Is it only here in the UK...

skinnyinnotime

OMG what a bunch of miserable people and even putting up signs that say you're not participating too??! UGH.:noway:

I always open my door to trick or treaters and gave them treats, now I have kids and want to take them trick or treating there's no point...because of all the miserable tight gits that don't want to open their doors. Last year not one person opened their door :mad: , our kids were so upset after all the excitement of dressing up for it. We took them to the shops to let them choose whatever sweets they wanted.

Oh no let's not celebrate anything or have fun, what's the point, let's hide in our homes and be tight arses.:ohwell:

HMonsterX

OMG what a bunch of miserable people and even putting up signs that say you're not participating too??! UGH.:noway:

I always open my door to trick or treaters and gave them treats, now I have kids and want to take them trick or treating there's no point...because of all the miserable tight gits that don't want to open their doors. Last year not one person opened their door :mad: , our kids were so upset after all the excitement of dressing up for it. We took them to the shops to let them choose whatever sweets they wanted.

Oh no let's not celebrate anything or have fun, what's the point, let's hide in our homes and be tight arses.:ohwell:

Or lets open the door, get yelled at by chaves, insulted, and later find our car tyres slashed.

yay, what fun.

skinnyinnotime

We love Halloween. We make a fabulous halloween dinner (bloody soup, garlic bread to ward off vampires, witches fingers... you get the idea!). My daughter takes a fair bit of care with her costume. Our whole village pretty much gets involved, and the kids tend to look great. There's a lovely old couple who do baked goods for all the kids, and thoroughly enjoy them all trooping round to say hello...

No nope, in this part of the UK, halloween is pretty cool. I also loved it as a kid. Bobbing for apples....

How nice to read this, makes a very pleasant change!!

skinnyinnotime

OMG what a bunch of miserable people and even putting up signs that say you're not participating too??! UGH.:noway:

I always open my door to trick or treaters and gave them treats, now I have kids and want to take them trick or treating there's no point...because of all the miserable tight gits that don't want to open their doors. Last year not one person opened their door :mad: , our kids were so upset after all the excitement of dressing up for it. We took them to the shops to let them choose whatever sweets they wanted.

Oh no let's not celebrate anything or have fun, what's the point, let's hide in our homes and be tight arses.:ohwell:

Or lets open the door, get yelled at by chaves, insulted, and later find our car tyres slashed.

yay, what fun.

Yeah that's what me and my kids did last year, of course.:sick:

BrewerGeorge

Mostly just for kids here. In our neighborhood, several of the parents give out drinks to the grown-ups taking kids around, so it's fun for us, too.

LilMissFoodie

I've never really celebrated it (but then, I don't have any kids yet). I think the dressing up bit would be fun, maybe doing some themed cooking or having a party. Not so sure about wandering around knocking on strangers doors though.

As for answering the door, since I moved here I won't even answer the door to have a parcel delivered haha, I'd rather pick it up from the post office. London scares me sometimes! Definitely wouldn't be answering to teenagers!!

HMonsterX

OMG what a bunch of miserable people and even putting up signs that say you're not participating too??! UGH.:noway:

I always open my door to trick or treaters and gave them treats, now I have kids and want to take them trick or treating there's no point...because of all the miserable tight gits that don't want to open their doors. Last year not one person opened their door :mad: , our kids were so upset after all the excitement of dressing up for it. We took them to the shops to let them choose whatever sweets they wanted.

Oh no let's not celebrate anything or have fun, what's the point, let's hide in our homes and be tight arses.:ohwell:

Or lets open the door, get yelled at by chaves, insulted, and later find our car tyres slashed.

yay, what fun.

Yeah that's what me and my kids did last year, of course.:sick:

You and your kids aren't the gangs of drunk, drugged up chavs using halloween as an excuse to scare the **** out of old people and get free cash.

sailingsal

In the village i grew up in in Scotland halloween was cool, you had to learn a poem, song or jokes to earn sweets and went round with friends and parents to peoples houses. I now live in a city and halloween doesn't happen. My son's school does a halloween party but the kids don't tend to go out.

DannyMussels

OMG what a bunch of miserable people and even putting up signs that say you're not participating too??! UGH.:noway:

I always open my door to trick or treaters and gave them treats, now I have kids and want to take them trick or treating there's no point...because of all the miserable tight gits that don't want to open their doors. Last year not one person opened their door :mad: , our kids were so upset after all the excitement of dressing up for it. We took them to the shops to let them choose whatever sweets they wanted.

Oh no let's not celebrate anything or have fun, what's the point, let's hide in our homes and be tight arses.:ohwell:

Are you for real??

