How many hours is TOT in your town?

PeetiePie

TOT = trick or treating

It's 3 hours here.  Greedy little b@stards.  I've got 2 hrs and 10 minutes left and only 3/4 of a bowl.  I'm already sick of answering my door.  The pup is feeling neglected and I want to finish my cheap bottle of wine and paint my nails.

erpetdoc

Ours was 2 hours.  It was last night.  DH had a bowl of good candy, and not a single kid showed up.  Granted, we're the last house in the borough, and our neighbors are either a business or a township house with no sidewalk, but STILL...I wanted to see at least one cute kid dressed up.  I think DH needs to take that bowl of candy with him to work.  If it's sitting around here, I'm going to be in trouble.

ShellShockedMama

I have no clue, I bought no candy and don't plan on answering the door.

ColindaP

This idea of designated TOT times is very odd to me. Is this an HOA thing, a city thing, what? And most importantly, WHY???? And why on earth would they designate TOT on Fri Oct 30 instead of Sat Oct 31? What do you do if a TOTer comes to your door today? Do they write them a ticket? I am just baffled by this.?

erpetdoc

I guess it's so the public knows when to expect the children.  I have NO idea "WHY" and I do agree that it's silly to do last night when tonight is technically Halloween.  If a kid shows up at my door tonight, we won't be here.  We're heading out momentarily to shop for DH.

bebeblues

2 hours

PeetiePie

You're supposed to leave your front light on in my town if you are passing candy out.  That way they know they can stop at your house.  When I was growing up we lived in a crappy neighborhood/city and they always had it on the Sunday afternoon closest to Halloween.

ColindaP

If you're in an area where it's dangerous to walk around at night, totally understandable. But otherwise....?

I'm a little baffled that I just got 3pm TOTers in my neighborhood. My neighborhood is as safe as neighborhoods on the planet Earth come for walking around at night. TOTing during the day seems lame-o to me.

nomadicprincess

3 hours in our town. I have 2 hours and 20 minutes to go.  Only 7 kiddies so far.

nomadicprincess

ColindaP:

This idea of designated TOT times is very odd to me. Is this an HOA thing, a city thing, what? And most importantly, WHY???? And why on earth would they designate TOT on Fri Oct 30 instead of Sat Oct 31? What do you do if a TOTer comes to your door today? Do they write them a ticket? I am just baffled by this.

Our town set the time.  The reason?  I think so people know when to expect the TOTers.

mlmtgg

ha peetie! and I'm the opposite - usually we have tons and tons of kids. I buy about 10 large bags. tonight, yucky weather = me sitting here with tons of candy and no cute little kids to fawn over. My DH is in foul mood, so he is hiding upstairs doing whatever.

ugh.

PeetiePie

Mindy - I just gave out the last of it.  I only bought three mediumish bags.  There were only like two or three cutie kids.  The rest were brats in middle school or older.  Eh.   

mlmtgg

I look forward to the middle schoolers in my n'hood b/c their costumes are usually so creative. . . instead I've had toddlers with warm coats over their costumes (gotta love the northeast brrrrrrr). oh well. I still have 6 bags left. crap. I'm going to have to bring this stuff to work or something. if not, I'll eat all of it.

ColindaP

I'm going to a Halloween party later, so I will be taking any leftover candy there. I'd rather have leftovers than not enough!

BabyRN2009

Huh, I've never heard of TOT being scheduled.  I guess the unspoken rule we've always followed is that it doesn't start until the sun starts setting (so about 5:30-6pm here) and then goes until about 9pm.  Then again I've always lived in a big city (Phoenix metro area) so maybe it's different in smaller cities and towns. :-)

ColindaP

I grew up in a small town and we didn't schedule TOT. It just seems wrong to me. Maybe I'm just an anarchist; DH's and my #1 priority for our new house was that it be in a nice neighborhood w/ no HOA. I don't like people bossing my personal life around. And it seems downright un-neighborly to get your panties all in a twist over what time TOTers came over on HAlloween.