House egged at Halloween?

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Anyone faced repercussions for not handing out sweets/candy to un-costumed teens on Halloween? Planning to spend whole evening out this year. That might piss them off too, though!

we print a poster out to go on the door saying enjoy your evening but no trick or treat here please, and have never had any issues, (you can sometimes get copies in our local paper or from the library)as it happend we don't celebrate Halloween, but I also know some older people who are not comfortable opening the door to strangers when it is dark.

I hate Halloween. I loathe being disturbed in the evening by children at teenagers begging for sweets. On any other night of the year parents wouldn't be encouraging their kids to accept sweets etc from strangers.

Thanks @Normandy144 - we also have a couple of skeletons 'emerging' from the ground next to a tombstone. I'm ridiculously excited and now I'm stealing the idea of speakers in the garage, thank you! 😁

They do it round here anyway.
Nobody knocks and front of house in darkness.
We lock our letterbox and ready to clean the windows the next day.
Haven't upset anybody, kids just do it.
I'm so lucky my lot are passed this now, used to enjoy it when they were younger.

@quizzlybear you're welcome. I'm thinking I may have to decorate on the weekend prior so we can get it all set up in time!

I love Halloween, I don't mind opening the door but I stop about 8. My own kids go trick or treating but we only knock at decorated houses. I've never been egged but when I lived in a rough area last year some of the houses got egged on mischief night. It was actually the parents supplying the eggs, flour and silly string. They were young kids, aged about 9 or 10, not teenagers.

I think it depends how chavvy your area is. If it looks like one of those 60s council estates, it's probably worth following social convention to avoid the drama even if lots of people have bought around there.

I love halloween but I hate that this comes with it and older kids ruin it. We have a group of arsehole teenagers by mine that regularly cause this type of trouble regardless of halloween. They knock on your door not dressed up demanding sweets after decs are in/lights off, then gob off when you don't give them something.

It's a nice quiet area generally. I live in a 1700s stone-built house in a small village. No estates around. I think Halloween brings out the cray

Maybe the wilder teens travel in so they don't get associated with the trouble, I am not sure.

We surprisingly haven’t had any trick or treaters in the 3 years we have lived here.

I grew up in a small village and at Halloween we would dress up and go round houses giving out sweets as my parents believed (as I do now) that asking for sweets is rude. But invariably those who answered the door would still have treats to give us in return. It was a really lovely way of doing it and I will do this with my son when he’s old enough.

Me and the DC used to enjoy being creative and carving pumpkins to put outside. We'd hand out sweets to whoever knocked. Then, one year, we didn't hear the door on one occasion and when we went out next, one of the pumpkins had been destroyed and turned upside down on the bonnet of my husband's car. DH is a bit anal with his cars, if there's so much as a speck of dirt he's out there cleaning it, so you can imagine my horror to find the pumpkin like this. Since then I haven't bothered. Also got fed up of older teens knocking and then taking huge handfuls of sweets, so now I'm just a misery guts. No decorations, turn out the lights and pretend I'm out.

That just would not happen here. People trick or treat houses that are decorated. We go over the top, as we love it. They just don't know on the doors of houses that are not decorated.

Knock*

How can they afford the eggs?! They're so dear these days

I think they should make a new law of kinds that only houses with decorations/a pumpkin in the window or by the door should be approached by trick or treaters. It causes a lot of unnecessary stress every year for many people so that seems like a simple resolution imo.

I have had my house egged before but not because I didn’t answer the door, it was on ‘mischievous night’ . Transpires egg is really difficult to remove once it has frozen to the window as it did that year.

My pumpkin

Our village has a rule (noted each October in the village newsletter) that no pumpkin outside of house means occupants aren’t participating in trick-or-treat. Houses that participate but folks aren’t at home (or pretend not to be) have pumpkin/light + basket of sweeties outside for kids to help themselves. Generally works quite well.

I hate it. We do not have decorations out and turn outside light off as well but they still knock.
I’m afraid the parents get a bit of a mouthful about Halloween etiquette. (I call them down the drive and have a go at them at the front door especially!) We have vulnerable people living a few doors down from us who also follow our example and it isn’t fair. I think people actually drive to our estate though as there are often lots of decorated houses. But until a significant minority follow the rules then I’m going to be a
Scrooge..

Nobody can be arsed coming round our area. Every year we buy sweets and every year I eat them all.

We had lit fireworks pushed through the letterbox one year!

We now tape up the letterbox and turn off all the lights.

I think that the general rule is if you put out decorations you should be in and ready to hand out sweets. If there's no decorations and the lights are off you should be deemed to be out. No idea if criminals stick to these rules though

Never had problems at Halloween. Mischief night used to be terrible but seems to be calming down now. Was egged on mischief night every year for ages, until the local shop, who sold the eggs got egged as well. So they stopped selling them the night before. That seemed to help a bit.

I love everything about halloween except trick or treating. Inside of house is decorated; I'd love to do outside but don't because of trick or treaters.

No. Round here you decorate if you want trick or treaters and if you dont, you are left alone.

I don't answer the door on Halloween, I feel it should be actively discouraged, it is demanding money with menaces.