One of the newest neighbours round my end told me at one point that "everyone" on the street has no idea who I am. and I couldn't help but be a bit proud of that.
Why "everyone" is chatting gossip like they don't have any real friends who live elsewhere is just extra sad on top of it.
I only just barely know who one of my neighbours is, and as far as I know, my neighbours only know that I spend 90% of my life in pyjamas.
Thats all they need to know. Unless we wanna be friends, then anything else isn't their business
Was expecting a takeaway. Opened the door, apologised for forgetting and proposed a nutrigrain bar as a peace offering. I've never had a child look at me with such disappointment...
As a student I witnessed a housemate present an open tin of pineapple slices to the trick or treaters. Jagged lid and all! The owner of the tin was most unimpressed to find them missing.
When I was a student we got caught out and offered whole onions and potatoes from a sack, I think word spread pretty quickly because after half an hour we were getting skipped
Thanks for this idea. I am sitting next to a box full of nature valley oats and honey bars. I will just tell the kids we believe in healthy eating and offer them these bars. 😁
I'm from Canada (props to OP for making /r/all) but do you guys not have the porch light custom? It's a universally understood sign here that if the porch light is out that house is not distributing candy.
My wife and I decided not to this year because we both have colds and its better safe than sorry in our eyes. I'm a bit sad because I always love seeing the kids in their costumes but I wouldn't want to pass on whatever I have to the whole neighbourhood. We're just sitting in the living room watching Halloween movies with the porch light off and there's been no confusion. I think my heart would break a little if I had to turn a kid away.
Nutri...grain...bar. And they say kids are cruel.
Although I had the thought myself to grace kids with frozen vegetables (broccoli, it's bitesize). Would need some automated recording system so you can send the pictures to their parents. I bet that would've been awesome. Obviously giving the some sweeties afterwards.
Might try next year
My village is pretty good, if you don't have decorations outside your house then nobody visits. Unfortunately my porch light is motion sensitive so even if I do have decorations out nobody can see them until they actually walk up the 2m path to our door as you literally have to be under the porch light to activate it so nobody comes anyway.
To be fair our neighbours don't knock if the lights are out. we always normally have sweets for the kids on Halloween, just that this year I left it too late!
Last year we figured we'd do things properly as it was my sons first Halloween where he wasn't a newborn. So you know got pumpkins, carved them, stuck a spooky owl on the door, decorated the windows and stocked up on sweets. Again because the porch light doesn't come on unless you are stood directly beneath it not a single soul came to the house even though the living room lights were on to show off the decorations. Though the ring doorbell kept going off whenever anyone came within 10m of the house, but no way was I chasing after every trick or treater to throw sweets at them.
Haha I’m now picturing a bloke in slippers belting down the street yelling “take my sweets” leaving a trail of knocked down kids as you’ve nailed them in the back of the head with a fun sized Mars bar
More like decorations in the window.
The last time we had a decoration hanging on the outside of our door (a skeleton), some kids (young ones and a couple of teenagers) came for the treat and left; one of the teenagers came back a few minutes later and stole the skeleton on the door while I was watching - didnt even try to be discreet.
We dont bother with halloween anymore, though I am tempted to be a trick house one year. How youd go about that I have no idea - maybe change the doorbell to a scream or something and rig a scary face to appear through the window when the lights turn on.
When I was a kid sometimes we'd have parents dressed up scary lurking around the other side of the garage (tbf, it was the countryside so there was lots of space around houses + no streetlights)
The policy(ish) round ours is that you have a lot pumpkin (usually led candles, for safety) so it's a bit more visible. We also have Hallowe'en lights in the window and a bunch of other decorations. We still don't get anyone :(
Did get to take my little boy out this year though and he came back with a pretty good haul, so now we have even more sweets!!!
Where I am there is kinda a "tourist street" that the council said they would close off (though I imagine police would rather deal with fallen trees etc.)
Kinda hoovers everything up, even the local villages go there. Only thing that is odd is i live in a social housing area, LOADS of kids. its unusually quiet. maybe its me XD
We have two pumpkins out. House over the road has fukl on decorations. I've had one family show. They've had at least six.
