Why Stay Close to Your Door on Halloween?

Video Transcript

"I'm Matt Cail, and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here today to show you how to prepare for Trick-or-Treaters. Now with people coming to your door the last thing you want is it to be a marathon for you to get to the door every single time they knock. If you can, try to set up shop near the door on Halloween. This is not as much of an issue if you have a smaller house, or a residence. Your living room may adjoin the front door, or you might have an office nearby, or some other activity which you can very easily do which is right by the door, being it reading a book, typing on your laptop, maybe having a conversation with Mom on the cell phone. But what you want to avoid, you don't want to be way up upstairs. You don't want to be down in the basement. You don't want to be out in the backyard. You don't want to be in an area where not only is it a long jaunt to get to the front door, you also may not even hear the knocking to begin with; that, again, defeats the purpose of preparing and setting up all your candy in the first place. So, to make my point explicitly, if people are knocking at your front door, you don't want to be very, very far away, say, in the upper turret. You don't want to be all the way up here, because then you're going to have to go all the way down here, through this forest, down through the village, all the way down to the front gate, and by the time you get there the Trick-or-Treaters may have already moved on to the next castle."