Eating candy from a stranger?

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What are the Halloween rules for kids. Luckily my area do a Halloween trail on the high street but what do others do

Surely that's the point of trick or treating? Eating the sweets you get?

Just eat a cross section yourself, it’s the only way to keep the children safe.

I eat most of them... You know safety reasons and all that ...

Ooh and also lick all the rest before they eat them.

Absolutely. I may have lied a little. I actually eat like all of them... My kids don't really do sweets so I just get them a chocolate bar or something. In my defence if we get given fruit they can totally have that

The Rules:

Buy a bucket in advance along with a big tub of haribo or similar and try not to eat it all yourself beforehand

Carve a pumpkin, light it and put it outside your house.

Get dressed up as a ghost or whatever.

Go out with your bucket and knock on other people's doors (only those that ate decorated) shouting, "Trick or Treat!" When someone comes to the door, take some of the sweets on offer, say thank you and leave. Repeat at other houses until your bucket is overflowing with goodies.

Go home, turn on your spooky lights and return the favour to other callers.

Eat the sweets gradually over the course of the next few hours days weeks. Chuck away any that look dodgy.

The unofficial rule round here is that you only knock on doors of houses with Halloween decorations up.

"Only do the decorated houses" - I live by this rule!
Although sometimes I knock for ages on the ones who pretend not to be in but you can see the tv... because I'm a bit of a twat

We only do decorated houses of people we already know

People seem really miserable compared to when I was little. I used to go carolling aswel. No one seems to do that anymore

Also penny for the guy... where did that go? World's gone mad I tell you!

I'll go carolling with you

I must admit. I do tend to indulge in the kids sweets when they are in bed haha