What do you give tricker or treaters?

[Slavetomytoddlers]

Just wondering what spooky little visitors to your house get?

I lock the gates remotely and let the hounds out.

And some people are upset at Christmas as it can be a hard time for many. Does anyone insist they don't put lights up, or trees in the window?

Because of the distress it can cause to passers-by.

Insane

The recently bereaved.

Oh don't be silly! I've been bereaved coming up to all kinds of significant events. Some have been hard, some ok. However it's my private grief to deal with, I don't demand that other people change what they do.

Whatever is small, wrapped and on offer. This year they're getting whatever is left over after our party at the weekend.

However, I have learned my lesson and never let a child pick from the bowl of sweets (cue children making desperate lunges at the sweets and somehow scooping up half the offerings in one paw). I make them hold out their buckets and I dole the sweets out - they get more for being polite.

All I’m saying is that there have been several calls on my local Next Door group that people should be mindful about sticking up death-based and frightening decorations on the outside of their house.

And the fact that you think it’s a joke means you don’t understand. Can you not think for one moment of any instances where it might be distressing? no. Everyone knows it’s Halloween and that people are going to decorate their houses. I don’t personally but it’s not as if someone is going to suddenly come across a skeleton out of nowhere and be upset by it. We all know they’re going to be there.

As fr spiders, meh.

The only thing that needs to be banned is the bloody word “triggering”. Except in cases of e.g. severe child abuse/rape which are sensitive subjects anyway.

But all this “I might be triggered by a picture of spider” type crap ness to stop. We simply can’t expect the world to account for everything that might upset someone. or we might as well all stay at home.

While I have every respect and sympathy for the terminally ill, I can’t imagine that too many are that devastated to see a fake web hanging on a gate.

Depends - sometimes it's Halloween ginger biscuits, sometimes fun sized chocolates, sometimes Halloween sweets.

One year I made some special spider cakes with marshmallows which even though they didn't look great, they took!

To me, that's like asking why I'm not celebrating Diwali.

Dressing up on Halloween has nothing to do with me. Its not a tradition of mine so I don't do it. I don't like it, never went trick or treating myself, my kids don't go and I'm not a bit interested in it.

That's why.

Took the words out of my mouth.

And there we have it, every year the oh so superior claiming it's American, without actually knowing the scots and Irish history....

Haribo, lollipops, glow sticks, mini chocolates.

There are lots of elderly women on my street so we don’t encourage it. They don’t like people knocking on their doors after night.
some years we get loads and some years we get no one. We aren’t decorated though.

I had a row with a dad who rapped on my door for a full 15 minutes and got me out of bed sick to demand I gave his child sweets as he had been knocking on doors for hours and no one answered (about 25 years ago).

I'm English and live in England though.

I don't like Halloween, but live and let live right? If someone else wants to celebrate it in a fashion I don't like, that's up to them. Doesn't mean I'm going to buy chocolates to participate in it though.

Well last year a poor lad ended up with my fake bloodied finger as it was dark when I offered him the basket of maoms and mini skittles bags 😂😂 I still miss that finger...

Me neither

Swizzels tub sweets

I carve a pumpkin then drill lots of small holes into the top half and pop lollipops in them. Looks great and the kids get to take a lolly each rather than grab handfuls of sweets (as a few try to do!)

If you don’t open the door because you’re too scared to say you don’t do trick or treat then surely it’s not a great idea to open it and snottily quiz them? And it’s not funny. It’s just trying to make yourself look clever, and anyone who tries to make themselves look clever compared to children is obviously an idiot.

Nothing.

Actually in my dad's case it was attempting to educate and get them to just think about what they were doing, rather than trying to be funny. It was earnest rather than snotty. I just find it funny 30 years down the line. Someone else not finding it funny isn't going to stop me thinking it was! And given that nobody had ever knocked on our door to say trick or treat ever before and nobody we knew had ever mentioned doing it he wouldn't have had any idea it was trick or treaters knocking that time until he did open it!

But I digress. As a PP said to me it is like me celebrating Diwali. It just isn't part of my history or culture at all. If I was invited to a Diwali celebration or a Halloween party I would happily go. But spontaneously trying to join in by myself feels really weird.

Cauldron full of swizzels type wrapped sweets and lollies and a sign on door asking kids to e kind and only take one sweet, and to not be too noisy because autistic DS inside is scared of monsters.

DD will be going out with DH for the first time this year.

I saw these online and thought they would be fun.

We get lots of trick or treaters. I get massive bags of sweets and lollies etc. Do have to be careful kids don't grab massive handfuls so if there's a big group I've started putting 1 or 2 sweets in their buckets instead of them grabbing out my bowl! Or we run out of sweets in about 30 mins.