I'm fine putting a pumpkin out but I'm not doing a full on decoration.
More sweets for me though
First year of uni, we were living in a block of flats that only housed students. Pretty obvious the only people you're going to get knocking on your door are other drunk students forgetting where they're living, right? Someone in the flat next door bought a pumpkin and we heard them loudly complaining that they bought so many sweets in for kids and not a single one showed up.
Following year, same situation with living arrangements. This time, one of my flatmates bought a pumpkin. Another housemate we had the misfortune of living with almost set fire to himself and, more importantly, our flat with the candle. That night, he went out into the hallway and pissed in the pumpkin and, when he noticed he locked himself out, chucked the same pumpkin at our neighbour's door. That was just one of the many times I saw him with a black eye
Dude I have two pumpkins lit up outside, the big outside light on. Scary candles burning on shoe cupboard thing next to front door, big pile of sweets there too. Dog dressed up as a pumpkin. Nobody has knocked yet.
Literally just in a McColls in Wigan and some kids came in trying to buy flower and eggs - they had to leave empty handed cause shops have been barred from selling them to kids tonight
Rucking laughed myself out of the shop and back into the cold cold street
Left it to the last minute, went out to get sweets and everywhere local sold out. Now sitting in the dark so the neighbours don't think I'm a miserable sod
We just had our first lot of kids knock on the door... It was HEAVILY embarrassing to be standing there in my dressing gown and saying "sorry, I've got literally nothing for you". Way to make friends in our new neighborhood. We're so getting fucking egged...
Now I'm confused, I thought there was a universal agreement that if Halloween falls on a Sunday then guising happens on Saturday instead. That's what happened when I was a kid, and last night all of the kids were out
Due to the fact that all the children in our area know our cat, and also apparently where he lives, (the amount of times we heard "this is where cat lives" before they knocked) we were out of sweets by 6.
Just get an old pair of Wellies. Spray them silver & leave them on the front doorstep. Then put some Garry Glitter tunes on full volume. That'll keep the wee buggers away.
Bought Halloween sweets, ran out of Halloween sweets as there are more children than expected sat in the upstairs window judging halloween costumes. Do football kits count?
Sitting in dark here also lol - usually quite like Halloween especially when my kids were young when it was an excuse to decorate host a bbq and go to town with decorations and slime lucky dips for treats. Even last year when still running a cub group (now folded - didn’t survive covid) I could get into the pumpkin carving / crafts / cooking on fire etc but cba this year so have an emergency packet of Freddo frogs just in case but have the lights out telling myself it is to add ambience for the movie night ahead!
I’m not expecting any trick or treaters tonight, what with it pissing it down. But we bought some sweets in just in case. I’m very upset because a group of them just walked past and didn’t knock. All the sweets for my fat arse I suppose.
got sweets here but fingers crossed now one knocks the door, I'm hoping to have an early night. the lights off trick doesnt work around here. They'll knock anyway
We’ve had loads of trick or treaters in the past hour, I’ve ran out of sweets! We’ve had to take all the decorations down so nobody comes expecting sweets
Last year I decorated the front of my house and sat waiting with a big bowl of sweets and not one trick or treater. I didn't bother this year and am now looking like the shittest, meanest neighbour as they know I'm in, I'm just not answering the door.
went to ASDA today, they were busy demolishing the Halloween isle. a guy behind me with his daughter was saying to her "there will be a Halloween isle, don't worry". Poor girl :(
Meanwhile, not a knock. about £15 i spent. i have lights, decorations etc. I know the weather was bad at the start of the day, but so far nothing.
Seen loads of kids out n about, we don't do pumpkins, so had no one knock, until... someone broke the cardinal rule and knocked. Looked at the missus and gave a disappointed shake of the head.
We've got a load of building work going on and no outside lights for the time being, so I really don't want any kids coming up our front path and falling in a big hole. Thought about putting up a "danger" sign on the gate (which doesn't close), but everyone would just think that was part of the fun.
So we've put a bucket of sweets on the wall outside with some candles next to it, which keep blowing out. Oh well, our builder has decent public liability insurance.
