Growing up in Chicago, ToT was a big thing - literally hundreds of kids going from house to house, filling up bag after bag after bag of candy. Started right after school (late morning if on a weekend) and continued well past dark.
Learned REAL FAST to hide some of my take so my dear, dear, mother wouldn't be rationing it out to me on HER schedule.
Only real "trick" we played once was on a nasty old harridan on the next block who wouldn't give you candy if she didn't like your costume. It was an unseasonably warm year, so we caught some snakes (harmless - common garter snakes) and put them into her house through the mailbox.
