It's only 3pm and the doors already knocking

😂😂😂 noone has commented on my Skeleton costume yet!

I keep freaking them out by knocking on the door before I open it. Have had a few shrieks!

I put a pumpkin in the window and bought a few multipacks of Haribo. Was surprised to find they all went in about twenty minutes. Never had that many before. Apparently there's not many houses decorated this year.

I really wanted to not be miserable. The door sets the dog off and our toddler is asleep, but I wanted to be part of it and do something fun for the kids on the street. Just didn't end up feeling it. Most kids were nice but the ones without manners just put me in a bad mood.

Grabbing handfuls of sweets. Really loud and prolonged knocking at the door. Screaming outside. The "trick or treat, smell my feet" song which (perhaps irrationally) annoys me. Like I said, most of them are nice but I do find it hard not to be irritated. Alas, next year I'll buy a lot more sweets and hand the kids one instead of offering the bowl.

😂😂😂😂 So grumpy it's funny!

We had a couple of toddlers come at around 5 for their first Halloween (I always get Freddos as an option for the baby's) then from about half 5 non stop kids..we've gone through 4 huge multipacks so far. A lot more than last year! We do live in a very nice community area and most houses take part. I really love it!

Not just for kids, I always enjoyed taking my dds out & I like giving out treats now. And a few sugary treats isn't going to harm them. They don't need to eat them all in one go

Bloody hell, it’s not difficult.

If you want to partake, put a pumpkin out and give the sweets to whoever knocks.

If you don’t, don’t put anything out and don’t answer the door.

It really doesn’t need to be more complicated than that.

Had to read that twice. I thought you had kidnapped the children 😂. Thought you were going to put them back out in an hour!

There is no harm in knocking on strangers' doors if the house is decorated. What do you think is going to happen? And please don't say anything about how kids should be wary of strangers

I’m dressed up as a witch and just answered the door to a (approx) 7 year old ninja turtle who took one look at me and announced “You’re not even scary!” 😂😂😂

I only went trick or treating a few times when I was a child. But now that I think about it, why is trick or treating even a thing? Who thought of it and what’s the point? I’ve always thought you can just go and get whatever sweets you want at the shop. Too much sugar is bad for kids. I’m not some kind of grinch, but it’s sad that Halloween traditions have been lost and it’s all been turned into a meaningless thing for children.

😂 I've had a joke, a cartwheel, a very elaborate spell put on me and a dance routine! Pretty impressed.

Still have sweets left though

This is my mantra too. It’s great fun! I’ve been set up since 4pm.
I’m a bit disappointed that I’ve hardly had anyone yet. Got my little ghoul projection in the front window, big caldron full of sweets and chocolate and I’ve only had a couple 😔
My kid went out trick or treating with uncle earlier they did 4.30-5.30pm

Last year a girl hung about after I gave her a sweet, then said “what happens if I ask you for a trick?” 🤣 I explained that actually it was her who had to offer a trick or joke and she shrieked, running away saying “but I don’t know any!!!”

Love this!

We had a huge surge at around 5.30-6.00 and no one since!!! Starting to eat the sweets myself!

@Zimunya my friends said “trick” and kids look at them looking bemused. A kid said “what’s a treat?” Well you asked trick, didn’t you?

Why go trick or treating when kids don’t have a trick or two?

We had our first one last night-weve lived here for about 8 years and never had one

He knocked at about half 5pm

However,this morning they where knocking at half 8am

I thought it was the postman

I love trick or treaters but 8:30 am is a tad early

Thankfully I was up as dp woke me up to tell me how ill is was and how sorry he felt for himself (at 6:50am!I wanted to throttle him,as once im awake,im up)

Boo humbug.

There were fewer houses around us celebrating this year, but the ones we visited went all out on decorations and there was usually someone at the door (mostly older people).
5⭐to whoever did a full on Nightmare Before Christmas scene in their front yard, complete with Oogie Boogie, and a begrudging wave of admiration for the one house who proudly displayed a fully decorated Christmas tree in their window, with matching wreath on the door (needless to say, we did not knock, but next year we shall practice our carols and call their bluff).

I did see more teenagers in full costumes knocking on doors, and the only negative was a group of young boys (11-13?) who seemed to be out on their own on their bikes, with zero dressing up (unless they're cosplaying how not to be seen by traffic at night), and plastic bags full of treats.

Everything is more commercialised these days. We can't blame the Americans for that given we go along with it so readily.

If you think about Christmas, I bet the Christmas you celebrate has similar rites at its core to the one your grandparents celebrated (presents, a roast, possibly church, nativity at school etc) but there will be much more stuff. It's the same for many of us with Halloween.

Besides, autumn and back to school and the dark nights can be quite a miserable time of year. It's nice that we're embracing the cosiness more these days.

I'm a meanie! I don't have kids and I don't want random children knocking on my door. The dogs go bananas. Why let your kids knock on random strangers doors, just go to friends, family and neighbours who join in.
What's the bah humbug equivalent of Halloween? That's me!

And Scottish.

This pisses me off. We live in a street where there’s a few kids but for some reason hordes drive to our street from out of the village (they drop them off from cars at the entrance). I’ve given out 80 sweet bags tonight and they are still coming. We don’t have that many kids in our street of 100 houses!

I genuinely can’t understand people getting annoyed about children living rurally going to village estates to trick or treat.

When we lived on an estate I used to buy two 5kg tubs from Costco for all the children who travelled from all over the city. Now we live rurally we go to the nearest estate. It’s a shame we don’t get many trick or treaters but we used to love getting hundreds of children and seeing all the costumes.