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

"to see what the responses would be."

That's what they all say. 😏

I wish kids where I live did it though. They look so cute in their outfits.

There’s quite a few by me but it has definitely dwindled in recent years, I don’t mind though, it means I get to eat the leftovers

It's trick or treating and yes they do. School's tell them to only go to house's with decorations up. So if you want them calling put something in the window so they know their welcome. Take it down when you've ran out of sweets.

No, mine is 10 and says it’s a bit babyish

My 2 year old calls it trickle treating. It's cute when she does it so roll with it. 🤣

I'm always pleasantly surprised how nice trick or treating is here. People make a lot of effort with treats, decorations and costumes. The buzz in the streets and laughter as different groups bump into and scare each other. Community is really boosted in these few hours.

Really HUGE thing where we live, people decorate their houses, sweets and treats aplenty, everyone is out all evening! Its a massive thing for kids. My 10 yo started to get excited about a month ago )))

Yes mine are primary aged and keen to do it each year!

We go round the local roads while DH holds the fort at home answering the door to give out sweets- we put a pumpkin outside with some decorations

I take the DC round and we only knock on doors with pumpkin/decorations outside, would def not bother a house with no lights /no decorations outside

We live in suburban SE London with lots of local school children around

I remember Halloween being quite a big deal when I was little. We would go to parties held by some people with a very big house and play Halloween games that would definitely have SS called if you did them now. There was one that involved a lit candle being tied to a string in a doorway and swung - hot wax everywhere! And apple bobbing, snapdragons, sardines in the dark, ghost stories...

Then the kids would go to bed and the adults would get drunk. Ah, the 80s.

No trick or treating because my parents thought it was "no better than begging" but some serious halloween partying was done.

Nowadays we live somewhere that takes trick or treating very seriously and I love it.

Yes we do but only houses that are decorated with pumpkins etc to not cause a nuisance to those not wanting knocking

Not here so much, since the murders.

Mine call it trickle treating too. And they love it - been talking about outfits and plans for it for a couple of weeks already. I think estates with lots of families are the best for it - we go and meet up with friends who live on an estate and visit all the decorated houses

How many twats does it take to tell OP it’s “trick or treating”? Quite a lot it would seem!

I live on an estate and it’s definitely a thing here. The unwritten rule is to only go to decorated houses though.

Yeah, tons of kids in my neighbourhood, usually dressed up with some parents keeping an eye. Plus some older kids in groups. But they only knock doors with a pumpkin outside or decorations. When my kids were young enough to do it, my blooming door was going every 5 mins for about 3 hours. But it was a laugh. Cost a fortune in sweets though.

Now my kids are older, I don’t bother with a pumpkin and no one knocks the door.

I still miss penny for the guy. When I was a kid bonfire night was a much bigger deal than Halloween. But I guess fire safety’s moved on from the days the whole neighbourhood built a huge fire on the playing fields. Or the playing fields have been built on.

lol at trickle treating!

I like to decorate my house for Autumn but it's not an open invitation to a trickle of treaters to come begging!

Yes but we’d only knock on doors with some sort of Halloween friendly indicator - ie pumpkin outside

We never get any despite living on a nice close with a few kids. I think my German shepherds’ barking probably puts them off! Having said that we NEVER got them even before we got the dogs. May be 2 in 20 years.

What murders?

That's what my son called it when he was little!

Halloween is Celtic (hence Scots and Irish marking it for so long).

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/ten-trick-or-treating-facts-for-impressive-bonfire-chats-1.1983165

Scotland and Ireland started tricking

"A few decades later a practice called 'guising' was in full swing in Scotland and Ireland. Short for 'disguising', children would go out from door to door dressed in costume and rather than pledging to pray, they would tell a joke, sing a song or perform another sort of "trick" in exchange for food or money."

"The expression trick or treat has only been used at front doors for the last 10 to 15 years. Before that "Help the Halloween Party" seems to have been the most popular phrase to holler."

That's from 2014, and that last paragraph also correlates with my experience as I had never used the phrase 'trick or treat'.

@DreamW3aver have you ever looked at the footwear if the small ghosts & pumpkins??

It's not obviously a typo; it appears twice. Trick or treating... nope, no auto correct kicking in with that.

But still, it's lovely new bait for the pedants to nibble on 😂

mine go trick or treating they only knock at houses with decorations.I love getting sweets for the kids it makes a kids night getting out having fun.My other half will be taking the girls out this year as i will be too pregnant really to go for a long walk =p

I like handing out sweets the kids get so excited =)