Anyone here not answering door today

But I bet they can spell miseries correctly!

Not wanting to pander to other peoples sprogs does not make one a misery!

I did, always have done. We do answer the door for a hour or so mostly planned visits from neighbours.

This year car pulls up, two kids get out and empty two huge bowls of goodies in their bags…. 😳

I don't participate in Halloween and noone calls here without forewarning ever So it's just another day

How do you know they weren’t in a cupboard in silence upstairs?

No. We just think Halloween is shit and don’t want to take part.

I hate Halloween.

Always have.

Never had any interest in it as a kid. Which was a good job really as my mom saw trick or treating as begging and wouldn’t have let us go anyway (I’m inclined to agree)

I live in flats so don’t get troubled too much thankfully.

The kids around here only knock if you put a pumpkin out.
Once I've had enough I just bring the pumpkin inside and nobody else calls 🤷‍♀️

There's so much unnecessarily adversarial attitude on the part of so many Hallowe'en grinches.

Does it come from hatred of children in general or are some people just curmudgeonly by nature?

We hadn't decorated at all, but we live on the corner and my grown up daughter who lives with me is very much adopted auntie to the local kids and did loads of goody bags for them. We had 18 trick or treaters. I'm not a fan but did some door duty, the kids were sweet.

Ignore definitely don't understand why we teach kids not to talk to strangers then go knocking for sweets surely it's cheaper to buy them some. Never done it and wouldn't want to. Couldn't even get through my gate with that many kids and parents hanging around. Stupid tradition.

Got home with toddler after work yesterday and some teens promptly threw eggs directly at us as we were going in the door. Was horrid. I want to love Halloween and make it fun for all the little kids, but it's losing its appeal now.

Me and DH go all out for Halloween as do the rest of our street (except the Christian’s over the road, they flee back to Manchester as they condemn our behaviour and tell us all we are inciting the devil🙄). Between the street we have fog machines, animatronics and decorate our houses and forecourts. We even get car loads of kids dropped off to trick or treat in our street. In all the years doing this we have never encountered any yobs or ungrateful kids. Everyone last night was thankful and everyone got into the spirit and had fun, even parents. Mad hour between 6-7pm then was done. It was such a fun night and our area in general was buzzing with kids having lots of fun which is what it is all about because everything else is garbage at the minute.

I have a 5 year old and 3 year
old we have never done trick or treating and my kids dont mind or feel like they are missing out, everybody thinks I’m strange we don’t celebrate Xmas or Easter either only birthdays. People just celebrate things for the sake of it in my opinion unless of course there’s a religious reason behind it and you are religious!

Live in a fairly new housing estate, the rule is 'no pumpkin-no knock' we don't do Halloween and in a decade of living here we have never had a single trick or treater knock on (despite the fact there are normally a fair few out) - so it really works.

They were only upstairs, not hiding in a dark cupboard in silence.

This 😭😭😭 actual hiding

Whereabouts are you @Maria1979 ?
I’ve never heard of people just calling to shops at Halloween.

Definitely don't trick or treat just at the shops over here (UK) not heard of that one before.
Here it's knocking on all the houses doors.

I wouldn't say my kids look cute for halloween but that they would make grownups go into hiding, never saw that one coming. Especially since they don't go knocking on peoples doors but just do the shops as is the tradition where I live. Maybe you should move over here so you don't have to hide every year?

We must be really lucky as had a constant stream for two hours but kids were polite, most took only one sweet, regardless of age.

The little ones were cute, the older ones had some great costumes and makeup.

Kids only come round to houses that are decorated around here.

Tbh older teens seem to have get togethers at their houses around here - v few older teens out ringing on door bells.

Yes, some people turn the lights off and don't want to answer the door.
Regardless of how cute your kids look.
They don't have to answer and hand over sweets, you know.

I can't be bothered to be jumping up every 10 minutes to answer the door.

I used to do it every year (including the Covid years!) and I just can't be arsed any more. My youngest went off to uni this year so it was just me at home.

Nothing to do with being a "fun sponge"

Jeesus you actuallly go into hiding. From dressed up children. Are you serious ?

Well they are growing up so still a bit immature. They can be annoying grant you that but try not to judge them too severely. I cringe thinking of myself as a teen which makes me really indulgent with others😅