Halloween: What are you giving Trick or Treaters?

z1a

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I carved ours on Sunday. Then my wife stuffed it and we had it for dinner.



Pumpkin biryani. Absolutely delicious.

Double YUK!!
What a way to spoil a perfectly good biryani.

Made just for show surely. Nobody would actually eat it.

Gloomendoom

z1a wrote: »

Double YUK!!
What a way to spoil a perfectly good biryani.

Made just for show surely. Nobody would actually eat it.

We did.

In fact, it was so good, Mrs G just ordered two more pumpkins to be delivered tomorrow evening. They won't be carved and wasted on the doorstep.

Spendless

I never personally got the 'don't talk to strangers' Don't go off with one I always thought a better message.

When my son was 11 he was attacked by several fellow pupils whilst 1 filmed, he knew every single one of them and had since he was aged 3 or 4. Who he didn't know was the adult male walking in his direction but a bit of a distance away. Son managed to free himself and approached this man for help. The attackers soon dispersed, once they saw an adult was around. Just as well I'd never told DS to be wary of every stranger and not speak to them.

goodwithsaving

Nothing. I live on my own and won't open the door after dark to anyone I am not expecting. I also don't have money to waste on other peoples' children.
I've never understood 'trick or treating' and tricking people because they won't give you what you want is just brattish.

thriftynicky

I used to buy in sweets, and once or twice baked some biscuits, but the last few years the cute little kids accompanied by their parents have been vastly outnumbered by gangs of teenagers who don't even try to dress up. Once one of them grabbed the bowl of sweets from me and emptied it into the carrier bag her mate was holding open... So, since then, we are not at home...

mrsinvisible

Have decorated the vestibule to look like a witches cave, and have cooked and decorated Halloween cupcakes, and bought sweets too. My neighbours are my friends and their children are lovely, l know how lucky that makes me, and this is a fun way of showing it.

Pollycat

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

Blimey there are some miserable people about!

Maybe it's different where I live but people DO acknowledge the 'no decorations/pumpkins out, no knocking' rule. Probably because we live in an area populated by a lot of young families who all know each other through being neighbours/kids going to the same school.

Maybe those people are 'miserable' because parents/kids don't 'acknowledge the 'no decorations/pumpkins out, no knocking' rule'.
Just a thought...:cool:

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

I've never had gangs of feral teenagers rampaging about/egging my house/letting down my tyres etc...and we live in a fairly urban part of South London!

I bet you might be 'miserable' if you had.

Just because people don't agree with your viewpoint doesn't make them 'miserable'.

Webstar

Can't say I really approve but I use it as my annual treat to buy myself a tub of Quality Street. I of course extract my favorites before handing any out.

tain

SuperPikachu wrote: »

So you think taking your kids round to complete strangers houses to harass them for free sweets is a "fun" thing to do?

It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.

I think you misunderstand my meaning of not seeing the point of it - I mean as in it has nothing to do with what Halloween was about.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.

When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

Like Easter & Christmas, these things just become Americanised/Commerical crap nowadays.

Anyway apologies to get so serious, enjoy your night

When did this concept that every single tradition needs to be centuries old for it to have any meaning these days?

I cannot think of a single bad thing about getting outside with the kids, having fun, them getting to dress up, people maybe playing fun 'tricks' on them, and them getting to have a few sweets as well.

If the people's houses we knock on are game for it (pumpkin on the doorstep), then what in heck is the negative in that?

And there's nothing wrong with things being 'commercial' either. I don't get the idea of people making money being bad, especially during something like Halloween where there is zero pressure to spend money, buy gifts or send cards like Christmas...

Pollycat

tain wrote: »

When did this concept that every single tradition needs to be centuries old for it to have any meaning these days?

I cannot think of a single bad thing about getting outside with the kids, having fun, them getting to dress up, people maybe playing fun 'tricks' on them, and them getting to have a few sweets as well.

If the people's houses we knock on are game for it (pumpkin on the doorstep), then what in heck is the negative in that?

And there's nothing wrong with things being 'commercial' either. I don't get the idea of people making money being bad, especially during something like Halloween where there is zero pressure to spend money, buy gifts or send cards like Christmas...

There is nothing negative about that at all.


But if you've read other posts you'll realise that not every area respects the 'no pumpkin on my doorstep, so don't knock' tradition.