It's only 3pm and the doors already knocking

[Sillysausage76]

It's 3pm and already we've had people trick n treating. I've now brought pumpkins inside until 5ish. Anyone else?

Miserable sod

We went just a tad before 5pm because we'd had knockers at 4.30pm at ours.

We only did 4 houses as my DC are very young. I was glad to do it while still light. Those who didn't want knockers just left sweets in a bucket outside - We were thanking the doorbells 😂

I swerved houses that weren't 'lit up'.

It got to 5.45pm and I wondered why we'd not had anyone knocking.

Then realised that I hadn't got a pumpkin outside. I went to get my pumpkin out yesterday to find it had liquified. FYI - liquified pumpkin smells putrid 😨

Quickly found a print out of a pumpkin and stuck it in the window, and I've been up and down like a yo-yo ever since 😄

15 kids by 6.15pm! 😂

Yes whilst I understand the point I'm not just going to get up and leave my computer. My boss wouldn't be pleased. Next year I'll plan to go out after 5.

Is that it??

This! 5-8pm! (Although we were ready at 4.30 as it was dark!)

Where are all the kids? We’re in suburban London/Surrey and last year we had loads knocking.

I’ve carved pumpkins, they’re lit on the doorstep. I can see neighbours have decorations out too and no trick or treaters!

I have freddos, come get free treats!

We have a display of lit carved pumpkins out but apparently our house is too spooky
We have a big classic victorian House down longish driveway lined with trees, it is lit but only subtly , I just glimpsed a group of about 15, 10-12yo in costume get half way down the drive and then run back to the pavement shrieking 🤣🤣

It doesn't, all should be welcome, happy Halloween 👻.

If you don't like Hallowe'en that's fine. Nobody is obliged to like Hallowe'en (or anything else for that matter). But get your facts right. I'm a child of the '70s and I grew up in Ireland and we always knocked on doors on the night of Hallowe'en. We didn't say, "Trick or Treat", but we said, "Help the Hallowe'en party". We'd be given nuts or maybe a small apple or a small bunch of grapes. Our local shopkeeper would give us a free tenpenny bag of sweets as a token of his appreciation for our custom during the year. Then we'd go home and eat our goodies the sweets went first. We'd eat colcannon for dinner and Mam would put some coins in it, so we'd spend our money on sweets in the shop. There were always sweets but they weren't handed out at the doors.

I used to sit in darkness and never answer the door haha- now DS loves answering the door (we don't go out trick or treating though) and have a pumpkin outside so people know we're happy to have a knock. Wouldn't mind what time as long as not too late, although I wouldn't have been home at 3!

Started knocking 4.15 here,I bought double the amount j normally do and I'm already down to dregs.

Love it! Wish we had one like that near us!

I think that the commercialization ie all of the novelty foods, ridiculous amounts of tat and decorations is fairly Americanised, trick or treating has been going for ages here though.

My pumpkin went out at 6pm, and will come in 8pm or sooner if I run out of sweets. For the record I don’t check where the kids come from, near or far makes no odds to me.

First guisers at 530 and it's be full on since. Must have had at least 40 so far and at least 90 minutes to go.

🧙‍♀️🎃👻🧙🧙

We were out until gone 6, but the pumpkin then went in the window. We don’t get many kids round here anyway, but we’ve got a load of sweets, which dh and I will probably have to eat. Pity they’re not all chocolate ones - I’m not so keen on the ‘sweetie’ sweets.

I thought no pumpkins meant 'do not knock here'?! I've had over a dozen knocks so far which I have all ignored (and the dogs have done a v. good job of driving people off) but it is starting to wear very thin.

One year the kids didn't even knock just threw flour over the cars in our road. Would have been okay except it was below freezing that night and the flour froze on the windscreen. My dad was not impressed the next morning.

Well, I "do Halloween" for the kids, but I don't have kids, so it doesn't all even out for me. I quite like it though, this year my front door has suddenly developed a creak, so I'm opening it really slowly while hiding behind it and only popping my head round once it's open. It's making the parents laugh anyway!

We get hundreds here, it probably costs me about £15, but the vast majority of kids are polite and happy. About 8pm you get the grumpy teenagers in their dressing gowns, but I just tease them!

I don't have young children now. I still get involved in Halloween and give out sweets as do a lot of people I know. I suspect there are more people dishing out the sweets round my way than there are families out trick or treating. I don't consider any of them grabby. And I wouldn't know where any of them are from. I enjoy seeing people out having fun.

But I definitely missed some this year as I was stuck in work calls until 5.30 so didn't get my decs out until after that!

"Please tell them to go away." 😂😂😂

I'm in my 60's and live alone. I don't put decorations out which means no knocking or doorbell ringing round here. I've already had great big teenagers hammering on and my door and ringing the door bell.
Its very threatening.

I would happy give treats out earlier if kids were little but they weren't. My door hasn't stopped since I put pumpkins out. I've been sat on my wall, handing out sweets and no sign of the kids coming. I have no issue giving out treats as mine loved it years ago.