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Do you answer trick or treaters?

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Biblioklept
Biblioklept Community member Posts: 4,682 Disability Gamechanger
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Do you answer the door to kids trick or treating? 

I can't so am thinking of getting a big bowl and leaving it outside for them to help themselves. Does anyone do this and is it a bad idea??
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  • cpnan
    cpnan Community member Posts: 48 Connected
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    I used to answer the door to trick or treaters, however I increasingly found myself faced with groups of teenagers who weren’t even in costumes, which would deplete the sweets I’d bought rather quickly!  Then I’d have nothing left for the little ones who I used to love seeing.
    I too, thought about leaving a bowl of sweets outside for them but I really don’t think it would last long with the teenagers around!  They’d probably take the bowl as well as the sweets lol.
    Now I just turn off the lights at the front of the house and it usually stops them from knocking. 
    Most parents with little ones tend to only visit houses that have a pumpkin displayed these days which I think is a fab idea. 

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  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Community member Posts: 12,420 Disability Gamechanger
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    Yep we answer the door, but only up to about 8 o'clock, and like @cpnan has said, we have an halloween candle in the window, so the youngsters know we are willing for them to visit. x
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 50,832 Disability Gamechanger
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    I don't plan to this year bahumbug lol. I don't have decs up this year either. 
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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
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    I don't all the up and down into my wheelchair they have gone by time I get there 
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  • Binky1234
    Binky1234 Community member Posts: 408 Pioneering
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    I made up different bags for the neighbours kids and handed them in to them the other day.

    In regards to trick or treaters we leave a big shopping  bag of made up goodies at the front door, usually the kids are good and only take one bag.
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  • Binky1234
    Binky1234 Community member Posts: 408 Pioneering
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    Knowing When to walk away is Wisdom, being able is courage, walking away with your head held high is dignity.
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  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,978 Disability Gamechanger
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    Do you plan to put decs up this year @Sandy_123? I am curious  :)
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  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,670 Disability Gamechanger
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    We used to but where we live now has no kids and most people don't even know people live up here.
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  • Poppy_
    Poppy_ Community Volunteer Host Posts: 192 Pioneering
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    I used too but I don’t now, mainly because where i am, there isn’t many trick or treaters. Now, I just buy sweets for myself and watch horror/Halloween movies. 
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  • Cartini
    Cartini Community member Posts: 1,108 Pioneering
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    Sandy_123 said:
    I don't plan to this year bahumbug lol. I don't have decs up this year either. 
    I never put decorations up because I don`t "do" Xmas.  And no, I`m not "bah humbug".  I`m not religious in any way shape or form, so to celebrate it would be hypocritical.  I also think it`s a disgustingly over-commercialised time of the year. 

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  • Cartini
    Cartini Community member Posts: 1,108 Pioneering
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    I never answer my door on Halloween.
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  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,434 Disability Gamechanger
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           On my street we seem to have an unwritten rule that you don't knock on a door if the house doesn't have any decorations in the windows. It's worked well for many years. 

          
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  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 562 Pioneering
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    I answer the door. I think it is fun. The kids make a big effort, so why not reward them with a few treats. A close neighbour has gone overboard and turned their garden into the Halloween version of Santa's Fairy Grotto. They have even got a skeleton hanging up!
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  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 4,682 Disability Gamechanger
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    Teddybear12 said:
    Biblioklept said:
    Do you answer the door to kids trick or treating? 

    I can't so am thinking of getting a big bowl and leaving it outside for them to help themselves. Does anyone do this and is it a bad idea??
    I will be doing that @Biblioklept. I have a little dog and the doorbell keep going makes him hypo.
    Have you done it before? I'm worried someone will just empty the bowl :D 
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  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 4,682 Disability Gamechanger
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    Binky1234 said:

    That's lovely and so true! 
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  • BenjiBunny1965
    BenjiBunny1965 Scope Member Posts: 3 Listener
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    I used to enjoy taking my daughter trick or treating every year (until she decided that she no longer wanted to go anymore) 
    We moved into a new area a month or 3 before Halloween and she was looking forward to going meeting the local people I pushed her around in her wheelchair and more often than not people would sit watching TV and looking through their windows at us but only 4 people had the decency to open their doors and out of those only 1 gave my daughter anything the others just said in their opinion Halloween is an American rip off and they don't hand out sweets to strangers even verywell dresed princesses (I was just happy that they had opened their doors and at least talked to my daughter) one of them explained that we were the first people who had ever come around trick or treating 
    The following year someone (1 of the people who the previous year refused even to come to their door for us) came knocking on our door and I got my daughter  to give  the kids some treats while I went to the gate to chat with the adult walking the kids around and I said "How do you have the cheek to come to my door trick or treating when you wouldn't come to your door last year when I brought my disabled daughter" they tried saying they were out last year but I mentioned their door number and the fact they were watching TV looking out at us so  they don't come knocking anymore & I think they spread the word because no one comes trick or treating or Guy Fawkes night not even Christmas carolling 
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  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Community member Posts: 1,864 Disability Gamechanger
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    we enjoy the little ones knocking, i'll have a big bowl of treats waiting, we don't usually get many, but we love to see the kids and then have spooky film night

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  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Community member Posts: 12,420 Disability Gamechanger
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    perhaps you could wear one of your masks @Grinchy ha ha x
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  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Community member Posts: 1,864 Disability Gamechanger
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    i'm scary enough without the mask,  :D@SueHeath
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 50,832 Disability Gamechanger
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    Cartini said:
    Sandy_123 said:
    I don't plan to this year bahumbug lol. I don't have decs up this year either. 
    I never put decorations up because I don`t "do" Xmas.  And no, I`m not "bah humbug".  I`m not religious in any way shape or form, so to celebrate it would be hypocritical.  I also think it`s a disgustingly over-commercialised time of the year. 

    Yes it is  I'm not a Christian ect either, just nice to add a bit of bling, bring out the turkey, pull a few crackers 
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