[TLBSHOW]

Two unidentified girls in their Halloween costumes run through the streets of Casco Viejo in Panama City
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2001. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita)

[hispanarepublicana]

How's my Halloween? I'm "stuck" with a huge bag of candy due to no young'uns coming by. What to do, what to do....

[Glenn]

I'm new to this neighborhood and the people here told me to expect 100. I purchased goodies accordingly. About 30 showed up. The last four kids got about a pound of candy each. They were sooooo happy.

[Hang'emAll]

Usually we have 300 kids and cars with parents jam the street..

Tonight maybe 25 kids and no cars.

[AZFolks]

Out here in Tucson tonight in my neighborhood we have had a record number of little ones.

[clamper1797]

I had so many trick or treaters at my door ... I almost ran out of razor blades (/joking off)

[AppyPappy]

My kids racked up. We went to a neighborhood (we live on a ridge) and I stayed and watched for the little Skittle-robbers at the house. We were on a cul-de-sac so we didn't get many. Mostly older kids who knew the teen at the house.

The only problem came at school. A student's mother came to read Harry Potter to my daughter's 2nd grade class. My daughter was upset because she knows she's not supposed to read HP (mom is an animal rights fruitcake and it has animal sacrifice, I think it's inappropriate for school). Her teacher gave her some books to read instead.

[CharlotteVRWC]

Had over 100 kids last year,, but less than 10 this year.

[Mark was here]

Not many goblins at my house tonight, about half as many we usually get.
I gave the littlest tykes two hands full of candy..

[Dan Day]

I got home just after dark, and as I walked from my driveway to my front door, I was watched every moment by a tall guy standing on the edge of my yard in a black hooded robe, with a skull face, holding a scythe.

It was a nice costume.

Or at least I *HOPE* it was a costume!

[CityGirl]

Looked to be 2/3 of our usual number. I expected to see more since both Savannah, GA malls cancelled their Halloween candy giveaways. One thing I noticed was that the kids and their parents were in larger packs. Also, a lot of kids came accompanied by 3 or 4 adults instead of one. Neighborhood deputies much more vigilant as well, rode through twice as often as they usually do on Halloween.

[spectre]

There are about 4 houses on our street that are dark..We had candy for about 100 and the 8 that have showed up, so far, are happy little campers!

I should probably ship the left-overs to Afganistan...nahhh, just joking...we're gonna eat it!

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[I want to know]

My daughter and I passed out candy at my husband's store in a local mall. The number of children trick-or-treating was way down. Last year we gave out roughly 2000 pieces of candy; this year I would estimate only 300-500. At 7:30 the mall cleared out. It was a rather strange night. Even those who were there and participating in trick-or-treating didn't seem to be quite with it.

[socal_parrot]

I made plans to give away little airplane size bottles of Cuervo Tequila to the kids. That way if no one shows up....

[Texas Yellow Rose]

	About sunset I strolled down the street in order to get past the trees in the neighborhood and watched the moon rise.  What a site to behold.  My older daughter took my son to the fire department sponsored haunted house and freed me up to browse the internet! No trick or treaters came by the house.  'Guess they listed to Jesse!

[Cicero]

There were people with costumes in Greenwich Village this evening, but the great majority of people out on the streets were not in costume. And those that were in costume were very different from the bizarre and scary costumes that were typical in the past few years. No vampires dripping with blood, or dominatrixes with chains, or anything like that. Street vendors were selling an item in Astor Place: red plastic horns with little winking lights in them. But their boxes still seemed to be pretty full. I imagine the parade will be way down this year--which isn't a bad thing, IMHO.

[copycat]

Had more kids here than last year by about 33 percent.

My son is not eating any Halloween candy right away. I bought him his favorites...skittles and starbursts, and we will hang onto the Halloween candy for a few days to make sure no kids get sick.

Then I got dibs on the Tootsie Rolls.

[EllaMinnow]

I've had fewer than usual, but my next-door neighbor is having a huge adult party - lots of cars are parked on the street in front of my house, which I think is keeping folks away.

On the bright side - I bet I'm the only freeper whose child went trick-or-treating at Katherine Harris's house - and Katherine is home. As soon as my daughter gets home I'm gonna eat some Katherine Harris candy!(Secretary Harris - if you're a lurker, the cute little Annie Oakley was my girl!)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

We're north of Philly.... turn out was poor... last year I probably had over 200 kids, ran out of candy - this year I am stuck with tons of candy..... It was very sad...

[Mfkmmof4]

I was glad that in my area Halloween happened. It was a positive break from all the alerts and the kids and I had some fun. :)

[kcat]

We have had more trick or treaters than usual and it is so much fun to see them dressed up. The junior high crowd is very polite this year.

I'm waiting for about 15 14 and 15 year olds to return to my house soon. I love seeing them have so much fun together.