Trick or Treat Kids - any come to your door?

JupiterKid

So I've recently moved and this evening so far no kids doing trick or treat have come to my door. In a way it's a relief as I don't have the hassle of getting up from the sofa every few minutes to fill the bags of the little ones with sweets.

In another way, it's a bit of a pity as I deliberately bought in quite a few sweets for any kids coming to my door. So I'll just have to eat these sweets myself!

What do AHers make of trick or treat? Had loads of them this evening?

mad muffin

Loads. All went off disappointed, as I didn't answer the door.

Cortina_MK_IV

Only twice so far, one solo and then 2 lads. I had 2 (Sugarland) Lidl party bags and Mister Choc bars so I've loads left. Maybe the mammies are at home watching Strictly.

Sir Osis of Liver.

I have a cardboard cut-out of Jimmy Savile that I leave in the hall in the run up to Halloween.

Pinch Flat

Yeah we had a good few kids - we have a few decorations that we put strobe lights behind and stream some spooky music to a small speaker in the porch - kids love it.

Our area is young enough - we have a 9 year old - so no end of trick or treaters - in a few years they'll all grow out of it and they'll stop coming, so I enjoy it.

HeidiHeidi

Turned off all the lights and hid behind closed curtains.

I'm sure they knew I was here but they did me the courtesy of not knocking, fair play to 'em.

No bangers in the letterbox. Yet.

Stheno

Live on a main road and never get anyone trick or treating

Mena

50 plus but then we live in an area of mostly US expats so the kids go wild.

fussyonion

About 50 kids called. Ran out of sweets and had to turn five away.
I'm glad all the sweets are gone; I was starting to worry I'd be left with a load of sh*te but thankfully they all went.

There's a family across the road who are obviously at home but ignore the kids calling.
I think it's so fcuking mean; especially when their son goes out trick or treating.

Either make it look like you're out or answer the door; don't be so fcuking rude as to be obvious you're home and just ignoring the kids.
Trick or treating was always an exciting time for us when we were kids..it's a bit of fun once a year. Buy a few sweets and join in.

Lia_lia

No. We live in a gated area in the city, so not many kids around and the gate is locked.

My Mother's house often gets lots of trick or treaters as she lives in an estate. Not as much recently though, not many kids in the estate anymore.

JustTheOne

I see Halloween is now bigger in Ireland than America.

I remember when younger it was one day, now its 2 weeks of kids dressed up.

We sure do like to overindulge in festivities.

The Randy Riverbeast

Probably not, live in the city center and management company wont fix the doorbell so wouldnt know if there was anyone at the door.

Valentina

I had 4 or 5 knocks on the door, so maybe 20 kids total?

I'd gotten a few bags of those Haribo mini bags of sweets so plenty to go round and a few left over for me :pac:

KERSPLAT!

Had about 10 or 15, ran out of sweets so knocked off the outside lights after that

Day Lewin

Gangs of them: great creativity in the costumes! I make them say a poem or sing a song etc etc. Before dishing out the lollipops.
The hall is decorated spooky and we dress up too. I love Halloween and we've always done it, in this neighbourhood. All my life!

Sunnyisland

About twenty came here, all dressed up and looking so cute, great fun , fair play to them and there parents with them .

SEPT 23 1989

20+ young area all quiet now

s8n

JustTheOne wrote: »

I see Halloween is now bigger in Ireland than America.

I remember when younger it was one day, now its 2 weeks of kids dressed up.

We sure do like to overindulge in festivities.

It's not bigger here than in the states.

Turtyturd

Stayed in my parents over the weekend so the kids could go trick or treating with the other grandkids. Had a good few knocks which was a surprise as when I lived here they were very rare.

The neighbour has been out with her teenage kid since shortly after it got dark, and is still knocking on doors. Dunno if she's a greedy f*ck or just avoiding having to answer her door.

KatW4

We don't get any out here in the country but my mum does as she lives in the town. She makes up little bags with chocolate, jellies, nuts and a few coins! The ones who say a poem/sing a song are so cute!

Littlehorny

Wife made up sixty "bags" with a few bits in them, had to hand out about ten bags of chipsticks from a box of them to the last few stragglers so 70 in all.

curioser

About fifteen calls - between two and five kids each time. The wife has brought in a good supply of goodies and doled them out to all the kids who called, with still plenty left over. Kids and their parents have obviously gone to great lengths to prepare costumes and deserve a little something if only to recognise their efforts.

pat k

AHHHH CRAP
I had all my copper coins ready and all ...... not one called to my door :-(
ahhh well ...... looks like im keeping them :- ) .

Fluorescence

Yeah a good few came to my door! I completely forgot it was Halloween though and I was cancelled for work last minute so had no sweets in the house (and I wasn't gonna be that miserable hag dishing out kiwis and bananas :pac: ). I turned off all the lights and hid in the back of the house but still got loads of knocks.

Shame cause if I'd known I'd be home I'd have got stuff in! Lots of youngins in the estate

Whitewinged

We had a good few while we were in but we were out trick or treating most of the time with our own. Headed out to a fireworks display after that and just left a bowl with sweets at the door. We were gone for about 2 hours and my oh and i had a bet if they would be all gone by the time we got home. I said "no". He won the bet

DebDynamite

We seemed to be down on callers a good bit from last year. It's only our second year living here so it's hard to gauge how many we'd get. It's an older, more settled area so there's not loads of kids around.

Can't understand people, especially people my own age, who just sit in and ignore callers. And these would be people who would've gone trick or treating themselves as kids. Pay it forward I say and don't be so miserable.

