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?

I'm going this too as last year some of the kids were so greedy taking massive handfuls of sweets and had run out by 7pm!

I wouldn't give out treats any other day than 31st either.

Surely, the curtains would be closed after dark anyway?

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@RampantIvy some people close them half way so you still can see that there is someone in the house.

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I won't be answering my door tomorrow !

How miserable "

Why is it miserable? Surely it's up to individuals whether they want to take part?

We don't answer our doors either. It's pitch black at our end of the street and older kids throwing things at peoples windows for the weeks running up to Halloween have ruined it for younger kids.

I would feel too vulnerable if people could see in after dark. Also the room is too dark if I don't close the curtains as our curtains are a light colour. Plus, curtains are insulating.

We had a few today - no costumes either! Even teen ds thought that was a bit off.

No
It's the vigil feast of All Hallows' Eve, not some ghastly sweet fuelled entitled-fest

Don't answer and why would parents let kids out knocking on doors when not even Halloween night and it is actually An Irish pagan celebration called Samhain and not Scottish as someone said. Look it up as very interesting.

When I was growing up, Hallowe’en meant carving a Jack’o’lantern from a swede and putting a tea light in it, bobbing apples and maybe apples on strings. I remember getting a book from school when I was about 10 - so that would be 1974 - which talked about trick or treating, and I had no idea what it was.

I don’t like what Hallowe’en has become. And yes, it is commercialised - there are products made and sold specifically for it, that is the very definition of commercialised.

I don’t want to take part, thanks. The curtains will be closed, and so will the door.

I don't care what it's called or what country it comes from. I won't be opening the door for it.

No one said it originated in Scotland but celts were in both Ireland and Scotland not only here before im corrected and halloween comes from the Scots all hallows eve. See attachment. We shared festivals.

It is not Irish. It is Celtic. The celts lived in mostly Ireland and scotland, but also the rest of the UK and France as well.

It was mostly celebrated in ireland and then scotland for a hundred and hundreds of years.

Precisely, I hope people will be equally keen to attend mass on All Hallows' day. It's a day of Holy obligation after all!

You wouldnt have know trick or treating because that came over from America around that time. Before that, it was called guising and has been going on for hundreds of years. Just not in England.

It’s North American, and so?

@Dotcheck and so? Wow what a response......meaning its an Americanism and so we have lost the true meaning of the festival.

if I’m on my own I don’t like answering the door when it’s dark
they need to come before 5pm tomorrow or I’m not answering if I’m alone

It wouldn't bother me if anyone came over the weekend, we've had sweets sitting in the porch since Friday night, it's not just about it being a school night, it's parents getting home from work and the logistics of that that mean people might prefer to do the trick or treating at the weekend.
DC not of trick or treating age Here but have in the past made arrangements with friends or neighbours for trick or treating at a mutualkt convenient time.

Oops. We went out tonight - we’re both working til 5 or 6 tomorrow, by the time we get them fed, changed and out the door it would be close to 7. It took us 90 minutes to wander around the estate tonight (only knocking at decorated houses) which would mean getting back about half 8, with the clock change they’d be bloody knackered! Forecast is for rain tomorrow too. I honestly can’t remember ever taking them out mid-week but maybe my memory is fuzzy. They were happy with their haul anyway!

Ive lost count of how many fb posts I’ve seen about whether it’s ‘acceptable’ to go trick or treating tonight - it isn’t
-31st only

here it’s fairly well accepted that you only go to the decorated houses. Mind you if you leave your pumpkin out after Halloween the local kids/ teenagers will take it and smash it up.

But people do this to so many holidays. Christmas for example. All I’m saying, and I’m Scottish, is that the intent is the same. Unless people are being arses, having a few toddlers with their mums, pre-teens getting some independence going out in their own, knocking on the door, seeing their neighbours and getting a treat, I don’t really how that is bad?

I thought the only go to decorated houses rule was everywhere. If anyone knocks on my fire and there’s no pumpkin outside they can sod off.

Ahhhh the annual Halloween threads. Love them.

Bingo card at the ready;

• Greedy kids taking the whole bowl of sweets that have been left out
• Arguments over whether it's American or not
• The trick or treat/guising debate
• Parents refusing to take their kids because it's 'begging'
• Horrid, mean teenagers egging/flouring houses and ruining it for little kids
• Moaning about people knocking too early/too late
• Posters sitting in the dark to avoid knocking

What have I missed?