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When I bought my house a few years ago I was really excited to have trick or treaters. I'd been in apartments or dorms for the previous decade and grew up in a rural area so I'd never really gotten to go out myself, let alone give out candy to trick or treaters. I'd bought like 24 big candy bars and when I was putting up some decorations in my yard I got into a conversation with my neighbors about Halloween and asked them about how many trick or treaters they usually get.
They told me they thought they probably got around 200-300 the previous year. I thought they were joking but no, they were definitely not.
I planned to spend Halloween playing board games with a few friends and answering the door every so often to give out candy and see kids in cool costumes. But I bought waaaaaay more candy and it still wasn't enough.
I basically didn't sit down until we finally turned out the lights and hid for the rest of the night. There was a literal line of kids all the way down my driveway... multiple times throughout the night... Saw a couple fun costumes but a surprising amount of kids (especially around high school age) weren't wearing any costume at all. Just dragging giant garbage bags full of candy.
Even with my neighbors warning I was totally blown away. Completely outside my expectations.
I guess what I'm saying is that I wish I could share some with you.