Trick or Treating at Apartment Buildings

When I was a kid I remember discovering the apartment buildings a few blocks away where I could go door to door inside the buillding. I thought it was a pretty sweet deal, getting all that candy, and not having to walk through the snow to get it! Then one year they stopped letting kids in to trick or treat, and someone would just sit in the lobby with a bowl of candy. So instead of getting candy from 50 apartments, we only got one! It was back to door to door on the street.

Ok, can I have your Butterfingers then?

;)

My daughter and her kids have lived in the same apartment complex for years. One year I took my granddaughter down a couple of halls where we knew people to trick or treat. Not one person answered the door. So my daughter brings her children to my neighborhood. There was not much activity on our street but there were lots of kids in the neighborhood just one block over. I live in a sort of "no man's land" between two affluent neighborhoods.

I bought Twizzlers to give out because I'm not fond of them and my grandkids like them. lol

we don't have apartments within walking distance from our home.

The apartment complexes in our town usually have a "team" of parents at the base of the stairwells (or at the front door) handing out candy so the kids don't need to run up stairs, etc. That's what happened when we first moved here and living in an apartment until we found and bought our home.

It's been dead at my apartment too. I think mostly it is because they did "trick or treat street" this past wknd, and it's a school night. Usually I get at least the apartment complex kids at my door, but this year NOTHING.

I know its hard. We have only gotten trick-or-treaters once in the past 8 years. So we don't buy candy anymore. We take our kids to our church harvest party and thats it. I personally unless I live in the complex, am not going to go to an apt. building to trick-or-treat.

Years ago when I was living in an apt in Cali, same deal.

I am a true believer in Halloween (lol). I have SUCH great memories of it. As a child in our safe neighborhood--we could even get caramel apples, cookies and real food snacks. Gone are those days but I recall my son's last years Trick or Treating and then my forcing him to take his nephew so that I could live through them. I always hand out candy as it is one of the last bastions of nostalgia for me.

Kids here don't really trick or treat anymore. They most have those "trunk or treats" and festivals.

When we lived in an apartment, kids would head to the closest neighborhood, or go to festivals. Now, it's almost unheard of for kids to go in the neighborhoods.

I was disappointed too. We only had about 30 - 40 trick-or-treaters!

When I lived in an apt. complex I took my daughter around the complex, but that was about 30 years ago!

Are you sure trick or treating was tonight? Ive lived in places where trick or treating was on Saturday not on Halloween. Grasping for you? Just seems weird to not see any trick or treaters?

Bummer... You'll have to start asking around. Halloween is by no means dead where we live. But I guess different towns do it differently nowadays and different parts of towns too. But don't lose hope for your son... I'm sure there's some kind of celebration.

We have had slim pickings, too. I think because it's Wednesday night a lot of churches have had "trunk or treats".

Here on the east coast Halloween was cancelled.