Will you partake in trick-or-treating on Halloween?

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Will you partake in trick-or-treating on Halloween?

• No - 88 votes
• 82%
• Yes - 12 votes
• 11%
• Other, I will discuss below - 7 votes
• 7%

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[gness]

Ah....odd....I had replied to Ed thinking it was her and it vanished in a puff of smoke.....magic, SpareEd?

Yes I will be decorating the hall and front door and making treats for the spooks....x

[naomi24]

Difficult one to answer. I live in the wilds of the country so no one comes trick or treating. If they did though, I would definitely have a few goodies ready for them. Such fun for the children!

[retrocop]

Nope
Bonfire Night and Christmas is quite enough excitement for our littlies in the Winter months. Another commercial enterprise adapted and imported from across the ditch.
My late sister who lived and taught High school in Canada told us of the evil things some sickos did to 'trick or treaters'. Shards of cut up razor blades secreted in apples springs to mind plus other noxious items placed in candy bars.

[woofgang]

No. There are no littlies around here so it doesn't happen. I actually don't mind as my old dogs would get very wound up with a lot of doorbell ringing after dark especially at this time of year where I am having to medicate them most nights because of idiots with fireworks. A couple of years ago, my neighbours grandson was desperate to trick or treat and where he lives isn't suitable so she asked a few of us neighbours if he could could come to us. Of course we all said yes and I did enjoy it.....but it was only one visit and the dogs were younger.

[spathiphyllum]

I will do a pumpkin to hint at children if they knock on my door then i'll give them some sweets / chocolates but i won't be partaking in trick or treat in the sense that i'll be the one knocking

Retro, we did not inherit Halloween from our american western friends. Halloween is actually the Celtic festival of Samhain, meaning it's actually Irish.

[BANANASPLITS]

Normal Halloween here
Feet up lrg drink in one hand tv remote in other
Ring or knock on the door sip of drink turn tv up bliss

[tamborine]

No but Ive got rotten eggs eager for a home

[Mamyalynne]

^ An ASBO for Tambo ;-)

It would be a shame to waste my outfit, I may go a'knocking.

[spathiphyllum]

Come to my door you'll get something sweet mamy

[Jackdaw33]

As I never tire of pointing out, Halloween is a shortened version of All Hallows Eve, hallow being an obsolete word for holy or saint. The day after is All Saints Day, once a major festival and still a public holiday in France.

[-SharonA-]

No for me as I remember the horror one halloween when a little girl went missing in our area. She was found safe and sound eventually but not before all the parents whipped their kids home indoors muttering never again.

[JJ109]

No and I think it is a terrible practice. It is essentially demanding goodies with menaces. If you don't give me a treat then I will egg bomb your door, flour bomb your door or smear dog poo on your door.
No surprise when these kids grow up into fully fledged yobs!

My mother when she was alive was scared stiff to answer the door.

At least with carol singers if you don't give them a tip they simply go away!

Parents that allow kids to "trick" should be prosecuted! If kids go around with a responsible adult who does not allow them to "trick" if the door is not answered, I could just about live with it. BUT I would much prefer that this selfish practice is done away with completely.

[ummmm]

Jack, I think most people know that.

[Rockrose]

//No surprise when these kids grow up into fully fledged yobs! //
Bit of an over reaction - I used to go trick or treating and I am not a yob of any sort neither are my siblings or the other children we used to go with.

[spathiphyllum]

JJ its rare that actual children trick, it's more the teens / young teens. I'm all for youngsters coming to my door whilst their parents wait a few meters up the path. Giving them that independence but also watchful eye

[jackthehat]

At least one parent, to my knowledge, approached the neighbours earlier in the day and gave them sweets so that they would have something to hand over when the mother and child went on a short Trick or Treat outing later in the evening. :o)

[ummmm]

Was that me?

[AuntLydia]

Trick or treaters would have to be very determined to get to us and I'd probably give them loads of sweets if they managed. When the kids were younger we would go to a friends house who lived nearer civilization but the children would never do anything nasty, just hold out a container for sweets. I still do a pumpkin though ( used to be a turnip years ago) and put it outside with a candle in.

[jackthehat]

Of course it was, you looney.....!!! :oD