Will people be trick or treating this year?

[LadyFidgetAndHerHandbag]

I'm not a parent so I don't know what people are planning for this year. I love it when the trick or treaters knock on the door and enjoy pumpkin carving and making something spooky for my front window. I'll still do a display but I don't know whether to get some Halloween sweets in or not. We live in a tier 1 area but I realise people will still be anxious about mixing. I also realise this question anticipates some psychic ability but parents of MN what are your chances of going trick or treating?

We’re doing window displays and will dish our own treats out to our kids as we go around spotting them. Think most neighbours are planning to do the same

No i wont be answering the door. Dreading parents knocking with little ones they will be so disappointed.

Nope. I have a small stash of sweets ready but I won't be encouraging kids to knock by doing a display this year.

Possibly, but there are a lot of elderly people in my road so I don't see many people wanting to answer the door. But we don't get many even in non covid times. A shame because I like seeing the little ones in their costumes 😕

Urgh I see it now, updated a couple of hours ago?

I seriously don't see how it's risky picking up a bag of sweets from outside someone's house

I think the trend is pumpkin trails so get dressed up and go for a wander but no door knocking. A sweet given by parents for each pumpkin spotted. So yes we’ll have decorations but not expecting any knocks.
We’re doing a Halloween party on Zoom too.

"Under the current restrictions it is not possible to meet up indoors or in large groups outdoors, so the safest thing to do this year is to stay at home," he said.

"I know guising is a big part of Halloween and children will be sad to miss out, but as door-to-door guising brings an additional and avoidable risk of spreading the virus, our clear advice for families is to avoid it."

We're not trick or treating and I'm going to put a box of individually wrapped candy outside

Clearly a bad idea at the moment, luckily where we are most people are doing a pumpkin trail instead.

For those who stupidly say 'it's no different to a food delivery' the difference is about essential vs non-essential.

I seriously don't see how it's risky picking up a bag of sweets from outside someone's house

It's encouraging people to mix, touch, all the things we're being asked not to do. You can set out with all good intentions, but when you bump into friends and they're comparing their sweets etc, it goes out the window.

We're sending gift bags to our neighbours children, then pretending not to be home.

No way.

Instead I've found a local theatre group who're doing a socially distanced performance of little red riding hood in the woods, very excited!!

I'm gutted as I usually love answering the door to trick or treaters but I won't be. I will leave a bucket of sweets on the doorstep for them though for the taking.

The kids will be doing track & trace not trick or treat

The people who say 'I seriously don't understand why it's risky' are right, they seriously don't understand. Whether because they can't or won't I don't know, but there is clearly a problem with their ability to understand.

If they understand but don't care, that's a different matter, at least is a defensible position.

@ChaChaCha2012 children under 12 here don't have to socially distance though so in theory it shouldn't matter if they bump into each other (obviously for older children that doesn't apply).
It's frustrating that a lot of the rules make no bloody sense to me anymore and it's yet another thing that I have to tell my 4yo he isn't allowed to do. It's the first year he's asked to as well and the first year he's asked to wear a costume.
It's not the end of the world but it's another proverbial straw.

No fucking way.

We've decorated the house and I've got some sweets but they're for the neighbours (we can drop SD) but the door will be shut.

No not this year 🎃

@PracticingPerson so you never get anything delivered to your house that isn't strictly essential? I remember someone on here in April claiming milk and toilet roll aren't essential.

Look I've been following the rules, it's just frustrating when the rules make no sense.
Why can 6 people from 2 households meet at the park but not walk round a street together and pick something up from outside a house.

I'll put out our existing decorations, but just inside, where you can't see them from the street, I won't be encouraging kids to knock, but I have a few individual packs of sweets if any do.

We'll be watching films & they'll be eating eyeballs & stuff. 👁

I wish our village was doing the 🎃 poster trail

I won't be outting up decorations so people don't think I am up for trick or treating. I am not this year.

@surprisebabyshower

I think if you're not going to answer the door then it's best not to put any decorations up

I put my Halloween decorations up last weekend to cheer up my dc. I won't be opening the doors to trick or treaters as I tested positive on Thursday, my decorations will still be up though.

For those who stupidly say 'it's no different to a food delivery' the difference is about essential vs non-essential.

And the fact that it's 1 driver. Not 60 kids.

I would assume this year that if people have decorated it’s for their own enjoyment not as an invitation to trick or treaters.

Pretty much all the kids on my estate go to the one school, which is also part of the estate.
The school PTA has got together with a local estate agents. They have put up halloween trail signs at each house taking part. The houses also display a number on a pumpkin. The children taking part are given a map. They then note down the numbers on the houses they have seen. Then they hand the map in and get a bag of sweets.
It's lasting all week and the estate agents is getting loads of advertising with all their boards up.
It's a shame not to be doing it properly but I love that something has been organised.

I would assume this year that if people have decorated it’s for their own enjoyment not as an invitation to trick or treaters.

Then decorate inside??

[quote surprisebabyshower]@PracticingPerson so you never get anything delivered to your house that isn't strictly essential? I remember someone on here in April claiming milk and toilet roll aren't essential.

Look I've been following the rules, it's just frustrating when the rules make no sense.
Why can 6 people from 2 households meet at the park but not walk round a street together and pick something up from outside a house.

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I never get lots of random.children delivering or collecting things, no