-- Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand, etc.)

-- Wait behind the door until some people come. When they get near the door, jump out, wearing a costume, and holding a bag, and yell,Trick or Treat! Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused.

-- Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers.Write on it, Top Secret in big letters. When trick-or-treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, "It's about time you got here," give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door.

-- Get about 30 people to wait in your living room. When trick-or-treaters come to the door, say, "Come in." When they do, have everyone yell, "Surprise!!!" Act like it's a surprise party.

-- Get everyone who comes to the door to come in and see if they can figure out what's wrong with your dishwasher. Insist that it makes an unnatural whirring sound.

-- Hand them your child's school fund raiser ordering sheet and insist that they buy their own candy.

-- After you give them candy, hand the trick-or-treaters a bill.

-- Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Immediately collapse, and don't move or say anything until the trick-or-treaters go away.

-- When you answer the door, hold up one candy bar, throw it out into the street, and yell, "Crawl for it!"

-- When you answer the door, look at the trick-or-treaters, act shocked and scared, and start screaming your head off. Slam the door and run around the house, screaming until they go away.

-- Hand out menus to the trick-or-treaters and let them order their candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the wine list.

-- Get a catapult. Sit on your porch and catapult pumpkins at anyone who comes within 50 yards of your house.

-- When people come to the door, jump out a nearby window, crashing through the glass, and run as far away from your house as you can.

-- Instead of candy, give away colored eggs. If anyone protests, explain that the eggs are the only thing you had left over from Easter.

-- Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily give the trick-or-treaters a two-hour lecture on tooth decay.

-- Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M's and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Act surprised, and close the door. Open it again in a few seconds, andinsist that you don't have any candy.

-- Hand out cigarettes and bottles of aspirin.

-- Put a crown on a pumpkin and put the pumpkin on a throne on your porch; Insist that all of the trick-or-treaters bow before the pumpkin.

-- Open the door and say, "TRICK!" then close the door.