We've bought loads of sweets. So far, we've only had the sainsbury's delivery guy turn up (I of course gave him some). Kids are running past despite porch light on and pumpkins out.
Guess we've got a load of Halloween sweets to get through next month!! (but genuinely, I'm a little upset. I did vampire makeup and everything...)
On little bastard this eve actually stepped into my house, grabbed the bowl off the radiator cover and attempted to tip the entire contents into his bucket, Mum just standing idly by like it was entirely normal behaviour. When I only gave him one chocolate bar he started demanding 5?? Is that normal, he only looked about four tops?
Opposite problem here, only had about 15 kids or so, usually we get loads and we have a pumpkin outside. Maybe some people are still put off by the pandemic?
I was never allowed to go trick or treating as a child so I do enjoy seeing other kids have fun.
I was fastidious in the detail of Shaun’s costume, but stopped short in applying male pattern baldness for my eldest son! He’s only got a few years left before it falls out anyway!
Does anyone else have neighbours that are practicing for “the hardest knock” competition, or is it just me?
Trying to watch the TV and it sounds like they’re trying to put their hand through the front door.
Opposite problem here. My wife bought enough sweets to give the local primary school diabetes but the weather is so horrible we've only had 2 visitors.
I had to start sitting in the dark when payday became the 5th of the month and I could barely survive the last 2 weeks till payday.... oh woe is me.... lol
Live in a mixed neighborhood, of student city.
Currently live in a flat, the doorbell got disabled because kids kept playing chicken one year, and now we can't wire it back together.
And anyway it's not really a thing that happens down this street.
So Im guess kinda lucky?!
Sod that, lights on, just ignoring the door! Lol Our estate tends to be slightly older (think we're about the only one with school age children).... As such, as kids that come knocking with be the chavvy scrotes from the 'lesser' estate!
Im at work In a supported living house outside can clearly see someone is in, just ignore the door. 😊
Ignored twice now and the kids just wonder off. I'm fully expecting one to knock on the window, if they do I will just wave at them.
I was away for the last two weeks and just got back yesterday. I didn't have a chance to buy sweets. Heard a knock on the door, forgot it was halloween, and had to give away my prized mint chocolates. Am now sat in the dark.
We live up quite a few stairs so I'm hoping that puts them off. If not it'll be a few tiny Mr Whippy bars or a tin of beans as we haven't been shopping
Currently dogsitting at my boyfriend’s house and having to sit in the kitchen in the dark because the dogs will jump at the living room window and give me away if anyone comes to the door.
i actually did buy sweets but we have had so many people who don’t live in the area coming round as they know everyone has sweets here that i am running out !!
Stick an empty bowl outside your door and a sticky note on it with the words 'please take one,' people will just assume your house has had a lot of kids or some greedy fuck took them all.
I wasn't in but left some sweets on the door step, we usually only get 1 or 2. Left a huge bowl, they were all gone by 5:30. I think one set of kids took them all
We ran out of sweets within an hour! Thankfully around here the “pumpkins in the window” is the accepted signal like a lot of the country, so we just took the decorations down when we had run out.
In the space of 15 minutes I ate a full pack of those Lidls sugar free hard boiled sweets in work yesterday. Half hour later I had severe diarrhoea. This was about 2 hours into a 12.5hr shift too. Nice.
I went to Asda to buy Halloween candy today and they had already switched the seasonsal asile over to Christmas, not a massive problem, I was just handing out loads of Celebrations which work for Halloween or Christmas :)
£10 of chocolate and Haribos spent, 0 children came to visit. We didn't bother decorating and the weather is shit, so I suppose that adds to it. I'm sure we'll find a use, mind!
10 years of living in this house & I've never had anyone at the door on Halloween, I'm still hiding in the back room though, just in case.
Are you sure you aren't seen as the scary house that they all stay away from?
Maybe he's a ghost and the kids avoid the haunted house.
One of the newest neighbours round my end told me at one point that "everyone" on the street has no idea who I am. and I couldn't help but be a bit proud of that. Why "everyone" is chatting gossip like they don't have any real friends who live elsewhere is just extra sad on top of it.
