Trick Or Treating - am i mean?

January_Embers

I live in a small town in a semi-rural area and this year my daughter will be trick or treating for the first time. Her birthday is on Halloween and she asked to do this for her birthday and has a new cat outfit to wear.
She'll be 6 and will only go with me or her dad to our close neighbours homes.

We had lots of trick or treaters last year but they were all young children (with parents) from daughters school so didn't mind them at all. We've never been bothered by older kids or had any nasty 'tricks' but I can see how this could be very intimidating.

I didn't go trick or treating as a child, I don't really feel I missed anything but I felt like I was the only kid in our area not doing it at the time!

Curious_George_2

Noctu wrote: »

What do you do if you don't want to entertain them - put up a sign, don't answer the door, or answer the door and tell them you're not interested?

if you do the first or last here then expect to find the front of your house, ketchuped, toilet papered or egged....

as i said, i tape up my letterbox... for 2 reasons, firstly so nobody can post any eggs or anything through, and secondly because my front door opens into my front room and if the trick or treaters peer through my letterbox because the lights are on and figured out we are probably home and just ignoring them then you get a ton of abuse for not opening up and more than likely egged for that too... *sigh*

and anyway... i like my sweets far too much to give any away to the local scrotes! :rotfl:
they woud have to fight me for it

RadoJo

I was allowed to go trick or treating once as a small child, but was so well trained not to accept sweets from stangers that I didn't eat any of the chocolate. Even wrapped sweets can be contaminated if someone was keen enough, but it's not even that, just the complete lack of consistency about the message. It's begging, threatening, invasive and completely innappropriate in my opinion. I have come close to calling the police on a pair of fifteen year olds who were so adamant that they 'deserved' something just for wandering up my road and demanding sweets that they made all kinds of threats about what they would do to my house. When I pointed out that threatening behaviour was a crime, they soon scarpered, but I was livid that they had the temerity to come to my home, try to threaten me (I hate to think what would have happened if I was vulnerable and alone), and worst of all interrupt what I was watching to get involved in their nonsense!

Organised rounds between friends and neighbours is not the same thing to my mind, as the 'trick' element does not come into it, and parents are present to ensure that children are not only behaving well, but relying on their parents' judgements as to what they accept and from whom.

osmonddiva

I dont see the harm in it myself. My daughters far too old for it now but when she was younger all the local kids did it. Only to family, friends and close neighbours though and our kids always went in small groups with adult supervision for safety. People who dont want the visits wont answer their doors and kids should be taught to respect that.

Personally I dont think its not so much fun being a kid now, remember the fun we used to have as kids. Their treated so much like an incovenience nowadays but are our future.

LizD_2

osmonddiva wrote: »

I dont see the harm in it myself. My daughters far too old for it now but when she was younger all the local kids did it. Only to family, friends and close neighbours though and our kids always went in small groups with adult supervision for safety. People who dont want the visits wont answer their doors and kids should be taught to respect that.

Personally I dont think its not so much fun being a kid now, remember the fun we used to have as kids. Their treated so much like an incovenience nowadays but are our future.

Sadly, a minority of 'thugs' have ruined it for those kids who do enjoy it and behave appropriately.

And no, I don't agree with cold-calling from any age group.

milkydrink

I got loads of sweets in last year & hardly any kids knocked.
So this year I've got 4 Dime bars & 4 Toblerones, do you think that will be enough?
We are all on WW so I've nothing in reserve to give them, but I don't want to get loads in & be left with the temptation.

Bogof_Babe

I have a pottery jar on a shelf in the hall, that I bung surplus 1p and 2p coins in from my purse. There's a couple of quid in there in total. I think if any T or T's do turn up here, I might just give them a handful of (very) small change. That avoids the need to be miserable, or to buy stuff in specially.

Anthillmob

i always buy some sweets but get very annoyed when teenagers come knocking, especially after 9pm, wearing just a face mask with their hands held out. they get sweets like anyone else. its quite cute to see tiny children dressed up.

however last year we put a note on our door after 8pm that read 'no trick or treat after 8pm as the baby is sleeping'. it seemed to work until about 11pm when someone knocked. we never answered.

shall be doing the same this year.

SSB

I go trick and treating with my children ( 9 and 11) and usually we have 3-4 other children with us. We all dress up properly ( no plastic binliners or cheap masks) and only knock on the doors on houses displaying Halloween decorations. We have always had a brilliant evening, I would not ever allow the children to run riot or just randomly knock on every door.

MadDogWoman_2

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Had my first TnT tonight. A 12/13 year old wearing a tracksuit and a mask. Thank god he knocked on the door instead of dinging the doorbell (it would have woken DD up).

Sent him away saying he was too early.

I'm also hacked of as since Eid there have been fireworks going off every night, which wakes DD up and scares the dog.

From mid-November the same teenagers come round carol singing!!!

MDW