Our neighborhood and most around our town seem to have accidentally coordinated well. Only younger kids are trick or treating and we knew exactly how many kids to expect. There’s a mix of basket/bowl left on porches and everyone wears masks and I pass it through the door without coming too close. Consensus was to do those gift bag things. Pack them full of candy and seal them up, surface contamination isn’t really much of a concern at this point but a discrete, sanitizable package of candy seemed wise. Plus with the kids visiting so few houses there’s good call to give them a lot of candy.
We got exactly as many kids as planned. All of them under 10, all of them from the block.
That said we are in NY where things have not returned to living hell yet.
I voted and grocery shopped today, so I was out for a good while before it hit me. I didn’t remember it was Halloween until around noon, when I realized the young woman helping me at the fish market was dressed as a Disney princess. Wondered why, then looked around and realized the entire staff was dressed as different Disney characters.
The fish cutter was the monkey from Aladdin.