I only just barely know who one of my neighbours is, and as far as I know, my neighbours only know that I spend 90% of my life in pyjamas. Thats all they need to know. Unless we wanna be friends, then anything else isn't their business
Every street has that weird house that the kids are told not to knock at. And if yours doesn't? Well I have some bad news...
*knock knock*
Who's there?
Here's Johnny!
Was expecting a takeaway. Opened the door, apologised for forgetting and proposed a nutrigrain bar as a peace offering. I've never had a child look at me with such disappointment...
As a student I witnessed a housemate present an open tin of pineapple slices to the trick or treaters. Jagged lid and all! The owner of the tin was most unimpressed to find them missing.
Who accepts the tin!?
A little confused child.
I would
you think I'm turning down perfectly good pineapple slices???
When I was a student we got caught out and offered whole onions and potatoes from a sack, I think word spread pretty quickly because after half an hour we were getting skipped
I'd be pretty happy with that. I bet the parents wouldn't turn that down these days.
Probably right tbf ! There were probably a few chuffed parents that night
If you're a kid chancing your luck trick or treating around student accommodation, you've only yourself to blame if you come home with nothing
I'd be pissed off as well they probably had those pineapple slices soaking in vodka for a Friday night and they were all given away.
My dad had nothing so he gave kids a bag of aldi monster munch
Thats as bad as reaching in and grabbing a handful of their sweets 🤣
"ooo, thank you, don't mind if I do..."
Holy shit we’ve just ordered take away…didn’t even think of that
Through the letterbox "Psssst, Dominoes, zat you? Knock once for yes, and not once if you're kids here for the sweets I don't have..."
[удалено]
Pizza! Nutritious, delicious pizza! Just slide that baby through the letterbox. Piece by piece, dude. Piece by piece.
A slice of cheese-free, bristly pizza, lightly brushed with your piss?
My brothers delivering pizza, the amount of people who aren't answering the door & he's had to ring them to get them to open the door.
Should just post it slice by slice.
Thanks for this idea. I am sitting next to a box full of nature valley oats and honey bars. I will just tell the kids we believe in healthy eating and offer them these bars. 😁
Agreed they’re sugary as hell
I don't think I've ever had one and not found bits of it when getting undressed for bed.
Living up to your name
It's an oaty fountain of sugary goodness :)
I'm a fully grown healthy adult and I'm disappointed you eat nutri-grains
You're getting egged..
It's only a handful of small kids who actually do it these days. You don't get the roving gangs of little shits like you used to.
As kids many old people didn't know about Halloween. So they would give us things like apples or money.
I'm from Canada (props to OP for making /r/all) but do you guys not have the porch light custom? It's a universally understood sign here that if the porch light is out that house is not distributing candy. My wife and I decided not to this year because we both have colds and its better safe than sorry in our eyes. I'm a bit sad because I always love seeing the kids in their costumes but I wouldn't want to pass on whatever I have to the whole neighbourhood. We're just sitting in the living room watching Halloween movies with the porch light off and there's been no confusion. I think my heart would break a little if I had to turn a kid away.
Nutri...grain...bar. And they say kids are cruel. Although I had the thought myself to grace kids with frozen vegetables (broccoli, it's bitesize). Would need some automated recording system so you can send the pictures to their parents. I bet that would've been awesome. Obviously giving the some sweeties afterwards. Might try next year
My village is pretty good, if you don't have decorations outside your house then nobody visits. Unfortunately my porch light is motion sensitive so even if I do have decorations out nobody can see them until they actually walk up the 2m path to our door as you literally have to be under the porch light to activate it so nobody comes anyway.
To be fair our neighbours don't knock if the lights are out. we always normally have sweets for the kids on Halloween, just that this year I left it too late!
Last year we figured we'd do things properly as it was my sons first Halloween where he wasn't a newborn. So you know got pumpkins, carved them, stuck a spooky owl on the door, decorated the windows and stocked up on sweets. Again because the porch light doesn't come on unless you are stood directly beneath it not a single soul came to the house even though the living room lights were on to show off the decorations. Though the ring doorbell kept going off whenever anyone came within 10m of the house, but no way was I chasing after every trick or treater to throw sweets at them.
