Do you have to Trick or Treat in your own area?

[notinyoday]

Discussions for outfit plans are underway and I just wondered if it was okay to take DS trick or treating in SIL's area? About 30 mins away by car

Nobody to go with around here. And yes, before anyone says it, we only go to doors clearly trick or treat friendly

What do you think?

Bump

As long as they have pumpkins / decorations outside,
You can go where you want

Thank you

Sure I've seen in here before that it's rude not to stick to your own area

I think it's fine

No! We always go to a nice area! And know which house gives a bag of sweet and £1!!’

We live central in a flat so drive to a posh suburb 😂 dedication to the trick and treating!

I've heard of people driving to well to do areas in the hunt for better quality treats 😳
We just stay in our area though there's plenty who join in and decorate their houses.

I think driving specifically to another area because you think they give better stuff is cheeky, but if you're at a party somewhere else or live rurally and drive into town then that's fine.

If people want trick or treaters, they go large on the decorations. They surely don't open the door and say "you're not from round 'ere"

Trick or treat away op!

Hmmm, we live in an area that has become a Halloween destination. It does mean that you have to escort your DC around rather than letting them knock on their friends’ doors themselves as it is so overwhelming. And I’ve heard people being quite rude about the “people who live here are rich and like giving all this away” to their kids (I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t heard it but they definitely said it). We have 200 kids in an hour (and it is now restricted to an hour because it draws crowds). On the other hand it does feel exciting and makes for a party atmosphere.

We knock on people we don’t know as long as they have decorations so fine I’d say .

We head to the village I grew up in they close the village to traffic and all the shops give out treats.

Go where you like. They're not going to ask for proof of address before handing over the goodies are they? 😂

We don't Trick or Treat at all.

We guise.

I say this every year but I hate that other people come to our estate because I will run out of sweets before Iv have given to all the children that we know. There's 550 houses here, we're a tight knit community that puts on amazing displays and competitions for the kids and people come from other villages and it bugs the shit out of me. I will spend £££ on sweets just to run out.
Rant over

@JurassicShay

I say this every year but I hate that other people come to our estate because I will run out of sweets before Iv have given to all the children that we know. There's 550 houses here, we're a tight knit community that puts on amazing displays and competitions for the kids and people come from other villages and it bugs the shit out of me. I will spend £££ on sweets just to run out. Rant over

My own area has quite a few good displays I think.

But, DS would be alone. With nobody. Whilst all his cousins are close in age and trick or treat together around that area and he's the only one to miss out if I didn't bring him on by

Where I used to live was considered the 'well-to-do' village to which children from elsewhere travelled to trick or treat. In fairness, many of them went to school in the village, so were joining friends.

We did once, when DS was probably in Reception, go with friends of his to a tiny, very horsy and prosperous village a few miles away where a former pre-school friend lived, and were gobsmacked at the swag. One extremely patrician woman handed DS an entire box of Ferrero Rocher. This village also had no streetlights, so we were navigating by headtorches, so I only realised quite how much they came away with.

YABU calling it ‘trick or treat’

its guising. Been going on for years in Scotland.
Our kids used to stick to local area , mostly to friends housed or those decorated for Halloween, so yes stayed in own area
No tricks were played
everyone was expected to say a poem, sing a song, tell a joke
None of this nasty give me stuff or else

You can go where you want. My area is now popular as a destination spot so we just run out of sweets earlier.

You do have to trick or treat actually on Halloween though. Is planning Halloween at the begining of September, the new "planning Christmas in March"?

@notinyoday why not go to the houses with displays in your area?

I'm in Scotland and called it Trick or Treating when young, though my parents would have said guising. Personally I prefer TorT. There's no actual trick, or shouldn't be and I don't want some tuneless tot screeching at me. Just take your sweets, say thank you and go.

I think it's fine going to an area you have some connection to, like your DS going with his cousins. Travelling to a random area just because you'll get a better stash is greedy and unfair on the children who live there.

Let people call it what they want

If you’re going as a group with others who do live in the different area then it’s fine. Residents in my area do seem to get very cross at people who don’t live around here driving over to take advantage of the many houses that make the effort, which is understandable. It means they have to spend even more to make sure they don’t run out and all the local children get a treat, and it’s safer for the local kids walking in the dark when there are fewer cars.