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TRICK OR TREATERS

BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
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Trick or treaters do you give them treats or draw the curtains and ignore the door 


TRICK OR TREATERS 20 votes

Yes it's fantastic ☺😊
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Fishy65madpenguindebs64TheRicksterdappledshadeAstroWilderbeast 7 votes
No little sods I'm miserable
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Loraine3BobTheGardenerfidgetbonesKT53Singing GardenerPapi JoZenjeffAlan Clark2 in LiverpoolBig Blue SkyBrexiteer[Deleted User]mrtjformanScreamingFirehawk 13 votes
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  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    edited October 2019
    Yes it's fantastic ☺😊
    I have treats already for tonight!
    Have lots of kids round,usually accompanied by their parents.
    Love the work that has gone into costumes and make-up etc.
    All round here are quite polite and all say Thank You.
    Maybe I am just lucky  :)
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    No little sods I'm miserable
    madpenguin said:
    I have treats already for tonight!
    Have lots of kids round,usually accompanied by their parents.
    Love the work that has gone into costumes and make-up etc.
    All round here are quite polite and all say Thank You.
    Maybe I am just lucky  :)
    That's nice 😊 I'm between two houses at the moment. 1 in Tamworth where the local kids wonder around in wellies in the countryside and the other house on a housing estate in Birmingham where kids will brick your car without batting an eyelid 
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    I love trick or treat as long as it stays in the USA where it belongs.
  • HelixHelix Posts: 631
    I put up with it for the little ones who make a big effort, but get annoyed with hulking teenagers who do nothing but stick a paper mask on.  

    This year I’ve decided to try to avoid the commercial aspect so (if it works when I try to make it this afternoon!) I’ll be handing out bags of orange coloured popcorn.  
  • mrtjformanmrtjforman Posts: 331
    No little sods I'm miserable
    good luck with that Helix. I know parents have a bit of stigma around home-made halloween treats. They are happy to give their kids the latest coctail of synthetic chemical flavourings and sweeteners as long as it is from a supermarket, soon as it's home made from a stranger they get suspicious. Sounds like a brilliant cheap idea and no clue why I haven't seen it in shops before.

    As you can probabably tell I am part of the grumpy camp although the trick or treaters never bother to come as far as my house. One reason to live out in the peace and quiet.
  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276
    Yes it's fantastic ☺😊
    We have a tub of sweets here waiting and ready. I try to think of when I was that age  :)
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Halloween and trick or treat are actually of Celtic origin @barry island but, as with most things "exported" with migrants to the USA it has taken on indecent proportions.  Think spaghetti with meatballs or deep pan pizza with Hawaian or other horror toppings or New York cheesecake which are all travesties of the original.

    They used to do it in the village where Possum went to school in Belgium but it was organised.  There was a list of houses taking part and they all went to town with outside decs and lights and even sound effects.   Children had to be in groups accompanied by at least one parent and they had to be disguised.   The police sent a patrol car round to make sure the older yoofs didn't misbehave and there was a pumpkin soup supper afterwards in the school hall.  We lived too far out down a country road with no footpath so never "hosted".
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    They have a pre-Halloween tradition in Liverpool called "mischief night" yes I know what could possibly go wrong, well thousands of pounds worth of damage that's what, oh! the fun of it.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    No little sods I'm miserable
    barry island said:
    They have a pre-Halloween tradition in Liverpool called "mischief night" yes I know what could possibly go wrong, well thousands of pounds worth of damage that's what, oh! the fun of it.
    How can they tell the difference between "mischief night" and a normal night in Liverpool?
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    So it is all right to teach children to demand something with menaces? If I knocked on your door and demanded money with the threat of unpleasantness if not forthcoming then you would ring the police, so what is different if children do it? Cannot see any myself.
    We just use to set the dog on them.
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