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It's only 3pm and the doors already knocking

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Sillysausage76 · 31/10/2024 15:07

It's 3pm and already we've had people trick n treating. I've now brought pumpkins inside until 5ish. Anyone else?

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thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:44

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:43

They could take stuff with them to hand out?

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But that’s not the point is it.

Most of the fun is knocking on the door, not just some random handing you sweets

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:44

thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:40

And! It’s a few measly sweets.

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If it's person after person it's not though. You think pp is the only grabby person who travels?

Heronwatcher · 31/10/2024 16:44

purplebeansprouts · 31/10/2024 16:36

I wish I could send some your way. We are basically a destination street. People go all out and everyone in the area swarms in instead of just sticking with their immediate neighbours. The community spirit used to be nice, you could actually catch up with your neighbours but now it's like a gannet feeding frenzy

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You do realise you can just take the stuff in? It’s not like tax? Just put a sign up saying “sweets run out” and take the pumpkins in.

Osirus · 31/10/2024 16:43

MillyMichaelson · 31/10/2024 15:11

Why, you big meanie! 😂

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That’s what I was thinking 😂😂

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:43

thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:41

No one calls, so who are they supposed to give to!

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They could take stuff with them to hand out?

Wellingtonspie · 31/10/2024 16:43

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:42

I don't go to the countryside and knock on folks doors asking for stuff though.
As it is I actually live semi-rurally (in a bit with more houses but surrounded by fields, the sea, farms, rural houses).

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Nice to see the point flew clearly and easily over your head.

thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:43

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 31/10/2024 16:41

You miserable bunch of Halloween Grinches!

Kids are probably earlier than usual because it's half term. Get your sweets ready and don't be grumpy.

Agreed.

Honeslty flabbergasted at some of these replies!

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:42

Wellingtonspie · 31/10/2024 16:40

So when you visit the countryside your turning up to use their local areas of beauty without paying towards it right… just turning up to take what that community works hard to maintain looking nice and the little community feel that makes it so cutesy

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I don't go to the countryside and knock on folks doors asking for stuff though.
As it is I actually live semi-rurally (in a bit with more houses but surrounded by fields, the sea, farms, rural houses).

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:42

Flossflower · 31/10/2024 16:41

You are very entitled. Surely if you don’t give, you don’t partake.

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Ok I’ll cancel and tell my dc not to bother because we live too far out to give anything to anyone! 🙄

thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:41

Flossflower · 31/10/2024 16:41

You are very entitled. Surely if you don’t give, you don’t partake.

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No one calls, so who are they supposed to give to!

Nothatgingerpirate · 31/10/2024 16:41

Cowboycorgi · 31/10/2024 15:28

And we're off. Get your bingo card ready.
To early
To late
Tacky
American
Begging
Teens

You forgot
Nope, thank you. Nobody home 😁

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:41

purplebeansprouts · 31/10/2024 16:38

You're one DC but EVERYONE else will have the same idea if they are also in the same position and the people on the street you're going to will only have prepared for their local kids.

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No that’s really not how it works here…

Flossflower · 31/10/2024 16:41

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 15:16

This is the great thing about living rurally 🙌 no one calls 😆 I’ll drive my dc to the next village and go to the estate there. Best of both worlds!

You are very entitled. Surely if you don’t give, you don’t partake.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 31/10/2024 16:41

You miserable bunch of Halloween Grinches!

Kids are probably earlier than usual because it's half term. Get your sweets ready and don't be grumpy.

thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:40

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:38

Well, it's turning up essentially just to take.

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And! It’s a few measly sweets.

VegTrug · 31/10/2024 16:40

They would be getting very short shrift if they knocked on our doors at that time, the bloody cheek!

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:40

Wellingtonspie · 31/10/2024 16:38

You could have two tier candy.

Mini Mars for the faces you know and the Poundland shit for the unwashed 😉

for those concerned about interlopers.

😂😂😂

Wellingtonspie · 31/10/2024 16:40

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:38

Well, it's turning up essentially just to take.

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So when you visit the countryside your turning up to use their local areas of beauty without paying towards it right… just turning up to take what that community works hard to maintain looking nice and the little community feel that makes it so cutesy

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:39

purplebeansprouts · 31/10/2024 16:36

I wish I could send some your way. We are basically a destination street. People go all out and everyone in the area swarms in instead of just sticking with their immediate neighbours. The community spirit used to be nice, you could actually catch up with your neighbours but now it's like a gannet feeding frenzy

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That could get really annoying.

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:38

thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:36

Yes, and then some!

They can’t trick or treat near where they live as they don’t have neighbours. Hence, they go a little further afield so their children can trick or treat.

I mean, I just cannot possibly fathom how miserable someone would have to be to have a problem with this.

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Well, it's turning up essentially just to take.

purplebeansprouts · 31/10/2024 16:38

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 15:57

So my dc shouldn’t go trick or treating? How does it spoil “the vibe”?

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You're one DC but EVERYONE else will have the same idea if they are also in the same position and the people on the street you're going to will only have prepared for their local kids.

Wellingtonspie · 31/10/2024 16:38

You could have two tier candy.

Mini Mars for the faces you know and the Poundland shit for the unwashed 😉

for those concerned about interlopers.

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:37

IVFmumoftwo · 31/10/2024 16:34

I don't see the issue with living in a run down area going to the wealthy area next door? 🤷

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We have the opposite.
Folk who look down on us most of the year and then turn up begging at Halloween.

thisfilmisboring123 · 31/10/2024 16:36

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Yes, and then some!

They can’t trick or treat near where they live as they don’t have neighbours. Hence, they go a little further afield so their children can trick or treat.

I mean, I just cannot possibly fathom how miserable someone would have to be to have a problem with this.

purplebeansprouts · 31/10/2024 16:36

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 15:55

@wiesowarum dear god…it’s Halloween for gods sake! It’s not like we do it every night. It’s one night a year! I’d be delighted if people called to mine in reality…but they don’t, I don’t control that. Nothing I can do about it really.

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I wish I could send some your way. We are basically a destination street. People go all out and everyone in the area swarms in instead of just sticking with their immediate neighbours. The community spirit used to be nice, you could actually catch up with your neighbours but now it's like a gannet feeding frenzy

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