By the way teninx: Your hat doesn't constitute as a costume; it's a part of your everyday persona; you have to put on a NEW one for it to count as a costume. I, however, am wearing an INVISIBLE COSTUME: I am dressed as the witch that I already am.
I did put on lipstick to answer the door: maybe, that is what scared all the little kiddies away.
SERIOUSLY: WHAT GIVES

Is it the economy, the election, the forum? I usually get about 100 kids...I got all of 15 and that's giving a couple. I live in an upper middle class rural neighborhood on a cul-de-sac...can't be the traffic...What is going on? WOW!! have times changed...we trick or treated for hours in several neighborhoods. We'd go home, change costumes and go out again and re-hit the houses that gave big candy bars...we could open up our own candy store the next day.
I (don't be shocked) am speechless. Why is it like this? It's sort of freaking me out. Are things that bad?
It's that Oprah airing isn't it?...I knew it. The long-term effects are settling in....aren't they?