We live on a destination street. At peak times I pass out about 50 pieces of candy a minute. I think we spend at least $500 on real candy and then buy a few giant bags of dum dums for when I run out of the good stuff. I love it!!!!

I just buy what I buy and if I run out oh well. The early bird gets the worm.

I spent $7 on Halloween erasers and will buy one bag of candy at Aldi. In the past, we haven’t gotten many kids. However, there do seem to be more kids in the neighborhood this year, so maybe this year will be different.

I’ve never added it up. Probably about $20-$25
I leave a bowl out with a sign to take 2-3.
Not a super hopping neighborhood but we get a few.

$10 won't even get you one bag of chocolate candy. It's $15 at Aldi. You'll have to get Tootsie Rolls or something.

We usually do 1-2 bags. We don't get a lot of trick or treaters so one would be enough...but my kids are old enough they don't want to share candy, and I do want a couplepieces!

I don't pass out candy. We live in a sidewalk neighborhood, but on the only block of a busy road that has no sidewalk. So no one comes to our house at all. We bought candy three years in a row and got one (1) set of trick or treaters other than my nieces who made a special trip. So now I just leave the porch light off and buy myself candy the next day on clearance. 😂

I gave out 102 pieces in 2023, about 140 last year. M&M minibags last year.

We don't get many kids, maybe 20 max so I focus on quality. Full size candy bars, packs of pokemon cards, small stuffed animals, etc. No idea the cost but maybe like $50?

Neighborhood makes all the difference on how much it costs to give out candy on Halloween.

We live in a neighborhood with tons of kids, a huge Halloween tradition, and we are on the main loop of sidewalk friendly streets. We get about 200-300 trick or treaters a year, and buy multiple Costco bags of candy.

My sister lives on a dead end street with only one family that has kids, she got 4 trick or treaters last year. She buys one pack of full size candy.

Are the people on this thread trying to figure out how much candy to buy or are you all actually trying to save $20 on something that happens once a year? Between the "secretly rich" and "are private schools worth the ROI" and the "I spend $1,500 a month on fencing because my kid loves it so much"... can't quite get over it...

$20 for candy and $20 for bags of chips.

Everyone gets a handful of candy and a bag of chips. We don’t have very many kids. Our houses are further apart.

Anonymous wrote:I hate Halloween. Who wants to spend all night answering the door? No one.

I love it! I like seeing the costumes, the little kids, the parents with babies (ma'am I know your toothless child in the stroller cannot eat candy but if you want some go for it), the surprisingly polite tweens and teens (and somehow even the jerkiest group has one kid saying "bruh you gotta leave some for the next people") and just being part of a community. It's not hard to sit by the door and get up when people come over. And when I get sick of it or the candy runs out, I just turn out the porch light and head upstairs and ignore anyone else who comes by.

Anonymous wrote:I hate Halloween. Who wants to spend all night answering the door? No one.

You sit outside with a fireplace and visit with your neighbors. Duh.

We go through about 4 big bags. So probably $80-90.

Probably $50. Two big costco sized candy bags, plus $10 of non candy items (bubbles this year, I found 90% off at Michael's last week). Our neighborhood is a kid mecca.

But every year I question if I should, since the day after halloween is moms complaining about the sugar and throwing it away or bringing it into the office. Maybe I should go with more non candy options this year. (True story: Last year we were going out of town the morning after halloween, so we put out our fruit bowl of apples and oranges that would have gone bad while we were gone. Those went FAST!)