Knock Knock - Trick or Treat! What do you do?

NVP · 29 Oct 2019 at 15:09

First year I moved into my own place I got a howl of sweets already ready and waiting... no one knocked on! So I never bothered again. But now being married I buy sweets when my wife tells me to buy sweets.

dan958 · 29 Oct 2019 at 17:21

First year in my own place, it is a flat with buzzer entrance so I'm not expecting anyone to knock, but there are some young kids who live in this block. Will need some sweets just in case (I can always eat them if nobody knocks!)

Rainmaker · 29 Oct 2019 at 17:44

Clearcut said:
So if you don't want to celebrate some ridiculous American tradition, you are a 'Miserable sod'?

It's not an American tradition, actually. Trick or treating goes back many centuries - millennia in fact - in the UK, with the festival of 'Halloween' itself going back to Samhain and beyond.

Conscript · 29 Oct 2019 at 18:30

panthro said:
Unpopular opinion in this thread but I think it's pathetic how grown adults can be so scared by little children getting dressed up and knocking on their doors that they have to sit in their house in the dark not answering the door.

Who said anything about being scared?

explicit4u · 29 Oct 2019 at 18:33

Fill a bucket with haribo, leave a sign on the door, and enjoy my evening.

If it falls on a weekend then I won’t be home anyway.

HungryHippos · 29 Oct 2019 at 19:18

Will be trying to ignore the trick or treaters as normal. Hopefully they aren't the persistent kind.

AiiR · 29 Oct 2019 at 20:17

Bought a few bags of maoams at the weekend for the occasion, but I've eaten them already.. :rolleyes:

m_cozzy · 30 Oct 2019 at 14:39

Nope. They can F right off. I hated it as a kid & despise it even more as an adult. WFT is wrong with parents thinking its acceptable to either escort their kids or just send them out to harass people?
And no I dont have F'ing kids myself.

something daft already!! · 30 Oct 2019 at 14:51

Make sure you have plenty of hallucinogens to hand out as sweeties. Or hide them in the sweets. Razor blades in the apples, that sort of thing.

wedrum · 30 Oct 2019 at 15:58

something daft already!! said:
Make sure you have plenty of hallucinogens to hand out as sweeties. Or hide them in the sweets. Razor blades in the apples, that sort of thing.

living upto your name i see. *******

NMBlack · 30 Oct 2019 at 16:13

Maccy said:
No pumpkin outside/in the window, no trick or treaters. That's the rule round here and I think it's great.

Same here, and it's worked well for the past few years.

ttaskmaster · 30 Oct 2019 at 16:42

m_cozzy said:
WFT is wrong with parents thinking its acceptable to either escort their kids or just send them out to harass people?

Like, I know, right?
It's no different to those carollers knocking your door at Christmas, wishing you well and singing for a bit of cash in their charity box... or the bloody Salvation Army playing Christmas music in the high street, when we just want to get our shopping done...

something daft already!! · 30 Oct 2019 at 16:46

I get paid to be nice to people during the day. By the time the evening comes, all my niceness has been used up and people will get my wrath if I am disturbed unsolicited. So they can all go away and be ignored.

moon man · 30 Oct 2019 at 16:52

think theres only 2 or 3 kids in the postcode but i buy a mix bag at lidl then eat them myself when no one calls

No-One · 30 Oct 2019 at 16:52

Around here they only go to houses that have decorations up so we don't put any up

bazzabear · 30 Oct 2019 at 16:54

First year in our new house (2017) I was totally unprepared for the massive increase in visitors compared to our old house (despite similar situations - end of a cul-de-sac, on a vaguely similar sized estate.)
At our old house we would often get none, sometimes 1 or 2 visits by small groups. Here I must have seen 50-60 kids if not more.

By halfway through the evening, I was sending panic texts to my wife (who was out doing the rounds with our own daughter) and searching every nook and cranny of the house for spare sweets of any kind. I literally ran out of supplies with the very last kid who came (lucky sod got a full size chocolate bar because it was all I had left!)

We've been more prepared since. Worst case scenario - I have to eat all the leftovers over the following weeks.

Similar situation here too - generally accepted that if there's no lights, the kids don't visit.

noizeuk · 30 Oct 2019 at 17:33

Here's a relevant No Context Hearn;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1189593041167888388

Malevolence · 30 Oct 2019 at 17:44

ttaskmaster said:
Like, I know, right?
It's no different to those carollers knocking your door at Christmas, wishing you well and singing for a bit of cash in their charity box... or the bloody Salvation Army playing Christmas music in the high street, when we just want to get our shopping done...

Where do you live, some Dickension utopia? Around here carol singers are nowt but groups of swarthy looking youths who scream/shout the first line of a carol and then hold their hands out for cash.

Blackjack Davy · 30 Oct 2019 at 18:21

Rainmaker said:
It's not an American tradition, actually. Trick or treating goes back many centuries - millennia in fact - in the UK, with the festival of 'Halloween' itself going back to Samhain and beyond.

Not in this part of it it isn't. Ireland perhaps and maybe scotland, but its an introduced custom everywhere else at least in its current form. It certainly wasn't a thing round here when i were a lad!

moon man · 30 Oct 2019 at 19:32

tbh in yorkshire where im from ,mischeif night on the 4th nov was the big night sort of a hardcore trick or treat without the treat option