Would I be a cf to ask !

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Daughter age 4 is very excited about Halloween as first year she really understands it.
She has picked her costume and telling everyone about it.

Found out this morning her surgery admission date is Halloween 🙈

We live on a busy road but not really a family road, mainly shared houses of students and then some houses with lone couples so about 3 kids including 2 at mine on the whole road.

Would it be cheeky to knock on a few of the doors to ask if they didn't mind her coming and knocking a day early ( I could even provide the sweets )

Or would this be rude 🙈

Have a low key Halloween tea at home and ask a few of her besties?

I would happily help out with this (with a few days notice for me to organise myself and ensure I had sweets to give)

I would skip the trick or treating, but maybe let her wear the costume and get people to turn up to the hospital with sweets to put in a special collection bag. (You can give them to the nurses to give her if necessary!)

I would by-pass the trick or treating totally and just have bobbing for apples and nice tea and cakes at home instead.

It's a bit odd to go around the houses of people you don't know and ask them to partake, i'd be too embarrassed not to say yes and then would feel obliged to stay in all day and look cheerful.

I'd be happy to do it and I wouldn't think you where a cf for asking x

I'd do this if I was your neighbour.

mishappening no it is absolutely not.

It’s origins are most likely Celtic and a form of harvest festival. The only ‘death’ associations are Christian as it is the night before All Hallows’ day - a day to remember saints, martyrs and the departed faithful.

Hardly ‘revolting’ is it.

OP I cannot imagine what kind of person could find it cheeky and annoying to open their door to a four year old girl on the eve of her admission for surgery to hand over a sweet with a smile. shame on anyone who has so lost touch with their humanity.

call ahead to those neighbours that you know. it will annoy some people and they may not be ready yet

Aww I'd happily answer my door to an early trick or treater like this. And I'm a grumpy bastard

I would help if asked. What a thoughtful idea.

Go out this weekend to local national trust or farm park doing a hallowweeen trail she can dress up or somw garden centres

Call the children's ward at the hospital ask if they doing a thing

Oh we did this few years ago! I made a little label with a short explanation on one side and a sticker on the other with a little sandwich bag with sweets in, then just said if you're happy to take part please just pop the label on your door handle/knocker, that way we knew who to knock on without knocking on every door.all but two houses did it, one was away and came round a week later with some sweets and waited while DS dug out his costume. We also put sealed sweets in a pumpkin outside with a note saying we're not in but please take one.

What Soc said.

(I popped the label and sweets through doors)

Anyone who would refuse to perform this small kindness to a 4 year old child who is about to have surgery is a monster!
Hope the surgery goes well and you get plenty of helpers with your trick or treating OP

You'd have to have a heart of stone to find this annoying.

Best of luck to your little girl.

If you explained this to me then I definitely wouldn't mind.

Aaw, its fine to ask, some people will play along because of the circumstances. Good luck for her surgery

Definitely ask! I'd be more than happy to oblige if I was your neighbour. I hope the surgery goes well.

Of course you can do this. But I also second the idea of going to a halloween event at the weekend.

I don't answer the door to trick or treaters bit if you knocked and explained I'd happily make an exception for your dd a day early. I think most people would feel the same.

If you are in a TW postcode, you would be very welcome to call at our door.

I love Hallow'een, love people calling, always put a pumpkin in our window and often get missed out because typically people around us seem to go out in groups and only visit each others houses. We have some gimmicks, including a scary creaking noise as the door opens which tends to make our very few visitors giggle.

Ahardman, I'm typing this through tear-filled eyes at your post. That's lovely!

OP, I don't think this is CF territory at all, as long as you're not offended by people who don't want to participate. We don't have many trick-or-treaters round where we live either, and I was always happy about that because I don't really like TorT; but one year we were invited round to a friends where the estate they live on really goes for it. We only knocked on doors with pumpkins, but there were plenty and it was all really good natured.

I think you'll be fine as your DD is only little, but in future years, I recommend finding a friend who lives somewhere where people do go in for it and joining them. Or (as suggested above) hosting a party.

Good luck for the surgery

Thankyou maybe I will give it a shot !! If they say no they say no ( I know the ward doesn't do anything we spent the last 3 Halloween she there )