Is it weird to take part in trick or treating without kids?

[ohnoohnol]

Love Halloween and love the whole trick or treating thing.
We don't have any kids yet but I plan on putting some decorations in the window and a pumpkin at the front door so kids know we are taking part.
I've bought some sweets for the trick or treaters.
Friend says it's weird because we have no kids yet but I don't think giving out some sweets is that weird is it ?

Decorating your house and having sweets in for guisers is perfectly normal and fine.

Going guising yourself would be weird.

Weird to go trick or treating but not to hand out

No there are loads around us who don't have kids/have grown up kids/grandkids but still put out pumpkins. If it was only those with kids they'd all be put trick or treating and no one to answer doors

No, not weird! I think it’s nice! You’re doing it FOR the kids, not because you have them necessarily.

Halloween is a lovely community event that relies on generous adults giving out sweets. You go for it.

I’d say this too

It’s absolutely fine to hand out sweets op

Thought you were off trick or treating alone op...now that would be weird 😂

Totally normal to give out sweets though. Dh and I did before we had dc. My mum, sister and MIL all have a bag of sweets handy and no dc in the house. Thought lots of people did tbh.

My neighbour does that. A couple of pumpkins, plenty of sweets for the children. Just as well really as otherwise we are a miserable lot in our road at Halloween 😂

Are you sure your friend didn't misinterpret and think you are going out trick or treating without kids cause from your title that's exactly what I thought you meant and I would have said that's weird lol.

All the people with kids are our trick or treating! You're doing an excellent service to Halloween here

Same!!

I don't think you're weird OP. My DH hates halloween with a passion. He would turn the lights out and not be home. This half term he's away, with the kids so I'm planning for my house to look like something out of Hocus Pocus. I am SO excited to have the halloween grinch out of the house and put on a show for any trick or treaters who want to knock! Bit gutted the kids won't be here, but not going to let that stop me.

If that's weird then I'm happy to be in the odd club with you :D

This is what I was worried you meant 🤣

yes very normal and nice to put things out for kids. Most people who do if don’t have kids, e the ones with kids are out doing it!

No one would have known no win when my kids were young enough for trick or treat as they were out, one of us would stay home to give out the treats. Your friend is weird.

Don't encourage them!
Absolute pain.
Tacky and ridiculous.

I've told this before but one year I got so very fed up with the incessant banging on the door, necessitating turning off the lights, and retreating to the back of the house with my elderly dog who freaked out at all the noise.

The gurning ankle biters in their ludicrous outfits were offered a choice of a nice tart apple or a mini toothbrush that year.

Turns the whole thing on its head very nicely.

Like others said, not weird.

And so nice to have someone answer the door: my DS prefers it to rummaging about in a bucket on the doorstep (which most times has been emptied by random cheeky kids), he loves showing off his costume!
We have plenty of elderly and very young couples who welcome trick or treaters, our favourite is a lady on her own who dresses as a witch!

Ooh I might try a witch outfit next . I reckoned I could scare the living daylights out of them .
Thanks for the tip!

When exactly is Halloween by the way ?

This.

From your title, I assumed you meant going and knocking on doors. That would be weird. But answering the door isn't, if that's your thing. In fact, trick or treating rather relies on people doing that.

Oh god, I hope it's not weird... DH and I are late 50s and never had children, never wanted them ourselves... but we love the community feel of the kids coming around, especially the tinies. Also, if all the parents are out with the kids, someone needs to be in with a bucket of choccies 🍫.

Also, DH had strict religious parents who never allowed Hallowe'en, and he LOVES the rebellious feel of it 👻 ... while I came from a rural village where Hallowe'en was taken seriously in the folk-horror 70s, so I love to carve a pumpkin and decorate 🎃. The kids coming round is an excuse to indulge our own inner child.

But we turn the lights off and watch horror films after about 7:30pm with a glass of wine...

I was thinking the same

Ooh, if I didn't have DH I'd think that was me... I always wear a witch's hat to answer the door... ☺️🧙‍♀️

Our kids are grown up now but I still like seeing the littles one come to collect the treats, I enjoy buying some fun sweets to give out and this year I have a cute little cauldron to hold them all. DH enjoys different decorations each year, we don’t go over the top but we were told our house was the best one last year <preens>

Thursday 31st October...2 weeks this Thursday :)

@ohnoohnol what you're doing is so normal didn't occur to people that you'd be asking about giving out sweets. You're friend is the one being weird here.

@okayhescereal Thank you! So I have about ten days to prepare my tableau.

Excellent.

I envision a large welcoming cauldron of broadly authentic elements on the front lawn - eye of newt and toe of frog may be hard to source at short notice, even from Messrs Wait and Rose.

I am thinking possibly a mix of gently warmed whelks and jellied eels might be adequate substitutes?

I do think the anxious adult hangers-on should set an example to the ankle biters in appreciating this generous offering. Especially as I am only a poor old lady who lives alone and has gone to a lot of trouble and effort.

Now as far as everything else goes, I already have a broomstick of course, and a black cat.

I need to think more about my dress. There will of course be no orange tissue paper, black plastic, or that weird cotton wool stuff one sees in shop windows. Or pumpkins, carved or otherwise. Ghastly things.

Wisht.... the charm's (almost) wound up.

Hecate and 🐈‍⬛