Trick-or-treating, will it be all weekend?

[Hallowhen]

When are you doing it? I was having a conversation about it with a colleague who reckons people will be out and about on Saturday as well as Sunday. That means two nights of closed curtains and avoiding the door🙈 Yes, I'm a grinch. No, I won't be defending my choice to not open my door to people.

Also, please remember there's plenty of people, especially elderly, still worried about covid. The last thing they need is to have "trick or treat" screamed at them by 7 children when they open the door. If there isn't a pumpkin or front porch light lit, do not knock.

No I’ve never noticed people knocking on any night other than Halloween itself. I’d be surprised to see anyone knock Saturday

Going out on Saturday seems totally ridiculous.

I’m all for knocking on decorated houses. Problem is no one does it on my street (lots of elderly people) so they go from house to house and knock and knock and knock.
A dad shouted at DH once because he was coming home when they were knocking and no one was answering. It’s becoming ridiculous..

No Halloween is a one day event. You cannot knock on doors another day. Anyone who does are CF's.

No, if anyone knocks here Saturday they’ll be ignored.

If anyone knocks on Saturday I will be telling them to go away. I’m out on Sunday so haven’t bought any treats this year or put a pumpkin outside but have done in previous years. One night of trick or treating is quite enough!

No pumpkins will be lit here until Sunday when we go out and only knock on unlit doors

@SleepyMathematician

No, if anyone knocks here Saturday they’ll be ignored.

Agreed

Halloween is on 1 night only. I've never seen or done Halloween on a different night

Halloween is on Sunday. No one should be knocking on Saturday.

Strictly one night only, and only to decorated houses.

Only ever on Halloween and only ever to houses with pumpkins / decorations.

Halloween is Sunday. Decorated houses only. Children must do a 'turn'. Proper traditional Scottish Halloween.

No one knocks here (thankfully) as we're at the end of a (mostly) elderly population village. There are a few young families on the new build estate at the far end but they do stay mostly in their roads for Halloween.

I did see someone ask about trickle treating on Facebook though.

No, definitely not. Also, where I live people don’t just knock on random doors - only where people have lit pumpkins and made it very clear that they are inviting trick or treaters.

I’ve never heard of anyone doing it on a different night, even when Halloween is a week night.
People might have Halloween parties on other nights, but no one trick or treats on different days.

Anyone doing it on Saturday is likely to be a CF. Parties yes but trick or treating no. On Saturday I won’t have a pumpkin out or be answering the door.

No, it's only on HAlloween itself, 31st Oct, so only Sunday.

Anyone who knocks on my door on Saturday I will stand at the window and wave and eat all the sweets in front of them.
Halloween is one night only. Wrong for people to expect it to be okay both nights.

We didn’t go trick or treating when my children were young, but they dressed up, decorated the house and carved pumpkins and we handed sweets out to other children.

We have stopped doing it now our children are adults and don’t live here, I have 3 small dogs and the fireworks for a month around Bonfire Night are bad enough. I am printing a poster out this year as the dog sitter is here on Saturday night and I do think that some CF’s might expect sweets.

I saw on a local FB page someone asking if people would do it on Saturday as Sunday is a school night. Halloween often falls on a school night, but it'll be darker earlier on Sunday anyway.

If you knock on Saturday at mine you'll get told "sorry nothing in until tomorrow". You'd have to be a bit of a setting your kids up for disappointment kind of parent meanies

I'm taking mine out on Sunday, early evening as back to school Monday. Saturday night we're having a spooky evening (watching Strictly ).

Do you normally sit of an evening by the door with all the curtains open?

@weebarra

Halloween is Sunday. Decorated houses only. Children must do a 'turn'. Proper traditional Scottish Halloween.

Yep out guising on Sunday only, must have a joke/poem etc to tell

We don't really get them here thankfully. The village usually does a little trail with a map where the kids go to the shops that have a pumpkin in the window, get a little treat and map stamped. Then they take their completed map back to the start and trade it for a little bag of sweets. Works well and stops people knocking. Not seen it advertised this year though so maybe will get people knocking instead.