To think that trick or treating should be confined to your own street or friends/family

[Moonnstars]

Showing my age here, but I remember when I was younger firstly trick or treating wasn't really a thing, but even when it started to become popular it was only your friends and family you called in on. I remember visiting my grandparents and their neighbours (who had been prepared so had sweets in) and then doing the same with my friends family.
Now it seems that people are asking where is the best street to visit, and I even saw today on social media someone saying they are on holiday in the area and where is best to go, happy to drive around to find the best places!

I have my own children who will be out, but we stick to our own street. I also have sweets in to give out, but am I being unreasonable in thinking I shouldn't have to have enough in to supply people coming over from different places and that it should just be people you know or at least living in the same street you hand stuff out to.

Also I do acknowledge some people go all out and advertise their address and want people to visit - however these are often for charity and as for a donation.

YABU - stop being so tight and buy more sweets

YANBU - it is getting out of hand, people should only go to people they know/stay local

I honestly don’t get it and I don’t particularly like it.

Fine if it’s a couple of little kids from down the road with Mum in tow but that doesn’t seem to the case. When I drove home the other night it was big gangs of kids, some quite grown up and several parents.

It’s just something else that’s become commercialised and grabby. I bet the likes of B&M are clapping their hands in glee at the opportunity to push more plastic tat from China.

That’s what she said.

Which cost money they may not have

My DC are getting older and last year was the last time we did trick or treating, but we would travel a mile to an estate where everyone went all out. We are the only people on our street who would decorate and offer sweets, so there's no opportunity to do it here. Even offering sweets, we'd only get a couple of kids round

There's about 5 kids on our street, grandkids live 5mins away & I knew they were coming with friends" they are all under 9yo" i decorated front of house & between 4pm & 8pm we had 200 kids, my wife & i also dressed up to answer door, it was brilliant & seeing the smiles on kids faces was great, we are living in a time where everything on news etc is dark & depressing, remember you can turn lights off, turn tv up & no ones forcing you to answer the door, OH & merry Xmas when it comes lol

No-one is forcing anyone to answer the door, but if you don't then your neighbourhood kids miss out. I enjoy passing out treats, but I don't think it's absolutely unreasonable to get a tad annoyed by so many people driving in that locals struggle to find a parking space in their own street or that (in my small town) dozens of visits would cover the local groups of childrenn but we usually end up doling out 100+ - this year was unusual as the monsoon weather put many off. I think it's greedy to drive around with the sole objective of collecting as many sweets as possible and not a good example for their kids. People coming in from rural areas without near neighbours would be acceptable to most I would think.

On localish SM someone in Portsmouth posted a doorbell cam of a CF man (with a bunch of kids) who took the bucket of sweets the householder had left out for kids to help themselves. Typical of the selfish FU attitude.

This is actually what I love about Halloween. For one night we get to freely interact with strangers and well..just trust that what they give is fine and have rhem trust us that we are not trying to poison anyone.

We only got trick or treaters one year. I buy sweets every year and I know so do my neighbours but we just don't get trick or treaters. I take my kids to rhe neighbouring streets and it's lovely to see how warm and welcoming people are. It's also another opportunity to see how nice people mostly are. I remember two incidents from last year. My 3 year old was freaked out by a man who was wearing a were wolf mask and when he started to run away the man removed his mask to show him that he was just human. The other one was when my kids stood behind a large group of children. Group of children got their treats and then my older one got the last sweet that the family had but they had nothing left to give to ds. We told them obviously that it's no problem at all but their daughter asked ds to wait and then returned a few minutes later with some of her own sweets that she had got trick or treating. And she gave them to ds. I thought it was the kindest thing ever. Strangers can be lovely. Halloween is a great opportunity to remind us of that.