Are your kids going out candy tricknor treating?
Are you giving out candy?
Are you doing something different with candy this year?
I am debating my own candy giving and want thoughts.
We usually leave a self serve bowl of candy out while we take the kid door to door. This year we will put the bowl out as usual but we’re still uncertain if we will go door to door.
@Cerridwyn I just have a list of comics I check along with meh. Makes life slightly better to have a laugh. The list changes as artist come and go. Penny arcade still gets a place cause they regularly update monday/Wednesday/Friday… Even though it’s in the middle of the day. And I generally think they are funny/interesting
We plan to place a large bowl next to a lantern on a pole at the end of the front walk. We want to devise some sort of method to prevent people taking more than their fair share of candy, but have been stumped so far.
@PooltoyWolf I find this effective: Dress yourself up as a prop (Freddy, Jason, clown, wraith, etc) and sit yourself down in plain sight with a chainsaw on your lap, socially distanced from your candy bowl. Avoid moving. When some kids go to take more than their share, sigh heavily, mumble something about greedy children, and start that chainsaw up.
Less fun alternative: Use your words and tell them to only take one.
Someone please explain to me how TorT is a hazard in the Rona Time? I wear my masks, limit time in public, wash my hands, but I can’t wrap my head around how a <30 second interaction with kiddos outdoors on the porch is a hazard. If I mask, and assuming kiddos mask, can I not say “ooh that is cute/scary”, and drop a treat in their bag safely?? Even if they don’t mask, it’s outdoors and about as equivalent to walking past unmasked citizens on the street in my brain.
Why should I be more concerned about this specific.activity?
@callow Ah, that makes more sense and is more terrifying. We have never seen anything like that, let alone actually experienced it. We are used to the 1 or 2 kids at a time deal, every couple of minutes. Does what you picture actually exist outside of movie cliches?
@callow@Pamtha yes it does! Come to my neighborhood. Droves of kiddos! There is even a subdivision halloween parade every year. It is like reverse Mardi Gras where the spectators throw candy at the parade (kids in costume)
The sheer volume is why I am not decorating, turning on lights, handing out candy, etc
@Pamtha@tinamarie1974 Yes, I took the picture and I LOVE this! I love the decorations, kids, friends, and everything about Halloween! This year I’m not even putting up decorations. I am a caregiver to someone with a compromised immune system. I’m staying inside and sulking that night.
Oh, we are TP’ing the neighborhood on Mischief night though! We stay apart for that.
@callow@Pamtha@tinamarie1974
No one would come trick or treating at my house just statistically… There’s only 4 houses close together. The few times I have taken kids it was fun to take them into town… Despite the eventual grumpiness. And carrying cause one was just done and one wasn’t. No huge lines in a small town. But took them to the zoo once… And actual halloween night boo at the zoo and those large events… Would have huge lines.
But just a ton of people being out and around each other and halloween parties etc. The way people work it’s probably better to just say no to the whole thing this year.
I have a creepy butler guy holding a tray- I plan on putting him at the end of the sidewalk with candy and sitting in my yard to say hi to the kids. I don’t know if anyone will come.
I think he makes scary noises. I may turn that on later for the big kids.
I bought the 96 stroopwaffel package. We may stand at our door for 2 hours giving them out individually. We will turn the lights out and close when we run out of treats. We get to costume up.
In recent years I think kids have been shifting more and more to going to things like trunk or treat events, but those aren’t going to be happening in the normal way in many places. In California, you could set something up with a drive through, and minimal social distanced staffing giving out bags of candy, but if expecting any numbers, you’ve got to hire security to enforce people staying in cars and stuff.
My sister usually has my father hand out candy at her house while the rest of us give out candy and run a bake sale at a trunk or treat, but this year she’s planning to take down the outdoor decorations Saturday afternoon, and we’ll be inside eating halloween themed stuff and watching something related.
It’s just not worth the risk that any one house with someone contagious is exposing every kid who stops there, and any contagious kid exposes the treat givers at every house they stop at. Sure there are ways you can limit exposure one way, like just setting the candy out or dropping it to them through a pipe, but most people aren’t going to bother with that, and a contagious treat giver still is exposing the kids. I figure numbers of kids will be low, and givers will be low, multiplying the disappointment.
We are not taking our kids trick-or-treating. We’re just going to hide candy around the house and have them wear their costumes while they search for it.
@Limewater oh yeah, I forgot, my niece plans to do some kind of candy scavenger hunt in the house, something like you get a note with a clue, go where that points you and find candy and another note, repeat.
@kevinrs We did a scavenger hunt as part of my daughter’s birthday party last year. We spent serious time developing clues and puzzles, with a crazy sequence involving keys and chests, only for a horde of second-grade girls to turn into a screaming mob and rip our house apart.
I dug this guy out to dispense candy. I had him in the front hall and had to move him because he gave me the bejeebers every time I turned the corner. And that’s without his light and movement turned on.
I also have a set of yes and no buttons I’m going to try to mount on something solid for the enjoyment of button pushing fans. I remember the days my kids would come to blows about who got to push the elevator button. Not fondly.
I think the plan this year is to give out only pre-wrapped things- there’s a box of Famous Amos cookie bags for this. Probably wearing masks for the night.
We usually leave a self serve bowl of candy out while we take the kid door to door. This year we will put the bowl out as usual but we’re still uncertain if we will go door to door.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/10/19/the-nightmare-before-christmas
@unksol
good one
forgot about them years ago, lol
@Cerridwyn I just have a list of comics I check along with meh. Makes life slightly better to have a laugh. The list changes as artist come and go. Penny arcade still gets a place cause they regularly update monday/Wednesday/Friday… Even though it’s in the middle of the day. And I generally think they are funny/interesting
We plan to place a large bowl next to a lantern on a pole at the end of the front walk. We want to devise some sort of method to prevent people taking more than their fair share of candy, but have been stumped so far.
