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I live in a Tier 3 zone - and idiots are trick or treating!

123 replies

PhlegmyHead · 31/10/2020 17:15

What on Earth are people thinking?!
We've got neighbours either answering doors, we've got other neighbours leaving tubs of sweets on doorsteps - huge, HUGE bunches of people (ie. different households) grouping together walking up and down the street and up and down people's drives, absolutely no social distancing at all.

I hate lockdown as much as the next person, but its shit like this that is why we're facing increased deaths and harsher measures.

OP posts:
Glenthebattleostrich · 31/10/2020 21:25

Same twats who were out virtue signalling during the first lockdown are having a fireworks party with 18 people in the street here. Including a police officer.

Crispsginchoc · 31/10/2020 21:29

Tier 3 village. No trick or treaters here. We nipped to Morrison’s at 5pm, before the announcement. Pretty quiet, apart from the booze aisles Gin Some staff had masks below their noses and one told us she hoped to be off to the canaries tomorrow. Saw a family with two kids dressed up on the way back but that was it. Although not much between our village and Morrison’s apart from fields and a few houses/cottages/farmhouses.

GoldenPoppy · 31/10/2020 21:37

Pumpkin trail here, and quite a lot of decorated houses, saw a few sweet bags tied to trees or lollipops in pumpkins at the end of drives. Some children dressed up but no actual door knocking. All seemed quite organised and safe.
Tier 3

Welshwabbit · 31/10/2020 21:56

I know the thread title is about tier 3, but here is nothing to prevent anyone trick or treating in Tier 1 or 2 areas. This is one of literally 100s of articles making that point www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/trick-or-treating-tier-3-19193057.amp

We had a street organised trick or treat here. People sorted sweets and put them in bags at the doorstep (quarantined for days!) or handed them over using implements so you could socially distance. A few hadn't sorted that so kids took from the tub (wrapped sweets). I can't honestly see that as significantly worse than going to the supermarket. But then I'm maybe a bit jaundiced because I've just spent a whole week travelling back and forth on a train to court for work, with tens of teenage boys merrily coughing away with masks under their chins. So perhaps I've got a slightly different perspective on whether a few kids picking up sweets in a socially distanced way is the real problem here.

ZombieAttack · 31/10/2020 22:13

Tier 3 here. We went on the pumpkin trail, some houses had sweets outside. Wasn’t busy, no door knocking. The DC saw some of their friends from school, they had a lovely time. It was well organised and felt safe.

Welshwabbit · 31/10/2020 22:17

Sorry, should have said I'm in tier 2.

AriettyHomily · 31/10/2020 22:25

Pumpkin search here, not a knock at all. T2

Weebitawks · 31/10/2020 22:41

We live on a small estate. People have decorated and some houses have left treats and hand sanitisers outside. I left a few Lollies in a pumpkin so no grubby little hands rifling through (washed and sanitised my hands before handling). I took DC on a pumpkin hunt so had a bag of sweets on me to give to give them one when they spotted a decorated house. I did let them take sweets from outside houses after sanitising their hands and made them pick the top one.

We didn't knock on anyone's door and I'm comfortable with how we managed the risks. Tbh people were more careful than they are in the supermarket, touching everything and putting it back on the shelf.

NRatched · 31/10/2020 23:58

We have had none tonight, but thats not unusual. Since we moved here over 10 years ago, we have only ever had 3 knocks for halloween. Not including my own kids who will knock here for their last door.

School apparently were encouraging the pumpkin hunt thing too, which is a creative compromise I think. Mine were satisifed watching casper in sleeping bags and eating shite though.

why2020 · 31/10/2020 23:59

Someone on my street is having a house party Angry

why2020 · 01/11/2020 00:00

Tier 1

HotToCold · 01/11/2020 00:01

People like them why we are going into another lockdown

ClaireP20 · 01/11/2020 00:05

They're idiots OP. We played indoor trick or treating and watched a scary movie...with firm instructions that no one could open the front door!! X I have to say though that NO-ONE knocked (tier 2)

lioncitygirl · 01/11/2020 00:05

We did a spot the pumpkin trail and eveytime they did - we gave them a sweet.

