020 21:16:18 GMT -5
Our city has issued guidelines for trick or treating. The do's include time frame of 5:30-9:00, set up a table outside for passing out candy, trick or treating groups should be immediate household only, wear facial coverings, wash hands, and use hand sanitizer or wear gloves. Usually we don't have many trick or treaters come by, but we anticipate more this year. Typically our police department puts on a big event called Spooky Town, at this little "town" of buildings we have near a park. Officers and families all stand at the houses and pass out candy that has been donated. There are also several trunk or treat events usually. But all those have been cancelled this year, and my neighborhood facebook group has been making a list of houses that are going to participate. My husband is wanting to participate, so I am sure we will.
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Post by Truffles on Oct 18, 2020 21:19:22 GMT -5
We get a decent amount, about 75-100, so I stressed about it this year. Two things worried me: our house layout and the social distancing. There isn’t any way of social distancing the way our house is laid out. Plus, we rebuilt the front porch this year but we haven’t installed railings yet. I just know some kid will fall off. I have a covered carport that I’m going to sit under. I’ll take out a heater and my floor lamp, and I’ll crochet between kids. I’m going to use DH’s long barbecue tongs to hand out the treats so the kids keep their distance. You could try buying some of that scary "caution tape" and put it up around the porch. We did that one year when we didn't want kids cutting across the porch and jumping off the other end. No posts to attach the tape to. Also, the kids will bunch up due to our house layout. I think I’m going to set up a table and put the treats out on them as the kids come by instead of using bbq tongs. Better social distancing with a table barrier.
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Post by Inky on Oct 19, 2020 18:33:13 GMT -5
You could try buying some of that scary "caution tape" and put it up around the porch. We did that one year when we didn't want kids cutting across the porch and jumping off the other end. No posts to attach the tape to. Also, the kids will bunch up due to our house layout. I think I’m going to set up a table and put the treats out on them as the kids come by instead of using bbq tongs. Better social distancing with a table barrier. That's a really good idea! I may steal it. The ledge along the front of our house isn't nearly as long as I envisioned it to be. A table with 6 or 8 treats laid out might be the best way.
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Post by Mamapalooza on Oct 25, 2020 22:19:30 GMT -5
I guess we're going to do this after all. I told DH, let's let her go out, it's not that big a deal. We'll put some gloves on her (which she often has anyway because it's cold by then) and we'll wipe everything down before she eats it (most of which she won't anyway). And we always wait for kids to leave the door before we approach, so that's not an issue. So he agreed and helped her pick out a costume. She just turned 14, she doesn't have a lot of trick or treating left in her.
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Post by mimi on Oct 25, 2020 22:24:53 GMT -5
My son said that one of his coworkers planned to set up a 6inch pipe sloped down from the door that he could drop treats in 1 end & kids could put their bag under the other end. DH likes that idea so that’s probably what we’re going to do. We have about 6 steps up to our front door so this would keep the kids off the steps & provide distancing. (I thought about tossing the treats to the kids but this will probably work better). We’ll attach the pipe to the handrail.
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Post by Mamapalooza on Oct 25, 2020 22:29:54 GMT -5
My son said that one of his coworkers planned to set up a 6inch pipe sloped down from the door that he could drop treats in 1 end & kids could put their bag under the other end. DH likes that idea so that’s probably what we’re going to do. We have about 6 steps up to our front door so this would keep the kids off the steps & provide distancing. (I thought about tossing the treats to the kids but this will probably work better). We’ll attach the pipe to the handrail. Lots of pics on facebook of people rigging up this kind of thing. Saw one yesterday with what looked like a dryer vent coming out of a second story window to the front porch. Some people are pretty inventive.
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Post by maurinsky on Oct 26, 2020 7:35:32 GMT -5
I saw one with a ghost that runs on a line from the house to the sidewalk - the candy was in the ghosts claws and inside the ghost was a container in which they put cans of beer? for the parents.
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Post by kimbelina on Oct 29, 2020 13:26:18 GMT -5
I live in the country so we have never had a trick or treater. My bf lives in town so I was kind of getting excited about possibly handing out candy but due to the recent ice storm and the tons of broken tree limbs laying everywhere the city cancelled trick or treating. Probably for the best but I'm sure there are a lot of disappointed kids 😕
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Post by Mamapalooza on Nov 1, 2020 18:52:32 GMT -5
I didn't see any candy-delivering ziplines or even tubing slides last night. In fact it was the lamest Halloween I've ever seen. Maybe one in every 12-15 houses was into it, and many of those didn't have a pumpkin outside, which I always think is odd. Normally we don't go to a house without a pumpkin, but we had to made an exception this year. There were hardly any kids out either, but lots of fireworks. I don't know who was buying up the gazilion pounds of candy in the stores, because there sure wasn't anything left. Not that Roxy needed the crap, but she only had enough to fill a large cereal bowl from about a 90 minute walkabout. Oh well, she mostly likes the costumes and decorations anyway. I got her a fortune teller (gypsy) costume that she LOVED. But I had to go to great pains to explain to her what a fortune teller was in terms she'd understand. She finally decided she had (pretend) magical powers and it was all good. Warmest Halloween night I can ever remember. I wrapped my big scarf around her like a shawl and I just wore my knee-length sweater and jeans. Today I was outside in flip flops. Weird for Nov. 1 around here!
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Post by nansel on Nov 1, 2020 20:30:09 GMT -5
We didn’t do anything. The city asked people to stay at home. We saw one group walk by our house early, then we went downstairs and watched Sleepy Hollow. Our neighbour across the way usually does a bunch of decorations and plays music and dresses up as the grim reaper and has fun with the big kids. He didn’t do anything this year, either.
It probably helped that we were having 70km/h wind gusts with snow flurries.
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Post by jen on Nov 1, 2020 20:40:30 GMT -5
Not one trick or treater. 😞
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Post by mimi on Nov 1, 2020 22:07:09 GMT -5
We did the tubing & put Halloween caution tape across the steps to stop the kids from coming up the stairs. The treat chute worked well & the kids that came to our door seemed to like it. We got 35 kids which is average to slightly higher than usual. (We had 23 kids last year but it was colder last year)
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Post by maurinsky on Nov 2, 2020 11:46:37 GMT -5
It looks like the parents in our neighborhood all sent their kids to one family's house - saw kids walking back to their own houses around 7:30pm. Most of the kids in our neighborhood are young, babies through 3rd graders.
We had no ToT'rs, and I took the candy back to the store because we didn't open it and we don't need it.
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