Halloween: What are you giving Trick or Treaters?

Gloomendoom

tain wrote: »

So what wicked conglomerate evilness is corrupting our poor fragile little minds?

Huh? I was just pointing out that your claim that clothes can't be tat because they are clothes is incorrect.

Gloomendoom

Hard_Saver wrote: »

So much depends on where you live and who you know. I live alone, I am getting on in years, I would never open the door on a night to anybody no matter what night it was (unless I was expecting them). and so I ignored the knock. It was just the one this year.

We didn't get anybody calling at all.

I don't know why. I decided not to spend the evening in the cellar with the lights off. Instead, I sat in the front window and passed the time cleaning my gun.

OhhEnnEmm

Just dirty looks and firework rockets really

Say15

In our area, we go and knock on houses that are decorated with pumpkins or other halloween paraphernalia. That way we don’t disturb people who aren’t celebrating halloween.

haras_nosirrah

We had a great time. There were 9 children with 8 being 2 or 3 yrs old and my older son 5 was on pumpkin spotting duty. The householders who played ball were lovely to them and all the kids were very polite and said thank you. My two year old really got into the spirit although he could only say 'tweet please'

The little ones were all dressed up and we only visited the houses that had a decoration on it. The kids were so excited when they saw a house that had a decoration on it.

I think it is important to take the kids out at this young age and will continue to do so in the hope of drilling into them how to behave on Halloween. By teaching them now to knock and wait politely, say please and thank you and only take 1 sweet and also to only knock on decorated doors I hope they won't turn into the teenagers who knock on any door and take any sweets they do find by the handful.

Halloween is here to stay. I would say to the posters above who didn't decorate and still handed sweets out to those who knocked - please don't. This teaches the kids that other non decorated houses may give them treats which will encourage them to knock on other doors of undecorated houses. Either take part and get something to show it e.g a pumpkin or don't take part and tell any kids that knock on your undecorated door that the rule in the area is only to knock on the decorated houses and you don't have any treats to give them. This will drill the message home more.

For those who really don't want a knock on the door our library had no trick or treating posters you could pick up for free. We saw a number on doors around the area. Really simple and takes no time to stick up with blu tack

MysteryMe

No, I am not being made to feel wrong for what I did. Don't patronise people by telling them they are part of a problem when they are not.

GlasweJen

I live on an island and no houses here were decorated for Halloween but there were children out guising.

We dressed the dog up and she sat in the window, we were surprised that no children came to the door but thought maybe the parents only allowed them to go to doors where other children lived. Mystery was solved this morning, sent husband out for the paper and someone commented on the dogs costume and said "oh you must have run out of sweets early". Turns out the signal here is to leave your outside light on and turn it off when the sweets run out. Ours is on a sensor!

Going to have to get a sign made up for next year!

Fireflyaway

Nothing this year. Didn't answer the door. Over at my parents, my dad handed out some oranges!!

Deep_In_Debt

This year was the second year that no trick or treaters called but I do live in a "tucked away position" so not easy to find unless you know the area and the layout. The children in my road used to call and were all well behaved and polite and dressed in fantastic costumes but they've all grown up a bit now and probably more interested in other things.

I did buy a big multi pack of individual Haribo packets so took them in to work instead otherwise I would have eaten them all myself.

One year, I had a group of male youths knock and ask for £1 each or a beer each...my other half soon told them where to go.