Travelling to other areas for trick or treating

There are some streets in our city where it just wouldn't be safe for kids to go house to house (even with parents). I don't think there's a problem with them choosing to come to a safer area with more sweets

But the classmates are coming WITH your daughter, I presume? Not just random people driving round the area looking for the best haul of sweets!

Exactly this. And I WISH we only had 150 kids coming!

Yeh, the next street or whatever, sure, but driving from village to village?!

We go wild with our Halloween decs, but I do find it annoying when loads of kids from other villages come to ours. The show we put on is intended for the kids in our village. I always run out of sweets really early (despite buying 100s) because of the insane footfall. Even worse is when you overhear the mums saying 'just this road, then we'll head to Village X' as though they're hitting all of them. The ones from the other villages also tend to turn up in massive groups and it can be a bit intimidating actually.

Oh wow, is this a thing now? That you only go to the houses that you know? Since when?

Surely if you've gone to an effort, you would appreciate people coming to see.

We live in a quiet area so I drive the kids to estates to trick or treat. They love it.

It is absolutely cf behaviour and this year I am one of those cfs because I refuse to let my wee boy be disappointed on Halloween because our street is full of older people who don't do Halloween. I am going to a few doors with him in my friends' street

That definitely happens here (new build estate near to other housing estates). I’ve seen them getting dropped off in car fulls outside.
It means we often get well over 100-150 kids and I have to say it’s started making me not enjoy Halloween a bit. It’s too much.
Our DC go to decorated houses on our estate only.

We get a lot of Halloween tourists. There is a school here so I don't mind the kids from the school who live on the country roads coming in. It's a small school and I would know most of the faces. However we get cars arriving up, parking and knocking on our doors. I think it is very cheeky to be honest. I guess its the price we pay for living in a nice estste. For now I'm rolling with it but soon when my DC are a bit older I'm going to lock up and let someone else do it. I spend a lot of money on it too every year and I hate when we run out. We could have 150 children.

Our street loves it and people come from around the area. Last year I had to take my pumpkins in at about 6.30 as I'd given away over two hundred sweets, this year I've brought more. It's also the first year my daughter will be going out and a few of her classmates are coming round to enjoy our street and I don't think that's cheeky.

I assure you that it was. Your family may not have participated, but if you grew up in the UK or US in the past 100 years, it was a thing.

I don't think it's cheeky at all. What difference does it make? I have bought sweets to give out; when they're gone, I'll take the pumpkin back inside. It's never occurred to me to worry about which children they're going to

You are giving sweets to strangers. I think its odd you want to "approve" it's only for the local kids. Personally anybody can have sweets wheather you live on my street or not. It's not my concern.

It never occurred to me that people would do this until we moved to such an area.

Same here. Lots of kids come to our area to enjoy the decorations and I love seeing the costumes and giving out tons of sweets. I don’t have an issue at all, it’s lovely that everyone can enjoy it. 🎃

I don't think anyone would have an issue with that, you do have a connection to the area 😀
What people mind round here are the groups of older kids particularly, they are often dropped off in cars, and they tend to wander around ransacking any unattended displays and sometimes nicking the actual props . Local teens would be too scared to do that because everyone would recognise them 😂

I would rather children were able to trick or treat safely. If that means being taken to 'safer' neighbourhoods than where they actually live, and where Halloween is being celebrated, then so be it.

Our village does a Halloween trail as well as Halloween but it's getting so expensive now. Last actual Halloween I gave away 500 lollies (1 each) and another 600 for the trail. The trail I just leave them out and I know some parents let their kids take as much as they like which means they run out before everyone has gone round. Due to the Col less houses are doing anything and more and more people are coming to the village from other places for the trail and trick or treating, none of whom I recognise. Last year at the end of the night 1 darling with no parents ( secondary school age) asked for something else as he didn't like the sweets I offered and then stormed off when I told him I wasn't a shop.
It's great everyone gets stuck in but it feels frustrating that no one appreciates the cost and still complains at you if it runs out.

I live in an area like this and I do think it's a bit cheeky that people travel to an area they have no connection with to trick or treat just because the chosen area makes more effort. Part of the reason it's so big on my estate is that we have a real community feel: it's a small school catchment and most families with kids at the local school lives in catchment or very close so we recognise most trick or treaters. And of course the majority of doors our kids knock on, we will know or at least recognise the families. Guising was traditionally done in village communities where everyone would have known each other, and I wouldn't want my kids going to loads of strangers doors just to get sweets, personally. I'd buy them sweets and give them a little party at home instead if we lived in an area without much Halloween festivity.

We lived in the US for Halloween last year and people went to certain streets because the houses were all on 2 acre lots but some streets were arranged with longer lots so houses were closer together.

It was a small town but we had 6-700 trick or treaters.

We travel back to our old estate, where we lived when our eldest were young. We live in the middle of nowhere on one of those roads with no pavement or lighting and our nearest neighbour is a few minutes walk. I know we are CF, but I gave out hundreds of sweets when I lived on this estate, for many years when I had no kids / only had babies so I’ve made my peace with it!

What I think is quite cheeky is going to other houses trick or treating but offering nothing yourself. However I still decorate and happily offer sweets. Just hope there’s as many others offering sweets to my DC.

I don't understand this mentality at all.

Trick or treat a few neighbours either side of your own property - keep it a neighbourly thing to do.

I wouldn’t have a clue where the kids that trick or treating out street are from & I couldn’t care less. It’s just kids having a bit of fun 👻🎃