I had lots of trick-or-treaters visiting my house last night, and I had plenty of candy! I feel it's very delightful seeing all those little children dressed up, and I just love their little excited expressions as they're choosing their candy. I had like six bowls full (I bought seven boxes) and I still have quite a few left, I don't know what I'll do with it all but I'm sure I can find some children who would like to have it. I let children choose one that they'd like, and this year KitKats were really super popular!
Well, as long as you're looking to rehome it, you can PM me the peanut butter cups...
Our neighbors across the street turn on their porch light every night and turn it off every morning, unless they forget.
I can't fathom people who do that. There's a rowhouse across the parking lot that keeps the porch light on all the time, even in the middle of the day at times, and it shines right into my living room. It's so damned annoying, especially because nobody ever seems to use that door. It's just light pollution, as far as I'm concerned. We already have enough of that here from the street lights.
Thank goodness I live at the far end of the parking lot where the staff parks. Since the only people here after dark are security, there's nobody at this end who's going to be upset that one of the lights in the parking lot hasn't worked in at least three years. I brought that up to the manager, and said, "Please don't ever fix that one, or it will shine right into my bedroom like it did before it quit working." He assured me that others had also requested it not be fixed, so they just weren't going to mention it in the maintenance requests to the company that owns this place.
Turn outside light (not motion sensitive) on when it gets dark, turn it off when going to bed.
Doesn't everybody do that??
Why on earth would you turn on an outside light if nobody is going to need it?

I only ever turned on the porch light when I was expecting someone, or if someone turned up unexpectedly (so I could see who it was before answering the door). Otherwise, it's just light pollution, not to mention a waste of electricity.
I did turn it on during the years when I gave out Halloween candy, both to indicate that kids could come there, but also for safety. The porch consisted of several cement steps, and I didn't want any kids tripping over their costumes. And some years we had snow on Halloween, so slipping was an issue as well.
Things were nice and quiet here. I spent the evening reading fanfic, watching
Survivor, browsing one of my favorite online craft sites (couldn't ignore the 31% discount code they sent me!

), and headed over to the NaNoWriMo site to get registered for today.