Trick or treaters

retalivity

Ive only got 5 different types of cheese, beef jerky, pistachios and beer.

Unappreciated

fussyonion

I had lots of callers tonight.

This one youngfella, about eight or nine, in a black hoody with a schoolbag on back-to-front, called. Gave him sweets.
Ten minutes later, he returned with his hood on.
I gave him sweets....not realising...and he took his hood down and said "Hah I called to you a few minutes ago and I got double sweets!"

He called back half an hour later and I told him to eff off.
All in all, a successful evening!

Creative Juices

willmunny1990 wrote: »

Barely any fireworks going off this year too which is a surprise as I live in a big town with big housing estates, we also haven't been allowed bonfires here for years either so at this stage Halloween is dead here!

Is that Missouri or Kansas?

Creative Juices

fussyonion wrote: »

I had lots of callers tonight.

This one youngfella, about eight or nine, in a black hoody with a schoolbag on back-to-front, called. Gave him sweets.
Ten minutes later, he returned with his hood on.
I gave him sweets....not realising...and he took his hood down and said "Hah I called to you a few minutes ago and I got double sweets!"

He called back half an hour later and I told him to eff off.
All in all, a successful evening!

Cursing at hungry children is a successful evening?

DoYouEvenLift

Anyone else noticed how much less there was this year? Even just 5 years ago the streets and estates would have packs of kids and parents walking door to door but this year the bell only rang 5 times.

Those little sh!ts don't want free sweets anymore? Out for the birds they'll go, so. Always wanted to see what crows are like with sugar rushes.

What next? Kids claiming Santa isn't real?

Paulownia

ProudDUB wrote: »

Sadly, you (and everyone else with the same idea) would have to get past the gated security.

My friend hated living there. She just couldn't keep up with the lifestyle. Her hubbys job paid for the rent on the house, but they had to pay for everything else. The pressure to keep up with the Jones was immense. She was thrilled when he was transferred to St Louis & they got to live where she could do a more normal Halloween.

I'm at the stage of reaching for the shotgun, three in the morning and still letting off fireworks.

NoHornJan

Don't be like that.
They are only children.
You were once one of them.

DoYouEvenLift

NoHornJan wrote: »

Don't be like that.
They are only children.
You were once one of them.

I'm not actually mad lol, just curious.

B.A._Baracus

Noticed the reduced number of kids myself too.
Years ago... up until maybe 6-8 years ago ... the door would be knocked on every 5 minutes between 5pm and 9pm.

Sorry if I come off as over-thinking this :P But I think it is all down to society changing. Like letting your son or daughter knock on a strangers door to recieve random candy. In todays world there is just an element of fear for parents. You can't blame them too. That's the messed up aspect!

Nodin

Not one this year, despite loads last year. And I had me strides on answerin the door last year too, so theres no real reason I can think of for being avoided this time round.

Nodin

Macavity. wrote: »

They think you're a big pedo.

Hardly.













Medium sized at most.

whatdoicare

Alot of kids are going to parties instead, in limerick all the tons of fun places are doing parties, kids go bonkers for three hours, load up on sweets, get face painted, fall asleep in car on way home or are so knackered theyll sit on couch and watch a mickey mouse Halloween film or frozen or whatever until they do. Job done!
I prefer it this way, kids aren't chomping on bag loads of sweets, they are getting loads of exercise, out of the ****e weather, no worrying if some axehole is going to come at them with fireworks or eggs.
Its what we did this year, no stress. We still got trick or treaters from 6pm till about 830pm but not a huge amount.

To Elland Back

I live in a rural area where the houses are spaced out. I know my neighbours who have kids, bring them in to the estates in town, miles away. Boy, am I grateful for that.

indigo twist

We only got four groups last night, maybe twelve kids in total. I didn't get home until close to 6.30, maybe the younger kids go out earlier than that? It had been dark for quite a while at that stage. Also the fact that it was cold and raining obviously didn't help. We've a load of little goody-bags here and nothing to do with them.

Honestly I'm not sure I'll be comfortable with my own son doing trick-or-treating when he's old enough (even though I used to love it as a child!) whatdoicare's plan sounds perfect.

Pumpkinseeds

whatdoicare wrote: »

Alot of kids are going to parties instead, in limerick all the tons of fun places are doing parties, kids go bonkers for three hours, load up on sweets, get face painted, fall asleep in car on way home or are so knackered theyll sit on couch and watch a mickey mouse Halloween film or frozen or whatever until they do. Job done!
I prefer it this way, kids aren't chomping on bag loads of sweets, they are getting loads of exercise, out of the ****e weather, no worrying if some axehole is going to come at them with fireworks or eggs.
Its what we did this year, no stress. We still got trick or treaters from 6pm till about 830pm but not a huge amount.

We had both last night. The kids started arriving at 5.30 until 7ish, earlier than usual as there was a big kids event on from 6 til late, so they went trick or treating and then went to the party/disco. I've never seen so many cars parked out the front. Really lazy on the part of the parents to be driving them around the estates for sweets and then driving them to an event. Part of the fun when we were kids was going trick or treating with your friends.:)