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LS-CRX OP t1_iuj164d wrote

Reply to comment by haxxer_4chan in LPT: If you're taking your kids to a friends neighborhood to trick-or-treat, bring a bag of candy by LS-CRX

>This feels like it's similar but 2 or 3 steps beyond bringing a bottle of wine to someone's party. It might be a nice gesture, but the host should have enough drinks without it that they don't run out if you didn't bring more. That's just planning and standard hosting responsibility.

This is actually the opposite, because people are WAY more likely to invite themselves to your house to trick-or-treat than they are to invite themselves to a dinner party. I don't think we've ever attempted to "invite" someone to come to our house for Halloween... friends just want to come here for the superior trick-or-treating experience for their kids. I don't blame them... our old neighborhood sucked for trick-or-treating. The friends that come here are generally not putting out candy at their own house, so supplying ONE bag of candy to a neighborhood that they are trick-or-treating at is not a big ask.

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haxxer_4chan t1_iuj1l7d wrote

Sounds like they are just being rude/allowed by their parents to be rude then. The real LPT should be "don't invite yourself to other people's houses" I guess. As a kid when I'd trick or treat with a friend, we never went to their house, we just met in their neighborhood and then returned to our own homes after. But yeah, if showing up uninvited somewhere, I suppose you should at least come bearing gifts

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LS-CRX OP t1_iuj2ka5 wrote

Our neighborhood is basically undrivable once trick-or-treating starts this afternoon... so generally people just park at our house and walk with their kids or sit on the porch and help hand out candy. Nobody has ever brought candy to our house, and I have never asked them too. I was just thinking about it last night while my wife and I were figuring out Halloween logistics and I thought "it sure would be nice if people brought a bag of candy with them when using our house as Halloween-home-base tomorrow".

If they do, that's really nice. If they don't? No sweat... I stocked up at Sam's Club already. If we run out I have a backup-box of fruit snacks (also from Sam's Club) that I don't anticipate having to deploy.

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