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

Are you OK? Serious question. You seem to be getting very angry.

It's not that deep.

Stick to family and leave the street out of it.

It IS grabby to go out of your local area, you can keep ranting all you want, it won't change that 😉

I agree with you. If I had kids they would not be knocking on strangers doors asking for sweets. No way.

I’m entitled? I’m one of two houses participating. I wouldn’t call that entitlement - I’d call it community spirited.

But hey ho - I guess words don’t have meaning

Yet another reason why people who never answer their front door are the eminently sensible ones, and why it's the "must answer regardless" crew who are the weirdos. 😎

Why should they?

In our village the village WhatsApp asks who is happy to have trick or treaters calls and who is not for whatever reasons. The pumpkin signal is also generally used. We do have sweets in but, as we are at the very end of the village and off the beaten track, we don't get any callers now that the chidren if our immediate neighbours have grown up.

Since when was it American? My mum went trick or treating and she’s almost 60.

angry? the poster who called everyone miserable tightwads?
We agree, it sounds a bit excessive 😂

I am laughing at them.

IKR? A bizarre take.

I’m trying to figure out how it’s entitled to be handing out sweets and decorating my house in the name of giving kids a fun evening.

Trunk or treat for our rural communities. We. Drive to a local car park and give out sweets from our car boots.
Some years we go to the nearest village and go guising there. I don’t think there is an issue with people going to different areas though.

Exactly. It's not American at all. 😆 Trick or Treating started in medieval Europe!

We dont do trick or treating. No issues with it, just something we dont bother with due to three birthdays this week.

But

We live on an estate where 90% of the residents are elderly. If we were doing t&t, sticking to those rules would mean they couldn't do it.

The once we did do it we went to a neighbourhood estate where 3/4 of the houses were decorated and the area was like you see in films, kids everywhere.

It's not American nonsense - in Scotland anyway it's a very old tradition called guising.
I do get where you are coming from in a way. I live in flats where no one really goes in for it, but up the road there's an area famous for Halloween where loads of people go. But I think I'm going to go to a street where a family member lives that will be much quieter, the family member knows the neighbours - the neighbours sort of know us, and we will only go to decorated houses. Complete strangers is a bit nerve wracking...

And I will not be giving out sweets to strangers’ kids. Grateful for the pumpkin tradition which means they will not be calling at my house.

what is the Halloween equivalent of Bah humbug?

Baaaaargh humspider!!

Happy to have brought some amusement to your life.

Oh another Halloween, another opportunity for posters to parade their misery like it's a virtue. 🙄🥱

Exactly. It's not. It's just a bit of fun.

WHY should people participate? They're not doing anything wrong and spoiling anything for anyone, they just.. don't join in?

My door bell is going to ring non stop between 5 and 10pm tonight. I can't leave sweets outside because the grabby non-locals would steal the lot and there's nothing left for the local kids. I don't mind, we have lots of friends over, we take turn, it's fun.

I really wouldn't expect everyone to find it that entertaining and be forced to do it too.

When I was a child in the 80's going into the 90's we did trick or treat, neighbours only (and called every house - decorated houses and a pumpkin on the doorstep wasn't a thing then).

Wearing our bin bags and plastic masks or witches hat, most time was spent at home or friends houses doing duck apple, getting an apple in sink /or on string etc.

It's not very busy where we live now but I've noticed in the last few years since C19 anyway, when it was the thing to leave sweets on the doorstep, teens not even dressed up would take sweets. So I'm not leaving sweets on the doorstep anymore.

I've never taken my DC anywhere but our/neighbouring roads.

DC not interested this year so for the first time we're not doing anything, we're going out anyway (not Halloween related).

I’m not a tightwad. Far from it but I don’t want feral kids at my door. We put up with enough all year round

Just don’t participate. You don’t have to. Big sign on the door saying you’ve run out of sweets. Turn off the lights and people will leave you alone.

Personally I leave a bowl of sweets out encouraging local children to take one and leave enough for everyone else. Then we go to an area 15 mins away where all my kids school friends are and they go out together. They have whale of a time and if you don’t like that then I can’t help you.

In our village of people decorated you can knock, if they haven’t leave them alone.