Idk if its just where i'm at but over last 10+ years rhere seems to be a huge dropoff in amount of kids who do go tricker treating. Back in 1980s and 1990s it seems like they were everywhere. Not so much today. I did see a couple kids earlier dressed up but staring at their phone instead of the house to house dash. Took 5 minutes to make 3 houses. Weak sauce!
Since we (and a whole lot of other families) live in the country, we went to my daughter's best friends neighborhood to trick or treat with them.
There were kids EVERYWHERE with houses all lit up. We made it down four streets by the time it was time to quit, half hour each street.
It's not a issue, but the things she got were out there. These are five houses in a row... first gave hot chocolate (it was 65 degrees out and my kid was sweating), $1, a pack of Roman noodles, then some pokemon cards and the final house, given by a guy dressed as Happy the Hobo (Fort Wayne people will know who that is - also had a guy dressed as Froggy with the whole stand built and all that Froggy was behind), gave out potatoes. One lady, who was giving out candy, offered the grown-ups a beer (of course I took it).
I didn't know if we were trick or treating or prepping at that point.
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