Halloween approaches... Love it or loath it?

[ChrisKH]

Oh for heavens sake look at the plus side. Pumpkin and potato soup last night with lots of pepper.

 

[XmisterIS]

do you still squash your balls against the window and yell 'trick or treat!'?

I usually pop them through the letterbox

Choccie digestives laced with Ex-lax.

Oh that one I must try!

Another thing I'm thinking of is coming to the door with a chainsaw and a hockey mask ...

 

[Browser]

Love it for the kids as they enjoy going out.
Loathe it because it's an imported American tradition.
I am a mere 38 years old and can remember when we used to celebrate Hallow'een without Trick Or Treating, why can't we still do it that way?

 

[trustysteed]

I usually pop them through the letterbox

you may still be identified in a line-up, mind! or a taste-test...

shall i mention the new scratch and sniff procedure?

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I don't mind the kids doing it with their folks. They knock politely and are (generally) pretty excited at getting some stuff.

I can't abide the teenagers though - they bang on the door (we have kids who need to sleep!) and expect a lot if you answer it.

Last year we obviously displeased some of the little angels as they visited and smashed the pumpkin I had carved which was on the front porch. !

 

[trustysteed]

perhaps the trick (sic) is to open the door holding the knife you used to carve the pumpkin with and ask 'wtf do you want this time of night?'

 

[badkitty]

Sorry I'm so late to this thread..have been too busy organising the Halloween parties.

Me and my spooky entourage and will be at my friends remote, creaky farmhouse for the duration along with 4 other families.

Will be starting at 12.00 midday on Saturday afternoon, with a make it party for the little kids (doing all the pumpkins,ghost cakes, bat biscuits etc,and decorations ), then we'll scare them witless with a spooky ghost walk in the dark lit only by the pumpkins. If they survive that, we'll let them do apple-bobbing etc.

Then we pack them all off to bed, and us grown ups (I use the term loosely) will have our party, which will be just like the kids one but alcohol fuelled.

Then we'll all collapse into bed and get up for a massive fried breakfast at about midday on Sunday.




So yeah. Bloody hate Halloween, me.

 

[Crackle]

That's the way to do it BK.

 

[Twenty Inch]

It's my birthday. I make trick or treaters sing "Happy Birthday" before handing over the chocolate.

 

[Auntie Helen]

I don't particularly like it and never have. The thing I find odd is that 364 days of the year we tell kids not to accept sweets from strangers, and on Hallowe'en they go round knocking on doors and asking for sweets from strangers. Or demanding money with menaces.

 

[badkitty]

It's my birthday. I make trick or treaters sing "Happy Birthday" before handing over the chocolate.

Lol! That's hilarious! I like your style.

 

[Plax]

I loathe it. It's basically a form of institutionalised begging.
They don't want sweets nowadays, they expect money.
I now switch all the lights off at the front of the house and hide in the back. Or I go to Mr Plax's flat and then we only have to put up with the intercom occassionally buzzing, but just ignore that.

I also hate Carol singers. They are the ones that usually catch me unawares and I accidentally open the door to them.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I loathe it. It's basically a form of institutionalised begging.
They don't want sweets nowadays, they expect money.
I now switch all the lights off at the front of the house and hide in the back. Or I go to Mr Plax's flat and then we only have to put up with the intercom occassionally buzzing, but just ignore that.

I also hate Carol singers. They are the ones that usually catch me unawares and I accidentally open the door to them.

Surely the singing is a bit of a clue!!

 

[darkstar]

I'm a fan of Halloween, it's good fun for kids and an excuses to have a massive house party..
Some people are just miserable, let others have fun if you don't want to!!

 

[trustysteed]

let others have fun if you don't want to!!

no problem with that but do it in their own time and in their own place, not come round to your house and annoy the crap out of you.