Trick or Treaters welcome

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I think I have the opposite problem to problem to everyone here in that I want T or T ers to visit

I have:

-sweets (ok I can eat the leftovers)

• lots of light up decorations
• witches hat

I love Halloween. I don't have kids and I don't want to be creepy. I live in an area with quite a lot of young families and I know a lot of the kids from Rainbows/Brownies but less so the parents.

What else can I do to make it clear they can definitely ring? Or would you really go to houses you know?

carved pumpkin on show.

Pumpkin lantern outside your door. We're the same, DC all flown the nest but still love Halloween and seeing the local children all dressed up. We got a trick or treaters welcome sign which we hang on the gate, from Poundland.

Happy Halloween

Ooh any excuse for a Poundland trip!

Yeah, where I live houses that are decorated are fair game, houses that are not decorated are no go. Decorate your house to the hilt and you won't keep them away!

Porch light on (expecting visitors) seems to work round here.

Also if you know neighbouring people with children, ask them/the children if they are trick-or-treating. If yes then say how much you are looking forward to seeing them in their costumes.

Lots of decorations. Halloween is huge around here, but we don't knock unless we see decorations.

We also have the 'no decoration, no knock' rule around here. We don't even know which houses are home to children half the time as 80% of the time an adult opens the door.
Gerally there's a pumpkins outside or in a window, and sometimes more decorations outside. Some houses go nuts with it, which my DC love (they still refer to one house as the 'spider house' due to the motion detected spider that came down on their heads one year), others just put out a pumpkin or other simple decoration.

Decorations or a lit pumpkin outside. Round here the etiquette is only to knock on doors with a pumpkin or decorations. Any "normal" houses are left alone

Most children are out trick or treating, so it won’t seem odd or creepy that you’re an adult on your own.

When mine were little, I’d buy loads of sweets, and then we’d be out, so we wouldn’t get any callers. I might have wised up after the first year, and only bought my favourites, so so could ‘finish them up’...

Not welcome in the area because the trend of egging cars and front doors has angered so many neighbours that I do feel eventually there may be some nasty repercussions.
Last year it escalated to eggs and then flour on top.

@UnitedRoad err yes I might be a bit guilt of that looks at the tangfastic longingly

@cabbageking that sounds awful. Nothing like that round here yet luckily- just cute little witches and vampires