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I loved guising when I was wee.

And with hindsight, I have to admire my mum who made a lantern out of a turniip every year for me

I have it much easier, making ds' lantern out of a pumpkin!

Love or loath is a bit extreme isn't it? Personally I like it. Something fun for the kids but in our road we have prior consent on whose doors will be knocked on.

I don't mind it for little kids but really hate the 'youths' that come knocking with may be one rubbish mask between 10 of them. Never know what they want me to give them (well I guess it's money) and they always look peed off with the pick and mix type sweets the little kids love!

Am being very miserable this year and going to stay in a hotel for the night (not just because it's haloween but glad it is!)

We plan on making a lantern out of a pumpkin with DD (2) this year and dressing her up in an embarrassing outfit in order to take photos for blackmail purposes in later life.

I am Scottish, when we were young you dressed up at Halloween and went guising i.e. you told a joke, rhyme or did a dance etc for the treat. Usually you got a mandarin.

We always went out as a group, sadly nowadays you couldn't just wander into any old house.

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I hate the whole thing and do an alternative for my kids, but when I was having a glass of wine with a new neighbour and a few others she got really aggressive about my refusal to join in (even though I was very careful to emphasise that it was a choice I make, and do not care what others do), which annoyed me a lot, as surely I retain the right to bring up the dcs how I see fit!

I'd never encountered this before as had lived first in the country then in central London.
We moved to the 'leafy suburbs' of a northern city 11 yrs ago and were completly caught out our first Halloween, Dh had to nip out to the Spar for supplies. The kids loved it and now go as well. We only go to doors with the light on.

I loved going out guising as a child but I lived in a street where there were a lot of other children whom I knew and whose parents I knew and was known to. At the moment, where we live now isn't really like that and I can't imagine ever allowing dd (3) to go out as I did (accompanied only by other kids). Given that we have our own traditions I dislike the wholesale adoption of what seems like an American version of Hallowe'en and refuse to refer to "trick or treat".

Loved it as a kid, still get hyped up now, party every year, house trimmed. Any excuse!

I am loathing it this year, as DTD1 and 2 want to go TorTing. I hate it, and since i am not prepared to go knocking on strangers' doors with them, i've said NO.

The main reason i hate it is because of the bad atitude alot of the kids/teens have got if you have nothing for them. I'm not going to fork out for loads of sweets on the off chance thqat we'll actually get some kids knocking this year, and then run out halfway through the night only to get our windows egged! Why would i even bother...might as well save my money and clean the inevitable egg off in the morning .

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That's just it Boco...we get kids knock on our door that we've never seen before. I'm still waiting for a trick!

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Love it. We go in a little group with some neighbours children - we only knock on doors we've prearranged to visit. Last year we had some very cross old people saying they'd bought treats and we'd not stopped at their house, - lots of the adults love to see the kids dressed up. There are two lots of people who always make a cake and we have to go in for sherry and cake!

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Hate it. Most of the time the kids that knock on our door don't know what Halloween is all about. My DH may answer the door and when the kids say 'trick or treat?!' he will reply 'trick!'....and the looks on their faces says it all.....'eh?', 'do what?' !!! My DD2 is completely freaked out by it all and my dog goes absolutely loopy with all the knocking on the door...so, yes, hate it.

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Loathe it. It's begging.

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Done - but as has been pointed out before, it isn't an American tradition as such.

I love Hallowe'en itself but can't be doing with being mugged at my own front door by unsupervised Yoof.

We used to make toffee apples to give out. They smelt gorgeous. Dont' think children today would want them though.

Yes Mawbroon, Maybe we should start a motion to re-introduce guising. I miss it. I remember practising my piece on the tin whistle and having a joke ready, cos funnily enough, some people didn't want to hear me play!!!

Your haul at the end of the night was 98% nuts and apples and you thought you were well off if there was one fun sized mars in there! That was a surprise bonus!