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Sillysausage76 · 2024-10-31T15:07:25+00:00

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

Choosenandenough · 31/10/2024 16:25

It’s one day.

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:24

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:18

Dear god! @wiesowarum it must be so tiring for you to think this way! Do you REALLY begrudge two kids a few sweets and a bit of fun because they live rurally? It’s sad that you would think that…really sad! What happened to you to make you feel this way? I give back to society in others ways but thanks for jumping in with your nonsensical opinions.

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You've still not explained why it's not grabby or why other peoole owe your kids a halloween experience? Do you take some things along to hand out to others too?

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:23

Holiday24 · 31/10/2024 16:18

So rural children are not allowed to trick or treat..?! Seems a bit harsh for the sake of a few sweets!

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How about they take some stuff to give to other people they pass, instead of just taking?

BarbaraHoward · 31/10/2024 16:23

SplendidUtterly · 31/10/2024 16:08

And Pagan.

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In my day...

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:22

ObtuseMoose · 31/10/2024 16:14

Some people can suck the fun out of anything, it must be tiring.

Some people expect everyone to be like them, it must be tiring. 🫣

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:21

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:19

It is grabby, just own it. 😆

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And if you must know! Yes you have struck a nerve…the house I’m living at is rented! I had no choice but to take this house as it was the only one in the area that meant I didn’t have to completely uproot my dc when I split from their dad! So I didn’t have much of a choice in the matter! They are still entitled to have a Halloween. You are being so obtuse!

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:21

VivianLea · 31/10/2024 16:08

What the "grabby" brigade don't understand is that people who do Halloween, do Halloween! I've got way more sweets to give than my kids will receive. It's fun for my kids to knock on doors, and fun for other people's kids to knock on my door. Nobody is actually "profiting" off their neighbours, it all evens out.

Except the pp who gets no visitors but sends her kids collecting. 😂

FcukTheDay · 31/10/2024 16:21

TheSilkWorm · 31/10/2024 16:09

Too early
too late
etc
not to early and to late

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I literally thought you was talking about the word your lol 😆 😂 teaches me for reacting in a rush!

sleepylittlebunnies · 31/10/2024 16:20

I live on a council estate and lots of the houses decorate for Halloween, so we are quite busy. I’ve always taken the kids out while DH stays home to dish out the sweets. We don’t begrudge giving sweets to kids from other areas as there is a distinct lack of decorated houses in the nearby “posher” estates and streets. Trick or treating is always between 5-8 around here, whether half term or school night.

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:20

FcukTheDay · 31/10/2024 16:05

?

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PP wrote to and not too. 🫣

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:19

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wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:19

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:04

Yes because a few packs of sweets and an Apple or two is grabby 😂😂

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It is grabby, just own it. 😆

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:18

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:15

Well, you could not go to other's doors to take when you've not given anything. It's bad taste.

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Dear god! @wiesowarum it must be so tiring for you to think this way! Do you REALLY begrudge two kids a few sweets and a bit of fun because they live rurally? It’s sad that you would think that…really sad! What happened to you to make you feel this way? I give back to society in others ways but thanks for jumping in with your nonsensical opinions.

Holiday24 · 31/10/2024 16:18

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:15

Well, you could not go to other's doors to take when you've not given anything. It's bad taste.

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So rural children are not allowed to trick or treat..?! Seems a bit harsh for the sake of a few sweets!

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:18

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:01

Jesus…it was tongue in cheek. I would love if I got people calling, but I don’t because I’m too far out! My dc are still entitled to call to houses for the Halloween experience so I drive 6mins to the village (the same village where they attends sports etc!) and we go to the estate there…because that’s where the houses are. It’s logic!

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Actually, nobody is entitled to expect someone else to provide them with a halloween experience. 🫣

SilverChampagne · 31/10/2024 16:17

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:15

Well, you could not go to other's doors to take when you've not given anything. It's bad taste.

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Oh, stop it. It’s a few cheap sweets.

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:16

VivianLea · 31/10/2024 15:57

But this is their community too... Just because they live a bit further away doesn't mean they're not legitimate members of our village community. If I can take my little kids to the streets around ours, I don't see why other people can't take their little kids to the streets around their school.

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Not necessarily. If you don't live in or contrubute to a location, e.g. an estate, then travelling there exclusively to take is very grabby.

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:15

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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Well, you could not go to other's doors to take when you've not given anything. It's bad taste.

IVFmumoftwo · 31/10/2024 16:14

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:14

She's driving to take knowing she's not doing any giving.

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Only some sweets. She isn't robbing your house. I always went to the wealthy houses because we got money!

LBFseBrom · 31/10/2024 16:14

Never have trick or treating around my way. Which does not bother me one bit :-). I find the entire Halloween business weird.

However, 3pm seems OK for young children, I hope they have an adult with them.

ObtuseMoose · 31/10/2024 16:14

Some people can suck the fun out of anything, it must be tiring.

SilverChampagne · 31/10/2024 16:14

Yeah, there’s nothing grabby about any of it.

A 3pm kickoff would be bloody annoying, but grabby doesn’t come into it at any point.

IVFmumoftwo · 31/10/2024 16:14

VivianLea · 31/10/2024 15:57

But this is their community too... Just because they live a bit further away doesn't mean they're not legitimate members of our village community. If I can take my little kids to the streets around ours, I don't see why other people can't take their little kids to the streets around their school.

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I take mine a ten minute walk away as it is they seem to celebrate it more. I don't see the issue.

wiesowarum · 31/10/2024 16:14

maudelovesharold · 31/10/2024 15:54

How can you help being too rural for people to call? It is what it is. Presumably the poster is driving to the nearest houses!

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She's driving to take knowing she's not doing any giving.

Positivenancy · 31/10/2024 16:10

VivianLea · 31/10/2024 16:08

What the "grabby" brigade don't understand is that people who do Halloween, do Halloween! I've got way more sweets to give than my kids will receive. It's fun for my kids to knock on doors, and fun for other people's kids to knock on my door. Nobody is actually "profiting" off their neighbours, it all evens out.

I’m actually perplexed at being called grabby! It’s all about the fun! I mean we will dress up!