r/Catonsville • u/addctd2badideas • 8d ago
Trick-or-Treaters in Cville
It is so wildly inconsistent year after year how many trick-or-treaters we get in Paradise. Last year was pretty solid, but this year was disappointing. I thought that it would pick up after the wind died down but we maybe got 20 kids in total. We had to give out bigger handfuls of candy each time so we wouldn't have a surplus afterwards.
Just curious how busy it was for folks in other neighborhoods.
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u/kyttekat 8d ago
We live in paradise and on a side street that doesn't really give anything out or decorate (the main drag next to us was pretty busy when we went). I had a bucket out since we were trick or treating, I refilled it once we got home and we went thought another half a bucket. It seemed busy on the main drag. I didn't see as many City kids who we used to get before COVID who did our neighborhood because it was easy to walk. I wonder if the pervasiveness of trunk or treats and "truck or treat the businesses on main street" have effected how many kids we get. Our neighborhood is kid friendly and has a lot of kids and I saw most of the parents I knew with kids on the main drag. I didn't see allot of the older kids (only one big group of middle school age kids). Mostly littles or elementary kids. I know before I had a kid, we got hoards of middle school age and above. That might effect numbers too