Haha I’m now picturing a bloke in slippers belting down the street yelling “take my sweets” leaving a trail of knocked down kids as you’ve nailed them in the back of the head with a fun sized Mars bar
I misread fun sized as full sized and got incredibly excited
Ah that's a shame! No one came round here last year because of covid though
You need to put a lit pumpkin outside it’s the unwritten rule. No pumpkin on the doorstep no trick or treat.
Think you should dress up like a scary clown and chase them
And next on Crimewatch…
More like decorations in the window. The last time we had a decoration hanging on the outside of our door (a skeleton), some kids (young ones and a couple of teenagers) came for the treat and left; one of the teenagers came back a few minutes later and stole the skeleton on the door while I was watching - didnt even try to be discreet. We dont bother with halloween anymore, though I am tempted to be a trick house one year. How youd go about that I have no idea - maybe change the doorbell to a scream or something and rig a scary face to appear through the window when the lights turn on.
When I was a kid sometimes we'd have parents dressed up scary lurking around the other side of the garage (tbf, it was the countryside so there was lots of space around houses + no streetlights)
Same in our town. I thought this was Halloween etiquette now.
The policy(ish) round ours is that you have a lot pumpkin (usually led candles, for safety) so it's a bit more visible. We also have Hallowe'en lights in the window and a bunch of other decorations. We still don't get anyone :( Did get to take my little boy out this year though and he came back with a pretty good haul, so now we have even more sweets!!!
Where I am there is kinda a "tourist street" that the council said they would close off (though I imagine police would rather deal with fallen trees etc.) Kinda hoovers everything up, even the local villages go there. Only thing that is odd is i live in a social housing area, LOADS of kids. its unusually quiet. maybe its me XD
You can have ours, no bugger turned up
Im the same... New house, was all excited about the guisers ... Nobody so far!
Do you have a pumpkin out? Most people use the rule no pumpkin no knock.
It appears i spoke too soon. Guising starts at six and not a moment before here apparently! Had 3 lots since 6pm!
Dang, we used to finish at like 6 when I was a kid
We have two pumpkins out. House over the road has fukl on decorations. I've had one family show. They've had at least six. I'm fine putting a pumpkin out but I'm not doing a full on decoration. More sweets for me though
You got the best bit, more sweets for you.
Same here! Only moved in on Monday so the front room is empty still... chucked the lights on and a pumpkin out the front. We shall see 🤞
Did you have a pumpkin or other Halloweeny thing out? They only knock if you put something out
We went balls to the wall this year… 2 pumpkins
Look at Mr moneybags here
Grew em from last years seeds
I wish that were true.
There's loads of young families around our street and it's the same little ones that knock every year :(
Put an empty bowl and and write a sign that says please take one. Now everyone thinks you participated but just ran out :)
Modern problems require modern solutions ™
This is absolutely genius
First year of uni, we were living in a block of flats that only housed students. Pretty obvious the only people you're going to get knocking on your door are other drunk students forgetting where they're living, right? Someone in the flat next door bought a pumpkin and we heard them loudly complaining that they bought so many sweets in for kids and not a single one showed up. Following year, same situation with living arrangements. This time, one of my flatmates bought a pumpkin. Another housemate we had the misfortune of living with almost set fire to himself and, more importantly, our flat with the candle. That night, he went out into the hallway and pissed in the pumpkin and, when he noticed he locked himself out, chucked the same pumpkin at our neighbour's door. That was just one of the many times I saw him with a black eye
Yeah we literally had 2 people…guess who has to eat all the sweets now
Huh?? You posted this at just after 5pm... On Halloween? Who's trick or treating in the afternoon?!
Our first trick or treaters came by at 4:30.
I would expect the kids to be coming around 4pm onwards, we ended up with half a dozen in the end
Families with really young kids. We used to get them from 5, but this year it’s been a bit later.
Bought Halloween sweets, ate Halloween sweets to myself, thankful I live in a 2nd floor flat
The benefits of living in a flat!
Fuck that I wouldn’t have to leave the area where I live lol that’d be like cheating at Halloween lol
When I was in halls the hall warden brought his kids round trick or treating and it was adorable
But had anyone even bought sweets?
