To let me 4 year old trick or treat tonight?

[Pattinson3]

First time leading the trick or treating as a parent. Thought as a child we always went out the weekend before Halloween night as such as there was always Halloween parties etc taking place! Have started to wonder if doing it tonight is not acceptable? Don't want it to be a let down for my DD/annoy people.

It’s not Halloween yet - you do realise this right?

Kids wont be sitting inside my pumpkins so no bloody fire risk there either. Seriously?
Claudia Winkleman's daughter wasn't sitting inside a pumpkin either, but that didn't stop her costume brushing against a naked flame and going up like a Roman candle.

Samhain Halloween' was a Scottish and Irish tradition for hundreds of years Before it went to USA.
I don't suppose that during those centuries, hoards of people went round the local houses begging for Haribo though, did they?

No! We haven't bought sweets yet. Your poor child will be so disappointed.

‘Dramatic much’

You’re being dramatic by trick or treating tonight. Your poor child will be so disappointed. No one is out trick or treating tonight - just you.

Only 31st here. It doesn’t matter what day of the week it falls on but only actual Halloween is for trick or treating. Sometimes do get a knock in the days before from some chancer teens but I usually throw them a packet of crisps and tell them to come back on the 31st.

All the posters calling trick or treating begging are miserable and dramatic ffs. Get a grip

No, trick or treating is on Halloween (nobody has treats yet!)

@puzzledlady not sure how it is being "dramatic" to ask whether or not it's a thing to trick or treat tonight when I have been out of the TOT circuit for 20 something years! Obviously adults etc dress up tonight and go out not on Wednesday itself so I was asking so as not to disappoint my "poor" child.

Have found peoples reactions calling it insane and patronising me quite insulting...the begging comparisons equally dramatic.

Obviously I know not to seek advice again from mostly uptight keyboard warriors. People who were kind or who just answered the question instead of asking me would i do Christmas on the 22nd etc etc- Thanks again

Claudia Winkleman's daughter wasn't sitting inside a pumpkin either, but that didn't stop her costume brushing against a naked flame and going up like a Roman candle.

I dont have any naked flames near the kids so that has never been a problem.

Don't suppose that during those centuries, hoards of people went round the local houses begging for Haribo though, did they?

Google the origins yourself. If you.are going to slag of someones cultural heritage at least know wtf you.are talking about.

Guising has been done for centuries btw.

Oh and mentioning the sweets which are of this time not 100s of years ago is ridiculous.

In a cpuple of the towns arpund us they do halloween on tje friday before halloween night every year, always have. Our town does it on Halloween night. Just d3pends where you live I think.

Willow2017 Are you really so stupid as to think that because you don't have naked flames at your house, the houses your kids visit won't?

And "slagging off someone's culture?" Really?
Try harder.

Are you really so stupid as to think that because you don't have naked flames at your house, the houses your kids visit won't?

You would generally be able to see them as you walked up their drive/path though wouldn’t you? I only took my DC to the neighbours we know well but we avoided the house where I could see candles on the path (DC are little and I can’t trust them not to trip/stumble!)

Nope but in all the years my kids have gone guising i have never seen a naked flame anywhere.
Just my experience.

My dp com3s from one of the towns that does it on the Friday, he says that's because the last Friday of the month was pay day for a lot of people years ago and I still is I suppose so people had money to go buy sweets. Wether that's try or not I've no idea 😂. People have been a bit dramatic on here haven't they.

Oh ffs, is this Hallowe'en shit

It's not even a British tradition

^
Sounds pretty insulting and ignorant to me.

Where I live people put out beautiful fall and Halloween decor starting the first of the month. But no trick or treating till the 31st

Guising isn't just being given sweets by neighbours whose doors you've chapped on. In order to get those sweets (and when I was wee we also got monkey nuts and pennies as well as whatever penny sweets were in the shop) you had to do a turn. Some jokes, a song or dance or poem, no turn no sweets.

And it is part of the culture for a large part of the UK. To dismiss it as an American import and rubbish it as part of the culture is ignorant and insulting.

Wednesday only it's a lovely experience if you are in an area where families take part.

What percentage of the adult British population went out trick or treating as a regular thing when they were kids?

@Hadenoughofallthis very common to guise in Scotland. I don't know anyone that didn't tbh

@Huntlybyelection :) we used to practice our bit in the week running up to Halloween.

Hadenough

Most of Scotland.
Large chunks of England.
Most of Ireland

Britain isnt just 'the south'.

Just because you have no experience doesnt meam it doesnt happen.
Those that share this culture get fed up having to explain ourselves every year.

There is the same level of ignorance every year at halloween. Do some research.

Willow, You have no idea where I live, so stop with the chippy "Britain isn't just the south" nonsense.

Well stop insisting you know it all.

Stop being sarcastic about other peoples cultural heritage you obviously know nothing about.