@PooltoyWolf Catapults solve many problems…
@Pamtha Too bad the trebuchet I got for Christmas last year is only a scale model!
@PooltoyWolf I find this effective: Dress yourself up as a prop (Freddy, Jason, clown, wraith, etc) and sit yourself down in plain sight with a chainsaw on your lap, socially distanced from your candy bowl. Avoid moving. When some kids go to take more than their share, sigh heavily, mumble something about greedy children, and start that chainsaw up.
Less fun alternative: Use your words and tell them to only take one.
Someone please explain to me how TorT is a hazard in the Rona Time? I wear my masks, limit time in public, wash my hands, but I can’t wrap my head around how a <30 second interaction with kiddos outdoors on the porch is a hazard. If I mask, and assuming kiddos mask, can I not say “ooh that is cute/scary”, and drop a treat in their bag safely?? Even if they don’t mask, it’s outdoors and about as equivalent to walking past unmasked citizens on the street in my brain.
Why should I be more concerned about this specific.activity?
@Pamtha Imagine one of these people are infected but don’t know it. Is it worth it for some candy?
@callow Ah, that makes more sense and is more terrifying. We have never seen anything like that, let alone actually experienced it. We are used to the 1 or 2 kids at a time deal, every couple of minutes. Does what you picture actually exist outside of movie cliches?
@callow @Pamtha yes it does! Come to my neighborhood. Droves of kiddos! There is even a subdivision halloween parade every year. It is like reverse Mardi Gras where the spectators throw candy at the parade (kids in costume)
The sheer volume is why I am not decorating, turning on lights, handing out candy, etc
@Pamtha @tinamarie1974 Yes, I took the picture and I LOVE this! I love the decorations, kids, friends, and everything about Halloween! This year I’m not even putting up decorations. I am a caregiver to someone with a compromised immune system. I’m staying inside and sulking that night.
Oh, we are TP’ing the neighborhood on Mischief night though! We stay apart for that.
@callow @Pamtha @tinamarie1974
No one would come trick or treating at my house just statistically… There’s only 4 houses close together. The few times I have taken kids it was fun to take them into town… Despite the eventual grumpiness. And carrying cause one was just done and one wasn’t. No huge lines in a small town. But took them to the zoo once… And actual halloween night boo at the zoo and those large events… Would have huge lines.
But just a ton of people being out and around each other and halloween parties etc. The way people work it’s probably better to just say no to the whole thing this year.
@callow @Pamtha @tinamarie1974 Do you have a good movie in mind? I wish I still got TCM. They’re the best on Halloween.
We are not. We didn’t have any kids last year and that was before the rona. We already decided we’re done.
It’s a bummer. When we first moved here, we had all sorts of kids. We welcomed the kids who came from other neighborhoods, driven by their parents.
I guess no one moved and everyone grew up.
I have a creepy butler guy holding a tray- I plan on putting him at the end of the sidewalk with candy and sitting in my yard to say hi to the kids. I don’t know if anyone will come.
I think he makes scary noises. I may turn that on later for the big kids.
I’m just going to eat all the candy myself. Win win!
I bought the 96 stroopwaffel package. We may stand at our door for 2 hours giving them out individually. We will turn the lights out and close when we run out of treats. We get to costume up.
@elfle Where are you at? I want to try a stoopwaffeel. Hope I get there in time.
In recent years I think kids have been shifting more and more to going to things like trunk or treat events, but those aren’t going to be happening in the normal way in many places. In California, you could set something up with a drive through, and minimal social distanced staffing giving out bags of candy, but if expecting any numbers, you’ve got to hire security to enforce people staying in cars and stuff.
My sister usually has my father hand out candy at her house while the rest of us give out candy and run a bake sale at a trunk or treat, but this year she’s planning to take down the outdoor decorations Saturday afternoon, and we’ll be inside eating halloween themed stuff and watching something related.
It’s just not worth the risk that any one house with someone contagious is exposing every kid who stops there, and any contagious kid exposes the treat givers at every house they stop at. Sure there are ways you can limit exposure one way, like just setting the candy out or dropping it to them through a pipe, but most people aren’t going to bother with that, and a contagious treat giver still is exposing the kids. I figure numbers of kids will be low, and givers will be low, multiplying the disappointment.
Not doing it as kids don’t come to this apt building… however this might work… ()
Or this to go with the one someone posted in a different thread…
We are not taking our kids trick-or-treating. We’re just going to hide candy around the house and have them wear their costumes while they search for it.
@Limewater oh yeah, I forgot, my niece plans to do some kind of candy scavenger hunt in the house, something like you get a note with a clue, go where that points you and find candy and another note, repeat.
@kevinrs We did a scavenger hunt as part of my daughter’s birthday party last year. We spent serious time developing clues and puzzles, with a crazy sequence involving keys and chests, only for a horde of second-grade girls to turn into a screaming mob and rip our house apart.
@Limewater This is only going to be one kid, her mother, me (her uncle) and my parents.
I dug this guy out to dispense candy. I had him in the front hall and had to move him because he gave me the bejeebers every time I turned the corner. And that’s without his light and movement turned on.
I also have a set of yes and no buttons I’m going to try to mount on something solid for the enjoyment of button pushing fans. I remember the days my kids would come to blows about who got to push the elevator button. Not fondly.
@sammydog01 that is so cool!!
I think the plan this year is to give out only pre-wrapped things- there’s a box of Famous Amos cookie bags for this. Probably wearing masks for the night.
Candy launcher.