So Who Likes HALLOWEEN??

**Rick** · 31-10-2013, 05:01 PM

As per the title......who likes Halloween?

Do you mind children turning up at your door?

Do you turn the lights off and sit in the dark ignoring the door!!??

Have you got your sweeties in?

Are you taking LOs out this evening?

I personally don't particularly like that knock on the door, although I have a tub of sweets at the ready

I don't mind the tiny ones who turn up with their parents and who have made an effort.....don't like the ones who turn up with a sheet on their head asking for sweets or they'll egg your house

**Bumble Beez** · 31-10-2013, 05:06 PM

I'm with you...

Littlies looking cute dressed up and with parents is fine, when they are older...hmmm not so much!

We have ended up not answering the door over recent years, simply because my youngest was scared one year so badly that he now dreads the knock!!

And we have had cars floured, eggs etc

not good.

We don't take our boys out either x

**emma04** · 31-10-2013, 05:09 PM

Love doing the pumpkins
Hate people knocking the door (but I've got sweets just incase!)
Have decorated the house
Kids have dressed up (my own)

Did my first complicated carving this year!

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**FussyElmo** · 31-10-2013, 05:09 PM

Ive lit the pumpkins so they know they can knock.

As the others I don't mind the little ones but don't see why the teenagers should knock.

We don't trick or treat but going to Halloween party tomorrow

**maryp0ppins** · 31-10-2013, 05:17 PM

The front of my house invites them. Pumpkin on my doorstep all lit up, things hanging from front windows. The kids love it & they all come to me every year. I've decorated inside too for mindees. My kids 15 & 16 loved it also as youngsters but not too bothered now :-/
HAPPY HALLOWEEN x

**hectors house** · 31-10-2013, 05:18 PM

My daughter's 28th birthday today - have put sweets outside for little ones to help themselves as cooking a birthday tea for 9 people and haven't got time to keep going and opening door - we don't get many witches and ghosts up here as mostly OAP bungalows and as the neighbours across the road with children are very religious I don't think they let them out trick or treating.

**Roseolivia** · 31-10-2013, 05:19 PM

I have my pumpkin at the door ready with the sweets. We meet up with others in the village and the postmaster has a list of the addresses we can knock at.

**loocyloo** · 31-10-2013, 05:24 PM

Wow emma... That's great.

If we're in then I decorate the front of the house, light pumpkins and get ready for trick or treaters

This year we're out so currently sitting in darkness as about to leave!

I love seeing all the little ones dressed up and I don't even mind the teenagers who have made an effort. Last year I saw 2 very glam witches walking down the road ... They were boys! :-)

**littlebears1009** · 31-10-2013, 05:27 PM

I feel like a right humbug. I have no sweets and I havent lit the pumpkin and I have shut the blinds with the intention of not answering the door. My 3 yo doesnt get it but my 5 yo does although shes gone to a party at the moment. Maybe I should nip the shops and get some sweets? I just hate going to the door when its dark and my husband is working late shift. We didnt get many last year, my OH normally takes them trick or treating but just a shame it falls on back shift this yr :-(

**JCrakers** · 31-10-2013, 05:47 PM

Ive done up the front of the house with decorations. Little ones helped me this afternoon, and weve had 5 groups round already. There will be probably another 100 kids round between now and 8pm. Its quite a big this around here.

My son is upstairs not bothered, my dd is out at a party and then going trick or treating and im in with dh, sweets and trying to eat tea

Last year was the first time in 14yrs that we didn't do anything. We sat with the lights off with no decorations out an no one rang the bell.

**Pixie dust** · 31-10-2013, 05:47 PM

Our pumpkin is lit on the doorstep, sweets are ready....like everyone else I don't mind the little ones who knock early evening. A couple of my little mindees are supposed to be knocking. We live on a little cul-d-sac with a lot of OAPs who don't open the door so we don't normally get too many. As a family we never go trick or treating but had parties when the children were younger but they are teenagers now and are happy to give out the sweets at the door.

Well it's nearly 6pm and nobody has been yet!!!!

**Bumble Beez** · 31-10-2013, 06:02 PM

We've had no trick or treaters yet

Sarah x

**Rick** · 31-10-2013, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by Bumble Beez

We've had no trick or treaters yet

Sarah x

My post-Halloween evening sweetie stash is diminishing

**FussyElmo** · 31-10-2013, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Bumble Beez

We've had no trick or treaters yet

Sarah x

My treats are all gone

**Rick** · 31-10-2013, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by FussyElmo

My treats are all gone

What are you going to do now? No treats or no door-opening

**alex1604** · 31-10-2013, 06:28 PM

I've run out of sweets too! I've got the gingerbread men we made today on standby in case anymore people knock, they were meant for our fireworks party on Saturday! If it gets to 7pm then I think I'll bring the pumpkin in and turn the light off as little ones should be getting ready for bed by then and I don't like teenagers knocking (and I doubt they would be impressed with my gingerbread men anyway!)

**funemnx** · 31-10-2013, 06:34 PM

two of my ex-mindees have just knocked! It was so great to see them all dressed up - wasn't expecting them as they moved hundreds of miles away! Usually we just get the mindees knocking but always get way too many sweeties in just in case and end up eating them myself...

**Tulip** · 31-10-2013, 06:36 PM

All decked up at the front of the house and three pumkins! Running low on sweeties now though, I'm gonna have to stop eating them

**Rick** · 31-10-2013, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by alex1604

I've run out of sweets too! I've got the gingerbread men we made today on standby in case anymore people knock, they were meant for our fireworks party on Saturday! If it gets to 7pm then I think I'll bring the pumpkin in and turn the light off as little ones should be getting ready for bed by then and I don't like teenagers knocking (and I doubt they would be impressed with my gingerbread men anyway!)

Just run out of sweets now and we too have little gingerbread men on standby!