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?

Any time after 5 in our area is perfectly fine.

Yes because a few packs of sweets and an Apple or two is grabby 😂😂

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Starts around 4.30 here as that's when the school party usually finishes. This year the community centre party finishes at 5 so I expect it'll start then.

DD3 is absolutely hyper excited to see if we give out more than last year - which was around 175. Pre-pandemic it was 200+ so she's hoping we'll get back to that.

I love Halloween, even now mine are grown and gone. Our pumpkin won't go out until about 5.15pm though, as I'm not home from work until then. I would have thought you'd have a much smaller choice of houses at 3pm as a lot of people will still be out at work. I am also in a small town where everyone knows the "only call at houses with a pumpkin" rule 😀

Ha! Sweet & pumpkins ready here, although we live on a little road that looks like you're not supposed to go down so we get less! 5-7pm usually peak hours here.

You've missed put guising

Years ago we stayed in a cottage in Northumberland. Properly rural. Only one house around with a glowing pumpkin. We knocked to be met by two delightfully tipsy older ladies who were so thrilled we had knocked and invited us in for ALL the sweets and a fair few gin and tonics. Best Halloween ever.

Ah. That's lovely x

What the "grabby" brigade don't understand is that people who do Halloween, do Halloween! I've got way more sweets to give than my kids will receive. It's fun for my kids to knock on doors, and fun for other people's kids to knock on my door. Nobody is actually "profiting" off their neighbours, it all evens out.

And Pagan.

Too early
too late
etc
not to early and to late

I'm going to sound like a right Moaning Minnie here but I've purposely come into the office today and then I'm going for food straight from work. Last year was horrendous where I live, people coming from God knows where, parking dangerously without and thought for residents, if a fire engine or ambulance were needed I don't know how they would have managed to pass the parked cars. We even had mini-busses of children being dropped off! It took 40 minutes for a journey that should have take less than 5 minutes to get to my house due to irresponsible parking by people who don't live on the estate.

Good question. Think they just want sweets.

I’m actually perplexed at being called grabby! It’s all about the fun! I mean we will dress up!

She's driving to take knowing she's not doing any giving.

I take mine a ten minute walk away as it is they seem to celebrate it more. I don't see the issue.

Yeah, there’s nothing grabby about any of it.

A 3pm kickoff would be bloody annoying, but grabby doesn’t come into it at any point.

Some people can suck the fun out of anything, it must be tiring.

Never have trick or treating around my way. Which does not bother me one bit :-). I find the entire Halloween business weird.

However, 3pm seems OK for young children, I hope they have an adult with them.

Only some sweets. She isn't robbing your house. I always went to the wealthy houses because we got money!

Well, you could not go to other's doors to take when you've not given anything. It's bad taste.

Not necessarily. If you don't live in or contrubute to a location, e.g. an estate, then travelling there exclusively to take is very grabby.

Oh, stop it. It’s a few cheap sweets.

Actually, nobody is entitled to expect someone else to provide them with a halloween experience. 🫣