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Travelling to other areas for trick or treating

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MidnightPatrol · 30/10/2024 20:25

I’d always assumed that everyone just trick or treated on their own / surrounding streets.

But our town’s parents group (mainly nursery and primary school chat) has people suggesting travelling to a handful of specific streets…

This does explain why there were quite so many trick or treaters last year (at least 100 - we eventually tuned the lights off and brought the pumpkins inside by about 7pm).

I thought it was just the local kids pottering round, not that their parents had driven them here.

Is this normal? Seems like CF behaviour to me!

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MidnightPatrol · 30/10/2024 20:37

Borninabarn32 · 30/10/2024 20:36

Our road doesn't have a path and has about 5 houses over about 4 miles. We would have to drive 10 minutes to get to a village and nearly 20 to get to a town.

We live in a city with wall-to-wall housing on lit streets for several miles in all directions, so the children would be having to come from really a long way away to have this issue.

Albeit, I think if I lived that rurally I’d just say ‘we can’t trick or treat because we don’t have any neighbours’ and organise to do something else instead.

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Hoppinggreen · 30/10/2024 20:36

People come to our estate, one year a mini bus turned up!!
Everyone does tend to go all out on decorations and a couple of houses even put on a sort of show BUT it does mean that its not unusual to get loads of kids knock and its expensive. We are in a small cul de sac off the main estate so its not as bad for us, we get on average 15-20 kids round but on the main bit they can get up to 40 or more. unfortunately it does mean that some people have decided not to do it at all as sweets can run out by 6.30 and its expensive to keep topping up.

Chipsahoy · 30/10/2024 20:36

Well as my nearest neighbour is three miles away.. yes we go to town.

Borninabarn32 · 30/10/2024 20:36

Our road doesn't have a path and has about 5 houses over about 4 miles. We would have to drive 10 minutes to get to a village and nearly 20 to get to a town.

Wolframandhart · 30/10/2024 20:35

Barely anyone had decorations where we used to live so we travelled to where my parents lived instead.

now we live on an estate where people travel for trick or treating. People have their houses professionally decorated (at Christmas too). A few have marquees outside their houses with mini scare rooms. You can hear the screams as you walk around. It has a very strict 5-8 policy. But the atmosphere is always great. Parents are also dressed up when trick or treating.

LittleRedRidingHoody · 30/10/2024 20:34

We haven't gone yet, and have a party this year too, but our road is shit for Trick or Treaters. Big, fast roadside and just no homes really participate. Was considering going to a nearby, safe, set of streets well known for it ~ seems to be the 'done' thing when I ask around. If we don't do that, DS won't get the chance to go at all 💁‍♀️ Luckily this is now next years problem though!

fashionqueen0123 · 30/10/2024 20:34

If their own area doesn’t have much I don’t see the issue

Newterm · 30/10/2024 20:33

The poor kids round here wouldn’t get any joy if they stayed in our area. Hardly any houses do trick or treat. I’m pretty certain they would have to go a bit further afield

Potentiallyplausible · 30/10/2024 20:33

I think it’s a bit cheeky, but then I don’t really approve of trick or treating. It wasn’t a thing when I was little.

Procrastinates · 30/10/2024 20:32

Our street goes a little mad for Halloween and has done for years, we give out hundreds and hundreds of sweets. I don't begrudge anyone travelling to us to trick or treat. It's bloody lovely to see all the houses decorated and all the children having a great time.

Calccalc · 30/10/2024 20:31

I thought that was the reason some streets really go to town with the decorations, to encourage people to come?

I don't hold with trick or treating at all myself, but I like 31st much better now people seem to know only to go to decorated houses 🤣

stayathomer · 30/10/2024 20:31

It’s not cheeky, we go to mil’s road because it’s where dh grew up and they get very little trick or treaters and we live on a dangerous rural road that has no path and only elderly people who don’t put up decorations.

StripeyDeckchair · 30/10/2024 20:29

That sounds like CF behaviour
Why don't they walk around where they live?

Clearinguptheclutter · 30/10/2024 20:29

I think it’s cheeky. But that’s easy to say when my immediate vicinity is great for it. If it wasn’t I suspect my kids would want to go to the “better streets” but I wouldn’t be very happy about it.

I am happy to offer treats to local kids that I sort of recognise, not so much ones I don’t.