For not having alternatives for trick or treaters?

[mummydoris2006]

Last night we had lots of kids trick or treating and was very busy answering the door. It was lovely to see all the different costumes and all the excited kids but at around 7pm we sat down to eat our tea so didn't want to be disturbed.

I decided to leave a bowl of mini haribo and squashems out next to the pumpkins and also inserted some lollipops into a pumpkin too. I figured that way the parents could see they were lollies and could decide if their kids were allowed them and also the younger kiddies had already been earlier on in the night.

Around 7.30pm there was a knock on the door and I answered to find a woman and her son stood on the doorstep. She said she knocked to tell me the bowl was empty! I was a bit taken aback and thanked her for letting me know and said her son was welcome to help himself to a lolly instead, it was at that point she said he wasn't really allowed lollies so she'd knocked for an alternative!!!!!

I explained there was no alternatives if the bowl was empty, and she stomped off in a huff. Even though my DC is too old to trick or treat we still put out pumpkins and welcome trick or treaters but surely, we're now not expected to have a never-ending supply of sweets!?!

Our sweets were gone by 5.30 ! I took dd out trick or treating and the whole time my ring doorbell was going off with people knocking on the door because the bowl was empty 🙄
We came across quite a few with empty bowls and instead just admired their decorations and moved on ..

All this crazy: this is why I turn the lights down and bolt the door.

It would never occur to me not to offer lollipops or to think about what happens when the sweets run out etc.

Not this year but I had someone complain that I didn't have healthy alternatives - it's Halloween! I always get both chocolate based and sweets

I had no decorations etc but still had people banging on the door from 4:30 until 7:30, and then one knock at about 8:45 which I assume must have been teenagers (too old, go away!). It's a pain in the arse and I wish more parents would get the memo about decorated houses only.

Yes I am a grump but I'm pregnant with an ill toddler!

Exactly!! I did my share when ds was small. Now its curtains closed and ignore the doorbell. The said round here these days no one knocks if you are not decorated.

We left the sweets outside once but one party took the lot.

My best tip is to buy a load of sweets, don't put a pumpkin out, keep the lights and TV low and generally make it look like you aren't in, the eat all the sweets yourselves. We only had one caller at 5.30pm and it was a parcel delivery 😂

Amazing. DDs are 17 and 13 so I've done my time - about 14 years of pumpkin carving and trick or treaters/trick or treating and it was soooo nice not to bother with all that shite at all.

We're all vegan so my 6 year old came home from our trick or treating and sorted the non-vegan sweets and put them in a bowl to give out to the trick or treaters who came to ours. We had a lovely time.

My DP gave a sopping wet, sad looking little skeleton an umbrella last night. His mum popped back this morning to drop the umbrella back.

Nicer neighbours here than that CF that knocked on @mummydoris2006 ‘s door!

DD1 is veggie so we certainly had gelatine and non gelatine sweets. For ourselves, as it turned out 😂

We had over 100 visitors last night. They all got exactly the same sweets as 100 is our normal number and I'm not second guessing who would want what. If they don't like what they're given, they can swap with their mates across all the other sweets they've got. DS gives one packet per person - none of this 'help yourself' malarky since one kid grabbed a huge handful when we first started 15 years ago! We had got through all our packets of sweets by 7.30pm.

I usually make up a little rhyme that we stick on the door saying all the ghosts and witches have had their sweets, there's nothing left so don't ring the bell, there's no sweets in the house - Happy Halloween! Or, 'help yourself' if we've got any sweets left over by about 7.30pm.

We leave the porch light on so they can read the note and see the bowl (if we've any sweets left) take the decorations down (we tend to go a bit OTT at Halloween) and get on with our evening. No one's ever knocked and they'd soon be put right if they did.

People have totally lost touch with the point of Halloween. These days it's just a big self indulgent commercialised orgy of crap for one night then all forgotten about. Fireworks on Halloween? Really?? We drum into our kids not to take sweets from strangers then take them round the streets one night a year to take sweets from strangers. Like Christmas people desperately try to stretch it out with decorations a week before and a week after but ffs, demanding specific sweets that suit them? Entitled? Much? Yeah I'll stick a bowl of lactose intolerant treats out with the vegan ones next year! Fuck right off love, and take your Poundland skeleton costume clad kid with you. Nobody asked you to knock on the fucking door!! Alternative sweets my arse! 🤬

There are some cf's out there for sure. Someone even posted on the local community FB page asking if people were going trick or treating or giving out sweets on Sunday instead of Monday, because it was a school night on Monday night. Some people joined in saying that was a good idea as their young kids would be tired for school the next day. Some responses were very annoyed by this suggestion, pointing out Halloween is the 31st October and always has been, whether it's a school night or not. I was just baffled really, as surely the same would apply to Sunday evening seeing as there's also school on Monday morning?!

