Well it took 10 minutes to clear all my chocolate , bags of haribo and even my satsuma oranges ( which some children choose) ,all were polite ( obviously) as it was in their interest lol,
Have a good night everyone , plenty of excercise running to the door and back anyway
Haribo Tangfastics 😍 unashamedly, my guilty pleasure!
They do get the old glands flowing dont they ,lol
😂 yes, Am drooling 🤤 now!
My daughter who has always enjoyed Halloween as a child always makes an effort to dress the outside of her house and herself(she's 50). She has coloured smoke meeting visitors at the door., skeletons popping up and of course goodie bags. She has just rung me to say she has had 45 children visit so far and its only 7 Oclock! All meticulously polite I might add.
Wow, A Great Daughter you have Chrys. My daughter has just shared her Halloween Photo's in Sunny Spain, her & two girl Friends are Dressed up Brilliantly on their Horses who have bags of sweets for the Children, Then off to a BBQ with her grandchildren, My Great GCH. My Daughter is 48 and one big Kid herself. have a Great night Hun.XXXX
I don't get kiddies knocking ,as my Little Close is dark & Spooky, the kids won't come near, silly considering, tis filled with old people also, I think this is the main reason. Ha Ha . So I ate all the sweets, especially the Haribo's love them. Cheers Kids. XXXX
Phew! Worn out now back and forth to the front door but the grandkids love it, so does Pete. He likes scaring everyone.
Not a packet of sweets left and I even raided the biscuit tin. Lol. Xxxx
As always their is another side to every story.
Tonight I have had eggs thrown at my window, banging on the front door, and a banger going off that not only scared me but my kitties as well. I thought I was going to have a heart attack or worse.
All the children in the terrace know I don’t answer the front door after dark, and I know it’s them as my security cameras picked them up.
Halloween should have stayed across the pond, whilst we had All Hallows’ Eve
J
Totally agree,when we were young and we celebrated guy fawkes night we didn't go soliciting on people doorsteps and sat quietly with our often well created homemade guys ,even outside the local pub,it was a lot safer in those days and if somebody wished to donate a penny in our hats then so the better.How times have changed and sometimes definitely not for the better.
i know i will be classed as a total killjoy but i have consistently bemoaned Halloween at the expense of a good old traditional guy fawkes night complete with fireworks in the garden a bonfire and roast chestnuts.
x
Guy Fawkes night? Please enlighten me....Must be a British thingamajig?J
Guy Fawkes an introduction:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_F...
Basically when you read the history,we used to traditionally celebrate him by building a bonfire and putting him on the top,we would surround the bonfire,make merry with other folk with various local delicacies and local drinks and have a fun evening.
Prior to the evening children would make 'guys' out of old clothing and straw and paper and stuff and plonk him in a pram or similar and ask passing folk to donate a penny for the guy,and of course would ever spend the money received on sweets or fireworks,with the advent of halloween which has become very commercial our old guy fawkes nights are rapidly disappearing but we still do thankfully hold firework displays on November 5th.
i am sorry i did not mean to berate the USA for exporting Halloween as it has been widely adopted over hear per sec so i am just having a whinge about the loss of our tradition.
Love Ski's and Wikipedia x
Need him BACK right Now in Houses of Parliament, Most of them need a banger up.......... Come on Guy , get them Sorted out....Please.
And prior to that in far off times, there would be a real person in the bonfire, a sacrifice to make the land fertile for the coming year.
I’m with you on this one Skis. I turn all the front lights off and sit in the back, pretending to be out! My granddaughter rang me and said ‘nanny, were ringing your bell’ they were outside waiting for me to answer. They’d of had a long wait if it wasn’t for mobile phones! Btw. As children we weren’t allowed to ‘Penny for the guy’ my mum said it was begging. Joy and posh cat x
Joy as children we were not allowed to do lots of things that we somehow managed to get round to doing,:i think we were allowed to do it as it was deemed as being creative.I am glad that your granddaughter managed to prize you out of your bunker and that you lavished her with treats and love in equal amounts. x
Prefer to call it Bonfire night as the idea of 'celebrating' burning someone alive is gruesome. But I also loath any fireworks outwith public displays.
In Scotland we used to do 'guising' where kids dressed up and performed in return for sweets, apples etc. Nowadays they mostly tell terrible jokes but we do get the odd song or recorder . No tricking.
Dee
Oh how I remember those days, home made guy and bonfire and if we were really lucky a few sparklers!
The kids round here are awful, I’m fairly laid back but I’m beginning to get cross.