ClaireP20 · 01/11/2020 00:08

@NRatched

We have had none tonight, but thats not unusual. Since we moved here over 10 years ago, we have only ever had 3 knocks for halloween. Not including my own kids who will knock here for their last door.

School apparently were encouraging the pumpkin hunt thing too, which is a creative compromise I think. Mine were satisifed watching casper in sleeping bags and eating shite though.

Do you put out a pumpkin? (Not this year obvsl? I only ask because I didn't realise till 2 years ago that kids only knock, round here, if you have a lit pumpkin! How was I meant to know that....
ClaireP20 · 01/11/2020 00:11

@berryfull

We’ve decorated our local park and sent the all kids out to play in it in the dark in their costumes with torches. Hung apples on strings from the monkey bars, hid wrapped sweets on all the climbing frames/ platforms/benches/swings and left them to get on with it. (Well obviously keeping an eye on them from a distance). They had a ball.
Where so you live? I'm going to move there! You'd never get that here in east london...
NRatched · 01/11/2020 00:26

Do you put out a pumpkin? (Not this year obvsl? I only ask because I didn't realise till 2 years ago that kids only knock, round here, if you have a lit pumpkin! How was I meant to know that....

..no. I didn't know this either Shock

We put out one this year but for the pumpkin hunt thing that the school told us about.

Didn't know it was meant to be a yearly thing, and now wonder if its universal, how many people my kids have annoyed by kncking on doors without pumpkin signage Blush

Will try that next year (assuming everything is even semi normal by then of course). Feel a bit of a scrooge now, but unintended!

Newfosterer · 01/11/2020 00:26

We are tier 3. Took the foster children out for a short pumpkin spotting walk at 5pm and I rewarded them with sweets that I brought myself then we watched some Halloween movies. Not a single knock on the door all evening, despite being decorated, and last year the door didn’t stop.

IveBeenGood · 01/11/2020 00:26

Tier 3. Our estate was lovely too. We went our late on to count how many spooky houses we could see in exchange for treats back home. We saw one other family across the way and some of our neighbours had left treats in bowls. My son picked from a bowl and gave to me to hold. We sanitised his hands each time and the sweets are in quarantine for a week. We’ve been incredibly strict, not eaten out to help out or anything. So walking round our local streets and appreciating the efforts our neighbours have made was lovely - still sad as it’s not the same as previous years, but this is how it is now and for the foreseeable future.

We wouldn’t have gone out if it was busy and we wouldn’t have taken the treats from a bowl if we were not able to sanitise our hands.

You’ll always get the idiots, irrespective of tier status and they’ll be the same ones breaching lockdown.

Zoecarter · 01/11/2020 00:28

I am tier 3 I took my son for a walk down are street (to the local chip shop for a treat) and to see the houses and there was no one out knocking on houses trick or treating

SeekingAnswers3 · 01/11/2020 00:50

Tier one and I’ve only seen three too old for it teenagers chancing their arm. No one else around

LaLaLanded · 01/11/2020 06:37

Tier 2 here, London, and usually a huge trick or treating area - tons of primary schools and last year DS was part of a big group of kids trick or treating.

Utterly silent - none of the school parents mentioned trick or treating at all. Unspoken agreement not to do it, and then street was very quiet, thankfully.

We did our own Halloween celebration indoors - Made cupcakes, did pumpkins, had a nice meal etc.

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 01/11/2020 18:14

Surely the difference is teaching your children life “ isn’t’ the same as normal . Not better or worse but that other people’s house/sweets etc aren’t a free fir all. Otherwise if nothing had changed ,why give a shit about SD, masks or handwashing a billion times a day?

Why can’t you have both? I disagree that life isn’t normal, yes life isn’t the way it used to be, but this is the new normal!

Children are very aware of the pandemic it’s literally brainwashed into them everyday, their whole home and school structure has changed.

Why take the little enjoyment away that children still have, why is a pumpkin trail and neighbours willingly hanging individually wrapped sweets out in the front garden for the children to take?

Not everything has to be a teachable moment, let children be children and enjoy the little moments they can still have.

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