Do children still go trickle treating?

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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

It's big round here. Lots of houses participate.

I am seeing more and more though, that many regualr houses put out a bowl of treats, to discourage the knocking.

In our case, it's not to discourage the knocking but because I'm out with my own DC trick or treating and want to leave sweets for those coming round while we're out. I put half out in a bowl and keep half to hand out to the older kids who come later.

@Bbq1 oh dear - that was an unfortunate typo😆😆

My son absolutely loves to go, he gets more excited than at Christmas, his 8, goes to a lot of effort to choose a costume and we go to a local village after school that embraces Halloween. Some houses look incredible...

Our rule is - if there's no obvious decorations or pumpkin do not disturb, especially if the house is in darkness, I hate the idea of disturbing the elderly or anyone which doesn't want children to knock.

Yes, we do this too because we're not at home, we're out trick or treating!

It's massive in our village, everyone only goes to houses that are decorated, and some of the houses are amazing. Lots of adults dressed up answering doors too.

Yes, same tbh. That's what we do - when we leave, we put out a line of lit pumpkins and bowls of sweets across the driveway. It's all nice stuff and there's a real party atmosphere on the streets.

It tends to be just sweets either handed out or left at the door with a sign, Mine is the latter, live on a close so it gets quite busy.

Had fun decorating our house this weekend, and we're empty nesters! It's just a bit of fun! Orange and purple fairy lights, pumpkin lights all round the door, skeleton on the door and an absolutely ginormous spider web from top of house to garden and giant spider.

I've got 5 tubs of sweets, we're on a new build estate so anticipating lots of kids! First year here though so we'll see. We are in Scotland though where it's guising and I've been told it's popular.

We get trickle treaters if we put a lit Jack-o-lantern on our front porch or inside our front window. If we don’t, then we get 0 trickle treaters.

And a Chester draw

@Growlybear83 I replied 'trick', squirted them with a big water pistol I had filled up, and shit the door 💩
Well I think most people would be shocked by that too! 😆

My toddler knew all about Jesus, Mary and Joe Fish.

Have you heard of someone making a mistake?

I lived in Scotland as a young child and literally everyone participated, it was massive. Then moved to England and was rather confused by those who would say ‘oh it’s just a fad brought over from America.’

I remember one year my parents didn’t get many sweets in as didn’t get so many kids trick ‘r treating in the inner city. Some teens knocked on the door and my mom handed them some spare change off the side 😂

i always dress the house up on halloween and have sweets in for the little ones. I was taught that if the house is dressed its ok to knock, and it its not, to just walk past!

i'm happy to see the little ones, but as soon as it gets too 7pm, i take the decorations down and put off the lights as i don't want to rude teenagers coming to take as many sweets as they can grab!

i can't wait for GC to be big enough for me to take

When the exact same error is made in both the subject line, and her body of the post, it’s obviously not a typo,

Going round the houses (as we called it), or the original term Guising (refuse to call it "trick or treating"...that's just a phrase that has since been superimposed on the act) is dependent on the area and how many kids there are.

Growing up in the 80s there were loads of kids in my area so our door would have been knocked well into double figures. There are far fewer kids here now so maybe just three/four times. Still loads of bonfires and fireworks around here though.

Trickle treating 😂

I’m in Scotland, and round here the children go Guising - they dress up, and knock on the door, and then they have to either tell a joke or sing a song, and get rewarded with sweets.

I think it is a lovely tradition.

I’m NW in a small town……k loads of kids go trick or treating here ..
mainly around the housing estates…if a house is not decorated or no lit pumpkins at the door, kids don’t knock…..li took my GC last year they got a bucket full of sweet s and money

Needs to be renamed trickle treating immediately, I love it! 🤣

Depends on the weather and where you live! If anything I think it’s getting bigger each year. We had over 30 kids come a couple of years ago. Also, they remember from previous years that you are a house that gives out sweets and they come back.

OMG it's like that scene from ET in my neighbourhood! Boosted by the fact there are three primary schools within walking distance. At least 100 kids come. I've got my pumpkins out, and have bats and other things to decorate the front door. A couple other houses have already been decced out.
But not all areas do it - ask a neighbour that's been there a while.

I'm in Ireland and went to Uni in England, and I had a similar experience to you.

Halloween, HUGE in Ireland (I believe we are also the only place in the world who are off school the day after, which goes right up til the end of secondary school), went to England, and there was barely a mention of it.

I had arguments on here last year with folk in England, with them saying they did mark Halloween. They provided evidence so I've since accepted that yes some did mark it, but no way was it anything like Ireland.

The big thing in England was 5th of November (something not marked in Ireland... and one of the only times I directly came across it was the baldy fella Max on EastEnders saying "penny for the guy").

@RainbowWife I lived in Scotland as a young child and literally everyone participated, it was massive. Then moved to England and was rather confused by those who would say ‘oh it’s just a fad brought over from America.

I confess I only recently learnt that Halloween originates in the UK. I like it much more now I know it's an indigenous thing, not a US import.