Halloween

I love hallowean, am I the only one? I decorate the hallway, have a carved out pumpkin on the porch and lots of ghoulish treats to give to those who call. My 2 DGD always come around in their new costumes each year and I get really disappointed if no-one else calls which sometimes happens unfortunately

That horse's head was a Mari Lwyd. It went round at New Year so nothing to do with Halloween at all. Just ignore me.

My GS (8) goes trick or treating but only with a couple of his friends and "shadowed" by DD, in the cul de sac where he lives. Here in our road we get quite a few children, from tinies to teens, coming round in the early evening. I like to see the little ones. I usually buy small packets of Hariboes, wrapped lollies and such like. There are always some left over and DH usually polishes those off!

My grandkids thoroughly enjoy dressing up for Halloween. All the local children gather together under the watchful eye of a couple of the fathers, then go to one another's houses for treats. It's a happy, community event for all the families in the street. #nomenacesinvolved. The costumes are probably seen as tacky by some, but I don't think the children understand that concept. To them it's just fun.

I don't like the idea of 'trick or treat' (with menaces) though in my (Scottish) youth we went out 'guising' round the neighbours and relatives until we outgrew it at about 12. Halloween parties usually involved 'dooking' for apples and eating black treacle coated scones hanging on strings and with our hands behind our backs! A very sticky game.

My granny lived in rural south Wales on a sheep farm . She told me that at Halloween people came round with a horse's head. Any ideas how this worked?? She said she was very frightened as a child in the 1880s.

P.S we used to carve a turnip but give me a pumpkin any day

Last year ( along with his mum) there was a tiny ghost on the doorstep, it was a little boy of about two, so sweet. he was very proud of himself.

Good natured fun, that should read.

The children in our village have a very happy time at Halloween, there are no tricks/ treats as such, just that children visit neighbours ( who have put out either lights, pumpkins or something) other homes are left in peace.
they show off their costumes and have little goody bags, which we drop something into.It's good natured fun.

The old Scottish custom of 'guising' still prevailed when my own three were little and it involved dressing-up, visiting close neighbours, performing a song or reciting a poem and receiving a token sweet or satsuma. The lanterns were turnips! No (tricks) threats implied!
Dgcs enjoy dressing up and pumpkins but no trailing around trick or treating.
I've never liked Hallowe'en, even less now with the americanised version, so will feel free to ignore it.

As children we always went Guising but only to Grannies' and immediate neighbours. Our DDs did likewise and now our DGC do the same. We eschew the Americanised 'Trick or Treat' commercialism, adhering instead to the traditional Turnip Lanterns (albeit with electric candles), a performance (telling jokes, singing, reciting) in each house by the Guisers and a reward of apples, sweets and small coins.

DDs usually organise a Hallowe'en party for family and friends with traditional dookin for apples, eating treacle scones dangled from a clothes line, Mashed potatoes with hidden treats, hot chestnuts. All great fun at minimal cost.

No I dont like it

I'm a grumpy guts where Halloween is concerned, too, ninathenana. My kids never went trick or treating, it's just an American custom that's been imported by the purveyors of party tat, so far as I'm concerned.

I'm glad we're out in the sticks, and don't have to suffer 'Trick or Treat' I never took my DC out to do this. I don't like flippin carol singers either. #grumpyguts
Organized charity carol singers are welcome

I think the protocol is that any house with a lit pumpkin outside will welcome 'trick or treaters'.
I usually bake small cakes and decorate with fondant pumpkins and ghosts made from a plunger cutter I have. Bagged individually, they always go down well at the door. Unfortunately the satsumas are always left behind, but pouches of fruit drink and bagged sweets are popular.
If you Google 'Halloween cakes' you will find no end of ghoulish ideas.