In my old subdivision....we had a ton of kids. Most everybody knew or sort of knew the kids, or the entire family.
The moms would sit on the front porch handing out candy while the dads took the kids around to all the houses.
There were two real short streets behind me that were dead ends one went downhill, and the other uphill...so the parents all got together at the first corner (one house over from me)...set up tables and lawn chairs with the candy for the kids and refreshments for the children.
People used to bring their kids into our neighborhood because it was large, safe and everyone gave out the "good stuff". Plus the couple that lived across and a couple of houses up from mine would do a haunted house. They have this breezeway between the house and garage with a pass door at the back of the garage. She would block off the front where the garage door is with a big tarp so the kids couldn't see in the garage and make the breezeway really dark and creepy with hanging down stuff.
She would wear a witch costume with her face all made up too.
The kids would walk down the breezeway, into the very low lit garage filled with spooky stuff, creepy music, and "smoke" from dry ice....and her husband would pop uo out of a fake coffin. He's always been really skinny and he'd be in a skeleton costume.
All the kids would scream bloody murder....including a few adults..
We don't have trick or treaters where we live now.....
It's going to be interesting to see if trick or treat night gets moved to Friday night here. UT plays SC here at 7:30....so a lot of people won't be home. If Halloween falls on a Sunday night, trick or treat night gets moved to Saturday. We're going to our friends' subdivision on Friday night ....they are doing a street party for all of the kids and neighbors with adult food, and candy for the kids. It's a one street subdivision, and will be easy to do.
Their plan is to sit bowls of candy out on the front porches on Saturday night, none of the neighborhood kids will be out that night.