10-31-2007, 08:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by ken0042
Yeah, Superstore sells a halloween pack of 16 of them for $7.50 Last year I bought 2 and only needed 1. This year I could have used 2. Put my count at around 20 kids for this year.
When I was a kid I always loved the guy who had the good stuff. One neighbour worked for Old Dutch and handed out what are now the 99˘ bags of chips.
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Word of mouth got around which explains why you ran out. Next year buy 4 bags and watch what happens. They'll becoming in droves next year.
I hear ya on the neighbour with the good stuff. Always had my route planned in advance and new who gave out the chips or chocolate bars. Most years I ended up with 2 pillow sacks full of candy 
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10-31-2007, 08:34 PM
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#42
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Full size chocolate bars? I'm going to Ken0042's house... I'll look pretty silly as a 35 year old man out trick or treatin', but FULL SIZE CHOCOLATE BARS?!?!
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Get in line!
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10-31-2007, 08:39 PM
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#43
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All I can get
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Little buggers make out like bandits at Chez Dunlop. They get fistfuls o' candy!
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10-31-2007, 08:39 PM
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#44
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Just not a big fan of the day.
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10-31-2007, 08:46 PM
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#45
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by fotze
3 girls just came dressed as homeless with cardboard signs asking if yf you can spare some candy.
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Thats hilarious. If a kid's costume makes me laugh, they get extra candy!
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10-31-2007, 08:47 PM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Our numbers were way down this year ... only around 40 kids probably. We used to get up to 200. The last few who came to the door scored big as I gave them all two fistfulls of goodies each just to get rid of the stuff. Of couse I'd already picked out the stuff that I wanted for "leftovers".
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10-31-2007, 08:51 PM
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#47
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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About 50-60 in Riverbend thus far. We've got quite a few kids in this area, but I agree, numbers are down from a few years ago. I usually dole out candy based on costume level.
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10-31-2007, 08:53 PM
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n00b!
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Hopefully none of you guys are like those lame houses I'd go to occasionally that would give out "Halloween Pencils". Candy, not stationary!
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10-31-2007, 08:55 PM
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#49
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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20 in Hillhurst. Up from 12 last year. I think it's my pumpkin this year:
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10-31-2007, 08:57 PM
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All I can get
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Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans
Hopefully none of you guys are like those lame houses I'd go to occasionally that would give out "Halloween Pencils". Candy, not stationary!
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Or the Dentist I remember who gave out toothbrushes and business cards!
Related question: Did anyone get their house egged here?
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10-31-2007, 08:57 PM
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Originally Posted by photon
Partly though because my son loved giving them out by the handful. He wasn't out because he didn't want to wear his Superman costume, "Gonna fly and gonna fall!" was his reasoning.
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Very astute and pragmatic reasoning on your son's part. You should be proud!
We had about 5. I even dressed my four month old daughter up as "Baby Einstein." I now know what baby powder is for!
As for all that candy--I can't afford to eat all of that. I'm going to have to find someone to pawn it off on.
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10-31-2007, 08:59 PM
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#52
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I went for a walk through the neighborhood, and out of about 30 houses in our cul-de-sac there are 3 houses with lights on. I don't know why the kids bother coming round here.
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10-31-2007, 08:59 PM
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#53
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Probably ended up with around 70 (cul-de-sac in Springbank Hill). There do seem to be more houses with their lights out than when I was a kid though - might be related to the lower numbers of trick-or-treaters.
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10-31-2007, 09:14 PM
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Around 40 (cul de sac in Huntington Hills)
My wife spent the night at the children's hospital, out 5 year old decided he needed to take the wagon. First house he stands up in the wagon slipps and bashes his head, they glued it shut. Big sister will be sharing her candy when she gets home
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10-31-2007, 09:15 PM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Zero (0) trick or treaters for about the sixth year in a row.
We don't even buy candy for them anymore . . . . although we have - had - some mini-Arrow bars for general consumption by ourselves.
There is a chorus line of coyotes howling nearby out in the pitch blackness of the field right now. Nice. 
Cowperson
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10-31-2007, 09:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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only 20 here in the bridge. Even had a kid come as a "nudist on strike", just a kid dressed in normal everyday clothes but he got extra candy for originalty
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10-31-2007, 09:24 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by return to the red
only 20 here in the bridge. Even had a kid come as a "nudist on strike", just a kid dressed in normal everyday clothes but he got extra candy for originalty
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Pffft. In 1994, I "dressed up" as a striking ballplayer using the same "costume". Not that original. 
40 even in my neck of Cranston. My roommate said she got only 20 last year.
My mom always complains, because her neighborhood in Airdrie is getting older. When I was young, she had as many as 70 kids. Last few years, less than ten.
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10-31-2007, 09:32 PM
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Random Title Change!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
20 in Hillhurst. Up from 12 last year. I think it's my pumpkin this year:
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Nice! That takes some serious skillz.
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10-31-2007, 09:32 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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We had about 65 kids, which is not too bad. I also had a flaming C pumpkin, which was very well received! Someone even took photos of it!
I don't know what happened to all of the kids trick or treating though. I think that some parents take them to the mall or something?
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10-31-2007, 09:34 PM
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#60
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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I had ONE tricker treater!!!
I live in Cranston. This sucks. I'm going to have candy for the next year!
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