Mint Sauce

I brought a couple boxes of sweets just incase, then remembered I was working late. The next few days i expect my self to grab a handful of them, every time I come in and out.

Bongalongherb

There was a fair few knocking this year I have to say. Mini chocolate bars of all kinds is all they got this year as every other year they just throw the apples and nuts back at me.

The dog made me laugh though when another person went to the door, I could see the dog eyeing up the few dishes of chocs and looking around to see was anyone looking, but I caught him, collie dog of course, crafty little guy. The dog was robbing mini mars bars and i went over to him and he was just looking at me as if nothing happened, the little feller had his mouth closed and looked un-suspicious and then i opened his mouth and a mars bar with it's wrapper still on it fell out lol, crafty little guy with his mouth closed trying to hide the last one i took from him. Luckily he didn't get the chance to eat any of them.

DrH Lecter

Happy Halloween 2015 all.

Bongalongherb

There's something suspicious going on here.

DoozerT6

I live in an apartment, so I never get kids calling round, they generally don't bother coming to the apartment blocks.

I remember it well as a kid myself, but we always had to do a little song/poem/Irish dance or something to get our treats, we never just knocked on the door and held out our bags. Was this just a country thing, or was it done everywhere and that part of the tradition has just died out in recent years?...

Bongalongherb

DoozerT6 wrote: »

I live in an apartment, so I never get kids calling round, they generally don't bother coming to the apartment blocks.

I remember it well as a kid myself, but we always had to do a little song/poem/Irish dance or something to get our treats, we never just knocked on the door and held out our bags. Was this just a country thing, or was it done everywhere and that part of the tradition has just died out in recent years?...

Sure it's quite obvious why that is... Irish folk have gotten lazier.

mikeym

40 kids called to the door and my missus had bought enough sweets & chocolates for all of them.

I used to trick or treat when I was a kid so its only fair I give out sweets to the new generation.

niamhxxx

Live on a very dangerous main road so no callers, I drop 6 bags up to a very old family friend who practically raised me for her grandchildren. I remember when I was younger there were a few houses where we had to do something to 'earn' our treat.

For ever odd

Went out with the kids, got a bag of monster munch and burger bites the rest was cheap sh1te!

Does anyone put any thought into who really has to eat this rubbish.

Bongalongherb

The dentists will be rubbing their hands tonight.

Probably a bit disingenuous though

Sh1tbag OToole

None. Driveway is too creepy for them

Filmer Paradise

Yeah loads. Our estate was built about 15 years ago, so many kids now.

Can't complain as my kids were knocking on their doors too.

All part of the game.

JustTheOne

Please tell me fruit and nuts and handfuls of popcorn aren't still handed out?

VickieVexed1

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I have a cardboard cut-out of Jimmy Savile that I leave in the hall in the run up to Halloween.

scamalert

plenty in my area,run out faster then expected,on the other note neighbor left bowl of sweets outside his doors-probably didn't want to get bothered every second ,anyway few minutes later couple rugrats stumbled over and hit a jackpot.

anothernight

None here. I'm beginning to think no one in my town celebrates halloween.

Faith+1

Not one!?

degsie

Was stripped down to the boxers with all lights on and curtains wide open and not a sinner.

anothernight

Faith+1 wrote: »

Not one!?

My neighbours across the street have decorations on their window, but that's about it. I heard fireworks three times last night, and none tonight. This town has a fairly old population though.

Citygirl1

DoozerT6 wrote: »

I live in an apartment, so I never get kids calling round, they generally don't bother coming to the apartment blocks.

I remember it well as a kid myself, but we always had to do a little song/poem/Irish dance or something to get our treats, we never just knocked on the door and held out our bags. Was this just a country thing, or was it done everywhere and that part of the tradition has just died out in recent years?...

Agreed - I was brought up in a country town, and back then trick or treaters calling at Halloween had to sing a song, recite a poem, or something similar. They would dress up also, but not in the fancy costumes they have these days.

I hadn't seen any for a few years, as an adult, due to various living situations. However, the first time I had my own front door, the first caller was a little boy on his own. So, in my innocence, I asked him what he was going to perform! He eventually produce a short little poem. I'd say I scared him off forever....

Also, back when I was a kid, Halloween masks were the big thing. You'd have this plasticy mask that covered your face, and when you were breathing it would become really moist inside, which was pretty ukky.

I did have a number of callers this evening. I had bought some fun-size mars bars, so they got one each.

What I like to see now is that the callers are little children (supervised!), and they are very cute. I recall when I was young, sometimes gangs of teenagers could call, and they were sometimes quite pushy or aggressive. For this reason, after a few years, my Father refused to answer the door, and he never allowed us to take part in any trick or treating

JupiterKid

Not one trick or treat kid called to my door and I went out and got sweets for them. Maybe it's because I live in an apartment complex (although I have my own front door facing the street).

I suppose that area I live in is too mature and settled. I'd say if you live in a newish housing estate it's non stop.

Witchie

My son's band were playing at the fireworks display in town so by the time I got home with their equipment all the trick or treaters were gone.

chillin117

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I have a cardboard cut-out of Jimmy Savile that I leave in the hall in the run up to Halloween.

Where did you get your Jimmy Saville Cut-Out ? They only had a Rolf Harris left when I called..

Pingi

120ish had 100 bags made up and some spare bits for just in case which were needed. The house was dedecorated and in a large estate.

First caller at 5:30 and last at 8pm so not bad, in.recent years we had callers as.late at half 9 :rolleyes:

Tonight 90% between 6:15 -7:15 at one stage there was like 20 at the door.

chillin117

Gone very ''Americanized'' It was Help the Halloween party in my day, Trick or Treat my arse...