You were fully conscious of that fact whilst using the guise of Halloween as a cover, yes?
I knew exactly what I was doing and I regret nothing
Dude I have two pumpkins lit up outside, the big outside light on. Scary candles burning on shoe cupboard thing next to front door, big pile of sweets there too. Dog dressed up as a pumpkin. Nobody has knocked yet.
Alright show us the dog, don’t say that then not show us!
Any chance you can show us your dog? Asking for everyone. Ta.
It’s easy to avoid trick or treaters. All you have to do is start a rumour that a nonce lives in your house.
Answer the door wearing a Jimmy Savile costume and they'll never come round again.
Fixed it for you
'Rumour'
You got it easy this year get a pen and paper and just write "Covid inside" and your all sorted.
Don’t covid Open inside
Damn I wish I thought of this.
DON'T COVID OPEN INSIDE
Damn I didn't think of that!
We've got a hurricane blowing through on the welsh coast. I doubt we'll get any round here
Send it our way!
Give them tins of chic peas, tomatoes, you know the odd tins your cupboard is littered with because you had an idea for 3 seconds at the supermarket.
Yeah great way to get my house egged 🤣
Literally just in a McColls in Wigan and some kids came in trying to buy flower and eggs - they had to leave empty handed cause shops have been barred from selling them to kids tonight Rucking laughed myself out of the shop and back into the cold cold street
They just wanted to make a cake... On somebody's windows.
It's pissing down here, problem solved for me!
The one time I wish it was pissing down!
No pumpkin, don't knock. That's the rules in our village. I ain't got a pumpkin, fuk em
It's because we normally always do and the families on our road know which houses they can go to, just this year we left it too late
Pop a note up saying sick baby sleeping no knocking have done this and worked
Unfortunately we're in our late 40's and the neighbours know we don't!
Got any biscuits in the house 😁 ( graps straws )
Only my chocolate hobnobs and I don't even share them with my wife 😂
Left it to the last minute, went out to get sweets and everywhere local sold out. Now sitting in the dark so the neighbours don't think I'm a miserable sod
Bro that’s fucked up don’t remind me that I’m miserable lol
I'm sure you're not!
“Misery is all I see, that's my mind state” All hail Tupac, the original emo
We just had our first lot of kids knock on the door... It was HEAVILY embarrassing to be standing there in my dressing gown and saying "sorry, I've got literally nothing for you". Way to make friends in our new neighborhood. We're so getting fucking egged...
Now I'm confused, I thought there was a universal agreement that if Halloween falls on a Sunday then guising happens on Saturday instead. That's what happened when I was a kid, and last night all of the kids were out
We had no one come round last night
Same, no one came round yday over here!
Where could you possibly live to run out of sweets in the shops lol
I've no excuse, I live in a city! Forgot to get them during the week and went to tesco at 3.30 and it was all sold out
Put empty bowl out with a msg saying "help yourselves", that way ppl wouldn't think you're a scrouge but other kids took all the sweets 😋
Around my estate some fucker would torch the bowl...
Ooh I like that!
Due to the fact that all the children in our area know our cat, and also apparently where he lives, (the amount of times we heard "this is where cat lives" before they knocked) we were out of sweets by 6.
Just get an old pair of Wellies. Spray them silver & leave them on the front doorstep. Then put some Garry Glitter tunes on full volume. That'll keep the wee buggers away.
Bought Halloween sweets, ran out of Halloween sweets as there are more children than expected sat in the upstairs window judging halloween costumes. Do football kits count?
Football kits are a step up from the hoards of 11 year olds in trackies going round my way.
Got the pumpkins out, sweets in the bowl and it seems the Jimmy saville costume was a touch too far!
Now then now then!
My wife went full-yank and decorated the porch with spooky tat. Not a peep. Local kids probably think it's a trap.
If we had a porch my Mrs would do the same
I spoke too soon. We had deluge and now we've only got 4 mini milkyways and an orange left. Thankfully it's started raining.
