AIBU

Will not be sweeping my drive or path,
As I shall zooming around on my broomstick?‍♀️?‍♀️

What a load of old rubbish. Landfill fest.

Next year I might get my witches hat out, my robes and a big broomstick. It could be fun

Lumarei Goodness me, I think your reaction was a bit OTT.
I was being lighthearted.
I don't think children think that deeply about it.
No one I know has ever hidden in fear in the dark. lol. You need to lighten up!

I'm not a lover of Halloween and think filling kids up with sweets before bed is not too wise. Today I turned to the internet for constabulary advice. From that I was able to download a bright & light-hearted poster to say "Sorry, no trick or treating here". We sellotaped this to the glass panel in our front foor. There was actually quite a variety of posters from a selection of police authorities. As I write there are gangs of children outside but they're polite enough not to knock and we can enjoy supper in peace!

That’s blooming ridiculous MissA what a stupid waste of paper and ink I d take no notice at all anyone coming up my path takes the risk... what risk ?
I fuelled up last year put my pumpkin out and didn’t have one knock so didn’t bother this year
It’s not a celebration I like very much anyway I don’t think that makes me miserable it’s just such a strange thing for kids to be ‘celebrating’

My view is that it's just an excuse to dress up, have a party and light a few sparklers. My grandsons will be enjoying it.

And no, of course it doesn't make anyone miserable if they don't agree.

Trick or treat is I think an American ' phrase, but almost seventy years ago, here, kids went door to door asking for ' penny for the guy ', and they expected money. I think it was supposedly money to spend on preparing for Guy Fawkes, as in buying sparklers and fireworks and making a guy for the bonfire. It was called ' guysing '.

I came home later than usual and have missed most of the trick or treaters im genuinley gutted but on the plus side i have lots of sweets now

I just kept the hall light off all evening. There’s a clear code in our street: only knock on doors where there is a pumpkin or some such tat outside the door.

No-one called here even though I had sweeties ready and waiting

Perhaps it's because we didn't sweep our drive!

Gilld69 OH looks forward to leftovers.

Missfoodlove there is obviously no crime whatsoever where you live and the local police are bored and looking for something to do!!

Callistemon, Ha if only!

I didn't know about the lit pumpkin rule. I thought there was no knock at the door 'cos we're miserable gits. However I shall make sure I don't leave a pumpkin out next year too.

November 5th is worse.

My little DGS love it and go all out with their costumes and decorations. I was carving pumpkins with two of them yesterday - very small ones from grandad’s allotment - then we decorated my windows with cobwebs, spiders and lights so the local children would know they could call here later.

We had 13 trick or treaters (spooky!). I was disappointed that all but one were older children this year, as I love to see the little ones. We had a cute over-excited pumpkin visit last year who really wanted to put sweets into our cauldron from his bag, rather than taking them.

Still, they were all polite and no-one slipped on a wet leaf or choked on a haribo, thank goodness!

To my mind our homegrown Mischief Night was far worse back in the day.

When my niece was a child, she was trick or treating, and asked the woman who answered the door “Trick or treat?”?.
Thqe woman answered “Trick”, and took a handful of sweets out of my niece’s bag before closing the door. ?

I think we are the old people of the street who are not to be bothered, the only person who rang the doorbell wanted a lot more than a handful of sweets, it was the plumber and he wanted paying.
I now have a large quantity of child type sweeties which will probably end up being given to GC.

I had some very sweet little children with their mothers and two giggly teenagers, obviously just having a laugh.

We don't get any trick or treaters (thank goodness) as we live in a small hamlet with no young families.

I don't agree with it and my DC never went out when young - we lived in Hong Kong then and there was a strong American influence which is where I first came across the custom. I was often amazed at the age of some of the children who were brought round by their Filipina helpers (not parents!) - some as young as 2 or 3!

As for sweeping the drive and lighting it - why? If they want to come in then they should take care and have torches. And children should be accompanied by an adult who should know what they can and can't have!

We had more than 40 very well behaved and polite children come to our door last night.
We always hand out a single treat to each child. This calms any potential rugby scrum.

Just the one batch of Trick or Treaters, but we are quite rural.

I have many sweets for myself now.

Lumarei if you look at the origins of the ‘day of the dead’ it is a gually a respectful ce

Sorry, celebration of those family and friends who have died, and coul perhaps be viewed a little less harshly?