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

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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.
 
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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!)
 
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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.
 
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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...
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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!
 
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