Trick or Treaters

WhoWhatWhere

Only 10 days a left. Do you partake in the holiday tradition of giving sweets to the neighborhood children? Where I live we never get any to the door, but tbh I don't see myself being open to giving out free sweets to anyone. From what I've seen halloween seems to be dying out in popularity. Perhaps I'm wrong.

uch

Nah don't answer the door to the little shíts

Winterlong

It's a scourge in our neighbourhood. Have seen parents drop kids off in cars to go trick or treating. ANd some of the 'kids' are taller and bigger than I am.
We must be a 'soft touch' area.
I only give sweets to kids I know. The rest get a scowl.
Bahumbug.

Cortina_MK_IV

I have a battery operated pumpkin that's the junior version of trainers over the telephone wire. I'll get a load of sweets... The old lady next door has 75 grandkids and they'll be around so don't want to be a Halloween Scrooge.

Allinall

Furt up the jacksie from me.

Little gurriers.

seamus

Yeah. My daughter will go out and about and the local kids arrive too, so we'll hand out a few. It's a bit o' craic, I remember the fun doing it myself as a kid, I see no reason to be a dick about it now and refuse to engage.

biko

Take it down from the mast, Irish Treaters..

SarahMollie

This is our first year with our own front door so I shall be happily handing out some sweets to our local little darlings Before this its been mostly apartment living so its not been an issue.

Not typically a children person, but its only one night per year, so what harm.

The Backwards Man

One of the nights I'm glad of a good gate and a cross dog. It's far from going to the neighbours for sweets I was reared. We were lucky if we got to bob for apples in a basin. With no apples in it. Or water.

Ted111

The Backwards Man wrote: »

in a basin. With no apples in it. Or water.

I'd say it was the only way your ma could resist the temptation to
drown you.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It's a bit of fun for the kids. We live in a rural area so we will just have the grandchildren plus maybe four other groups. The sweets are bought and the bags will be filled in the next few days. They enjoy the dressing up and put a lot of effort into it.

WhoWhatWhere

Ted111 wrote: »

I'd say it was the only way your ma could resist the temptation to
drown you.

Omg

HensVassal

I bring back a load of space cakes from Amsterdam. You can get little mini mars-bar hash cakes.

Great craic watching the neighbourhood go from kids running around in ghost outfits to a scene from a zombie-meets-mental asylum movie.

It's a big thing where I live and kids are everywhere having a great time. You'd have to be made of stone not to like seeing them enjoy themselves, it's lovely to see them having fun.

I live in an apartment so I don't get to give them anything, but I'd have no problem joining in and dressing up to scare them when I answer the door if I didn't.

Pinch Flat

I have a 10 year old son and loads of kids in the area, so I love it. I put some scary lighting, skulls etc and run some scary sounds through a speaker in the porch. We have the treats ready for the kids. I'm loving it while it lasts, cos in a few years time they'll all be grown up and I'll miss it.

ladyella

We'll bring our 2 out on our road. It's the first year they have an active interest in it. I think the rule we'll follow is if theres no lights on we're not knocking.
So for the Halloween humbug just close the curtains and we won't bother ye

endacl

Lights off in the front of the house. Movies in the back room. Unless I'm in the pub.

No problem with 'help the Halloween party'. Yiz can shove yer 'trick or treat' up yizzer holes though.

Ush1

Great to see them, love halloween. Bunch of dry sh*tes who wouldn't answer the door to some kids enjoying the night.

Cortina_MK_IV

It's only kids for one night... Not Vodafone or Fine Gael.

andekwarhola

For some reason, we always get loads at the door so it gets a little tiring and hectic but you'd want to be a bit of a cnut to really begrudge them their night, or perhaps, just that neighbour that everybody despises.

Grayson

I always switch the lights off and pretend I'm not home. The one year I did bring sweets home no-one called.

Elliott S

I never answer the door to trick-or-treaters because I have no idea how to talk to kids.

