Halloween

[gjl]

Do you hand out candy or turn the lights out and hide in the back of the house? We hand out candy but the last couple of years we don't have very many kids come by. The porch light stays on until about 9:30.

[citywokchinesefood]

Anyone know what houses are going to be handing out the free drugs this year? I was warned my entire childhood and have never been lucky enough to find one of them.

[gjl]

People on Nextdoor seem to know which houses in their neighborhoods are the drug houses. You might check there. We were always warned about the razor blades in the apples.

[Bill Robertson]

I stopped a few years ago. I can't stand for long and getting up and down hurts so I'm sorry for the kids but it is what it is.

[mugofbeer]

I think we had maybe 25 tonight

[Swake]

We had over a hundred easily. Stopped at 9:00.

[gjl]

We had none. Zero. I think we had 2 small groups of 2 or 3 kids last year. I think next year we won't even try to hand out candy. And I see kids walking up and down our street all the time during the day so I know there are kids that live around us.

[king183]

Had well over 400 kids stop by in Wheeler, including kids from a family who was visiting from out of state and apparently googled where to go trick or treating in OKC. Last group came through around 9:30. I love Halloween so always look forward to seeing all the costumes and handing out candy.

[Bunty]

I think we had maybe 25 tonight

I had 39, counting a few adults, about normal amount. The last came at 10:15 pm, a dad and his little son.

[Ginkasa]

I've never had the handing out candy experience! By the time I lived somewhere there were trick or treaters I had kids and was out trick or treating myself with them. They're about the age where I kinda sorta aged out of it myself, but they're much more into it than I was as a kid so I bet they'll keep wanting to go out for a while yet (although maybe without the parents in a couple of years).

[FighttheGoodFight]

Norman. We didn't count this year but usually get about 120 to 150. Gave out 4 Sams Club bags of candy this year.

[TheTravellers]

We tried the first year we moved to Venice (2016) - 2 rings, 3 kids total. Next year was 1 ring, 1 kid. We stopped after that. It's apparently been like that for Venice for years, but for some reason, Cleveland next door has tons of kids and has for years.

[OkieBerto]

It was a quiet night in Putnam Heights. We only had 1 kid come by. We give out stickers and stamps. No need to give the kids cavities. We were surprised at how "Dead" it was last night so we drove around to see where everyone was.

Crown Heights/Edgemere Heights was packed! You couldn't get anywhere down Western last night. Mesta/Heritage was busy as usual. Nichols Hills had a great turn out as well.

[Jeepnokc]

After several years of leaving full size candy bars out and no one taking any...we didn't even buy candy this year. Our neighborhood is gated with 30 homes on five acre lots so now the the neighborhood kids have grown up....we don't get anyone. Instead, we watched on the blink camera my daughter give out candy at her house in Oregon. She had about 50 kids. The funniest part was a kid that came to the door in a giant blow up pig costume. I "oinked" at him through the camera and made him jump. Everyone was cracking up.

[Plutonic Panda]

I wish Hollywood was more family, friendly, and Halloween traditional. I’m not even gonna go into explicit details about what I had to do last night but I will tell you all I did was get high and drunk. I hope people in OKC had a better Halloween.

[turnpup]

We were slammed, probably because it was such a beautiful night, weather-wise. The kids started arriving right around 5:00, and our candy supply ran out at about 7:30.

The best and most creative costume ideas we saw were: (1) A little girl and boy dressed as Wednesday Addams and Cousin It. The girl looked just like a tiny, perfect Wednesday with artfully-done makeup and hair. Her brother as Cousin It was especially fantastic. He came shuffling up in head-to-toe "hair" with literally no indication of a person underneath. Mom said she used an inexpensive Hawaiian grass skirt table decoration and just wrapped it around and around her son, then topped it with a black hat and sunglasses. (2) An entire family of Shreks. There were five or six of them, including a tiny baby in a stroller. All had the green face paint and really nice homemade headbands for the Shrek ears.

[OKCRealtor]

We have 96 homes in our gated addition so it's relatively small & many have kids so it's always fun on Halloween. Many leave buckets of candy out while they go trick or treating. Always a good turnout and it's pretty easy to hit all the participating houses which is a pretty high number in our neighborhood. Definitely fun for the kids.

[scottk]

I feel like Halloween is one of the last community events in a neighborhood.

It's one of the few outward facing holidays. 4th of July may come close with people setting off fireworks in a driveway or at the end of a street as a group of neighbors, but Halloween is one of the few nights that neighborhoods feel alive and energized. It's a low cost holiday for most (under $100 for a costume or two, or a few bags of candy). The houses that go all out with decorations love it when fellow neighbors stop and see their graveyard, skeletons, etc.

Name another night you walk the neighborhood with your kids or neighbors and go house to house, or see so many people on your doorstep or driveway.

[Pete]

What I most love about Halloween is that it brings people together; that entire communities get out and interact with each other by going door-to-door or just coming together for parties and festivals.

Other holidays are usually about just family (or alcohol, or both) but Halloween is about interaction with your neighborhood and city.

You really see this through all the social media posts.

[unfundedrick]

I wish Hollywood was more family, friendly, and Halloween traditional. I’m not even gonna go into explicit details about what I had to do last night but I will tell you all I did was get high and drunk. I hope people in OKC had a better Halloween.

Does West Hollywood still have their huge Halloween carnival? I remember very well going to see my brother who lived there and walking to that event for a while. It was extremely interesting.

[Bunty]

For the last two Halloweens I've switched my costume from pirate to steampunk to greet the trick-or-treaters. I was amused when one kid asked if I was a fireman but an older person with him correctly said I was steampunk. I guess a steampunk hat with goggles looks a little like what a fireman would have on.

[wunderkind]

We usually have a healthy stream of kids. This year we had to run out of town the day before Halloween so we left the porch light off. Unfortunately since we had a large lighted Halloween display in the front yard, we saw on the ring camera that we had a lot of costumed visitors. Sorry kids, guess this year it’s a trick instead of a treat! ��

[Celebrator]

What I most love about Halloween is that it brings people together; that entire communities get out and interact with each other by going door-to-door or just coming together for parties and festivals.

Other holidays are usually about just family (or alcohol, or both) but Halloween is about interaction with your neighborhood and city.

You really see this through all the social media posts.

100! Yes! We celebrate the day this same way and steer clear of the dark side of the holiday which some people really seem to relish. The neighborhood trust and love that it celebrates is very, very cool, I agree.

[Brett]

Years ago after buying a giant container of Ring Pops from Sam's Club and having no one show up at my door, I've given up on participating and just turn off the porch light and go to bed early. I was able to give the giant container of Ring Pops to my sister who then gifted it to her son's daycare. Problem solved.