What do you give tricker or treaters?

[Slavetomytoddlers]

Just wondering what spooky little visitors to your house get?

I bought some "body part' sweets and spooky lollies that look like eyeballs etc from B&M. It's cost me a couple of quid for a bowl full. It's a bit of fun once a year for the kids, I really don't understand the people on here who won't open the door. Mean spirited!

They were there for sweets. It’s not odd or weird - it’s a fairly accepted thing that people do. And if you don’t participate just open the door and say ‘we don’t do trick or treat’ or ignore it. Opening it and quizzing kids on the liturgical significance of all hallows Eve makes you look like a dick.

Nothing last year, but fortunately nobody came. We're out this year (not Halloween related) so will be able to avoid.

Well I think this is pretty funny, @DappledThings 😂😆 I might try it if I get caught out by so called trick or treaters (sweetie grabbers). I wish we did guising round here, I’d be much more inclined to participate, but as it is I will be turning off the lights and discouraging foragers.

Maoam candy

fun size Milky Ways if I’m feeling rich

satsumas with spooky faces drawn in sharpie.

mini bubbles/erasers/anything else left over from party bags

we’ll get 30-50 children depending on the weather

I have an absolute ton of sweets and chocolates: we have quite a lot of Americans/international community and Halloween T &t is quite big round here. We always run out of sweets (have restocked mid Halloween before) and have had queues outside our door sometimes. We very much dress the house and my kids are too old to t&t so we are a sensible target for families)

We dress up to answer the door and always get lovely t &t ers. Ds’s mates are all dressing up and coming to our house this year specially to answer the door…

Might nick the satsuma sharply idea (thanks for hthat!) we offered left over stickers alongside sweets one year and they were very popular!

Happy to look that way, I think it's hilarious. I think you missed this happened 30+ years ago where it really wasn't a thing. As a kid nobody I knew did it, not round our way. Only knew of it from American TV.

Nobody has ever knocked on my door. If they did I wouldn't have anything to give them bar an Alpen bar or similar. Which I probably would offer but I doubt it would make us popular as a stopping point.

DH insisted we get chocolate in one year just in case. Nobody rang the bell.

I rarely comment on threads but that did make me laugh out loud

How joyless! Why not? (I don't like Halloween either but I do give kids treats!)

Nowadays I don't answer the door to them. Back when I did, I offered Celebration/Heroes etc, and the small packs of sweets like Haribo. Also lollipops and Maoam type sweets.
The outside of my house used to get plastered in decorations, so I had a lot of kids visit. I was a bit sad and used to keep tally of them. I would often get 60-70 kids knocking.

I've bought a couple of bags of mini Cadbury's treats ... although my DH found them and ate a full pack . I also offer Penguin bars etc ... if we have any left I can take them into work. Already had two groups of Trick or Treaters round ... I had to remind them Halloween is not until the 31st ....

100 kids??? I don’t think there’s 100 children live within a 10 mile radius of my house. Think I had a couple knocked the door in 2014 or 15, never seen any since. Imagine the back of beyond, then go a bit further on.

We get lots, so I buy a lot of mini haribo packs, funsize chocolate bars etc. If we run out, or it is bedtime for DC, we just turn off the lights on the decorations and pumpkins and everyone knows not to call. We tend not to get the teenagers, due to us finishing at 7.30/8, but it is cute to see the wee ones.

We've not had any since the first Halloween we were here. We moved in that day, so we were unprepared and offered fruit, funnily enough none wanted apples or bananas, but they've not been back since...

100 kids??? I don’t think there’s 100 children live within a 10 mile radius of my house. Think I had a couple knocked the door in 2014 or 15, never seen any since. Imagine the back of beyond, then go a bit further on.

Same here. Around five years ago the last anyone knocked.

I bought a tub of sweets and a tub of chocolates.

They'll get nearly all of those. Apart from the ones I've eaten to make sure they're all right. of course.

I think I'm going to nick the satsuma idea too.😁

Nothing

I tend to just buy mini chocolates of whatever variety is popular in our house at the time. Then they don't get wasted if we don't get many visitors. So this year it will be mini mars bars (me!) or Freddos (DD!).

Lollies haribo chocolates. We have literally around 150 everyone local join in. Decorates house up etc.
Last year we ran out of sweets by 7pm! 150 plus sweets
So far ive got 2 large bowls filled

We've never had them here which is a shame as the children have always wanted to give them out. Previous house years ago was little bags of mini sweets/fun size chocolate bars (all wrapped because of all the sticky rummaging hands!)

Judging by the number of PPs who say they dish out Haribos, I fear a mass outbreak of explosive diarrhoea among the youth of the UK on Halloween night!
My own DDs when young used to go guising in a smaller village than ours, up in the hills, where the inhabitants were wealthy. They got an impressive haul of Belgian chocolate truffles, hand made individual cakes, and products from a specialist chocolatier!
Mind you, the DDs and their friends did make an effort with costumes. They went as the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse one year, on hobby horses. Younger DD was most annoyed at having to be Pestilence, as it involved inking a multitude of spots on her face with felt tip pen, and she couldn’t get them off afterwards…

The shortest of short shrift. Bloody yank import. And black Friday can fuck off whilst we're about it.

I absolutely love Halloween & go all out with outdoor decorations. I make up 200 little food bags with crisps, a lolly & some chewy sweets.

There are lots of kids on the estate and last year a minibus arrived bringing more from the surrounding area. It’s great fun!

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Where we live, unless you have a carved pumpkin outside, or some other sign of Halloween visible, no-one comes to the door ‘on spec’. It works really well. We participated when the kids were young enough to enjoy pumpkin carving etc.and to go out trick or treating themselves. One of us would take them round and the other would be on duty with a couple of large tubs of sweets or chocolates to answer the door. As soon as ours grew out of it, we felt we could stop!