My dad hates trick-or-treating. We did wren boys as kids though but his view is that at least we did something to earn the goodies, such as sing and play music. But that was probably as much of a pain in the hoop for people, if not more so. So I don't really agree with his stance.

Ken Shamrock

Ted111 wrote: »

I'd say it was the only way your ma could resist the temptation to
drown you.

A+

9or10

Years ago spent the weekend in Waterford over Halloween. All the nieces made pumpkin lanterns and then we toated marshmellows over a solid fuel patio heater (clearly before the crash).

entropi

The people around our way didn't give sweets, but fruit and nuts instead. Got at least a week's worth of healthy food in one short trip around the place. Its a great time of year, sadly seeing less and less kids put the effort in the last few years.

RayM

Elliott S wrote: »

I never answer the door to trick-or-treaters because I have no idea how to talk to kids.

Just talk to them the same way as you would to an adult. You know, about stuff like interest rates, the price of car insurance and the fact that it's fierce mild for this time of year.

Elliott S

entropi wrote: »

Its a great time of year, sadly seeing less and less kids put the effort in the last few years.

Really? I would think it was the opposite. It seems to be growing as a festival in Ireland. When I was young, trick-or-treating was virtually unheard of (80s, 90s child). We'd always just have Halloween parties where we played all the usual games.

Trick-or-treating just seems to have become really popular in the last 5-10 years.

Elliott S

RayM wrote: »

Just talk to them the same way as you would to an adult. You know, about stuff like interest rates, the price of car insurance and the fact that it's fierce mild for this time of year.

Ah thanks, I see where I've been going wrong.

entropi

Elliott S wrote: »

Really? I would think it was the opposite. It seems to be growing as a festival in Ireland. When I was young, trick-or-treating was virtually unheard of (80s, 90s child). We'd always just have Halloween parties where we played all the usual games.

Trick-or-treating just seems to have become really popular in the last 5-10 years.

We used to have that too, but trick or treating was pretty popular in my case. These days its dwindling. There's the crackdown on local bonfires and fireworks too, which puts a dampener on things since I was a kid, and takes away from the mythology behind it.

andekwarhola

Elliott S wrote: »

I never answer the door to trick-or-treaters because I have no idea how to talk to kids.

They just want sweets. Not some oldie's thoughts on the universe.

Elliott S

entropi wrote: »

We used to have that too, but trick or treating was pretty popular in my case. These days its dwindling. There's the crackdown on local bonfires and fireworks too, which puts a dampener on things since I was a kid, and takes away from the mythology behind it.

I'm from a rural area. Maybe trick-or-treating was more common in urban areas?

Elliott S

andekwarhola wrote: »

They just want sweets. Not some oldie's thoughts on the universe.

Yup, I even find the few sentences of small talk challenging. Children are like a whole other species to me.

I don't like trickertreaters. It's as if they stop being little kids and become Borg like, a herd of irritation that rings my doorbell and stands staring up at me expecting nice things. Go away. All of the sweets are for me.

tomwaterford

Elliott S wrote: »

Yup, I even find the few sentences of small talk challenging. Children are like a whole other species to me.

Just hold out a bucket of sweets ffs

If they talk....start speaking random words in irish that'll soon clear them

entropi

Elliott S wrote: »

I'm from a rural area. Maybe trick-or-treating was more common in urban areas?

Possibly. I've never been part of a rural Halloween or Samhain celebration, so don't have much frame of reference.

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't like trickertreaters. It's as if they stop being little kids and become Borg like, a herd of irritation that rings my doorbell and stands staring up at me expecting nice things. Go away. All of the sweets are for me.

Insulin resistance is futile :pac:

Olishi4

andekwarhola wrote: »

They just want sweets. Not some oldie's thoughts on the universe.

Ye they usually just stand there with the Halloween bag. When you drop the sweets in the bag, they do a quick check to see what you gave them and then run onto the next.

lertsnim

I have no interest in buying sweets to hand out to children knocking at my door. Never did before and don't plan on starting.

osarusan

I open the door but I take their candy.

