Kids from poorer neighborhoods keep coming to trick-or-treat in mine. Do I have to give them candy?

[LWolf]

168. Locally

we have many families living rurally, with no real neighborhoods to visit on Halloween. To keep them from overwhelming the small neighborhoods in town, our "main street" businesses host trick-or-treaters from late afternoon through closing. The street is decorated, and full of families in costume traveling up and down the 3-block stretch.

It works well; well enough that a lot of the families living in town do their trick-or-treating on Main Street rather than their own.

There are a few community centers that also do "trunk-or-treating" in the parking lot; people bring in decorated cars, etc., create paths between the cars, and pass candy out from the cars.

Perhaps if this woman doesn't like her neighborhood being popular, she could organize some community events like these.