Around here, theres busy and slow parts of town. In the better areas, parents drop their kids off (more houses, etc) and sometimes those houses get 200-300 kids in a night. The police and other groups drive around and hand out candy and gift certificates to children dressed in safe (reflective stuff, flashlights, etc) costumes.

As far as people not partaking, generally, if the house has lights off, they aren't giving candy. Certain blocks have very few who give any.

Halloweens my favorite time of the year, but it'd be heartbreaking as a kid to go and have even a handful of houses with no response, or nobody giving candy.

I think this year I'm gonna just bring a stash of candy with me and give it out to whoever I see all day. Maybe creepy, but maybe it'll make someones day. Also in a small town, chances are I'll know 75% of the people anyway.

I'm also dressing up all weekend. 3-4 days. And booked time off.

I'm so hardcore.

Tiggerrick

And its a wonderful excuse for people to dress up like sluts

um, a nurse costume is not HALLOWEEN.

You'd be scared if you knew some of the nurses I know.:sick:

skinnyinnotime

OMG what a bunch of miserable people and even putting up signs that say you're not participating too??! UGH.:noway:

I always open my door to trick or treaters and gave them treats, now I have kids and want to take them trick or treating there's no point...because of all the miserable tight gits that don't want to open their doors. Last year not one person opened their door :mad: , our kids were so upset after all the excitement of dressing up for it. We took them to the shops to let them choose whatever sweets they wanted.

Oh no let's not celebrate anything or have fun, what's the point, let's hide in our homes and be tight arses.:ohwell:

Are you for real??

Around here, theres busy and slow parts of town. In the better areas, parents drop their kids off (more houses, etc) and sometimes those houses get 200-300 kids in a night. The police and other groups drive around and hand out candy and gift certificates to children dressed in safe (reflective stuff, flashlights, etc) costumes.

As far as people not partaking, generally, if the house has lights off, they aren't giving candy. Certain blocks have very few who give any.

Halloweens my favorite time of the year, but it'd be heartbreaking as a kid to go and have even a handful of houses with no response, or nobody giving candy.

I think this year I'm gonna just bring a stash of candy with me and give it out to whoever I see all day. Maybe creepy, but maybe it'll make someones day. Also in a small town, chances are I'll know 75% of the people anyway.

I'm also dressing up all weekend. 3-4 days. And booked time off.

I'm so hardcore.

Sadly yes.

Good for you and everyone in your area, sounds lovely, only wish we lived somewhere half as nice.

Teliooo

I'm not up for giving kids horribly sugary food. Also mostly only teenagers come to the door. I don't hate it, it is just yet another day for companies to exploit.

WifeNMama

(Canada) I loved Halloween as a kid, but last year I just took my then two year old and newborn to the park until it got dark, then came home and made sure the door was locked and front lights off so I could put the kids to bed. People came to the door anyway, repeatedly rang the doorbell,and one kid actually tried the doorknob! We didn't have the money to buy a bunch of candy, or I would have gladly opened to them. But if the lights are off, and they jiggle the doorknob... I don't know what they were thinking...

Glad I didn't take my little guy trick or treating, all the decorations were out if a cheap horror movie. Its supposed to be for kids, and I don't want to put those images into my kids head. It's to the point where I don't want to bring him to stores because of all the mangled, bloody half corpse walking dead severed heads bones sticking out crap they have on display for a month. Like they ran a cemetary through a trash compacter and nailed it to the walls. Nasty.

hannahlbur

I bought a costume for my dogs this year...but mostly we really don't do much for it in this area.

xtinalovexo

you must live in Hackney.

bregalad5

I'm American...

I grew up in the middle of nowhere and my parents weren't huge on Halloween. We'd dress up and go to relatives' houses and if we were lucky we'd get to go down a couple streets in town. We only ever had relatives and neighborhood kids (all, what, 5 of them?) stop by our house. Usually we'd still have half a bag of candy left.

We had a Halloween "party" at work a couple years ago. That's the only time I've dressed up since middle school. I don't have any friends who are big into it, so I've never even been to a Halloween party since I was in 7th or 8th grade (other than the thing at work, which was kinda lame).

HMonsterX

you must live in Hackney.

Oddly enough, my mum IS from Hackney!

kyle4jem

In the village i grew up in in Scotland halloween was cool, you had to learn a poem, song or jokes to earn sweets and went round with friends and parents to peoples houses. I now live in a city and halloween doesn't happen. My son's school does a halloween party but the kids don't tend to go out.

We used to call it guising... because you got dressed up in a disguise .... and that was another thing trying to guess who was in which costume because sometimes you'd have full head masks on.

