Halloween

[Freddie]

Halloween..Guy Fawkes Night what ever it may be that you call it..

what happens around your area ??

here we get the little kids all dressed up going 'trick or treating' very cute they are too..

anyway my question is..do you buy in treats to hand out ?

this year we bought..a box of 64 bags of Cheese Sticks..a box of 50 Candy necklaces and a box of 70 mini Hershey bars..eg..'Oh Henrys' 'Kissables' 'Reese Cups' 'Glosettes' and mini 'Hersey' choclate bars..i just hope that's enough..

[smurfboy]

Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night (Bonfire Night) are different things.

I think you're mad wasting all that money. Why should you give food to children just because they dress up and knock at the door? Thankfully I now live in a block with a secure code, so the little brats can't get in and pester me.

[Freddie]

I think you're mad wasting all that money. Why should you give food to children just because they dress up and knock at the door? Thankfully I now live in a block with a secure code, so the little brats can't get in and pester me.

Think what you like..but mad i am not..

i hand out candy by choice not because i have to..i like to see the little kids in their costumes and be happy without a care in the world before they grow up and realise what a bad world we live in..where there are grumpy people who lock themselves up in secured coded blocks..and believe that 4,5,6 and 7yrs olds have it in them to be Brats

[smurfboy]

I don't 'lock myself up' as you put it!  Lots of people enjoy security and not being pestered by door to door sellers or religious zealots. You asked if people bought 'candy' to give out, I responded with my opinion - if you didn't want to know, you shouldn't have asked.

Maybe you are very lucky, and where you live the kids are sweet storybook types who politely knock and ask for treats once a year, delighting the assembled company with their costumes and adorable antics. Maybe when you've lived somewhere where the kids don't bother to dress up and instead just walk up to you and say 'trick or treat - give us some money then' and chuck eggs at your window if you don't, you'll be less pious about the whole thing.

[smurfboy]

and believe that 4,5,6 and 7yrs olds have it in them to be Brats

Of course they do! And what the hell are the parents thinking sending kids of that age on their own?

[Forth Bridges]

Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night
are diffrent:

Halloween: ghost and ghouls!

 Guy Fawkes Night: fire works, and celelbratying that someone nearly blow up parmliemnt, ah happy days

[Jamsi]

I always buy treats for the kids that come to the door but if they come any time before 31st I tell them to go away and come on the correct date.

Not had any trouble so far but we do live in a quiet area so only get a few trick or treaters.

I usually buy lollies and the multi packs of haribo then give them each a small bag of haribo and a lolly. No one has ever asked for money and if they did I wouldn't give them any as trick or treat is supposed to  be...

"Trick or treat, give us something good to eat"

Money is not for eating!

[Freddie]

You asked if people bought 'candy' to give out, I responded with my opinion - if you didn't want to know, you shouldn't have asked.

you are correct..and i do want to know what people think..i apologise for my remark toward you..

Maybe you are very lucky, and where you live the kids are sweet storybook types who politely knock and ask for treats once a year, delighting the assembled company with their costumes and adorable antics. Maybe when you've lived somewhere where the kids don't bother to dress up and instead just walk up to you and say 'trick or treat - give us some money then' and chuck eggs at your window if you don't, you'll be less pious about the whole thing.

yes maybe i am lucky NOW..and just so you know..living in Scotland most of my life i DO know what it's like..

and believe that 4,5,6 and 7yrs olds have it in them to be Brats

Of course they do! And what the hell are the parents thinking sending kids of that age on their own?

the parents don't send them out on there own..the parents come along with them..as not only do the kids get a dressed up but people dress up there houses and lawns and get into the spirit of it all..

i'm sorry if this thread hasn't quite turned out like i hoped..and i'm also sorry you can't experience what i will on Tuesday evening..

[smurfboy]

I'll live.

[loulou]

I look out of the window and if it is my neighbours kids I will answer the door and give them sweets. If anyone says 'trick or treat' I remind them we are not in America and give them nothing. I like 'the sky is blue, the grass is green, have you got a penny for halloween' . That can get 50p and a bar of choc off me.

[Forth Bridges]

I like halloween is comeing, the gesse are getting fat, do you have a faring for the old man hat, if you don;t have a farning a fiver will do, if you don;t have a fiver, god bleess you! 

[loulou]

That's sweet 623.

[oldspice]

I don't 'celebrate' halloween and I don't encourage kids to knock at my door.  I put a polite notice on my door explaining that I do not do halloween.  I do give out small chocolate bars and sweeties to the local kids at Christmas as I think that is more fitting. I am very concerned at the way halloween has grown in recent years and I feel it is just an excuse for money-making.

[wjp666]

in my opinion, Halloween is an extremely cool thing for kids... and we should all make a little more effort to celebrate it more. it always bugged me when i was a lad that no-one else on my street carved pumpkins or understood what the hell i even meant by 'trick or treat'. i think this is one occasion where the Yanks have it right. (so there.)

[smurfboy]

But do any of them actually understand it's a pagan festival? I can't understand for the life of me why American go to Halloween parties dressed as people like Marilyn Monroe or Elvis - what do they have to do with it?