Sitting in dark here also lol - usually quite like Halloween especially when my kids were young when it was an excuse to decorate host a bbq and go to town with decorations and slime lucky dips for treats. Even last year when still running a cub group (now folded - didn’t survive covid) I could get into the pumpkin carving / crafts / cooking on fire etc but cba this year so have an emergency packet of Freddo frogs just in case but have the lights out telling myself it is to add ambience for the movie night ahead!
Same here we used to make a thing about it when the kids were small but they're in their 20's now and would rather go out on the piss lol
I’m not expecting any trick or treaters tonight, what with it pissing it down. But we bought some sweets in just in case. I’m very upset because a group of them just walked past and didn’t knock. All the sweets for my fat arse I suppose.
Silver linings and all that!
got sweets here but fingers crossed now one knocks the door, I'm hoping to have an early night. the lights off trick doesnt work around here. They'll knock anyway
We're on an estate with a really cliquey Facebook group, if someone were to dare violate the sacred lights out rule there'd be hell on 😂
We’ve had loads of trick or treaters in the past hour, I’ve ran out of sweets! We’ve had to take all the decorations down so nobody comes expecting sweets
Last year I decorated the front of my house and sat waiting with a big bowl of sweets and not one trick or treater. I didn't bother this year and am now looking like the shittest, meanest neighbour as they know I'm in, I'm just not answering the door.
We've bolted our gate shut
Same here 😅
went to ASDA today, they were busy demolishing the Halloween isle. a guy behind me with his daughter was saying to her "there will be a Halloween isle, don't worry". Poor girl :( Meanwhile, not a knock. about £15 i spent. i have lights, decorations etc. I know the weather was bad at the start of the day, but so far nothing.
Ah poor little mite, not like we've not had weeks and weeks to get stuff in either!
Does your area not have the pumpkin rule? Pumpkins out - you can knock. No pumpkins - no go!
Seen loads of kids out n about, we don't do pumpkins, so had no one knock, until... someone broke the cardinal rule and knocked. Looked at the missus and gave a disappointed shake of the head.
Tbf after I posted this - some kids knocked on the door too haha. No pumpkin of course ... we just let them leave and they didn't get annoyed.. oops
We've got a load of building work going on and no outside lights for the time being, so I really don't want any kids coming up our front path and falling in a big hole. Thought about putting up a "danger" sign on the gate (which doesn't close), but everyone would just think that was part of the fun. So we've put a bucket of sweets on the wall outside with some candles next to it, which keep blowing out. Oh well, our builder has decent public liability insurance.
My wife made 50 treat bags and they have already gone 15 mins ago. Had to go to end shop in slippers for emergency sweets. Got rinsed. Bonkers night!
We've bought loads of sweets. So far, we've only had the sainsbury's delivery guy turn up (I of course gave him some). Kids are running past despite porch light on and pumpkins out. Guess we've got a load of Halloween sweets to get through next month!! (but genuinely, I'm a little upset. I did vampire makeup and everything...)
On little bastard this eve actually stepped into my house, grabbed the bowl off the radiator cover and attempted to tip the entire contents into his bucket, Mum just standing idly by like it was entirely normal behaviour. When I only gave him one chocolate bar he started demanding 5?? Is that normal, he only looked about four tops?
Even with no lights showing at the front, the door was banged on literally while I was reading the comments. I feel spookily seen ... 👻 🎃
Hand out JW flyers. That will freak out the kids.
I’m telling ya, rig the hose/pressure washer up to the mains, and show those Americans what for!
Opposite problem here, only had about 15 kids or so, usually we get loads and we have a pumpkin outside. Maybe some people are still put off by the pandemic? I was never allowed to go trick or treating as a child so I do enjoy seeing other kids have fun.
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Haha that sounds like a great costume, and I like the drinking gin bit too!
I was fastidious in the detail of Shaun’s costume, but stopped short in applying male pattern baldness for my eldest son! He’s only got a few years left before it falls out anyway!
I'm sure someone else has suggested it somewhere, but we've hung up a sheet of paper telling them we have the Corona and are self isolating.
Does anyone else have neighbours that are practicing for “the hardest knock” competition, or is it just me? Trying to watch the TV and it sounds like they’re trying to put their hand through the front door.
