Are you "standing at the door" to hand out Halloween candy, or do you use the "honor system" and put out a bowl?

Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
I tried the honor system once.....till the teenagers, late in the evening, just took it all! I even saw them! What do you do?
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We hand out candy ourselves
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We just put it out and trust the kids
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We don't pass out candy
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Other?
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Total votes: 64 (62 voters)
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Contributor: Ansley Ansley
We live in an apartment complex, it's pretty much pointless for us to hand out candy. There are like two kids that show up, but we "donate" bags of candy to the leasing office every October.
10/25/2012
Contributor: ejrbrndps ejrbrndps
no trick or treaters where we live
10/25/2012
Contributor: SneakersAndPearls SneakersAndPearls
There's a pretty steady stream of kids in our neighborhood, so in the past what we've done is have Husband sit outside with the bowl of candy and pass it out. When it's gone, it's gone. We don't buy bag after bag after bag of it. While he's doing that, I take our kids out trick-or-treating.
10/25/2012
Contributor: charmedtomeetyou charmedtomeetyou
We take our own kids trick or treating, so we turn our light on to signal that we're "open for trick or treating" and put out a bowl of candy with a note on it to take 2-3 things. We almost always come home to a full bowl, because we don't get more than 8-10 kids.
10/25/2012
Contributor: Cat E. Cat E.
I don't pass out candy but I did used to go to the door. I'd never leave a bowl of candy out!
10/25/2012
Contributor: unfulfilled unfulfilled
We pass out the candy when we're not out with our kids.
10/25/2012
Contributor: Rod Ronald Rod Ronald
We like to see the costumes, so we stand at the door.
10/25/2012
Contributor: malantha malantha
We pass out candy. More and more people around our neighborhood have stopped handing out candy, so every year I feel it's really important to do it. I remember how much it sucked when we would go trick or treating and hardly anyone would be handing out candy.
10/25/2012
Contributor: BiteOnThis BiteOnThis
I'm there with Stormy, live alone in a condo, so usually I just go out that night and leave my porch light off.
10/25/2012
Contributor: *Camoprincess* *Camoprincess*
Where I live not many come around for candy so we don't usually keep any on hand for them. We do however have candy in the house for ourselves so if we happen to get that one or two trick or treaters we give them some out of our everyday chocolate or gum stash. This yeah I am at my cousin's and not sure what we are doing
10/25/2012
Contributor: padmeamidala padmeamidala
Quote:
Originally posted by Bignuf
I tried the honor system once.....till the teenagers, late in the evening, just took it all! I even saw them! What do you do?
We tend to hand out the candy personally to the kids who come to the door.
10/25/2012
Contributor: Mikemanz Mikemanz
we're at the end of a dead end street with few houses - not enough return on the investment of walking for kids. we've left a bowl out to find it untouched hours later
10/25/2012
Contributor: Kitka Kitka
Quote:
Originally posted by ejrbrndps
no trick or treaters where we live
Pretty much the same here. The trick or treating happens farther away from our street, up in the more suburban area so we never get any trick or treaters.
10/25/2012
Contributor: mistressg mistressg
I don't give out candy.
10/25/2012
Contributor: tami tami
we do not pass out candy but we take kids/ or grandkids trick-or-treating
10/25/2012
Contributor: Feisty Feisty
We stopped passing out candy since no one comes to our neighborhood anymore.
10/25/2012
Contributor: Geogeo Geogeo
Quote:
Originally posted by Bignuf
I tried the honor system once.....till the teenagers, late in the evening, just took it all! I even saw them! What do you do?
i live in a basement so no one comes to my door
10/25/2012
Contributor: edeneve edeneve
I'm not home to do the candy thing - I'm out having a good time
10/25/2012
Contributor: Sera26 Sera26
I'm going to be handing out candy & chips this year. I wasn't going to but I changed my mind. It's been (mostly) fun in the past.
10/25/2012
Contributor: Mamastoys Mamastoys
we have trunk or treat at our church so we decorate our car/truck and hand out candy. we usually have about 1000 kids come through.
10/25/2012
Contributor: ShadowedSeductress ShadowedSeductress
We live in a condo, there aren't any people that hand out candy here.
10/25/2012
Contributor: SexToys-R-Us SexToys-R-Us
i was a kid before and that whole honor system doesnt work because i use to be that kid who would grab 2 handfuls and walk off with an evil grin but sometimes karma would bite me in the ass and when id reach another house with the bowl outside that said take one they were all gone and believe me i trick or treated early to get the good stuff so someone was beating me to it

so we pass out candy ourselves.
10/25/2012
Contributor: Alyxx Alyxx
There's really no point to handing out candy around here. I may pick up a bag just in case if I'm going to be home but I really doubt anyone will come by.
10/25/2012
Contributor: BG529 BG529
We hand out candy
10/25/2012
Contributor: Sima-pusya Sima-pusya
We don't pass out candy
10/25/2012
Contributor: Taylor Taylor
My neighborhood has a lot of senior citizens and not very many kids. I've put candy out in a bowl before and still had candy in it the next day so I don't think I had many trick or treaters
10/25/2012
Contributor: sugar&spikes sugar&spikes
Quote:
Originally posted by Bignuf
I tried the honor system once.....till the teenagers, late in the evening, just took it all! I even saw them! What do you do?
we hand it out
10/25/2012
Contributor: haley730 haley730
Where I live, there is not much kids around so we don't pass out candy.
10/25/2012
Contributor: charleswifey charleswifey
No candy here either.
10/25/2012