Crap halloween givers

[WashingAt30]

It's nice when someone opens the door to you, and they at least smile, and maybe have a little chat about the DC's costumes. My god, some people don't even look happy, just shove a bag of sweets at you as close the door! I wouldn't be surprised if one creepy man we met was on some kind of offenders register. Why bother if you're not going to get into the spirt?!

i get where the OP is coming from, I’m assuming she’s referring to houses that encourage people to come and knock (by putting a pumpkin out etc) but don’t seem to enjoy doing it?

you can opt out altogether by not putting a pumpkin out, so seems odd that people do it and seem to not enjoy it, we never came across any misery guts, it was my Toddlers first time trick or treating and everyone was lovely!

I’m one of these people! I want the kids to have some treats but I feel awkward!

I don’t know these people and I don’t have kids myself, I’m paranoid they think I’m a weirdo.

I open the door, say hello and hold out the bucket of sweets.

if I knew there was going to be some judgy bitch coming on mumsnet to slag me off I wouldn’t fucking bother 🤣🤣🤣

I've been at the gym, so avoided most.
Dd has trawled the streets with her mates, all in costume. She was very proud that where people had left buckets her mates took 3, so she did too. She was less proud when I told her I considered that greedy and would have seen my arse.

Ds is 14 and has been on door duty. I heard the door go and him answer it. No one said trick or treat. Ds said nothing. I heard the crinkle of sweets, followed by 'there you go'. Door closed.

I think he needs to dress up as igor next year.

Round here people just leave a bowl of sweets outside so it's contact free!

I said on another thread that the best house I visited tonight was giving out sweets to the kids and wee paper cups of sparkling wine to the adults.

That family are the neighbourhood champions of Halloween 2023. Potentially the national champions.

„if I knew there was going to be some judgy bitch coming on mumsnet to slag me off I wouldn’t fucking bother 🤣🤣🤣”

Exactly! Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Say treat and happy Halloween?

True
knocking on strangers doors

You knocked on someone’s house and allowed your DC to take sweets and then called them a peadofile? Seriously!

Theres many reasons people may be awkward, before I had DC I didn’t know how to talk to children and would of been awkward myself.

Ooh why didnt I think of this! I felt obliged to find something to say about every costume!

We had trick or treaters tonight for the first time ever (we’ve lived in the house for 20 years and in the village all our lives). It’s an unlit rural road with no pavements. DS12 was massively excited as he’s never been trick or treating as no one actually does it here. We were mortified as had nothing to give them. Turns out it is a family new to the area, they were very understanding luckily! I did worry a bit that they were walking around on an unlit NSL single track road in the dark.

So if you don’t talk to the children you’re rude, but if you do talk to them you’re possibly a paedophile. Got it.

We get lots along our road as it’s a main route into town. I chat if they talk about my decorations etc, but otherwise it’s holding out a bowl and saying happy Halloween. I’d be there all night if I tried to have conversations.

Oh I wish we lived by you! It would of made my dds year to see a dog dressed up for Halloween, she would of forgotten about the sweets 😂

That is disgraceful

This was exactly us this year. Some were hands out grabbing sweets before I'd even offered or had chance to say a word.

He WAS getting into the spirit of it by not telling your entitled, unknown children dusturbing him and demanding a 'treat' not to Fuck Off!

We took our 2 year old out tonight and loads of people commented on how cute his costume was and were happy/smiley and said bye and happy Halloween to him 🤷‍♀️🤗

That's the thing with sex offenders, they love giving sweets to children.

Ffs.

Go back and write ‘pedo’ on his door. That will teach him.

I thought everyone does that?? Who goes begging at strangers doors?

I just find the whole thing quite awkward so I do open the door with a pleasant ‘hi’ and a smile then just hold the bowl out and tell them to take a couple of things.

I remember being asked to perform as a child and being painfully shy and finding it so difficult so I don’t put them through it.

If you’re not a particularly bubbly person or used to dealing with kids regularly then I think it’s fair enough to not really know what to say!

I hope you only knock on doors that have pumpkins out!

Don't knock on any houses that don't have Halloween decorations! You'll be invading their privacy and interrupting their evening.

Judgy cunts damned if you don't answer the door and if you do you're not cheery enough.
Buy your own bloody sweets then.

Lol brits in general are very awkward about Halloween. It's a cultural tradition that hasn't quite translated here despite good efforts

I live in a neighborhood that has a few problems with anti social behaviour and there is unfortunately poverty. We went to the houses with decorations and everyone was lovely to my children. I stood with my DCs and encouraged them to say thank you. We complimented people's decorations and some of those answering the door made my DCs jump and we all found it fun. Some adults answered the door with a mask on, which made me chuckle a bit.

I put a box of sweets on the door step last year and it was there when we got back (if not a bit ransacked). This year I put a big box of candy out while we went trick or treating for half hour and the box was gone when I called up to check if it was empty.

The youngest was tired so we stopped about 6.15, it was raining too. We do get teens out who aren't dressed up but I still let them have a sweet because I could see they were pleasant enough and they all said thank you. None of them would ask for money.