"MotoFox" > wrote in message
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> Quoth Julie Bove~
>
>> I didn't count and we missed two big groups because husband just sat
>> there
>> and didn't answer the door. By the time I got there, they were gone. I
>> did do the math and based on what remained, I'd say that we got about 65
>> kids. The Sour Patch Kids went first, then the Skittles. Not too many
>> of the Twizzlers went. The year that I had the long ones, they were
>> well liked. But I bought the Nibs this time. Full sized packages. I
>> got them at Winco and that is the only form that they sell. Won't get
>> those again, either. And nobody took the Snyder's pretzels. *sigh*
>
> I bought two of the big 140-count bags of the Twizzlers/Whoppers/Jolly
> Rancher mix for something like $8 at Walgreen's and I only have maybe 30
> pieces left over. (I also bought a bag of the Reese's/Hershey Bar/Milk
> Duds/Kitkat mix to keep in the house, for medicinal purposes.) Eventually,
> as the night wore on, I just started doling them out by the handful,
> just to get rid of them (and I have fairly big hands.)
>
> Still, at ~65, it sounds like you guys did pretty well compared to here.
>
>> I don't know where these kids came from. I only answered the door about 7
>> times and they all were Latino. I only know of one Latino family near us.
>> Their daughter is a year younger than mine and she did not come. Lots of
>> very little kids. No little kids that I know of that live near us.
>
> Just offhand I'd bet it might have been a relative/church group etc.
> get-together. Back at the complex about two years ago, there was a sizable
> Hispanic/Latin@ family living in the next building over from mine, and
> their troop included about 30-35 kids of varying ages (long story short,
> their church group had a Hallowe'en get-together and they ended up drawing
> the short straw. Good thing they had one of the bigger ground-level flats
> due to all the people that showed up.)

That could be. There is a Catholic church near here. And I have seen/heard
people call other people on their cell phones and give them our address.
Heh!