These people in Riverside, Calif., had time on their hands! What a display! We were in Riverside, yesterday but we missed this.
What a hoot!! There’s always stuff like that around Christmas too.
Dave
A talking, singing House…hooda thunk it…
I think they need a train!
After setting out a whole lot of halloween stuff, lighting a dozen candles and buying 3 bags of candy, we got a grand total of seven…seven! kids…not worth the effort anymore. I have doubts I’ll do it again from here on out, I’ll still keep a bag of candy handy but I’m not going to do the whole enchillada anymore, maybe only two tacos worth.
Vic: Thats why I sold off all my Halloween decorations, lights, fog machines, etc, a few years ago. We’re lucky if we get 10 kids over the course of the night.
The thing is that I’m right in the middle of the big city, in a long established residential neighborhood. Problem here is that now parents take their kids to the high visibility brightly lite mall now to trick or treat (its “safer”) but its just apocryphal to me. Halloween roaming in costume all night around neighborhoods far from home bringing in a haul of lbs of candy while dodging from teenagers in cars trying to hose you with a fire extinguisher filled with water, that was a high point of the year.
We never get kids. Houses are way too far apart. We took the kids to my brothers development. Talk about strange going up to houses with holloween decorations covered in snow.
Quote:You mean they're [i]not[/i] supposed to be? This was an unusual Halloween for us in that it was actually above freezing. Still, the house at the end of the in-law's street that gives out hot chocolate and hot cider instead of candy was a welcome site.
... Talk about strange going up to houses with Halloween decorations covered in snow.
Later,
K
Kevin Strong said:Quote:You mean they're [i]not[/i] supposed to be? This was an unusual Halloween for us in that it was actually above freezing. Still, the house at the end of the in-law's street that gives out hot chocolate and hot cider instead of candy was a welcome site.
... Talk about strange going up to houses with Halloween decorations covered in snow.Later,
K
LOL I made a snowman with the kids but used a pumpkin for the head.
We only had 2 cute little kids.
Usually it’s a bunch of teenage peckerheads.
More candy left for me! 
John we used to rely on the little peckerheads to clean out our candy stockpile by the end of the night but none this year. Figure they hit the homes closer to the Rose Bowl. More Bmers and Mercs there must mean better handouts than the Toyotas and Chevys in my hood.
We used to get 60-80 kids, petering out about 9:00, but it’s been declining in the past few years. The last two years, maybe 40 kids, and no one after 8:30. Very few teens too, and they were always the most fun to scare – especially the groups of teen girls.
Vic,
Along with the churches that are hosting organized events to keep the kids, especially the little ones, safe from predators and dirt bags. We used to get a bunch too, last year not one, this year about a dozen. It sure aint like it usta once was. (:
Bob C.
Around here we also have big commercialized haunted houses that are geared towards teens and adults, so I imagine a lot of the teenagers go there now instead of trick-or-treating.