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

Have you never heard of an eggcorn? Pobody’s nerfect you know!

Surely that's a Spoonerism, not an eggcorn. 😀

Yes, it's a big deal round here and kids travel in huge packs of 10-12. If you want to participate, you put a pumpkin or other decorations outside your house.

We do in our community, but only to houses that are decorated. My DC know we are strictly not to knock on any houses that aren’t decorated.

I used to think it was trickle treating when young, so not sure about a typo! I thought it was ‘trickle’ for absolutely years, which makes me wonder whether it was, at a certain time, a widespread misunderstanding!

Id rather make a mistake than be the type of person who is rude enough to point one out.

So they're wrong. No-one is trickling.

We were going to go trickle treating but I couldn’t find the outfits, buried deep in the chester draws I guess.

It’s called ‘humour’

I used to take out a party blower. My then 2.5 year old took one out last year too, but no-one wanted a "trick", which was a shame as he'd been practicing using one!

They get dropped off, in car loads, on our estate. One year there was a minibus rolled up. The kids went round the doors and the adults stayed drinking at the bus! I close the blinds at 7pm.That's my limit. I live on a lovely estate, people make an effort, but sadly it's become a 'destination'.

I am seriously considering a lifesize talking skeleton thanks to another thread and trickle or trick or treaters will all be welcome.

I love Halloween. Midlander so we always had some kind of celebration even in the 60s and my poor Dad would have loved pumpkins, after having to carve out a swede for the lantern.

The real trick seems to be they aren’t even selling the tumblers, they are selling wraps to wrap around your own tumblers at home! Cheeky.

Evening everyone. It looks like this thread was a 'reverse' so we're going to close it to new posts now so no one else has their time wasted.