To not answer to trick or treaters on the 30th?

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I feel bad but we’ve had 3 knocks now and really don’t want to be disturbed over dinner! Find it very unusual that anyone would encourage DC to do this the night before Halloween? Understand that Monday is a school night but Sunday is too!

AIBU to not answer?

@greenhousegal you have some really lovely halloween memories! Much better than the commercialised stuff on nowadays.

Oh and another one I remember that frightened the shite out of us kids. Dad (he was a kid at heart), would put a white sheet over him and when we were in bed with the lights off, he came in with a lit torch under the sheet. Jesus! Ghost! We screamed and screamed. Traumatised for life lol.

But it's school tomorrow anyway so that makes zero sense? So what, you can only do Halloween five years out of seven when I falls on a weekend? I put decorations up yesterday and we just got a knock but to be honest even though their reasoning of school night tomorrow makes zero sense (although might be inset day tomorrow) and I got very confused as to whether we had gotten out days muddled up and should I be taking DD out that moment, they did me a MASSIVE favour as DD3 got so excited to give them sweets she just announced she only wants to stay in tomorrow and answer the door, rather than go out.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest, we have a bowl full of sweets and it's good excitement for the kids. People should only knock if decorations are up though. I also wouldn't expect much tonight, because some people buy their sweets last minute.

I won't be answering my door tomorrow !

Yep Guising, trick or treating us a horrible phrase.

You're only supposed to knock on decorated houses on the 31st I thought.

My village co-op does not sell eggs or flour to young people in the week or so before this ghastly American import.
My elderly, disabled neighbour was unable to get to the door very quickly, & the little bastards defaced all her windows. Not teenagers - primary school age.
And this is a "naice" area.

Guising strictly on the 31st only! The 30th here was traditionally "chappy night". i.e. knock the doors and run away.

It was "knick knock" for me. Same thing. Enterprising kids would get a ball of string, attach to door knocker and hide behind the garden bushes and use the other end of the string to knock on the door. Could be done multiple times in quick succession. Mystified residents. But they probably knew!

We had a group tonight and I answered and apologised that we didn't have any sweets in yet. We do have sweets in for tomorrow but I don't want to encourage people to trick or treat on different nights.

Our pumpkins are not lit tonight, they need to wait for them to be lit otherwise don't knock!!

I won’t be answering at all this year. First time in years.

All the adults are unwell in the house so we don’t want to be bothered by knocks at the door.

We had 4 lots of kids knock tonight. Just a joke.

Told them "no not Halloween, come back tomorrow." Why an earth are parents allowing them out?

I ignore all trick or treaters, what ever the date.

Is this the first year that people are trick or treating on the wrong day? I've never heard of it being done early before. My sister went out with her kids yesterday and I've seen lots of FB posts of dressed up kids going out today

@Ludo19 I went trick or treating in the 80's and that's the term everyone used back then! It most certainly isn't American

Last night in our neighbourhood Facebook someone advertised how they had left sweets out as their child was asleep so didn't want disturbing. A few of us pointed out that it wasn't Halloween until Monday.

We haven't had anyone come to the door though, I'm expecting them plenty tomorrow.

How miserable

Here in the US it’s commonly accepted that you only go to places that have the porch light on and/or some kind of Halloween decor around the house.

It's not an American import it started in Scotland in the 16th century! Stop making things up

I don't get this either. I love Halloween, decorate the house early and always get involved and love trick or treaters - but why on earth are they coming today?!

Yep, I was agreeing, but if you read my second post, I said it’s pretty much the same concept - knock on the door of a neighbour, get a treat, be party of a lovely community. Some people say Santa, some Father Christmas, some Papa Noel - mostly all are the same concept. It’s just a time for children to go out and knock on neighbours doors. Hopefully they’ll get friendly neighbours who might give them a sweet/fruit/chocolate/homemade treat - if they’ve put out a light/lantern/pumpkin/some sort of indicator. Even though I’m from a place that traditionally did this, I never did. I’ve lived most of my life in London now and I think it’s brilliant. People always say to give children a bit of freedom, have a local community, surely this is a great time to do this?

@MightyOaks it wasn't used in the 80's here, we all went out guising and it is an Americanism taken from the original guisers ie in disguise.

My village co-op does not sell eggs or flour to young people in the week or so before this ghastly American import.

Theres nothing American about the flour and eggs side of it. That doesn’t happen here. It’s only in the UK where I’ve heard of people hurling flour and eggs at houses.

Halloween also isn't an American import, it comes from Samhain which is an ancient celtic festival