Progress not Perfection

beanielou

Here if you don't have something out or in the window people don't knock.

Sun_Addict

beanielou said:

Here if you don't have something out or in the window people don't knock.

That’s the theory here. If you don’t have a pumpkin or similar out they shouldn’t knock. I do have bits in my window and the kids are really young so feel bad if I don’t do something. Some of the houses around here look amazing with their decorations. 

Don’t forget at the stroke of midnight on 31 October Halloween becomes Christmas 🤣

Sun_Addict

On the Halloween topic, when I was a young whippersnapper, I remember a teacher saying that if you looked out of the window at midnight on Halloween you turned into dust. This traumatised me for years 🤣 I’m pretty certain they wouldn’t be allowed to say this now 😐

beanielou

No young or medium sized kids in this sreet at all.
Changed days

Sunshine_girl2

We went to our big town yesterday and Halloween was all around. I think it's getting more Americanised every year , which I am sure some people will love . 

milann

I quite fancy a trip into town as I believe there are big monsters around. I’m a big kid and quite like seeing the places dressed up. There was a Halloween trail around here over lockdown and it’s carried on - it has its own fb page and people post if their house is decorated then folk wander around seeing the dressed houses. Some have been dressed so long I’m wondering if they’ll last until Halloween. I don’t answer the door other than on the day itself until about 8pm. It must cost a bomb for some of the elaborate decorations. I have a pot pumpkin that must be 35 years old…..cost me 99p and it’s comes out every year 😂😂

Cherryfudge

Sun_Addict said:

Don’t forget at the stroke of midnight on 31 October Halloween becomes Christmas 🤣

If you aren't careful you'll be quoted in Martin's blog along with the warning that Christmas (surprise, surprise) comes every 25th December, but still takes some of us by surprise.  

ladyholly

We are the grinch when it comes to halloween. I think all our neighbours are used to it by now but we do have a sign that I fix to to the glass panel in the front door. It is mainly so the dog (in previous years multiple dogs) dont go nuts and disturb the single lady next door. While terraced houses are good for heat sharing they arent so good with noise from neighbours.

EssexHebridean

Ladyholly I will join you in grinch-ness. Absolutely no issues with people wanting to do stuff in their own homes or around groups of agreeable friends for halloween if they have small children, but certainly where we used to live we used to get gangs of teenagers round during the evening - and that I'm having none of I'm afraid. Curtains will be drawn once I'm home from work tomorrow evening! 

SA very glad that MrSA didn't suffer any ill effects from his fall - and thank goodness to DD being there and able to help! Hopefully your own aches and pains aren't bothering you too much now either. 

slm6002

DS wanted to go trick or treating but I said that now DD2 is out of primary school, they just look scary due their size rather than because of the cute costumes.  I have now started buying a few treats and put it in their old buckets they used to take round.

Also when they were little and had a huge amount of sweets, I used to 'borrow' some of them for their advent calendar as they have refillable ones.  Also reduced halloween sweets in the supermarket are used a lot.