to really hate the idea of trick or treating and wonder why the fuck it's become a 'thing'?

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I find trick or treating really quite anti-social. Why is it acceptable to be rocking up at someone's house on a dark evening basically begging for food? You don't know who lives there or what the effect of you knocking might be. For example, an elderly or disabled person who can't get to the door easily or someone who, for whatever reason, feels vulnerable in their own home.

Perhaps it's just because an anti-social cowbag and I hate people knocking on my door that I'm not expecting, especially at night.

And I also wonder how recently this has become a 'thing' that loads and loads of people do? When I was younger, I'm 25, no-one went trick or treating but over the last few years I've noticed my friends who are parents and family doing it as a matter of routine and I just wonder when that happened?

Is this just me being an anti-social bastard?

BTW, no children and never answer my door after dark whether its Halloween or not.

She called kids who threw eggs and dogshit at her house 'cunts', not innocent trick or treating children.

If you are talking about the OP, she called the people who knocked on her door cunts. i.e. trick or treating children.

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But as I said, just call her on it, as other posters did

Yes none of which OP has acknowledged.

That still doesn't excuse, in my opinion, bringing up posts made in different threads on unrelated issues. There's something very 'nasty schoolgirl' about that kind of thing.

If you are talking about the OP, she called the people who knocked on her door cunts. i.e. trick or treating children.

I called people who knocked on my door cunts too. They weren't children, they were adults, they egged my house and the following year threw lit fireworks at my front door and open bedroom window when I was in bed recovering from spinal surgery.

Not everyone who knocks on doors trick or treating are innocent, little children. They might be in your experience but that's not the same for everyone. I'm prepared to give the OP the benefit of the doubt.

TBF the OP did ask if it was just them being an anti social bastard.

And as lots of people have said Fairy your average child out trick or treating will not be egging houses or throwing lit fireworks! Thats not trick or treating, thats anti-social behaviour. Talk about tarring everyone with the same brush.

I suppose there's separate issues here:

Children going out early in the evening, knocking on doors of neighbours who have given a signal that this is okay, and politely accepting sweets and treats while dressing up as their 'side' of the deal;

Children being driven in big groups to nearby roads and estates where they know no one and are simply maximising their 'haul'; knocking at doors where there are no decorations or where lights have been switched off; and hassling people who don't want to answer the door.

Teenage thugs using Hallowe'en as an excuse to indulge in anti-social behaviour including intimidating elderly people and vandalising property.

Only the first type of behaviour is acceptable in my view, the latter two groups can give some people an extremely jaundiced view of the whole trick or treat tradition.

I meant cunts as the trick or treaters who knock up my door despite the fact I have no decorations up. Clearly most MNers go by this 'rule'.
Small dressed up children meandering around to decorated houses obviously doesn't bother me in the slightest. I mean, literally doesn't bother me as they don't knock my door.

What does bother me is people cunts who knock at my door expecting sweets when I have no decorations up. These people, usually older children and dumb fuck parents, are indeed cunts.

Christ you're tedious.

Pfft, I'm 48 and used to go trick or treating. And it's a huge thing here in the arse end middle of nowhere. Virtually every small, and not so small child out last year, and I think we did a good £30 of sweets.

It was lovely, they all really appreciated the decorations, and they all looked very happy and thoroughly over excited. It's actually a very ancient tradition, dates back to the Celts, but died down during the WWs.

And you really are starting to sound vile. It's ONE NIGHT. Just don't answer the door ffs. Christ, it's not going to kill you, someone knocking on your door.

Honestly, what a ridiculous overreaction to a celebration. Life's tough enough as it is, let people find joy and happiness where they can, and grow up a little.

I'm not tarring anyone with the same brush, I was explaining why I called the people who knocked on my door cunts.

Yet poster after poster is saying they only knock on doors where there are decorations, or lights, or pumpkins. But when other people say we don't take part in Trick or Treat, yet still get our doors knocked on all bloody evening, we're accused of being miserable. So it's ok to tar us all with the same brush, hey?

But it's one night, not an ongoing thing. One night, of happy for small people, one night of annoyance for you.

Or, you could do something really radical, and join in. You might even enjoy it, there's nothing like making small children happy imo.

Calling little kids who trick or treat cunts, what the fuck is wrong with you? Couldn't you go out for the evening, maybe find yourself a miserable bastard meeting somewhere?

I don't want to fucking join in because it will hurt me! How hard is it to understand that some of us have valid reasons why we don't join in? Bully for you that you can keep getting in and out of your chair and go to the door every 2 minutes without pain, but I can't. Most days I can't get out of bed. Why can't people see that mine, and other houses, don't have have decorations and a pumpkin and be respectful and not knock on the door?

I don't like it Op. In England, when I was growing up, there was no such thing. I'd never heard of Scottish 'guising' and first heard of it thru American films.
I'm trying hard to push thru my natural antipathy as fir DD who's 9, trick or treating is a part of her life. I might take her out to do it thus weekend tho no part one would enjoy it

I make the SmallDragons go and answer the door.

Wow, you think kids are cunts? You sounds really miserable IMO. My kids are grown up, so don't do it anymore, but I would be happy to see the kids in their outfits. But I moved to a new area 2.5 years ago and the kids don't come down as far as our house . The first Halloween here, I had a huge plate of treats ready and no one came. It's sad you're so grumpy at 25 years old.

Couldn't you go out for the evening, maybe find yourself a miserable bastard meeting somewhere?

Exactly TheFairy. I'm not disabled but I don't put up decorations because I don't want my door knocked for other reasons. People who knock the door regardless of this are cunts.

I'm trying out the sign this year but I don't really see why I should have to put a sign up asking people not to disturb my evening, surely this should just be normal.

FFs, stop calling children cunts. It just makes you sound like a cunt.

I make the SmallDragons go and answer the door.

My kids are 18&20, ones in the army, the other is at uni. As it's a Saturday this year DH will be on call for his Community First Responder duty. So it's down to me, and the door will be staying closed!

I missed that Fairy, sorry.

Do your neighbours not know that? Would it help to talk to them, and explain why you can't join in? Tell them, and ask them to explain to the trick or treaters why they mustn't knock.

I'm also 25 and went trick or treating 15 years ago.

My mum hated it and said that it was distasteful to "go out begging" but we did it. I live in a flat on a cul-de-sac with very few children nearby so nobody has buzzed us on Halloween in all the years we've lived there so I don't buy in sweets or put up decorations anymore.