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?

You can have it with my spooky blessings!!

We started at 5. It's an after dark thing usually. The kids had an absolute ball and have a mountain of sweets. Still a few left in the tub on our step when we got back and are still having the odd straggler knocking now.

Had door going non stop between 5pm - 6 30pm, was worried about to run out, ran to the shop to stock up and only had one knock since. Really polite kids with great outfits. My favourite was a girl who was about 10 as Anne boleyn with a dolls head to match under her arm! Did see a few smaller kids get a bit overwhelmed and meltdowns starting. But I'll be better prepared for next year now!

Fireworks going off in our neck of the woods. Not as many guisers this year so sweeties and chocolate for dinner tonight 🤭

its unwritten around my London suburb town that it’s basically 5-7pm and then hard finish. Only go to houses with decorations. Don’t knock any other houses. Ta dah!!

and actually it's lovely, marking of the seasons for me as much as a nativity service at christmas or maypole dancing all things which were part of DMs childhood in the '50s, my childhood in the '80s and my DC's in the 2010's. Also these children are those severly affected by the pandemic, some of those 9,10,11 yo olds could go at 6,7,8 because we were all locked up. They need to have postive interactions with people- they are noticably shyer and less sure of themselves than those who went before.

That would be for diwali celebrations

That is cool. Someone had a guillotine in the garden and it was moving.

Jeez I wouldn't answer my door until 6pm!

Happy Halloween!
Chill

Can't get worked up about it, it's one day a year! I remember sitting on my stairs some years because I would have barely sat on the couch and be up to the door again.

Of course no issue in people bunkering down for the night and not answering the door! And when the sweets run out that's it, lights off curtains closed.

I live in a flat now so no trick or treaters, just a cat with airplane ears and saucer eyes having a meltdown over the fireworks 😭 So he's getting all the treats this year.

Just give the weans a sweetie.

Next year you'll have to put your pumpkin in or on your hedge, with an electric candle inside so no fire hazard!

If you did know who lives next door there is greater risk....

Round here I got my first few Trick or Treaters around 6.00
Last children around 7.15 which was when I brought in the decorations and turned the porch and hall light off
Fireworks on and off since 7.00ish

Why not?

But she can t force people to visit her house in the back of beyond!
Are you saying her kids should miss out, because of where they live? I don’t suppose anyone who’s taking part will be giving them the 3rd degree about whether they’re givers as well as takers! Who’d begrudge some kids a few sweets at Halloween?

Only about 4 here, all appeared to be from the local area 😉

Complaints aplenty now though on local FB sites about 'youths' taking too many sweets! People threatening to look on CCTV to see who it was! 🙄🤣

😂😂😂

This site just surpassed itself. Peak Mumsnet!

I live in NI. We don't burn effigies of Catholics outside July celebrate Guy Fawkes here.

Oh I hadn't seen that @RayeCyst !!

Anne Boleyn with a doll's head is brilliant!

We have had so many little trick or treaters that I ran out of sweets after an hour. They were all so polite and excited it was lovely.