Is it just me or is it bang out of order to knock on someone’s door and ask for free sweets?
I could do with a beer so I might go up and down the street asking all the parents to empty their fridge.
Sat with the windows shut ignoring the knocks at the door. bah humbug
Depends how they do it. Not so keen on the ones that jam a tree branch in the door when you open it so that you can’t close it. Tree branch gets removed once you’ve given them enough money.
Depends how they do it. Not so keen on the ones that jam a tree branch in the door when you open it so that you can’t close it. Tree branch gets removed once you’ve given them enough money.
Stopped complaining after a couple of (properly) grown up young ladies came round the village trick or treating a couple of years ago dressed as “naughty witches”.
I did think I’d just dreamt it but several other neighbours remember it.
Round our way it is most pre-teen kids supervised by an adult who only call out houses with a pumpkin outside. I thought that this was pretty much standard procedure nowadays.
Ok.
Some people are letting off fireworks.
Some of them are @&*%£”%er’s.
Some of them may be celebrating another slightly different and also unsubstantiated fictitious belief system (as they are fully entitled to).
Both are as annoying as ****.
Betterer?
Round our way it is most pre-teen kids supervised by an adult who only call out houses with a pumpkin outside. I thought that this was pretty much standard procedure nowadays.
Same here. We get involved. Last year I would nip out the back door and run round to chase any kid that knocked at the front. This year I’m feeling lazy so I’m just going to photocopy my head and stick it in a big glass jar to be left on the doorstep. Plus my wife always buys too many sweets. Win all round.
Round our way it is most pre-teen kids supervised by an adult who only call out houses with a pumpkin outside. I thought that this was pretty much standard procedure nowadays.
Same here and it works really well, the streets are rammed with kids its a real community feel to the evening. It has taken a turn recently with many housholds putting increasingly scary shows, the ultimate aim is to make the kids (or even parents!) wee themselves just a little. Great fun.
Started in Ireland actually… well the jack o’lantern did. Pumpkins being easier to carve than swedes (turnips as we used to call them) and plentiful, pumpkins it became
We have the pumpkin thing round here too, works quite well. Mostly younger children with their parents. Often meet up with friends and go round altogether. We only knock on the doors that have a lit pumpkin. We have a pumpkin in our window and turn it off when we run out of goodies and the kids respect it. All works out quite well
Another +1 – is a really big thing on our ~200 house estate with a lot of effort being made to decorate houses and other stuff – this will be outside the front of mine, along with some other stuff. We made a graveyard last year.
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I’m wondering if I should warn our new neighbours who don’t have kids!
Guising has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes. Guise comes from the same root as the word Disguise and is to do with dressing up, possibly so the dead wouldn’t recognise you to haunt you when they rise on All Hallows Eve.
It’s merely co-incidental that we also celebrate the death of a freedom-fighter/terrorist so close to the end of October.
Druidh has it. Guising has been a (Scots at least) tradition for generations. Nothing to do with failed gunpowder plots. Trick or treating is a different animal – back in my day, if you didn’t at least tell a half decent joke you’d leave with a flea in yer ear.