I've been Wee Willie Winkie, Alladin, a robot and the last time I went out when I was about 14 was as Quasimodo. All guid harmless fun!

kyle4jem

I'm not up for giving kids horribly sugary food. Also mostly only teenagers come to the door. I don't hate it, it is just yet another day for companies to exploit.

In the good old days you only got one sweetie per household and you usually also got lots of fruit and nuts too... soi it wasn't all bad and as kids we were a lot more active and outdoors so we burnt up all the extra calories we got from sweets.

Like so many holiday occasions, it has become more exploited and commercialised; all the store bough costumes because busy parents have no time to make their own.. or worse, to entice small kids who want to be their favourite Disney character and create merry hell in the store when they're told they can't have the £25 outfit. It's a lot of pressure on parents and kids alike nowadays.

kyle4jem

As for answering the door, since I moved here I won't even answer the door to have a parcel delivered haha, I'd rather pick it up from the post office. London scares me sometimes! Definitely wouldn't be answering to teenagers!!

When I lived in London, I knew hardly anyone from the neighbourhood, so I always felt a bit on edge when the doorbell went in the evening.

It's nice now that I live in a real community where I know my neighbours and feel relatively safe.

kyle4jem

We love Halloween. We make a fabulous halloween dinner (bloody soup, garlic bread to ward off vampires, witches fingers... you get the idea!). My daughter takes a fair bit of care with her costume. Our whole village pretty much gets involved, and the kids tend to look great. There's a lovely old couple who do baked goods for all the kids, and thoroughly enjoy them all trooping round to say hello...

So nope, in this part of the UK, halloween is pretty cool. I also loved it as a kid. Bobbing for apples....

Sounds wonderful ... and so traditional. You're very lucky!

nikirushka

I like it to a point, it's fun with the trick or treating, but it's starting to go the way of christmas with all the decs and crap in the stores.

That said, I also put a note on my door saying 'no trick or treats - sorry' - but it's not me being a hallowe'en Scrooge, it's me protecting mine and my dogs' sanity because I have two very nervous, stressy dogs who just won't cope with people knocking on the door all evening (and the barking would drive me and the neighbours mad). Once in a while is fine but the kids round here really like their T-or-T-ing!

Oh, for that house in the country...

I would love to go to the US to join in though, find the right place where all the furries come out to play, I love that!

Judas_Queen

I love halloween!

BUT!......

Only for seeing friends and watching scary movies and making halloween cupcakes/biscuits and making spooky cocktails!

Last year me and some friends went to an outdoor showing of Paranormal Activity at our uni.. we took big coats, blankets, popcorn and the SU was serving special spooky green drinks

It was amazing! I love halloween...

except for the sluts....

edonald774

we love it in scotland, altjough not like in the states.

grrrlface

In my area (in the UK) all the kids from the council estate come down to our neighbourhood and try and get money. Some don't even dress up, they just come and knock on your door.

We don't answer the door anymore. We don't mind giving sweets to our neighbourhood kids but not ones that come begging for money and some of those aren't even kids...

TexasNurseMom78

Here in small town USA Halloween is going strong. We have several fall festivals at schools and churches where kids can dress up and play games to win candy and prizes. And there is one main street where all the kids go on Halloween night. The police are on bike and foot patrol and the traffic is blocked off for safety. it is fun and safe where I live. And very family oriented.

lacewitch

I love halloween.
I love the spirit and the tradition
I celebrate all souls, all saints and all hallows eve.
I make traditional Halloween treats such as soul cakes
halloween is a British festival and I love it including the dressing up the festivities and the fun but allso the traditions such as apple bobbing.

I hate the traditions of mischief-making and violence that people feel they can get away with. this is not Halloween this is people taking advantage and thinking they can get away with intimidation and bad behaviour. :mad:

corieueber

I was in US one year at halloween and it was fun, friends we were staying with had kids and they dressed up and we all walked the neighbourhood door knocking, then took the kids home to bed and most of the adults went to a haunted house thing was lots of fun

however l live in Australia and it's not a tradition over here and as much as the stores try to sell us halloween goods l don't want to see it here

beccyleigh

when I was a kid Halloween was a nothing day, Guy Fawkes night (5th November) was the big one, all the neighborhood kids would get together & make Guy Fawkes dummies then walk around the streets with them (usually with the dummy in a pram, lol) & stop passers by to give a "penny for the guy" we would then have a backyard bonfire & burn the Guy Fawkes & parents would hand out sparkler & there would be fireworks, apple bobbing & bonfires.

Alot of fun, I haven't see a Guy Fawkes dummy in a long time sadly. Another English tradition fallen to the wayside.

cw_london

I do hate Halloween, but thats just me being grumpy!