Travelling to other areas for trick or treating

I don't think it matters. If some kids live in a street where there are a lot of households not taking part, which is their right to do so, they would lose out if they couldn't travel elsewhere. My dc have taken themselves tonight and gone all over the place. No-one has come here.

Only on MN do people begrudge giving sweets to kids who are "not from round here".

FFS, people.

Buy the sweets you're going to buy and when they run out, turn your front light off and be done with it.

It's weird because certain streets have nothing, no pumpkins, the lights are out etc then you'll turn a corner and the whole street is lit up with spooky Decs and kids everywhere. And these are streets with very similar houses and types of people living in them. Guess some streets just get into being "the area" for it. Saying that I'm still only walking about four blocks away so I'm hardly a "cheeky fucker" haha

My sisters area is like this. They have tonnes of kids arrive that aren't from the area. It really pisses her off as literally she had about 50 kids by 5.45pm and only 2 of them she knew.

I can see why ppl do it though my house is about 20yrs old and a lot of the "kids" around here are grown up so not as many ppl do it. In my street of 9 houses it's usually only me that's puts anything out. We often get left with at least half the bags. I had to walk hire a bit to even find say 10 houses and then it's home. I bumped into parent from the school and they were on their way to the new build estate over the back from us to go round the doors (she has family there to be fair so the kids were going out with cousins). So I can see why ppl do it but I'd feel a bit cheeky doing that.

We used to live in a new build estate that people from our city used to travel to. We used to get through 10kg of sweets from Costco every year. Now we live rurally we travel to a near buy estate on the edge of the village.

It’s odd that adults begrudge children from having a 5p lollipop because they happen to live in a less populated area.

I have not asked one child yet for their proof of address tonight.

I really don't mind.

It's kids. It's one night.

Unclench people.

We used to drive to a village a couple of miles away.
The village was known for going to town on decorations and adults answering doors in costumes etc.

We used to go as we lived in a very rough area.
Didnt want to go into rabbit warrens of flats that were scary enough on a normal day, never mind with young men wearing scream masks!

If a child lives in an awful area should they have to miss out? Only local children in nice areas should be allowed to join in?

We live on a small estate, when my teenagers were small nobody on here seemed to do anything and we never got any trick or treaters ourselves. I used to take them to do it with friends where they lived.

We live in a more afluent area (by chance and we are not!) but yeah mums drive their kids into our small village to get better goodies. Also half the population of our small village is retired and they really do love kids coming round. Last year my son come back with a pillowcase rammed full of sweets 😳 We simply don't have enough kids in our village for all the sweets 🫣

We handed out 230 sweets in 1 hour tonight and had to put a sign saying we'd run out of sweets on our door. I recognised quite a few of the children and we always enjoy getting the house decorated and seeing the reactions. However, it's more and more kids each year, so I'm not convinced they're all local by the way the numbers are going up!

We ran out of sweets by 6.15 and we had over 100 to hand out. Lots of people travel to our road and I do think it’s a bit cheeky to be honest. I always think of it as being slightly reciprocal and that you should stick roughly to your area or do one of the local business trails if there is not much around your own house. My own LO was quite disappointed that other houses had already run out by the time we made it out (as the literal hordes of people at our door made it really hard to leave!).

Literally don't care.
We live in a cul de sac at the end of a tiny estate (well to me) of 80 odd houses in 2 streets.
Kids come from all round cos we are in rural east sussex. Elsewhere around here it's lanes and sporadic houses so the kids would get nowt/give up!
Kids only knock on where houses have pumpkins/decorations. They make an effort and are a delight!

What are you "taking" from the community? A few cheap sweets, or a mini Milky Way from people who have bought them to give out to children? Hardly a significant drain on local resources, is it?

It never ceases to amaze me how mean-spirited and transactional some people's attitudes are.

I noticed driving home that there were loads of cars parked around the side streets where I live, as though every other house was having a party.
I bought loads of trick or treat sweets but have only recognised a handful of locals out of the trick or treaters so far.
One woman said she'd driven a few miles because most of their neighbours didn't like trick or treaters and we do here!
I don't really mind, but I'm running out of sweets now and it's not even 7.30 😁

No issue with people travelling here. We never get many trick or treaters, but we run a little free library so we encourage people to come from all over our town to trick or treat. DD only did 3 or 4 houses tonight (v quiet residential area and we only went to decorated houses) but she's loved handing sweets out to trick or treaters!

I’m afraid we’re CFs - we live in a very small village full of over 70s and there are literally no houses to trick or treat at - so we drive my dd to a friends area where there’s loads of houses decorated and people out and about. She’d be sad missing out on the fun.

My parents hand out loads in their area though so maybe they offset for us!

I have had loads of kids knocking today, the only people I recognised was a family from TikTok 🤣🎃👻

We live on a "quiet," street in an area people don't drive to...

I've had 40-50 kids so far. The next street will get twice as many!

I wish! I have 3 dogs who go ballistic when the doorbell rings. We had no lights or decorations outside our house, but have had a stream of groups of ‘trick or treaters’ at the door 🙄

No I don’t think it’s cheeky, because some areas have hardly any people participating.

I went to a school with a very large catchment area, and I used to like to meet up with my friends, which meant I very rarely went trick or treating in my area - or if I did, I’d be accompanied by children from “out of area”.

Same here, kids take the mick grabbing sweets like they've never seen them before. And not a word of thanks. Best thing I did was buy a thick door curtain and retreat to the back room.

I’m now wondering if we live in the same place. If so - hi from the hot chocolate lady!

I live in the middle of nowhere and there are only 4 houses here. If we didn’t travel my kids couldn’t trick or treat at all.

There's no Halloween round where we live (we've had one solitary group venture down our road last year). We are abroad, though, and it's not really a thing here. DS8 is going to the US military base tonight. It's safer and they go to streets that are set up for it. He's going with some friends and their children. It's the first time so we'll see how he likes it.

OK this sounds like hell.