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do you let your children go trick-or-treat? alone? with you? never? are you too afraid of the whackos out there to let them go? the ER at our hospital will X-ray candy. how sad it is necessary to do so. how do you feel about it? gawd, when i was a kid it was pure fun, no fear. :yh_pumpkn :yh_pumpkn :yh_pumpkn

lady cop wrote: do you let your children go trick-or-treat? alone? with you? never? are you too afraid of the whackos out there to let them go? the ER at our hospital will X-ray candy. how sad it is necessary to do so. how do you feel about it? gawd, when i was a kid it was pure fun, no fear. :yh_pumpkn :yh_pumpkn :yh_pumpkn


It sure ain't what it used to be, and I am glad my kids are beyond door to door begging.

I agree Abbey its not the same now....here in Spain its a big thing even the adults get dressed up and we have big parties........but then in Spain its any excuse for a party, and its a lot safer here for the kids, not nearly as much crime.

We have adopted this tradition in the uk and i will probably sound like a killjoy but it really pisses me off!

Dont know how it works in the States but here in Britain kids bang on my door the week leading up to Halloween

begging for money and they drive me bonkers.

Try and give em sweets (candy) and they look at you as if you've fallen off a spaceship.

Sorry what was the question again?

Give them monopoly money, that will be funny.

Thankfully, my kids are grown up, I wouldn't want them out to trick or treat anymore. It was such fun as kids, we could go anywhere, eat everything, never have a problem.

He is 7, so he goes with me. This will be the second year without dad and the first year without his beloved rottweiler but we will make it fun. It is also the first year he will not be dressed as Spiderman. This year, he wants to be a soldier for holloween so we are off to the Army Surplus Store for a "real" uniform. Just like Dad's. LOL!!

We only go in neighborhoods we know (this year, my mom's which is the same neighborhood I grew up in with most of the same families) and I go through the candy discarding those big sugar-filled bubblegums, anything that is not individually wrapped and anything that looks suspicious.

I agree. It's just not safe.

I remember when I was a kid, there was one man's house that we could not knock on his door at Halloween or any other time. It was an old man. (This was in NE Philadelphia, PA.) He had been caught giving a kid an apple with a razor blade in it. The kid actually cut his mouth on it, too. The police were there the year that it happened, and my Mom took me in from trick or treating that year early.

I also remember when I was growing up that teenagers used to go trick or treating. They would get dressed up, have their beer and etc. parties. and then go trick or treating. Teenagers just don't do that now. I think stealing candy bags is more common for them now.

I say that the parents in a neighborhood should get together and take turns year after year throwing Halloween parties for all of the children in the neighborhood, you know, going by age ranges and whatnot. It's a much safer idea.

I live in a very rural area, our neighbors are all types with a bunch of unfenced dogs. I take them to a community Halloween party instead. We all get dressed up, including me, and go trick or treat at booths set up by businesses and play games and do the pumpkin decoration contest. It's great fun!

im not a halloween fan, ive never been trick or treating and am now old enough never to have to!

i dont really like halloween myself, i dont like the fact kids get sweets or money, in the old days when they used to really dress up it wasnt too bad but now they expect it for nothing

plus theres the fact i find halloween kinda scary, i hate masks, dont like that you cant see peoples faces, makes me not trust them, i dont feel safe, you can tell a LOT from a persons face.....

As an 'old fogey' I would say...cut out the trick or treating but have a halloween party if you want....a lot of old folks are intimidated by trick or treaters....who can tell the difference between the genuine and the yobs ?

abbey wrote: We have adopted this tradition in the uk and i will probably sound like a killjoy but it really pisses me off!

Dont know how it works in the States but here in Britain kids bang on my door the week leading up to Halloween

begging for money and they drive me bonkers.

Try and give em sweets (candy) and they look at you as if you've fallen off a spaceship.

Sorry what was the question again?


Make that two killjoys, abbey. Bit like Christmas - a bang on the door, two words of a seasonal song and a hand outstretched for money. No money forthcoming and you're told to go away, in no uncertain terms

We take the kids out together. This year my 13 & 11 yr olds will stay at home and hand out candy...We only go out to the neighborhood we live in so we know everyone..but what is sad -is the kids that come to our door and we have no idea who they are and they are way to young to be out...and we have 2 child molesters in our block...(they should be on their way out because of the 2000 ft rule.YEAH!!!)

theia wrote: Make that two killjoys, abbey. Bit like Christmas - a bang on the door, two words of a seasonal song and a hand outstretched for money. No money forthcoming and you're told to go away, in no uncertain termsNot forgetting Bonfire night!

I remember when i was a kid everybody stuffed and dressed a guy and asked "penny for the guy" (my mum would'nt let us :-1 )

Now they bang on the door and say "bonfire night"....... WTF!! :-2

abbey wrote: Not forgetting Bonfire night!

I remember when i was a kid everybody stuffed and dressed a guy and asked "penny for the guy" (my mum would'nt let us :-1 )

Now they bang on the door and say "bonfire night"....... WTF!! :-2


Exactly! said theia, emphatically and sounding more and more like the "grumpy old men and women" on BBC2 but not caring because she knows it's right.

theia wrote: Exactly! said theia, emphatically and sounding more and more like the "grumpy old men and women" on BBC2 but not caring because she knows it's right.I am a grumpy old woman, i'm like a female Victor Meldrew. :wah:

abbey wrote: I am a grumpy old woman, i'm like a female Victor Meldrew. :wah:cobblers :p

lady cop wrote: cobblers :p Erm...no LC, i dont mend shoes, just buy lots of them. :wah:

I dunno what I'm gonna do this year... I'm 16 now so I'll probably hit up a few parties (girls are WAY cooler than candy) lol...

I consider it getting even in advance for the burgling they are going to be doing in a few years.




That's not right, not all kids are gonna burglarize you... you are evil

I'm gonna have to add my name to the list of people that don't like Halloween. I've never been trick or treating and can't say that going round asking for sweets ever appealed to me.



Now though Halloween is just a joke. The kids around our area aren't a nice bunch, and have to be known to practice the trick side more of Halloween, with flour and water bombs being thrown all over the houses in this area. Of course. Yet for some reason their parents still think it's great and allow this every year. Another grumble is that the kids that do actually for trick or treating, don't even put any effort into making a mask or costume. They think they can just come up to your door, say a few words, and gets sweets in return. Not from me they ain't grumble, grumble!!!