Trick Or Treating - am i mean?

January_Embers

kimevans wrote: »

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.

You could always get in some of those little boxes of raisins, that way if you have any callers the kids get a healthy treat rather than sweets all the time and if theres any left, so do you!;)

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.

Good for you MadDogWoman! What a cheeky little blighter.

Lucie_2

January_Embers wrote: »

You could always get in some of those little boxes of raisins, that way if you have any callers the kids get a healthy treat rather than sweets all the time and if theres any left, so do you!;)

The first year we were in this house all the Trick or Treaters got offered tangerines - they've never bothered calling again! :rotfl:

milkydrink

Lucie wrote: »

The first year we were in this house all the Trick or Treaters got offered tangerines - they've never bothered calling again! :rotfl:

TBH I did think kids wouldn't be impressed with my healthy snacks:D

Thats why I got them chocolate;)

positivelymummy

starbump wrote: »

All the wee kids go guising in Scotland. It's not begging. You only call on houses with a light on in the porch/window and you have to do something to earn a treat. Most kids tell a joke or two. I've never seen any badly behaved callers - they are always accompanied by an older teen or an adult anyway.

However, whenever I've lived down south (in England) I have never observed any guisers. Maybe because the English think it's an American custom???

exactly what i was gonna say! i live in a small community and we go 'guising' at halloween, usually just to family and neighbours close by, (they always know we're coming) the kids make a huge effort in guising up and of course we always go with them, we meet loads of kids and its great fun trying to guess who they are under the masks, the kids usually do a 'party piece' thing, a song or joke, last year a little boy took his fiddle and played scottish fiddle tunes for all the grown ups, it was great! it was completely new to me (being a sooth mouther) when i moved here, the kids always collect their sweets in a sock?? and its never a pumpkin its always a neep (turnip)!!! and my OH says on halloween he always went Kale Casting i presume thats chucking cabbages..tut tut, naughty OH!!!

chocaholic110

I was never allowed to go "Halloweening" as we call it in my area (and kids say "Happy halloween", not Trick or Treat and it never bothered me but it does bother DD that she isn't allowed to go.

Having said that, she always gets dressed up and usually goes to a disco at school (where they have to call it an "Autumn Disco", not a halloween disco even though all the kids wear Halloween costumes), last year she went to a fab party organised by DS's friend's parents (they really went to town!) and this year she is going to a party at a local pub. So she doesn't miss out but she thinks she does! Will be interesting to see what she does with her children!

tazz233

I usually don't mind Trick or Treaters, and have sweets at home.
However, last year, Dbf and I went out for the evening- Dbf came home to find the front door had been egged more than once- It took him over an hour to clean all the mess off and the smell was horrid :mad:

laurajayne

I hate the trick or treaters around here.

I used to go just around the very small estate I live on (was a family police estate), and all the kids would get involved, and so would the parents, never left the estate though. (and we knew which houses we could knock on, it was always arranged by the adults on the estate). Now, the houses have been sold, and there aren't any kids on it anymore.

Now we get them coming into the estate, and we're not talking ickle kiddies all dressed up with their parents...we're talking burly teenagers, demanding money. :mad: Last year we had them come trick or treating, then they were coming round asking for money or 'stuff to sell' for fireworks (!), then it was carol singing (well, sorta).

saxy1

I heard someone suggest that for a halloween 'trick' with a difference, you coat potatoes with that hard red toffee, add a stick and wrap in coloured cellophane - Voila! Trick Toffee Apples!!! Cruel but a great idea!!

January_Embers

kimevans wrote: »

TBH I did think kids wouldn't be impressed with my healthy snacks:D

Thats why I got them chocolate;)

Oh, I agree! I know what kids are like, my daughter would choose sweets over fruit everytime:rolleyes: . I have purchased a bag of wrapped sweets for Halloween today - just thought the raisins were a healthier option (and maybe a way never to get trick or treaters to call ever again!:D ).

sethsgran

My friend gets her girls to bake the night before then on the night they dress up and they go out "treating" They take their cakes/biscuits etc to pre-arranged families or elderly, usually those who live alone. Her girls get to visit for a short while and then move on. The children get to choose who they will visit and what they will bake. Because she has girls they often dress up as fairies/angels as mum doesn't want them to dwell on negative side of this. Might seem a bit too far for some but she has 4 fantastic girls who are growing up to be kind and caring and who like getting involved with their community.