to give guisers / trick or treaters only two or three sweeties?

[Ilikeyoursleeves]

...as in say a packet of haribos and a lollipop and a fun size choc bar?

I've got a bowl full of sweets and monkey nuts in preparation for tonight but the mistake I made last year was giving handfuls to the first guisers then we completely ran out of sweets. I guess I could buy more but TBH I have no idea what the average / normal amount of sweets to give them is!!!

Help?!

I give them a lolly or a mini bag of haribos or a mini choc bar.

Last year they turned up 10 at a time in some cases so I have to ration a bit.

We live in a residential area and lots of kids go up and down the road we live off. We had only lived here a few months last year but still everyone seemed to remember we had moved!

I am expecting at least 50 kids.

I've bought two bags of lollies, one of min aribo bags and one of mini choc bars and I will deffo run out.

I give 1 thing each. Can't afford anymore.

I usually have over 100 at my door, so have bought over around 150 wrapped sweets. There are long chews and small sherbert tubes and jelly eyeballs. They will take one each and they will say thank you to me!

I say "just take one"! And I only let my children take one thing each when we go too. More than one is a bit greedy.

Just one sweet each here. We have a bag of lollypop and swizzle type sweets and its one each. I tell them to hold the bags open and drop one in each bag.

no, I would not offer an orange or a banana!

(whilst I am a vigilant sweet limiter and fruit pusher most of the time, I would not even begin to suggest fruit for Halloween. You would find nearly all of it in your hedge tomorrow morning).

One each here too, have bought a couple of the swizzle sweet bags, we didn't get any trick or treaters last year which really surprised me as there are loads of kids on my street.

I only let mine take one each when I take them round too.

My DS actually chose a banana last year He was offered a big bowl of sweets and fruit and chose the fruit as he said he had enough sweets

good on your DS Breezy [thismile]

I hold out the bowl for them to self- serve. Each child takes one sweet of their own accord.
I wish they took more tbh. I don't want a house full of leftovet Halloween candy

I've got the opposite problem I can't get the kids to take more than one or two no matter what I do!

We had the little ones at about 6-630 and the teenagers about an hour later and they all politely took one, were encouraged to take more, some said no thank you, others took another one.

I've got half a massive bowl of sweets left!

The only one who took more was a toddy one who looked utterly delighted and threw two chubby toddler fists into the bowl. Soooo cute.

One each! Although I have eaten eleventy trillion

Am doing chocolate mini rolls, twas a bargainous offer in Tesco

Mine have all politely taken one lolly or sweet no matter how much I said "take more!". And they all said thank you nicely.

I've give out sweetd to about 60 kids and then run out. I am happy to give them to little kids and medium sized ones but we've had a few groups of teenagers and I think that really they shpuld have given it up a few years ago. Our road seems to be a hotspot - some of the kids had buckets full of sweets already.

I pretty much forgot. It's been a hellish half-term. I went and got two boxes of quality street and wine, loads and loads of wine.

As I'd forgotten the DC didn't go out, so they, aged 3 and 5 distributed sweets. DD (3) lower lip trembled as she handed out one quality street sweet to each visitor. To her its a hideous generousity test, the despairing low after the dizzy height of Mummy unexpectedly buying two boxes of chocolates and letting them guzzle some.

YADNBU.

DD has just got back with her friends, all aged 11. Two friends had large bags absolutely stuffed full. The others said they were taking handfuls . Not for me to say anything, but I will be talking to DD later.

3 out of 4 groups visiting having all taken one and then all but one child of those took a second after I offered it, and copious thanks offered from children and parents. The last lot just now, 3 older kids, a younger one and a parent each took a handful when I said you can take a couple!

One each here -- and I only allow mine to take one each too. We give out over a hundred each year. It's a big deal where we live.

When DH was in the military and we lived in married quarters on the outskirts of a village, loads of the children from the main part of the village used to trek up to our estate as apparently as we had such a high income (very questionable, but it was believed there by the non military folks) we could afford sweets for all the other children. We would always end up with a note on the door having run out of sweets. So trick or treat tourism was alive and kicking there.

I have been a complete misery tonight, bought nothing and luckily no one has knocked. Joys of living on an estate made up mainly of the elderly people's guess.

I know someone who lives on an estate where houses go for nearly a million and she said people drive to her road for their children to do trick or treating. I think it is because it has built up a reputation for having a good Halloweeen atmosphere rather than because people are expecting diamound encrusted sweets!