Do you welcome trick or treaters?

[KikiTiger]

I dont mind small kids all excited about getting sweets, but the older ones who just knock on the door without costumes saying "trick or treat" really wind me up.

[welshlibranr]

I don't mind if they have an adult with them, if they are enjoying, that's fine!...If not, then I do not like them out after dark!..........shouldn't ever happen!..................

[mrs.chappie]

We haven't had anybody call tonight either.

I bought two big bags of sweets just in case. Damn .... looks like I'll have to eat 'em myself now. :o)

[mike11111]

I have given advice before on other threads regarding this issue, and how to deter the juvenile muggers. Another one (only works for women, I'm afraid) is that when they knock on your door and say, "Trick or treat?" you reply, "Oh, hello, my name's Myra Hindley. Would you like to come in?"

[China Doll]

I don't welcome anyone knocking at my door that I'm not expecting... I'm sociable like that.

[jno]

I think I may go and work in the front room again now... I left it so no lights would show in the front window. Nobody has rung the bell all evening. I am very ancient and not up on this Halloween thingy.

[askyourgran]

Our doorbell rang tonight, I'd run out of sweets etc, I told the OH not to answer the door, ignore it, so what does he do? He opens the flumping door! 'We have someone at the door' says he. Doh!! I had to rummage about for some small change for 4 hulking great kids dressed as skeletons.

[annie0000]

We had 114 guisers last night!

[Daisho]

Mrs.chappie, same here, we bought two big bags of sweets and not a single knock, must have been too cold, ah well bye bye teeth.

[annie0000]

When we go out, we only go to houses decorated for halloween, I think most people do the same, that way, people who aren't interested don't get bothered.

[mrs.chappie]

Annie, what a great idea.

[askyourgran]

Thats a really good idea annie.
The thing that annoys me about Halloween night is that we'll have to go through this again on Mischievous night 4 Nov. It's almost the same sort of thing, I wish we could have one or the other.

[sherrardk]

We only go to houses that are openly inviting us - but after loosing a bit of my tooth earlier on a really nice chewy sweet (I love kids sweets) I have gone off the whole thing!

[annie0000]

It works well when there are enough houses decorated - why would you go to a house with the curtains shut and no decorations when the one next door has a lit pumpkin outside and some baloons etc outside? The pound store did some really good things this year and on halloween itself, tesco had their pumpkins reduced to 50p so it doesn't need to cost a lot - there were some fantastic houses this year, one guy had backprojected the Caspar movie onto his blinds in his livingroom so you could watch it from outside - another house had some fake gravestones in the front lawn. It was good fun and no trouble that i saw - I think the worst was that some of the kids had been eating some of their haul on the way round and there was loads of sweetie wrappers just dropped instead of taken home.