Not trick or treating this year?

[MsMiaWallace]

Anyone else not taking their kids trick or treating this Halloween?

@lynntheyresexpeople

Absolutely no one calls it guising, come on ffs 😂😂

No one that YOU know, you mean

Last year there was a big thing on local Facebook to only go to doors that are decorated. Really hope people follow that this year too.

@Explosivefarts

Last year there was a big thing on local Facebook to only go to doors that are decorated. Really hope people follow that this year too.

Doubt it. Doesn't seem to make a difference, we have various random kids turning up

@lynntheyresexpeople

Absolutely no one calls it guising, come on ffs 😂😂

I don't know a single Scottish person who does not call it guising and refer to those in costumes as the 'guisers'.

@LukeEvansWife it’s a shame they should. My mum is not in best of health she gets panicked with people coming to her door in the dark. Especially when she goes to bed at 8.

@lynntheyresexpeople

Absolutely no one calls it guising, come on ffs 😂😂

Are you English?

@lynntheyresexpeople

Absolutely no one calls it guising, come on ffs 😂😂

Just 5 million Scots...

I don't know a single Scottish person who does not call it guising and refer to those in costumes as the 'guisers'.

I'm Scottish and don't call it guising. I call it trick-or-treating. That's what I called it as a child and how my similarly aged friends also refer to it. But it's odd to state that clearly no one refers to it as that when clearly a great many do.

Yes we're definitely doing it, it's my favourite time of year.

Nope. CV household here. Doing what we did last year, cosy evening indoors watching a scary movie with a great big greedy pile of sweeties to ourselves.

Enjoyed it more than I thought we would actually.

My ds will probably want to go. He enjoys decorating the house and doing a pumpkin. I’ll probably invite a couple of his friends back here for dinner and then dd will take them out to knock on doors with pumpkins outside.
I used to do a big party but its ds’s birthday a few days after and when he was younger it was fine, it sort of acted as a bit of a get together with his friends and then we had a family party for his actually birthday but as he got older he wanted a specific birthday party and it all got too much so don’t bother with the Halloween party now. Just decorate with a few of the bits we’ve picked up over the years.
I’ll stay home with a bowl of sweets and whoever knocks can have them. There will be no antibaccing of bags/packets of sweets whatsoever here. I work in a school and as a PP said, Hundreds/ a thousand kids all walking around in the same building with no masks, touching handrails, door handles, tables, chairs etc, it’s not all being wiped down between each child touching it
They can wash their hands when they get in before they start eating - standard hygiene from before Covid obviously!

@Sirzy

I’m not.

Same as every other year though!

Yes - though I no longer have young children.

It's just not done where I live - thank goodness!

Shame t&t is being cancelled again. I normally get a stash in every year, safe in the knowledge that wherever I live, noone will knock.

@Rainallnight

We went on a pumpkin hunt last year and gave the kids sweets every time they saw one. Seemed like a good compromised.

I’d be very happy to go back to trick or treating this year, I’m just not sure how many houses would want to take part

We did this too and will do the same again this year.

My children joined in locally when little but always ended up joining our small gatherings with neighbours. Being a witch I celebrate Samhain, it's the end of the harvests and the start of the death of the sun. I celebrate from Oct 31 till the end of Nov 1. I do keep treats to hand out, but honestly even before last year nobody knocked for a few years.

@lynntheyresexpeople

Absolutely no one calls it guising, come on ffs 😂😂

What? The entire country I live in calls it guising and the only Americanism is swapping the turnip for a pumpkin (main reason being it's easier to hollow without wrist sprain and breaking cutlery). Yes we'll be going, dc missed it last year

Yes, guising is what a lot of people call it in Scotland! And kids who come to the door always have a 'turn' to do, even nowadays - a joke, a dance, a poem, etc. We get about 50 of them at the door every year and with the exception of an occasional older teens, all the kids have something to entertain! Although we do hear the same joke about 15 times ...

Yes, guising is what a lot of people call it in Scotland! And kids who come to the door always have a 'turn' to do, even nowadays - a joke, a dance, a poem, etc.

Most don't around here thankfully. I don't need some tuneless tot screeching a song at me,

Each to their own. It's just always how we did things as a kid - you have to do something to earn it. Not a terrible life lesson, really. I grew up in inner-city Glasgow and you would have got sent away with an empty bag if you turned up with nothing prepared to earn your sweetie!

My dad and all his family are Scottish and I grew up in the north of England, literally never heard of guising! Is it the same thing??

I'm originally from inner city Glasgow too.) I didn't go trick or treating as a child but we talked about it as trick-or-treating and that's what my friends did. Personally I see the American version as an improvement. I don't want to freeze my butt off while listening to bad jokes. Just take the sweets, say thank you and go. But as you say each to their own.

DS 10 has just said he wants to dress up as Dream.

Dd has declared this year we are going crazy... things keep arriving from amazon, giant spiders and webs, tombstones , pumpkin fairy lights ... 🎃 🎃 🎃 dh will set up the projector in the trees again, although ds drawers the line at real pumpkins after he vomitd into one whilst cleaning out the guts when he was 4.

I was planning on setting up fishing line with haribos pegged on at different heights and a smaller tray with fruit spaced (a kid requested a banana last year)

If we get tricky or treaters great if we don't we will have had loads of fun setting it all up ..

We are not but only because the year before last I could see they were not to bothered by it .

Never have never will. It's a weird thing to do unless you're with your kids and knocking on someone's door you know will be ready and expecting you just for the fun of it. Knocking on stranger's doors and asking for treats especially if they've not Halloween decorations up is just rude. It scares people who love alone and who are vulnerable to. Just have a Halloween party or go to one or just have fun at home alone with it or go to an organised event. Sorry but I detest trick or treating 🤪