Anyone else not putting up Halloween decorations this year or participating in trick or treating?

[thegrinxh]

I was talking to a neighbour down the road and he seemed surprised when I mentioned that I won't be decorating the front of my house for Halloween this year/ participating in trick or treating.

None of the other neighbours on the estate say hello or are friendly and I have had issues with kids throwing footballs at my car and fence etc.

I don't really want to be spending money for other peoples kids on sweets and decorations.

My own kids are way too young to participate anyway.

My neighbour said "Oh well I think your house will be the only one not celebrating and people may get even more funny with you".

AIBU to lot went to participate or is this the norm if you have kids/ live in area with a lot of kids?

I live in the UK.aibu

We live in a cul de sac off a cul de sac with no street lighting and never get any trick or treaters round. DD is a student and does Halloween in her university city.

IMO Halloween is for children.

I was never allowed to trick or treat as a child and we never decorated. We haven't had any trick or treaters for years but parents have told me they only approach house with pumpkins. I only once remember carving a pumpkin lantern and that was my visiting aunt thought it would be fun. My Mum was against anything Halloween, I only recall going to one Halloween party at a 5 years old. I like to dress up so will find some kind of costume to wear even if we are not going anywhere. Last year we went to the cinema and I wore a medieval style dress and a crown as an evil queen. I wore the same dress and homemade a French hood then used face paint to create a deathly pallor and draw a red line across my neck and went to work as Anne Boleyn.

So I did Halloween in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s as a child. As did many Scottish people. But you keep insisting it's an import from the US in the 1980s. Yes, it really is draining to talk to someone who only hears what they want to hear.

Plus, where do they think the Americans got it from int the first place? It didn’t come from the Native Americans.

Not sure why it’s hard for some to understand that several “American” holidays come from groups who emigrated from the UK and Europe.