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I just had a trick or treater a full 24 hours early

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Wiifitmama · 30/10/2021 18:33

Never had this happen before. Have they moved Halloween? Small dressed up child with adult in tow. Yes my house is decorated but pumpkin not lit as it is not Halloween yet!

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Theimpossiblegirl · 30/10/2021 19:12

I love Halloween and will be ready for trick or treaters tomorrow. I can understand people having parties tonight but to go out a night early to knock on doors is a bit silly, it's the wrong night!

SpookyS · 30/10/2021 19:13

@Noeuf

Three different sets wandering around looking sad at the moment. Dad talking loudly oh his phone about the street not being decorated.

Surely that's a sign for him that this street don't want trick or treaters!

1forAll74 · 30/10/2021 19:14

A couple of regular silly posting women on the local FB thing, were posting over a week ago. that they had spent so much time last week, doing up their house fronts with all kinds of Halloween rubbish, and said that nobody had walked past and admired their work, and nobody had come to do trick or treat stuff, and they had spent a lot of money on treats.

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Dahliadelight · 30/10/2021 19:14

I just cannot imagine how anyone has decided that it’s ok to decide to move a fixed date thing that requires all your neighbours to participate for it to even happen.

Agree

museumum · 30/10/2021 19:14

Ours are guising our own houses tonight after a neighbourhood party but that’s organised. I wouldn’t take or let ds out to other houses tonight.

LubaLuca · 30/10/2021 19:14

I think it is different when it's an event for little children. There will have been little Halloween events at various venues this week eg libraries and holiday clubs, so it's not an event that is strictly limited to 31st

ShellieEllie · 30/10/2021 19:14

Lots of messages on our local FB page from parents asking if their children should go out tonight or tomorrow

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 30/10/2021 19:15

I have a large tub of Haribo at the ready, and the sky remote poised to be able to pause, but nothing yet!
I am quite excited as we moved recently and I am on a road....loads of houses decked out and I spent a lovely afternoon making Hallowe'en paper chains and decorating the front window instead of actually unpacking boxes!

We have had a few little faces peering in...one last week whose mother was mortified at his gawking...the window was open and I could hear her telling him not to stare
and one today who was pointing at the Edgar Allen Crow skeleton and picking her nose with the other finger on the other hand! Dh was roaring with laughter!

I thought I had one earlier, but it was a youth from up the road to collect a parcel!

IDontThinkSoNo · 30/10/2021 19:16

Halloween is on a school night 5 out of 7, I just don’t get why this year people are doing it on Saturday

itsgettingwierd · 30/10/2021 19:18

@BadlyFormedQuestion

I just cannot imagine how anyone has decided that it’s ok to decide to move a fixed date thing that requires all your neighbours to participate for it to even happen.

It’s like deciding to move New Year’s Eve or something.

Agree with this.

mrsfeatherbottom · 30/10/2021 19:20

We have a WhatsApp group for our area and everyone agreed to do it tonight (better weather and no school the next day) We've all put the sweets outside so no one has to answer the door and everyone is only calling to the houses on the map.

Bloodypunkrockers · 30/10/2021 19:20

@LubaLuca

How silly

Of course it's not an event to be moved

ArcheryAnnie · 30/10/2021 19:21

@Finfintytint

Maybe it’s because tomorrow will be a school night??

But they needn't keep them up late! You take small children out for trick or treating as soon as its dusk - you don't wait until late. Many people douse their pumpkins quite early anyway, if they don't want to answer the door to enormous teenagers!

AllWaxedOut · 30/10/2021 19:22

I don't see how it matters being a school night; how late are people trick or treating?!

I'm taking my two out 5.30- 6.30ish. Then we'll give sweets out at home for an hour, ready for bed by 7.30-8.

I'd be quietly irritated to get anyone knocking tonight.

itsgettingwierd · 30/10/2021 19:23

@IDontThinkSoNo

Halloween is on a school night 5 out of 7, I just don’t get why this year people are doing it on Saturday

I think it's due to people 'forgetting'

Last year was a Saturday but I know it was pretty much cancelled as we were going into lockdown again and so many areas had restrictions.

So it was last on a school night in 2019 (thurs as 2020 a leap year?)

That far ago pre covid just seems like a lifetime ago.

I don't agree they should be doing Saturday I just think peoples mindsets have changed and it's been so long since we've done things in school nights!

Abraxan · 30/10/2021 19:24

None here tonight fortunately; I do have sweets etc in but they're for tomorrow. This evening I'm in my PJs, having just got back from holiday - no intention of answering any today.

Mostly they come in the correct night here in the last, and rarely late - normally, 5-7 is peak time. I turn the lights off and bring in any decorations between 7 and 8, or before if I run out of sweets earlier.

itsgettingwierd · 30/10/2021 19:24

And tomorrow you can go earlier - a whole hour earlier

julieca · 30/10/2021 19:29

Our street have decided via whatsapp than trick or treat is tomorrow night.

Normandy144 · 30/10/2021 19:30

I honestly don't understand what's happening with people this year. So many local messages checking if people are trick or treating on Saturday night. No of course not! It's like people have had one year off and forgotten how it works! It was a Thursday in 2019 and Wednesday in 2018 I don't recall people asking if it was going to take place on the Friday instead or the weekend prior. Halloween is always on 31st October regardless of whether that's a Tuesday or a Saturday.

hemhem · 30/10/2021 19:35

People in my village have been saying they're going tonight because you're not supposed to go on a Sunday (presumably every other day is ok). There were two crowds, some saying oh yes it has always been this way since I were a lad and we observed the sabbath, others saying don't be daft its not 31st so wait.

kowari · 30/10/2021 19:36

Why on earth does it matter if it's a school night? What do these parents do when it falls on a Monday to Thursday night? It's dark early, you hardly have to go late. If your 4 year old needs to be asleep at 7 maybe wait a year or two!

SinoohXaenaHide · 30/10/2021 19:36

31st October will fall "on a school night" on average 5 years out of every 7. That's normal and of no concern to me.

Much more worrying is the fact that the BBC in their wisdom have chosen to broadcast the first new Dr Who for ages between 6:25 and 7:15 on Halloween. And I have a houseful of sci-fi obsessives on various points of the autism spectrum who get very upset if they can't watch new Dr Who at live broadcast time and get very upset if it is interrupted (we know now, having learned from experience, that we need to brief family to not phone at key times when they broadcast at Christmas or New Year). We have made some signs politely asking Trick or Treaters not to knock during the key times and I really hope we don't get any mischievous touths thinking it would be hilarious to knock anyway.

SinoohXaenaHide · 30/10/2021 19:37

touths is a weird typo for youths.

Courtier · 30/10/2021 19:38

I had them come into a restaurant yesterday and stand at the tables asking for money until the staff asked them to leave. Never seen anything like it.

Mummy1232016 · 30/10/2021 19:42

Me neither!!! What will they do mon-thurs

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