To think driving to roads where there's good trick or treating is a bit wrong

[sahknowme]

We live in an area that puts a lot of effort into trick or treating (assumingly for the "local" kids). There's recently been a thread on a forum asking for streets/routes that are good to drive to for their kids to trick or treat, and our street has been mentioned.

AIBU to think this is a bit wrong/grabby, and we are doing it for our local area - not for randoms to drive from all over town?!

Sorry - should have said scary

Sticky Haribo fingers!

I had two cars park outside my house earlier and decoach in costume. Am wondering whether MN would encourage me to draw a diagram and clamp the CFs.

For the record, I would like it noted I threw my door open and forced sweets upon the DCs

Just had some kids trick or treating let themselves in my house. I took a while answering the door as was upstairs and by the time I got down they'd opened the door and were walking in!

If you recognise the children as being local, then they get a handful of sweets, if you know they aren't local, then they don't get as many. That's how I work it.

out for my morning walk; corner neighbor said she had 250 kids stop in last year and new neighbors on the street are out in full force building a haunted walkway for kids to go through....I only have enough for 120...worried :(

I was in bed when it began, not feeling too well. Lights off, no pumpkins or any indication that free stuff is available.

Door bell started ringing, and yelling outside. After the 4th ring I turned the bell off as the little ones have gone and now and the voices are louder and older and only boys, no parents or girls.

The ones I saw from the window weren't even dressed up. Looks as if they have been bussed in again this year.

Kids from next door always get chance of an extra grab of goodies, apart from that who cares if they are local or not?

If house is decorated for Halloween and dressed up kids knock on your door are you really going to ask them what their postcard is before you give them some sweets?

Depends where you live really. If you live in a busy area with lots of main roads you’re probably not going to get the same trick or treat experience as a quieter residential area.

We had lots of trick or treaters tonight and when I opened the door I could see lots of kids out and about with their parents.

Other way round here. We live in the naice part, which is full of old folk and boring, so we walk five mins to an estate which is much more lively.

Wondering I'm morally corrupt for taking sweets off people who are (theoretically) worse off than me?

We have had vans arrive at the top of our street and scores of children and adults get out. A lot of people in our estate have stopped giving out sweets because of this.

I’ve just come back from taking the kids to the nearest big town for trick and treating. Given that I live in a row of three houses at the side of a major 60mph A road with no pavement and no other settlement for approx 3 miles either way.... we didn’t really have a choice but to go somewhere else!

I live in the US and we get loads of non-local kids (some are actually young adults who don’t wear costumes) arriving in large vans; the driver usually stays in the van and watches the kids calling at the doors.

I don’t mind at all as our town is considered ‘naice’. These kids come from a ghetto area 10 miles away where every night there is a shooting and the parents are probably unable to afford to buy lots of candy to give to trick-or-treaters.

I read through 6 pages but can't concentrate as after reading Sonyas post all I can see is a 6 year old going away sadly with his 'you're not good enough for us' monkey nuts while seeing others given the good candy. Some people.

Somebody is definitely monkey-ing around on this thread.

We live on the good trick or treat estate , we had so many kids this eve I ran out of treats. It's drives me nut when kids come from equally popular estates come her in their droves . We do our own estate then that it!!!
I would never do what Sonya does and turn children away , that's terrible!!

We go back to our old area to ToT then have halloween tea at my friends mums house who lives on oyr old street. I had no idea that this was frowned upon.

"as long as the weather isn’t too bad most people don’t actually close their doors."

But then how can you open the door and pretend to be scared of the tiny zombies?

Anyone else noticed fewer houses were decorated this year? Not fewer t or t ers - we had loads - but a quick peek out of the front door suggested a much lower ratio of pumpkins to non-pumpkins this year. Maybe just demography - quite a few people seem to stop decorating once their dc are too old to t or t. Understandable enough. I'm carrying on regardless - I have come to love it. Didn't recognise most of the t or ters and their parents, but that's both usual and fine here.

We previously lived in a quiet dark area and drove the kids to an area known for decorated houses and the odd fabled full size chocolate bar being handed out. The people who lived there knew the kids were not all local and thankfully didn't make my kids feel like shit by handing them the second class excuse for a treat.

Now we live in a busy area for ToT and I love it. We knew it was a ToT street when we moved. We decorate the house, buy tons of sweets and when they run out just put a sign on the door saying it's all gone. The local kids know everything goes early and it's nice for other kids to have somewhere to go. I've encountered some grabby CFs but that's a tiny minority - and not linked to whether they are from the council flats FFS!

The most shocking thing about Sonya's post is they're not even going out of their way to hide it. I could sort of but not really see it if it was a secret sign or something to make sure the local kids didn't miss out but to be so blatant towards the other kids so they won't come back next year is really fucking low.

Of course it is wrong and teaching a bad lesson to children.

Not that anyone should in my view engage in this US tradition.

sigh Hallowe'en comes from Scotland.

There's a Scottish Hallowe'en thread where we are all sighing with happy nostalgia about monkey nuts.

Sonya your tactics wouldn't work on us! They'd make us happy as pigs in shit.

Even if it were a US tradition why would that itself mean it's something we don't want to adopt?

Christmas trees from Germany?

Father Christmas from wherever St Nicholas hails from? (I know they're different)

I can in fact see the objections to halloween - but not why the fact that it's a us custom should be one of them.

I read this thread before this evenings festivities, and it has changed my view a little bit. We've only lived here a couple of months so never done Halloween here before. We live in a fairly quiet estate, but with quite a lot of young families who like to decorate their houses.
But tonight the estate was absolutely nuts. Literally hundreds of people out on the streets, and so many cars driving in and trying to park up that the main street was completely gridlocked for about 10 minutes. Many older kids hadn't even bothered to dress up and were just going house to house as fast as possible filling enormous bags of sweets.
I hadn't anticipated the sheer craziness of it and ran out of sweets pretty quickly, so when the kids we knew knocked I had none left for them, which is a bit sad.

We live in a good trick or treat estate now, everyone decorates and buys sweets. I couldn't care less where the kids who knock have come from, we just give the sweets out. We used to live on a street with a much older population who didn't used to bother with Halloween so we drove to my sisters instead which had more houses taking part. I don't see the problem.

If I put a pumpkin outside I’ll give sweets to any callers. No pumpkin and no sweets this year, no callers