To put a note on my door asking people not to knock tonight...

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I have a 4 yo and 4 month old.

I know it will be chaos at bedtime and once they are settled I really don't want them to be woken up.

I remember last year the door went every 5 minutes for a few hours with guisers and it was really annoying.

Would I be a total cow to put up a polite note saying please don't knock the door, I have sleeping children but have a great night?

Or something along those lines.

I'm prepared for a flaming it's only one night etc etc but to be honest I'm on the bones of my arse as it is so I don't really have spare cash to buy sweets etc for the village kids.

I have done it. Left some sweets outside. Bugger off once they have gone!

No I don't want to see your 5 year old looking cute dressed up as a witch.

I love it. The kids always manage to scare the life out of me with their costumes.
On reading this thread I've tried to make the house look spooky.
Hope I get some takers or I've got to eat an awful lot of sweets.

My DD will be in bed by 7:30 so that's when the lights in the front of the house go off on trick and treat night. Last couple of years I've done this no one has bothered to ring my bell even though they ring next door's. Hope it works tonight too.

We take the batteries out of our doorbell as DS2 is afraid of it.

What fecking part of- 'no trick or treat here please, disabled child scared of noise/doorknocking/dressed up people/please move on' -do you not understand?

or the fact that driveway gate is double bolted, no lights on, no pumpkins, nothing here yet they STILL open gate and knock and shout ad scream, hearing MY ds screaming head off in fright and me having to end up shouting at them 'cant you read?'

and this is AFTER car being pelted with eggs.

ffs.

BurlyShassy just had exactly same here. DS2 has LF autism. I hate frigging Halloween.

I have a poster up. Still had 3 people ring the doorbell - obviously they can't read the poster right infront of their nose!

Same here sirzy!

that's what mine has still the poor things tonight.

hate haloween. if you want to 'do' it, up to you, but
1- LEARN TO READ SIGNS'
and 2-think of disabled (especially those with MH) and the elderly etc.

and same with nov 5th. oh joy!

I have a poster up and I don't think they can miss it.

Oh dear. I didn't realise about the pumpkin protocol.

We put one out for the first time this year and have had loads of knocking. We only put it out as it was a gift from neighbours and it seemed rude not to. We've been ignoring it as trying to get 2year old to bed.

I don't really like trick or treating but would probably have put some sweets out if id had time to sort it but have just done two 12 hour work days on the trot and didnt think and am shattered. I just want to hunker down with DP once ds is in bed but because of my pumpkin ignorance there will be lots of knocking. [Tired and grumpy].

I've just sticky taped a sign over my doorbell saying 'Shhhhh baby asleep. Please don't ring'. Who's betting the buggers will knock instead.

It's not the doorbell that will wake the baby up it's the dog going flipping mental at people dressed up as zombies.

Totally reasonable. Don't decorate and leave the porch light off. That should be enough for any sensible person to leave you alone.

Of course YANBU - and you don't need to justify it to anyone.
It's pretty normal to not want strangers banging on your door demanding "treats" and threatening you if you don't come up with the goods, IMVHO, regardless of having little ones going to bed, or not.

If YABU then I ABU too. I have a friendly sign up wishing a happy Halloween but asking them not to ring the bell as we have a small sleeping baby, and to help themselves to sweets from the bowl on the step. We've had a few turn up but very sweetly they have whispered and tiptoed on our drive once they saw our sign

I've left the front door open, so the dog has the run of the garden no trick or treaters here!

FFS! cant relax at the best of times due to DCs needs, but im phoning 101 now.

bloody yobs (with masks on of course so they cant be identified) thrown what looks like shit on door and car AND broken wing mirror on car.

Im on my own with DC, no beefy guy to chase them. even taken sign don as they don't take note of it,.

but jumping at every sound now, DC having kittens.

don't know what 101 can do but they might send patrols out as yobsll prob do it to others.

bloody HATE this night.

Anyone who wants more please feel free to come and man my house this year. Gave out all 120 chocolate bars, then put lights out in pumpkins and outside, tried to put dd to bed while hammering on the door continued.

Then put sign out which they didn't bother to read until after knocking

I meant next year, obviously!

The kids know round here not to knock and their parents point out the doors to knock on.
Nobody lets under 11s out round here on their own and older than this don't do t&t.

We've been out. Only knocked on the doors of decorated houses. Taught ds (6) to say happy Halloween instead of trick or treat.

I don't understand why we can't just have a rule to only knock on houses that are decorated.

Coldwater

Oh no Burly that's awful! How dare they?! and (((hugs))) to you.