My kids are too old for trick or treating (high school and college) but we live in a neighborhood with many younger kids.

I'm thinking of putting a table at my front door and putting the pieces of candy individually spread out on the table, so each kid can take one. I guess i could sit outside on the porch (it's a long porch, so I could set my chair up more than 6 feet away) to replenish as needed.

I wish I could figure out a way to put the table inside so the trick or treaters could still ring the doorbell, but there's really no way to do that without them coming all the way into my house.

I’m sure no one in my neighborhood will be doing it. On a good year, maybe 40% of the houses participate and we’re in an ideal neighborhood - sidewalks, cul-de-sacs/dead ends, and older houses closer together so you can go to a lot of houses without walking too much. My older retired neighbor told me he stopped handing out candy years ago because kids were coming in from other neighborhoods

I don’t think it’s a big risk - everyone should wear a mask and it will be fine. Your interactions with ToTers won’t be any longer than your interactions with delivery people or store clerks/employees. But, ToT will still be cancelled because we suck at assessing risk.

Anonymous wrote:If there can be BLM protest mobs in the street, there can be a stream of tricker treaters, too. FFS.

As far as I know, BLM protestors were not all rummaging around in the same bowls of edible things and then touching their faces, rubbing their eyes, putting their fingers in their mouths, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Sure, it's safe to place a bowl of candy 15 feet from your chair, but who on earth wants their kids digging in a bowl that 100 other children have touched? Kids who have had their fingers in in their mouths and noses, no less. Yuck.

+1. Exactly. Plus my neighborhood has tons of kids who all end up on the same porches together. Normally it’s a lot of fun. This year, no.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don’t take away Halloween yet. We have failed our kids so much with this. Just wait and see how things go.

Teaching them to act responsibly in a pandemic is not failing our kids. Its responsible parenting.

+1

Your kids will survive not trick-or-treating for a year. I live in NJ and we had to cancel Halloween two years in a row in 2011 (freak snowstorm) and 2012 (Superstorm Sandy). The kids were fine!

I’m so puzzled by this. How does the government “cancel” trick or treating?

Issue an executive order and get the police and town governments to enforce it.

My house has a long walkway and a nice front yard. I've been planning my decor for a couple weeks already. There will be a cauldron in the yard (all witch themed this year) and I'll fill the cauldron with candy. 90% chance I dress up as a witch and cackle from the end of the walkway.

Who are these people that are so excited to cancel everything fun? TOTing is an outdoor activity. It’s easy to wear masks and gloves while doing it. Why would we cancel it?

If there can be BLM protest mobs in the street, there can be a stream of tricker treaters, too. FFS.

Leaving candy in a bowl for kids is not ToTing. The whole point it to ring the doorbell, say ToT, and get the candy. It’s social and interactive, not just about going up to a bowl of candy to grab a piece.

If it was just a candy grab, I can dress my kids in costumes and buy them candy and hang out with a few friends.

I love Halloween and ToTing - our neighborhood is FULL of kids, and the streets and sidewalk along the blocks which do lots of Halloween decorations are swarming with kids. In fact, it’s busy enough I worry I will lose my kid in the crowd sometimes, especially when they run into a friend. So I am extremely worried about social distancing during ToTing.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely will be handing out candy and taking my kids trick or treating. Why not?

Because some of us don't want you coming to our house as we are acting responsibly with COVID.

So keep your porch light off goblin.

Keep your brats home this year.

This “let me tell you what to do” crap is getting really really old.

My brats and I will do as we damn well please. Safely. With precautions. Find something else to have an anxiety attack about.

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Anonymous wrote:If people keep behaving like they do and numbers continue to rise we will go back into a full quarantine. But, hey, you don't care as even if we do you don't plan to follow it anyway.

Behaving like what? Humans? Cases are dropping in the US right now, crawl out from under your rock and read an article about how lockdowns are garbage and don’t do anything to contain respiratory infections.

Yikes. As of right now, I feel comfortable letting my kid TOT in my not-so-dense neighborhood, but the above is scary misinformation. Lockdowns don't contain respiratory viruses? Um... no.

Sure, it's safe to place a bowl of candy 15 feet from your chair, but who on earth wants their kids digging in a bowl that 100 other children have touched? Kids who have had their fingers in in their mouths and noses, no less. Yuck.

Anonymous wrote:Halloween is not an official thing that can be canceled, or scheduled. If people want to trick or treat, it’s still a free country. Cower in your house with your light off but we are going to be outside passing out candy.

I hope no one who's posting like this is in other threads screeching that <insert activity I don't personally like or care about here> should be SHUT DOWN!! so the precious schools can re-open. Because if you are, you've now lost that right.

Anonymous wrote:If people keep behaving like they do and numbers continue to rise we will go back into a full quarantine. But, hey, you don't care as even if we do you don't plan to follow it anyway.

Behaving like what? Humans? Cases are dropping in the US right now, crawl out from under your rock and read an article about how lockdowns are garbage and don’t do anything to contain respiratory infections.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely will be handing out candy and taking my kids trick or treating. Why not?

Because some of us don't want you coming to our house as we are acting responsibly with COVID.

So keep your porch light off goblin.

Keep your brats home this year.