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Trick or Treating, Saturday or Sunday night?

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IdLoveToButCantBeArsed · 28/10/2021 23:04

Just that really, if you're taking your children Trick or Treating, are you going Saturday night because no school the next day, or Sunday night because that's actually Halloween?

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TheLastSpookyBakedBeanSaysBoo · 28/10/2021 23:04

Sunday

TheGriffle · 28/10/2021 23:05

Sunday. Anyone calling at my door on Saturday will be getting naff all.

BeBraveAndBeKind · 28/10/2021 23:05

Sunday.

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CaputApriDefero · 28/10/2021 23:05

The night that's actually Halloween. Otherwise you're just turning up to strangers houses on a random day expecting sweets. You can't adjust public holidays or national events to suit your individual timetable.

MoreThanAnOffDay · 28/10/2021 23:06

Sunday of course!

TheUndeadLovelinessOfDemons · 28/10/2021 23:08

Sunday night. No one would open their doors on the wrong night. And my DC don't go back until Tuesday.

Quirrelsotherface · 28/10/2021 23:08

Sunday. It's like saying we'll eat turkey on Christmas Eve as it falls on a better day

RightOnTheEdge · 28/10/2021 23:08

Definitely Sunday, you can't just go trick or treating on any night you choose

immersivereader · 28/10/2021 23:11

God, unanimous.

I'd have thought sat would be acceptable.

CallMeRisley · 28/10/2021 23:12

What’s school the next day got to do with it? You don’t usually take the kids out trick or treating after bedtime do you? It’s dark by 6pm at the moment and when the clocks change on Saturday night it will be sunset at 4.30 on Sunday and dark by 5pm. I’d say prime trick or treating time is between 5pm and 7pm. School the next day is of no consequence. Sometimes Halloween falls on a Wednesday etc, you wouldn’t wait til Friday or Saturday then. So to answer your question, Sunday.

CallMeRisley · 28/10/2021 23:15

PS other planned Halloween activists such as a little party at home with with friends/cousins/siblings which is likely to go on a bit after bedtime is acceptable on the Friday or Saturday nearest Halloween. That only affects you and your invited guests. But you can’t be knocking on people’s doors on any other day than the 31st.

KimmyKimdoo · 28/10/2021 23:16

If YOU choose to celebrate rate Halloween on a different day to 31st, that’s entirely your decision. You cannot go Trick or Treating (which normally requires your neighbours/ random people to open their door and give you sweets) on any day other than the 31st though unless you want to be a complete cheeky fucker.

purpleme12 · 28/10/2021 23:17

Sunday of course

CallMeRisley · 28/10/2021 23:18

@CallMeRisley

PS other planned Halloween activists such as a little party at home with with friends/cousins/siblings which is likely to go on a bit after bedtime is acceptable on the Friday or Saturday nearest Halloween. That only affects you and your invited guests. But you can’t be knocking on people’s doors on any other day than the 31st.
ACTIVITIES not activists Grin
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IdLoveToButCantBeArsed · 28/10/2021 23:19

Halloween Grin😂 glad I asked.

I was all ready to go Saturday, but will hold off until Sunday. Thanks all!

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Craftgirlx · 28/10/2021 23:21

I’m quite surprised by these replies. We never went guising on a Sunday and neither did anyone else in my town, it would always be the Saturday instead as it wasn’t ‘proper’ to do so on the sabbath! I’m expecting kids on both nights this weekend tbh as I know many still hold this view while others aren’t bothered

elizabethdraper · 28/10/2021 23:24

Imagine Christmas day\Diwali \eid fell on Sunday would you change the day ?

No, so why change the pagan\celtic celebration day??

victoriaspongecake · 28/10/2021 23:27

Neither. It will spread the covid.

NavigatingAdolescence · 28/10/2021 23:28

@Quirrelsotherface

Sunday. It's like saying we'll eat turkey on Christmas Eve as it falls on a better day
We do xmas on any day we like between Nov and Feb. Sky hasn’t fallen in yet!
KimmyKimdoo · 28/10/2021 23:31

I don’t think it’s like eating your own Christmas dinner on a different day because that only affects you! Knocking on people’s doors after dark on days other than 31st is just rude because it’s bothering people. It’s entitled to assume you can do that whenever suits you best, despite it involving your neighbours.

TalesOfDrunkennessAndCruelty · 28/10/2021 23:32

This is almost as bizarre as the person on my local Facebook group who a week ago was panicking that nobody locally was "doing" Halloween, because they hadn't yet decorated their houses. It's a one day event.

Allywill · 28/10/2021 23:33

Sunday. Anyone calls during strictly I will not answer the door.

makingmiracles · 28/10/2021 23:33

Sunday of course. We however won’t be doing it for the second yr in a row as we are in the part of the country with the highest covid rates atm, having hoards of people touch our gate and doorbell etc and stand in close proximity to our front door is pretty much inviting covid, so we shall have a small party with our immediate neighbours ans hope that next yr we can get back to normal.

SnarkyBag · 28/10/2021 23:37

Most people start trick or treating about 5pm round our way, we’re usually out of sweets by 6pm as it’s so busy. So not really late for a school night.
Bit shit to be knocking on people’s doors the night before.

SickAndTiredAgain · 28/10/2021 23:37

Why are there so many threads on this? Halloween isn’t a moveable event. A Halloween party might be best on a Saturday, but you can’t just pick a different day and go round knocking on people’s doors expecting them to join in with your chosen day for it.