The past couple of years, the amount of kids out on Halloween has dwindled down in my neighborhood. This year, my wife and I were at her cousin’s house and we saw maybe a couple of kids walking around. My wife blames people going to Trunk or Treat things. We both work in retail, so we see more of the public, and nobody was in costume. What was everybody’s experience with Halloween this year?
We had much nicer weather this year. I had maybe a third of the trick or treaters as I did last year.
It was much less than I expected, and I have a ton of candy left over. Like 90 full size candy bars left. Last year I went through 120 to 150. This year, we handed out about 70, and as it got later into the night I was handing out multiple to kids.
I’m in a middle class Chicago suburb. We’ve had ICE in our city and neighboring suburban cities. While I haven’t seen them on our street, we do think the general political climate kept a lot of families home.