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No, but only because I had softball playoffs so we didn't do it this year.
In our old house, back in like 2010, we got maybe just a few dozen the first year. After that, we got fewer and fewer, I'm almost positive a couple of years in there we got literally zero.
We moved to a nice, quiet place back in 2021 and the owners who sold it to us came to the closing, and specifically warned us about Halloween there.
They told us we'd get 200-300 kids, easy. Basically more than we'd gotten in over a decade combined at the previous house...and they were right. In just 90 minutes we got at least a couple of hundred. Then we got even more (I think) last year. Near the end of the night I got a little worried we were gonna run out.
Obviously the safety of the neighborhood has a lot to do with it. And housing density. Our street is quiet, has very little thru-traffic (there's only one block past us), and it's two long rows of suburban houses on either side of the street. So it's efficient and safe. Close to ideal for young children to Trick or Treat on. And the ones we get are, indeed, disproportionately younger.
Anyway, not a big problem, but it's definitely something we've had to be prepared for! Next year I think we'll go bigger on the candy, too, now that we've got a better sense of it.
In our old house, back in like 2010, we got maybe just a few dozen the first year. After that, we got fewer and fewer, I'm almost positive a couple of years in there we got literally zero.
We moved to a nice, quiet place back in 2021 and the owners who sold it to us came to the closing, and specifically warned us about Halloween there.
They told us we'd get 200-300 kids, easy. Basically more than we'd gotten in over a decade combined at the previous house...and they were right. In just 90 minutes we got at least a couple of hundred. Then we got even more (I think) last year. Near the end of the night I got a little worried we were gonna run out.Obviously the safety of the neighborhood has a lot to do with it. And housing density. Our street is quiet, has very little thru-traffic (there's only one block past us), and it's two long rows of suburban houses on either side of the street. So it's efficient and safe. Close to ideal for young children to Trick or Treat on. And the ones we get are, indeed, disproportionately younger.
Anyway, not a big problem, but it's definitely something we've had to be prepared for! Next year I think we'll go bigger on the candy, too, now that we've got a better sense of it.
