Halloween: What are you giving Trick or Treaters?

tain

Ergates wrote: »

Obviously, everyone is free to choose to take part or not, if you want to pretend to be out or just not answer the door then that is clearly your right.

Having said that - I find it strange the number of people who seem to be taking some kind of moral stance against trick-or-treating (or guising, depending on where you live). Like they're taking a stand against something - the moral decay of society probably.

Yeah exactly this.

It's just lazy to blame the entire festival rather than those that choose to ruin it by not playing by the rules.

tain

I know you come to BOO and peep!
But please don't knock, I'm fast asleep!

Good luck as you gather your treats and fear
But, alas, there are no treats in here


30 seconds to make that rhyme up, 12 seconds to pencil it to some paper, and a further 15 seconds to blu-tak it to the front door. Woe is me having to go through all that effort, huh.

Gloomendoom

aussie_in_wales wrote: »

I heard someone on the radio this morning saying they had dipped shallots in chocolate to give to trick or treaters!!

Chocolate coated Brussels sprouts is another good one.

Pollycat

tain wrote: »

I know you come to BOO and peep!
But please don't knock, I'm fast asleep!

Good luck as you gather your treats and fear
But, alas, there are no treats in here


30 seconds to make that rhyme up, 12 seconds to pencil it to some paper, and a further 15 seconds to blu-tak it to the front door. Woe is me having to go through all that effort, huh.

And kids will be able to read that in the dark?
Yeah, right.
Or are you suggesting that I should go to the trouble of installing outdoor lighting so the little darlings can read it?

SuperPikachu

tain wrote: »

So Halloween is the only cause of these troubles? Because it sounds like you have these troubles all year round and Halloween is just a scapegoat for it.

Nope, weird assumption you make here.

aussie_in_wales

I heard someone on the radio this morning saying they had dipped shallots in chocolate to give to trick or treaters!!

Pollycat

tain wrote: »

Because you live in a country where we do things on Halloween that you don't want to take part in. If that's your idea of trouble, then you have a very trouble free life indeed.

Sometimes you need to be active to enjoy the peace you require. You can't expect everyone else to guess that for you. It really isn't any trouble.

No.
I live in a country where my property is my property and hordes of kids - accompanied or not - do not have the right to wander down my drive uninvited.

phoebe1989seb

We always decorate for​ Halloween despite being 51 and DS having not lived at home since going to uni, lol! We have a box of decorations that we've collected over the years including some my late parents bought in France for DS when he was little.

This year we have two large pumpkins - and several smaller ones - that we'll be carving today as we grew our own for the first time.

It's a tradition that we've carried on since our own childhoods even though we had swedes and turnips not pumpkins. In my family we had a special Halloween supper menu which DH and I still prepare. We vary the pudding from year to year making sure it's something in Halloween colours - this year it's a keylime pie.

We do have some fun size bars and other sweets as usual for trick or treaters, but as we moved to a very rural location earlier in the year where there are only two other properties - with no children - it's unlikely we'll be getting any......

Pollycat

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

We always decorate for​ Halloween despite being 51 and DS having not lived at home since going to uni, lol! We have a box of decorations that we've collected over the years including some my late parents bought in France for DS when he was little.

This year we have two large pumpkins - and several smaller ones - that we'll be carving today as we grew our own for the first time.

It's a tradition that we've carried on since our own childhoods even though we had swedes and turnips not pumpkins. In my family we had a special Halloween supper menu which DH and I still prepare. We vary the pudding from year to year making sure it's something in Halloween colours - this year it's a keylime pie.

We do have some fun size bars and other sweets as usual for trick or treaters, but as we moved to a very rural location earlier in the year where there are only two other properties - with no children - it's unlikely we'll be getting any

Is the house next door for sale? :rotfl:

tain

Pollycat wrote: »

And kids will be able to read that in the dark?
Yeah, right.
Or are you suggesting that I should go to the trouble of installing outdoor lighting so the little darlings can read it?

Write it big then for goodness sake :rotfl:

This is precisely what I'm talking about. Everything is an excuse and too much effort. If you have a miserable night, look at your own inaction rather than trying to ruin it for everyone else.