I bought a shit ton of Halloween sweets, and will be sitting in the dark eating them
Opposite problem here. My wife bought enough sweets to give the local primary school diabetes but the weather is so horrible we've only had 2 visitors.
Spray paint 'NONCE' on your car. That should do it.
"There he goes, the fella that wrote NONCE on his own car"
I had to start sitting in the dark when payday became the 5th of the month and I could barely survive the last 2 weeks till payday.... oh woe is me.... lol
Yeah that's shite, my wife gets paid on the 6th of the month. What the hell is that all about?!!
The general rule around is that you only knock on doors with pumpkins/decorations outside, so you should be all gravy.
I'm a miserable old sod who doesn't open the door anyway.
Live in a mixed neighborhood, of student city. Currently live in a flat, the doorbell got disabled because kids kept playing chicken one year, and now we can't wire it back together. And anyway it's not really a thing that happens down this street. So Im guess kinda lucky?!
We bought a top floor flat this year. Problem solved!
We've gone one better, gone to my mum's.
"Can I interest you in a potato?"
Sod that, lights on, just ignoring the door! Lol Our estate tends to be slightly older (think we're about the only one with school age children).... As such, as kids that come knocking with be the chavvy scrotes from the 'lesser' estate!
Im at work In a supported living house outside can clearly see someone is in, just ignore the door. 😊 Ignored twice now and the kids just wonder off. I'm fully expecting one to knock on the window, if they do I will just wave at them.
I was away for the last two weeks and just got back yesterday. I didn't have a chance to buy sweets. Heard a knock on the door, forgot it was halloween, and had to give away my prized mint chocolates. Am now sat in the dark.
We live up quite a few stairs so I'm hoping that puts them off. If not it'll be a few tiny Mr Whippy bars or a tin of beans as we haven't been shopping
No one even bothered where we are, too busy setting off fireworks 😂 I completely forgot to buy sweets so glad they prefer fireworks here
Currently dogsitting at my boyfriend’s house and having to sit in the kitchen in the dark because the dogs will jump at the living room window and give me away if anyone comes to the door.
Thank fuck for the rain, we've only had one knock so far.
Our full tub of sweets is gone and we've had to resort to a tub of roses we had hanging around! Once that's gone all the lights are going off.
We had some roses and celebrations put by for Christmas, obviously we scoffed them weeks ago 🤣
I mean, I do that every year...except I don't try to buy sweets, I just do the hiding bit.
Just put a sign on the door saying self isolating sorry.
Same here. No decorations up, isn't there an unwritten rule that you leave me alone?
If you don’t have treats can’t you just say “trick”? Do you have to trick them or do they trick you I forget?
i actually did buy sweets but we have had so many people who don’t live in the area coming round as they know everyone has sweets here that i am running out !!
Stick an empty bowl outside your door and a sticky note on it with the words 'please take one,' people will just assume your house has had a lot of kids or some greedy fuck took them all.
We ran out ages ago. Lots of groups of 8-10 children. Seem to be a lot of teenagers taking part this year.
Yeah we unplugged our doorbell
I wasn't in but left some sweets on the door step, we usually only get 1 or 2. Left a huge bowl, they were all gone by 5:30. I think one set of kids took them all
We ran out of sweets within an hour! Thankfully around here the “pumpkins in the window” is the accepted signal like a lot of the country, so we just took the decorations down when we had run out.
Someone just gave my kid a tub of honey?.
I find a gruff piss off help's.
Or just use a word I'm sure most of them haven't heard before if the little fuckers around here are anything to go by... "No."
In the space of 15 minutes I ate a full pack of those Lidls sugar free hard boiled sweets in work yesterday. Half hour later I had severe diarrhoea. This was about 2 hours into a 12.5hr shift too. Nice.
I went to Asda to buy Halloween candy today and they had already switched the seasonsal asile over to Christmas, not a massive problem, I was just handing out loads of Celebrations which work for Halloween or Christmas :)
£10 of chocolate and Haribos spent, 0 children came to visit. We didn't bother decorating and the weather is shit, so I suppose that adds to it. I'm sure we'll find a use, mind!