Do children still go trickle treating?

[reallifeboogie]

Moved house since last Halloween and now living on an estate. No kids myself but don't know if kids still go trickle treating at strangers houses? Happy to decorate and get sweets in

They do here but only to decorated houses.

The kids around here go guising.

Is this an in joke thread, no one really thinks it's trickle surely, how would that make any sense?

Yeah, but mine are too tall to do it now. My son and his friend went out at 12 year old and some woman told them to go away, as they weren't kids anymore 😕 If a 6ft, 16 year old came knocking and had put effort in to dressing up, I wouldn't think twice about treating them as any other trick or treater.

No. Nobody has ever gone trickle treating.

Some kids do still go trick or treating though. Bloody hell.

I was unsure when mine were young, but now there are clearer 'rules' you know everyone has chosen to be involved I am fine with it. (As long as the children are polite and you don't get 8 teenagers turning up en masse with no costume.)

Get 25-30 here. Not even a lot of kids locally

Same I dont give out money so if anyone wants to dress up and knock on the door they are all welcome to a bag of haribo

We don't get very many round here, but they don't tend to keep to houses that have decorations outside.

I was a child in the 1960s and I had never heard of trick or treating in England until I was in my very late teens, and didnt really understand the concept. The first year we saw trick or treaters heading down the road, I got ready for them. A couple of very large boys knocked on the door a few minutes later, and said 'trick or treat'. I replied 'trick', squirted them with a big water pistol I had filled up, and shit the door 😆😆😆. I really thought the householder either gave them a treat or played a trick and had no idea that the tricks came from the callers. 😆😆

Yes, the protocol here is that if you have lights on and Halloween decs visible they will knock.

No Halloween decs visible, no knocking!

Yes, we only go to houses with pumpkins or decorations outside though.

Yes they do. I've got a 9 and 6 year old who still adore it and love going with their friends!

Love trickle treating! Might have to start calling it that 😆

Yep. I can confirm lots of parents on this new build estate let their snotty children go round knocking on doors begging for sweets (or for the older kids, cigarettes/vapes)

My children are not among them.

@reallifeboogie they might go trickle treating or they might go trick or treating in your area but in my area of scotland they go guising!!!!

It's not a typo, they wrote it twice. It's a mistake and a very amusing one

Could be a new way of drip feeding?

It is big here, small friendly town where we always meet lots of kids we know as we go round. I was dubious before the first time but it has a lovely atmosphere with lots of excited primary kids. We definitely only ever knock on decorated/pumpkin houses which to me makes it fine because nobody is forced to participate. That rule must be newish though - some older friends and neighbours are baffled by why they don't have any knocks even though I've explained multiple times for the last few years that you have to have some decorations and/or a pumpkin outside if you want people to knock!

We had easily 50 children last year, we have to have someone in the house to answer the door whilst we’re trickle (😉) treating

What were all the deleted messages?

Around here a few kids come out yes.. but not loads as we live a bit more out in the sticks

Alison Hammond thought it was Trickle Treating on This Morning last year. They were laughing about it!

My DDs have always gone every year. My now 17 year old has always taken her younger sister and cousin round, with me and their dad walking behind.

DD2 is now 13 and is still deciding whether to go this year. Before anyone starts: yes, she probably IS too old but all of the houses get involved round here and lots of teenagers go. They are all really polite and you're never too old for sweets! [hgrin]. It's fun!

Yes they do though it’s a well know tradition now to only knock on houses that have some form of decoration to it. Even if it’s a simple pumpkin

That's a shame. I get so many trick or treaters from teeny tots to older teens. I love making up boxes or bags with all sorts of goodies but the first year I made up 25 bags thinking it would be plenty and ended up with about 70 people, luckily I had plenty of sweets but I felt so guilty!