Most kids and parents that came to ours last night were nice and polite, lots of happy Halloween wishes, smiles and thank you's. We did have a couple of very persistent callers after we'd run out of sweets and so taken our pumpkins indoors and turned off the lights outside and in the hallway. I always thought the code was if a house has a pumpkin outside then you can call to trick or treat. That if there isn't a pumpkin / pumpkins then you don't call. Even once the pumpkins were back indoors and lights off we had some ringing the doorbell, with one lot they then tried banging and hammering on the front door for ages and shouting trick or treat through the letterbox! My dd had a look through the blind in the front room and said there was a group of mums on the drive just stood chatting while their kids were doing this, seemingly oblivious
Final caller at 8 ish who rang the bell several times, dh thought it might be our takeaway coming half an hour early so answered, one child and their mum stood there in the dark so dh put the lights on so they could see, and felt bad saying there weren't any sweets left so asked dd to go and get something of hers to give them!

There's always one of those!

My grandmother, bless her soul. used to take great pleasure in making homemade fudge and toffee apples to give out to the kids at Halloween. Then one year she saw an article in the paper about how people should immediately discard anything home-made in case it has been poisoned! From that year onward she turned all the lights off and sat in the basement on Halloween night.

Homemade treats are never going to go down well with people you don't know. It sounds really spiteful, but people are wary of food hygiene and the food being contaminated in some way, not necessarily deliberately poisoned - although I guess we've all heard the urban myth about the chocolate coated sprouts.

I only ever give out individually wrapped packets of commercially bought sweets on Halloween, but I did used to make treacle toffee and toffee apples for my own children and their friends on Bonfire Night. They always went down well. One of my adult son's friends asked me the other day if I still make my amazing treacle toffee. :D D

This is great.

Like reverse Jehovahs Witnesses where you knock on their door lol.

I’ll be honest it got on my nerves last night. I’ve spent years handing out sweets when my dcs were young. We live elsewhere now and don’t decorate at all. The number of people knocking on my door was insane.
Tell your kids not to knock on random strangers houses! It’s bloody annoying and also dangerous.
I so wish I could a afford a house with a big private drive and solid, lockable gates.

Candy

Are you in America?

No you have DEFINATELY read it wrong it says:

'I thought they had ran out of candy'

'but it turned out they did have candy as well but my Daughter picked the orange'

No one was complaining and you CLEARLY read it wrong and got offended over nothing.

Also the person you quoted doesnt need to read it again, she IS the person who wrote it and your 'I dont believe thats what the poster meant' to the poster herself who is telling you your wrong is bizaare lol.

You are litrally arguing with yourself and look a bit silly.

Candy is a legitimate type of sweet even in the uk... candy rock, candy canes, love hearts and swizzlers and a lot of 'chalky' halloween sweets are 'candy'.

I would say nearly half what my kids got was candy, then half haribo and one or 2 chocolates... we avoided chews mostly as my kids would struggle with them.

Like fuck are love hearts and swizzles "candy"

They're sweets

Candy is hun language for sweets

I'm extremely lucky. I've lived in my flat for 11 years and had someone knock once. Although I don't put out a pumpkin because my front door opens onto a fairly busy street so some wonderful teenager person would nick it.

This is why we turn the lights off and sit in the dark 😂

Oh god, DP took DD out last night, his first time doing it and he knocked on an empty bowl door thinking he was being helpful by telling them it was empty. Mortifying. Thankfully it was dark and pissing it down and DD had a mask on so they can’t trace this CF behaviour back to our house.

Everyone was generally polite round our way, from the very sweet little girl who tried to return her two sweets as she thought it was a mistake (no, I’m just trying to burn through them so I can stop answering the door and sit down) to the frankly TERRIFYING pack of giant lads with scarves wrapped round their faces who seemed like marauders out of The Purge but then kept nudging each other and saying “Just take one, it’s one each yeah? Merry Christmas!”