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Trick or treaters and those who dont partake in it

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  • #62
    laugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Any other newly adopted American customs you feel we should all observe.

    You think trick or treat in Ireland is new American inspired custom?


  • #63
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    laugh wrote: »
    You think trick or treat in Ireland is new American inspired custom?

    Yup,


  • #64
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    laugh wrote: »
    You think trick or treat in Ireland is new American inspired custom?

    Yup,


  • #65
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    A group of cars just pulled up outside our house, unloaded tonnes of kids and cleaned us out in the first run. Alot of them not from anywhere close by but mammy and daddy bringing them around to get a bigger haul.


  • #66
    laugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Yup,

    It's a tradition in Britain and Ireland going back to the 16th century. It went to the the US and didn't come from there.


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  • #67
    Ghost Buster
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    laugh wrote: »
    It's a tradition in Britain and Ireland going back to the 16th century. It went to the the US and didn't come from there.

    They had polyester witches costumes and Maoam bumper bags in 16th century Ireland?


  • #68
    Ghost Buster
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    endacl wrote: »
    If it can't be avoided, simply give out apples and nuts. They won't be back next year.

    Carefully unwrap Ferero Roche', replaced with brussel sprouts, re wrap, BINGO!


  • #69
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    laugh wrote: »
    You think trick or treat in Ireland is new American inspired custom?

    If we were still 'helping the Halloween party', I'd be all for it.

    Home made outfits, too.


  • #70
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    They had polyester witches costumes and Maoam bumper bags in 16th century Ireland?

    Speaking as an old-ish fart, the decorating houses stuff is a US import < a decade old but dressed-up kids going round the local houses collecting food is very old, older than me, older than polyester costumes...
    Afair It was never called trick-or-treating other than on US films (aka "movies") when I was a child (if you had called it that you'd probably have been mocked), so suppose that's relatively new too. (edit - see above)


  • #71
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Wasn't that long ago when a bin bag and a 20p plastic mask was all that was needed for Halloween. There was none of this doing up your house nonsense.


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  • #72
    6781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 431 ✭✭6781


    jonny24ie wrote: »
    A group of cars just pulled up outside our house, unloaded tonnes of kids and cleaned us out in the first run. Alot of them not from anywhere close by but mammy and daddy bringing them around to get a bigger haul.

    We got that too. I thinks it's very greedy. Most kids in our estate will be out early, at least the younger ones will be so we don't bother answering the door after 7 ish. We were still getting calls after 10 PM


  • #73
    laugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    They had polyester witches costumes and Maoam bumper bags in 16th century Ireland?

    Eh no the costumes reflect what's available and affordable, but people have been going door to door on Halloween in this country for centuries.


  • #74
    Hammer89
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    Wizard! wrote: »
    I am from Greece. We do not have Halloween, but we have a similar custom on Christmas eve and New Years eve. Kids knock on our doors, singing songs accompanied by tubular bells. In older days we used to give them homemade traditional treats, nowadays most of us giving cash

    This might be why Greece's economy is f*cked, by the way.


  • #75
    Ghost Buster
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    laugh wrote: »
    Eh no the costumes reflect what's available and affordable, but people have been going door to door on Halloween in this country for centuries.

    They must be tired now so.


  • #76
    liz lemoncello
    Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭liz lemoncello


    fly_agaric wrote: »
    Speaking as an old-ish fart, the decorating houses stuff is a US import < a decade old but dressed-up kids going round the local houses collecting food is very old, older than me, older than polyester costumes...
    Afair It was never called trick-or-treating other than on US films (aka "movies") when I was a child (if you had called it that you'd probably have been mocked), so suppose that's relatively new too. (edit - see above)

    What did you call it? We used to call it "shelling out". "Shell out, shell out, the witches are out".


  • #77
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    allibastor wrote: »
    It is a bit if you have no decorations up at all!!!
    I had no decorations up, but I did have pig's heads dripping with gore on stakes in the front garden & no kids called :eek: :(


  • #78
    tmh106
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭tmh106


    When did decorating your house fro HAlloween start? I don't remember it at all when I was a kid? It seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon


  • #79
    gw80
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭gw80


    I think some Irish people would want to look into their own culture a bit more,
    Halloween was celebrated in Ireland in pagan times, fires were lit to ward off the coming winter, a much more natural event to celebrate for Northern Europeans than some Middle eastern ideology, ( not much in the way of seasons in the ME).
    It was hijacked and supplanted by Christianity (a foreign and unnatural ideology) and a good job they did too, sad really


    Now see what ye have done, you got me all reeled upI'm gona have to get naked and smear myself in my own **** and shout at the moon


  • #80
    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    They had polyester witches costumes and Maoam bumper bags in 16th century Ireland?

    They didn't have Christmas trees, Santa and turkey dinners on the 25th of December either but they and we still celebrate Christmas. The minutiae of celebrations change but Halloween is very much a holiday that originated in Ireland and has been celebrated here ever since.


  • #81
    Figbiscuithead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭Figbiscuithead


    Well decorations is one thing - I wouldn't expect anyone to decorate their house, but yeah, if you're sending your kids round houses, you should open your door to others.


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  • #82
    Valentina
    Registered Users Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    I can remember decorating the house for Halloween as a child - cobwebs, black balloons and paper skeletons. We always carved pumpkins too. Lots of houses in my area did it. This would have been mid 1980s onwards.

    A house in the area now does their garden like a graveyard. It has gravestones, hands coming out of the ground, disembodied heads... all sorts. I like it but they seem to put it out earlier every year.

    Costumes were always home made. Bin bags, plastic masks or face paint and an empty plastic Quinnsworth bag for your sweets.


  • #83
    petrolcan
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's a Christmas thing. Be starting soon I'd say, there was a good revival of it around here for a few years but tailing off again

    I'm getting my festivities mixed up.


  • #84
    keithclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,222 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Valentina wrote: »
    I can remember decorating the house for Halloween as a child - cobwebs, black balloons and paper skeletons. We always carved pumpkins too. Lots of houses in my area did it. This would have been mid 1980s onwards.

    A house in the area now does their garden like a graveyard. It has gravestones, hands coming out of the ground, disembodied heads... all sorts. I like it but they seem to put it out earlier every year.

    Costumes were always home made. Bin bags, plastic masks or face paint and an empty plastic Quinnsworth bag for your sweets.

    When I was quite small I went up to my nans place for a few nights. Parents completely forgot it was Halloween so my Nan not wanting me to feel left out made me a costume.

    A pair of tights over my head and some black clothes.

    Calling to doors and saying I was "A Mugger" in hindsight seems a bit ridiculous :D

    Got loads of stuff though !


  • #85
    Isolt
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Isolt


    We live in a lovely estate where the committee organised a little 'street' party for the kids. This meant the kids trick or treated before 7pm and meant there were no callers after that time as they were all dancing to spooky music and bobbing for apples etc. It was really nice.
    I put a pumpkin outside and a glow in the dark skeleton on our door so the kids would know to knock. I loved seeing all the costumes.
    Then the committee organised fireworks in the middle of the estate when all the kids were done dancing and playing etc. It was all over and done withy 10pm and there was really no disruption at all. It was lovely for the kids and great for us too :)


  • #86
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭emo72


    So my son who is an older teenager, he hasn't had an easy time of late. He made a brilliant costume and did it all himself. Everybody was blown away by his costume and we had great fun with his younger siblings calling at houses.

    Then one auld fella said what are you doing calling at doors? You're too old to be doing this. This fecker knocked him back terribly. And my son wanted to go home, no life in him.

    I don't know why I'm writing this, just venting.


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