I want to spend what little time I have left on this planet in quiet contemplation, looking after my kitties, all 5 of them, and reading all the books I haven’t had time to read.
J
Aka mad cat woman!!!
I would be inclined to invite your local social services to review your camera footage if the events were recorded.they might just on the off chance have a word with the offending kids parents but i wouldn't hold your breath on that one. Rest easy now they should all be back home one hopes. x
Skischool already emailed and a copy to the police don’t get mad get even!
Very cold and damp here, so only 7 trick or treaters... I didn't mind not getting up and down for the cold doorway. Our neighborhood is appealing, known for good candy; we usually have at least 200+ . One year 302 set the record. They come from in the town by the van loads. A fun time getting to see the littles in their costumes....J
Had a lot of little visitors . My mixing bowl full of sweets was fully depleted within about two hours. Happily our street as a Facebook chat group which sorted who wanted to be part of the night. There are a number of elderly residents on the streets and we try to organise the night so they will not be bothered if they so wish . However my wife said I am the biggest kid on the street so I had a great might looking at the excitement and wonder in the faces of the little one who came.
Had lots of extremely polite little visitors. Going around in large packs with parents- much safer for them . I'm not a fan of Halloween and our children didn't celebrate when they were young and we don't do the house up- just a pumpkin outside and sweets for the visitors. x
Halloween has always been big in Scotland, it is definitely not an American import. When I was in the Brownies (60 years ago) we always had a Halloween party (in the church hall, pagan celebration didn’t seem to worry the minister). We had costume competitions and they had to be homemade, dooking for apples and the best/worst.....a string stretched across the hall with scones dangling which were covered in black treacle, set swinging and, with arms behind backs, we had to try to take a bite. The mess was incredible. We did the same at home.
Year after year when my children were young we made costumes. When we got loft insulation a couple of years ago a very battered Bertie Bassett costume was found (and binned). One year I spent weeks sewing cut out green felt leaves, and a shadow on to a pair of green tights and a t-shirt to make a Peter Pan outfit. I must have been mad. There were no costumes to buy and anyway would have been viewed as cheating. Although it’s now years since we’ve had any “guisers” at the door (see, we even have an old word for it!), not a lot of children around here now.
We did Guy Fawkes too, we need our bits of celebration up here in the cold, dark north.
I think it's the "Trick or Treat" aspect of Halloween that is the unpopular part of this seasonal nuisance, plus it's now combined (some might say corrupted) with our 5th November fireworks. Many people dread the end of October for the start of irresponsible letting off of fireworks, especially those of us with pets.
P.S. I forgot the turnip (swede) lanterns with a candle inside.....the stink phew! And gouging out the insides was hard work. Pumpkins are for wimps, haha!
We carried those Neeps around the string cutting into your hands. Heavy going
Scraping those turnips out wasnt easy lol.
I am in NZ and have never really had kids trick or treating at my place. I answered the door last night and nearly died of shock when there were 5 young men standing there with an array of scary masks on. There was Freddy from nightmare on Elm Street, the Red Menace, Scary movie face etc. I quickly realised why they were there and raided my grandson's treat box, and practically emptied it. I then, shot off to the supermarket to replenish my little hun's stash because I felt a bit guilty. Then I closed the curtains and pretended I wasn't home for the rest of the night and I am glad I did. Not particularly fond of Halloween, and do not consider it a NZ thing, but I am at an age where I have been around longer that it has here.
I feel guilty not having enough " goodies" for the kids, its age restrictive here ( unofficially) so we know what to expect when we answer the door and the vast majority of kids have adults with them , I had no problems last night
I took my son out with his schoolfriends, all dressed up, they range from 4-10yrs. All of them know only to knock on doors with lit pumpkins outside.
Wouldn’t dream of upsetting anyone who wasn’t participating.
He loves his little ‘stash’ of sweeties 🎃
We have a local internet site that posts who is available for goodies and who's not. We always give , hate to disappoint the kids
Picture on Facebook: outside the door to the house a bowl of broccoli with a sign on it, "Please take only one" I had to laugh.
In our area had a variety minority were polite the majority were not and greedy too. I also think that only those houses with Halloween decorations the trick or treaters should go to. In the north east the night before mischief night cars were vandalised and lit fireworks thrown at cars. A police force put social media posts out for parents to phone their children to ask where they were.
We used to get lots of Halloween visitors usually disrupting our evening meal - thought last year was a one off when the next door kiddies just knocked so pleasantly surprised it was just them again this year so plenty quality street & mini rolls left for me! Think the local schools may have just advised children to just knock at the houses that are decorated or neighbours they know well.
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