Trick or treaters

Not super busy this way, despite the 8 pumpkins out, the yearly light up ghost.

Me and the oldest went out trick or treating 5.45 - 6.30 ish, was nice to be out and about to be fair, not that cold. He seen some kids from school.
But the bowl we left out was mostly full on return. Theres quite a few elderly in our street, where the next street over there is lots of very decorated houses, so guess people went that way.

I did see a bloke dressed as Batman, just walking along.
 
I switch off my doorbell. As round here get teens who make zero effort in dressing up. Just wear tracksuit bottoms and hoodies going round houses, ignoring the unwritten rule of only going to homes that are decorated. Then demand money.

If people leave out bowls of sweets, they take the lot!
 
robfosters said:
Tonight has been insane for trick or treaters. We must have had about 30 knocks in the last couple of hours. Already gone through £25 worth of sweets and still getting knocks. I’ve never known it to be like this, it seems to be getting busier each year.

What’s your area been like for it tonight?
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This has certainly been the busiest year round our way.

The first one after COVID saw quite the uptick, and everyone went mad, then it kinda petered out.

But this year was mental.

Though I was mean this year, put a tin of sweets out as had to do a teams meeting for 10 minutes.

In that 10 minutes some greedy scroats took the whole tin of sweets, usually it's young kids and the parents make sure they only take 1, but there were a lot of teenagers out tonight, and after that, I refused to give teens any sweets, if it were young kids with their parents no problem.

All that said I hate Halloween, never see the pint in it, it's an American thing that's grown over time, and it's just a bloody annoyance, however my wife and child love it and go all out so I'm out numbered.

Xmas though, I'm all over that shizzle
 
Werewolf said:
We've had about 38 this year, mainly in groups of two or three.

I'm just about to bring the pumpkin pop up in, as we've not had any for 45 minutes and IIRC in my area the mum's tend to arrange for it to be going on between about 5-8pm and only to houses with decorations on show (to avoid them knocking on the doors of people that don't want to deal with it).
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Yep, that's how it should be, is also the way it is round our way.
 
sx_turbo said:
All that said I hate Halloween, never see the pint in it, it's an American thing that's grown over time, and it's just a bloody annoyance, however my wife and child love it and go all out so I'm out numbered.
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Its a Gaelic thing actually, Irish\Scottish roots. Though par for the course the Americans go over the top with it and that's filtered back here.
 
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Gerard said:
Its a Gaelic thing actually, Irish\Scottish roots. Though par for the course the Americans go over the top with it and that's filtered back here.
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Yeah that's what I meant the Americanisation of it all.

Was originally feasts and sacrifices, and had a religious meaning behind it at the time.

But we are where we are these days.
 
Must have had 20. One family of bottom feeders came twice and took more than their share but they probably all live in the same room so I can't hold it against them.

Some older kids came and one lad took a sweet and then dropped 50 pence back in.....I mean, wtf?
 
marinersfan said:
Quite a lot round here. We've not had any though. They only seem to go to the decorated houses.

Not that we've got anything for them though.
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That's the rules, if the house isn't decorated or the pumpkins aren't lit, you don't knock.

Though I think it's more akin to the British constitution.. it's not actually written down, more of an accepted form of societal manners.
 
sx_turbo said:
This has certainly been the busiest year round our way.

The first one after COVID saw quite the uptick, and everyone went mad, then it kinda petered out.

But this year was mental.

Though I was mean this year, put a tin of sweets out as had to do a teams meeting for 10 minutes.

In that 10 minutes some greedy scroats took the whole tin of sweets, usually it's young kids and the parents make sure they only take 1, but there were a lot of teenagers out tonight, and after that, I refused to give teens any sweets, if it were young kids with their parents no problem.

All that said I hate Halloween, never see the pint in it, it's an American thing that's grown over time, and it's just a bloody annoyance, however my wife and child love it and go all out so I'm out numbered.

Xmas though, I'm all over that shizzle
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47 posts until we got to the 'OMG HALLAWEN AMERICAN THING'. Like most interesting things, it isn't British. I'm impressed it took so long. I wonder if we'll get a GBeebies article?
 
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