You should see their little faces.

entropi

entropi wrote: »

Possibly. I've never been part of a rural Halloween or Samhain celebration, so don't have much frame of reference.

Insulin resistance is futile :pac:

Lower your doors and surrender your sweets.


I'll get me coat

ednwireland

I just set the locked up zombies on them that I have for just such an occasion.

jmayo

WhoWhatWhere wrote: »

Only 10 days a left. Do you partake in the holiday tradition of giving sweets to the neighborhood children? Where I live we never get any to the door, but tbh I don't see myself being open to giving out free sweets to anyone. From what I've seen halloween seems to be dying out in popularity. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Trick or treat me ar**.

WE ARE NOT FOOKIN AMERICANS. :mad:

Next thing you know we will have some supposed businessman who was on a shyte reality TV show running for president.
Oh shyte that already happened. :eek:

You see, you see what happens when we start going American.

There'll be no end to it.
They will be playing their silly 4 hours games in Croker, they will be singin about boys in their hoods, they be talking about constitutional amendments, we'll be eating cookies and chips will be Taytos.

It's a fecking slipper slope I tell yas.

Cortina_MK_IV

<snip>Next thing you know we will have some supposed businessman who was on a shyte reality TV show running for president.

Or worse being in the Eurovision then running for president!

gw80

I love it, it's the only true Irish holiday we have left that hasn't been bastardised by Christianity
Shame about the lack of bonfires these days, it definitely takes away from it

gw80

jmayo wrote: »

Trick or treat me ar**.

WE ARE NOT FOOKIN AMERICANS. :mad:

Next thing you know we will have some supposed businessman who was on a shyte reality TV show running for president.
Oh shyte that already happened. :eek:

You see, you see what happens when we start going American.

There'll be no end to it.
They will be playing their silly 4 hours games in Croker, they will be singin about boys in their hoods, they be talking about constitutional amendments, we'll be eating cookies and chips will be Taytos.

It's a fecking slipper slope I tell yas.

Like I said, it was an Irish tradition originally that was brought to America by Irish emigrants

Fleawuss

I usually go away round then. A treat for me.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Does anyone here call them Pucas? People usually give me a blank look when I ask that.

My mother always used that term. I remember how it made me cringe as a child.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Elliott S wrote: »

I'm from a rural area. Maybe trick-or-treating was more common in urban areas?

Trick or treat was a big part of the traditional rural Halloween. Long before it was sanitised to the urban children calling to houses, rural folk (young and old) took part in trick or treat. Very often it ended in trick: whereby a garden or field gate would be removed and hidden some distance away or a rotten egg would be broken against the front door. Treats were apples or nuts from the recent harvest. If you were lucky 'the big house' would give out dates and figs.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I'll buy in rakes of stuff, and make up little Halloween goodie bags. I am gonna dress up too. And I'm gonna pack the bags with chocolate, E numbers, crisps, etc. All the fun stuff. No nuts or fruit on my watch.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Also I'll be only giving to kids in my estate. Those fat greedy little sh1ts been driven from door to door that I've never seen before will be getting nothing. Maybe nuts for them actually, nuts and an actimel. Teach them to be mean.

MeatTwoVeg

Declan Raspy Fruit wrote:

. If you were lucky 'the big house' would give out dates and figs.

This was in the Middle East I presume?

jmayo

gw80 wrote: »

Like I said, it was an Irish tradition originally that was brought to America by Irish emigrants

Halloween is fine, it is the fecking bastardisation of it by the fecking yanks.
Pumpkins, pumpkins !

One poster here mentioned bobbing for apples in a basin?
How many children do it nowadays ?

I guess if children did it nowadays, we probably would have lawsuits or children been taken into care because their teeth were damaged or possibly endangered.
Nowadays we have kids dressing as every fekcing marvel comic hero under the sun and parading around merely demanding sweets from neighbours.