Trick or Treaters

WhoWhatWhere · 21-10-2016 03:16PM #1

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 · 21-10-2016 03:18PM

Nah don't answer the door to the little shíts

Winterlong · 21-10-2016 03:19PM

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 · 21-10-2016 03:22PM

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 · 21-10-2016 03:23PM

Furt up the jacksie from me.

Little gurriers.

seamus · 21-10-2016 03:27PM

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 · 21-10-2016 03:55PM

Take it down from the mast, Irish Treaters..

SarahMollie · 21-10-2016 03:57PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:01PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:05PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:07PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:14PM

Ted111 wrote: »

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

Omg

HensVassal · 21-10-2016 04:20PM

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.

21-10-2016 04:25PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:27PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:28PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:30PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:34PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:43PM

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

andekwarhola · 21-10-2016 04:52PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:55PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:56PM

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 · 21-10-2016 04:57PM

Ted111 wrote: »

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

A+

9or10 · 21-10-2016 05:08PM

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 · 21-10-2016 05:18PM

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 · 21-10-2016 05:22PM

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 · 21-10-2016 05:23PM

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 · 21-10-2016 05:29PM

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 · 21-10-2016 05:30PM

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 · 21-10-2016 05:31PM

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 · 21-10-2016 05:55PM

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?

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