What do you do about Halloween?

[TigerOnTour]

My kids are late primary/early secondary school age. I tried to say no more trick or treating when the older one reached Y7 but he cried about it. I'm so sick of the obsession with huge bags of sugar. I do take them away and give them out bit by bit, but it lasts months and Christmas is upon us before we are through the bags of loot.

How do other families deal with it? Do you limit the number of houses you visit? I feel like the horriblist bitch whenever I try to put limits on this ridiculous event.

My kids go guising and can bring back as much loot as they can carry.

We then ration it out over the coming weeks.

It's usually gone before the Christmas chocolates arrive.

I just let mine go to be honest...it's once a year and I don't find it hard to let them gorge on one day and then save the rest. Honestly, I'll probably get attacked on here for this, but I have older teenagers who I also let tag along with their little siblings and they get candy too sometimes!! Before they head off to their own halloween parties which worries me a little more to be honest.

It’s a big event here, has been for generations. They normally stop around 13 or 14 and the rule is that if the house doesn’t have decorations or if they haven’t checked beforehand then they don’t go to that door. They all love it and it’s a lovely atmosphere where we are with them all in their costumes, telling jokes or singing a song. I turn a blind eye to the sugar and usually whittle it down by eating some myself.

Absolutely nothing. My DC are now in their 20s and never went t&t. I'm not a fan of Halloween, far too commercial for my liking.
I remember kids asking for "a penny for the Guy" but haven't heard that in years. Halloween has almost wiped out Bonfire Night.

Yep, this.

We have a party and go trick or treating and it is an utter sugar fest… but they love it.

We play pass the parcel and hoopla and have a cheesy disco in the living room and even the ‘too cool for life’ 11 year olds love it, as do grandparents- so I ignore the sugar for the happy family times.

All I’ve done is got a tub of sweets, and will put in our street WhatsApp group that I don’t mind visitors.

I'm 43 but still have such fond memories of trick or treating as a kid. It's one night. We never really had sweets the rest of the year. I think I was pretty over it by secondary school though.

The sweets last for months here. We still have Easter eggs!

Mine are adults now, but when they were guising age we let them pick out their favourite sweets, then we bought the rest from them, and my husband took those to work, where they rarely lasted a day.

Halloween is banned in my house. I bloody hate it. No decorations, no sweets, no trick or treating.
My oldest DD loves the aesthetic of it, got a bit of a nightmare before christmas obsession and i only just about tolerate that

We’ve never done trick or treating but if we did I’d treat it like other sweet filled events/parties. Let them each what they want on the day and then ration it out thereafter. I help them out of course so they go down quicker 😆

You sound so fun

You'd feel exactly the same if your neighbourhood was full of scuzzy chavvy teenagers vandalising your houses with eggs and bratty kids kicking your door down for vapes sweets