To think trick or treating is on Tuesday??

[ToddlerSAHM]

We’ve just been in Smyths and someone on the radio just said that trick or treating starts tonight… it’s not a full weekend thing now is it? Ready to take my 2 year old out for the first time on Tuesday and just checking I haven’t somehow missed something 🙈🤷‍♀️

Bit harsh 😜

I love Halloween and all things spooky but if anyone knocks on my door before Tuesday they'll be told to go away and come back on Halloween.

Our sweets are already gone.

Possibly because I've eaten them, or might have been aliens. Definitely one or the other.

We put a bowl out next to a pumpkin for people to help themselves. Mostly because we're out with DD trick or treating so aren't there to open the door, which doesn't seem fair!
I use a small ish bowl and top up, just in case someone takes the lot. That's only happened once though.

Even in North America, the home of both enthusiastic Halloween and spreading 'days' over weeks, it is very strictly JUST the night of 31st October. Who wants a week of bloody knocking? And not knowing the rules and having to have shit tons of chocolate in the house for ages?

Bollocks to that. JUST the 31st.

Just 31st here.

One woman on the local Facebook page asked one year if people were trick or treating on the Saturday because 31st was a school night and she got her arse firmly handed to her on a plate. The question has never been raised again.

😂😂😂

Only here for the Killieween reference 🎃😁

I've had someone knock before Halloween before, told them to come back on Halloween.

Definitely the 31st and young kids go early, around 4pm

Everything seems to be becoming a season these days. I do think the fact that Halloween is not in half term in a lot of places this year has made a difference though. There's been loads of Halloween activities on round here this week so I can kind of see that parents might think it better to go out this weekend and get it all done before returning to school, but agree it must be irritating. We live on an unlit, pavementless country lane with no young children living close so never get any trick or treaters but I can see it would be ok for one night and infuriating for several.
Fireworks are my bugbear. I heard my first ones of the year last night and they'll probably go on intermittently until the weekend after bonfire night. It drives me, and my animals, nuts. I'm sure we only heard them on Nov 5th itself when I was a kid.

I was just scrolling for it 🤣🧙‍♀️🎃

Local PTA at our village school have been advertising a group Halloween trick and treat walk about on Saturday 28th, because 31 October is on a school day. Loads of people are going, and according to the village Facebook page most of the same families will also be knocking on doors on 31st, so they're planning to get double treats.
This really pisses me off to the extent that I'm considering not opening my door to any trick and treaters this year.

Yeah there was a chap asking on our local FB page whether trick or treating was happening on Saturday or Sunday.

All the answer were "31st only".

glad mine are too old for trick or treating now.
In a few years it will be like America which im not keen on

when we did go it was always only halloween night.

we only knocked on doors that were decorated so now i dont decorate the front of the house and i dont answer the door. Last year i didnt get anyone round and i live in an area wheres the a few kids about.

I agree with those who hate a day creeping into a weekend or a week.

We occasionally get a plaintive "DS aged 5 is very excited about Halloween but is away visiting granny (or whatever) on the 31st, would it be OK if he came round today to do an early trick or treat please?" on the neighbourhood WhatsApp to which there's always a handful of replies saying sure, come round to number 24, we've got our decs up from softies who are fond of the little moppet in question. But otherwise no.

I find this bizarre. Our local Facebook groups get loads of posts from people asking when everyone's going Trick or Treating and the answer is always, "on Halloween, 31st October." I've lived in about 7 different places have only ever gone Trick or Treating or had Trick or Treaters on 31st October so why is there any confusion?

A couple of neighbourhoods around here (v. small, think small housing estate) do it on a different night, one on the weekend and one the night before, no idea why. Dd has arranged to go around with friends from both these neighbourhoods this year, plus the 31st! Think I may need to take out dental insurance.

31st only here, we havent even carved the pumpkins yet

Which means Halloween ends ups costing more in sweets if houses are targeted twice. Hell no to that.

Either that, or unless they're going to only go to their own houses (which could work) they're more likely to get a load of people that haven't bought the sweets yet and have a load of disappointed children.

No one around here decorates until the 31st, without that, how do you know what houses to knock at?!

Of course it's Tuesday but seriously... why would anyone take a 2 year old trick or treating? Surely they are not going to be asking to go out ... so assume it's just for the parent's benefit ...... why?

seems to be bonfire night here too, started at 4.30, eejits.

If people turn up for trick or treating before the 31st, isn’t that just really awkward? Like turning up for your Christmas lunch on the 23rd? The providers of sweets aren’t going to be ready.

Definitely the 31st only! 👻