Do you answer trick or treaters?
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Biblioklept
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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??
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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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. -
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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I don't plan to this year bahumbug lol. I don't have decs up this year either.
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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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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.Knowing When to walk away is Wisdom, being able is courage, walking away with your head held high is dignity. -
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Do you plan to put decs up this year @Sandy_123? I am curiousCommunity Volunteer Adviser with professional knowledge of education, special educational needs and disabilities and EHCP's. Pronouns: She/her.
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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.2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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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.Poppy_Community Volunteer Host with a passion for reading.
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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.
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I never answer my door on Halloween.
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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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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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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?? -
Binky1234 said:
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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 -
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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perhaps you could wear one of your masks @Grinchy ha ha x
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i'm scary enough without the mask, @SueHeath
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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.
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