Now It's Officially Halloween - Another Money-Making Spree.......

Hate it...totally been taken over now by Americanisms Trick or Treat is an American tradition not a British one....

MissAdventure

I live in a really rough area, but have never had any problems with teens demanding money, or getting up to no good.

I once had eggs thrown at my windscreen as I drove home from work. Fortunately I was close to home at the time because I could barely see in front of me. Took ages to clean it. Just a bunch of lads having some fun 😏

Another street where we had children in amazing costumes mostly accompanied by adults. All very polite and just took a couple of sweets each. Loved seeing the pictures of my granddaughters in their Halloween costumes.

Seems to have taken over penny for the guy- probably fiver for the guy now 🤣
Love watching all the activity, just a bit of harmless fun

We just had one this time. A young ghoul with a white face, a cape and a very polite manner

I asked if he was on his own, and he pointed at a similarly dressed man who turned out to be his grandad, so I told him to take sweets for Grandad too. He (the grandad) howled in appreciation, which was fun.

Have seen a lot of posts on Fbook from various people giving away piles of sweets this weekend.......my children got far to many sweets anybody wanting them. Would it not just be easier to do fewer houses?

2nd November. Garden Centre has a sale of halloween items The rest of the indoor sales is completely Christmas. No items for bonfire/Guy Fawkes night. I hope we don't import Thankgiving to go with Halloween. My DD has been trying to resurrect Apple bobbing . Great fun that everyone can take part in.

In the fifties, where I lived, ‘ guisers’ were expecting money. When doors were opened, the call was ‘ a penny for the guy ‘. The money was for fireworks for Guy Fawkes.

One of my girlfriends had bags of sweets to give away, which were taken. The next morning she came downstairs to find that all the glass at the front of her house, the lounge windows and part of the front door, had been egged! Horrible

I actually really dislike Halloween and always have. Our last house was on an estate and trick or treaters used to knock. I always gave them a big smile, say I didn't like Halloween, but as it's my daughter's birthday on the following day, I'd celebrate that with them if they came then - and they could have as many sweets as they could take away. I then made sure that there was an enormous amount of sweets ready for them the next day. They were lovely children, and tbh, many of them spent lots of time in our house anyway, as they were mostly friends of our own children and they seemed to like the cakes I made....😊

I'm genuinely not meaning to be horrible or anything but I can't stand Halloween, never could.

As a kid I had ''adults'' trying to force me into stupid outfits and trying to push me out the door. I kicked and screamed and said no, to be shouted at ''you'll do as you're TOLD'' and I continued to rebel.

I absolutely hate the whole thing and as I'm arachnophobic it's always terrifying for me to go into shops etc. and be surrounded by fake spids and webs, and all the horrible pumpkins!

I don't open my door to strangers or kids anyway but especially not at Halloween!

My church organised a Light Night instead of Halloween and it was such good fun. We had around 400 people through the doors for crafts, games, football cage, mini donuts on strings and free hot dogs. A great evening for the family.