Halloween, don't have candy [Americanism]

Make a plan. I have

i see your thread heading daft mate and because you're not getting much response, I'll come to help you out because you need to grow up and realise , Halloween is a bit of fun to help us through the ' SAD' months , So embrace it and add a bit of fun to your life '
as I do

smile and the world smiles with you

Digging up old stuff Tom, yep, I can see the connection.

perhaps someone will inform me of your kind remarks,

I'm with First mate and can't abide Halloween with shops full of plastic tat. it goes beyond a bit of fun when parents feel pressured to decorate the house and buy costumes [ nobody does hand made with a bit of crepe paper anymore]. Is there a halloween equivalent to Bah Humbug?

I'm also with First mate and can't abide Halloween Kath, its only for the yanks, soft kids and daft parents.

So there we have it. some like fun and some like to groan , My nrphews n nieces all agree and call me a ' funcle' probably an American term as well but Hey, I like it,

Someone mentioned "plastic tat"

Not many skeletons around these days and I'm sure ashes won't do at all

I drove past a house earlier today, the garden was decorated with all things Halloween. Must have cost a fortune. The cat was real though

How much of the flimsy tat is still in one piece after the high winds into the early hours of today If it was not anchored down then the household would find it had gone missing or just a big heap in the garden.I went up Wigan Lane to Standish last night and there was a plastic chair sliding across the road from someones garden.

what puzzles me is that when granny dies we tell children it's OK because she has gone to live with the anglels or has turned into a star. Then Halloween we are dressing these same children as skeletons, ghosts and zombies.

Kath, we do the same at Christmas too, " be good or Father Christmas will not visit you" and most of the kids already figured out its not true but, They are not stupid and play the game out,,,

We loved Hallowe'en when we were kids. We'd go to granny's house and she set us up with different games, including bobbing for apples, but there was no dressing up or plastic tat like there is today, and we weren't allowed to go begging at other peoples' doors.

Just up the road from me, a new family moved in during the summer, and you should see the state of what they've done to the house. They painted DO NOT ENTER in red paint on their white front door; there's a huge skull which lights up in red at night; the cobwebs and all sorts of other dross; and they have SEVEN kids and, to me, they all look under 12 years old. Gawd help the neighbourhood when the day arrives, but I don't answer my door to anyone once it goes dark as I had a fright a few years ago.

Before he died, my partner and I would enjoy scaring the kids ourselves with different things, but would give them sweets to rot their teeth with; but one Hallowe'en a couple of years after he died, I opened the door thinking it would be more little kids, but they weren't. There were three great hulking lads so I quickly shut the door in their faces. Since then I've never opened my door to anyone at night unless I'm expecting someone.

Double double post.

Double post.

Well, so far, only one knock on the door, thank goodness. It started at 5.25 when I'd just finished cooking me tea. I expected a lot more. I wonder if it's because I have long dark hair and have a black cat that's kept them away?

Thing is, kids (and their parents), should only knock on people's doors if they've dressed up their houses as an invitation.

How many callers have you had?

Mollie, just prop your broomstick up at the side of the door, to add to the authenticity!

Ive had 10 callers as of yet, most are mannerly and just take one sweet or a small bag of Haribo and say " thank you" but, some brats take a hand load and one cheeky beggar put two hands in and I lifted the tin up, Then I gave him a single sweet,,,,

TEN?! Good grief, Tom. You must have been up and down like a fiddler's elbow answering the door.

We have had at least 25 / 30 knocks on the door and they have all gone away with a treat.
We dress the windows and the house exterior up, as do most of the the neighbours around here and we make the children feel welcome. All well behaved and well mannered children accompanied by their parents or an adult. It's also great boost for neighbourly, community spirit. Something that is sadly lacking in a lot of communities these days

The neighbours that don't want to get involved are respected and they will not get hounded with kids knocking on the door unless there is an "invitation" in the form of a decoration on show.

Having said all that, I don't like halloween now!
But I was a child once, and, I loved it back then

Posted by: tonker (28743) View tonker's page

Mollie, just prop your broomstick up at the side of the door, to add to the authenticity!

Tonker, I don't think I need to go that far.

I've had a couple more since and my last one was older girls, I'd say about 13/15 years old and, I told them, " sorry girls you're too late all the stuffs gone but, I'll give you a couple of my own sweets" and reached in my pocket for a couple of wrapped celebration sweets, They both were carrying shopping bags to collect the treats and I put one in each, One girl said " aww " and pulled out a sweet from her bag and offered it to me, It just goes to show, A little kindness goes a long way, I refused to take her sweet and said." go way. have a nice night" Innit funny how, If I went into town offering sweets to young girls, I would get arrested but. tonight its OK,
No wonder we are all confused,

Let's hope the next knock on your door isn't by a police person to arrest you for giving little girls sweeties.

A spell by me:

All Souls Day

It is the eve of All Souls Day
When witches and goblins come out to play
But I have a way to keep them away
So I stir my cauldron and into it say:

With wing of bat and tail of cat
A bit o’ this and a bit o’ that
With spider’s web and melted fat
And legs and ears of red-eyed rat

Be gone you creatures of the night
Long before the morning light
Away with you before midnight
And take with you the werewolf’s bite

So bog off you creatures of the night!

its all over now so. tomorrows itinerary is, Bring in the skelinton and the count dracula display and start work on my remembrance display,

It's not over until midnight, Tom, so don't get complacent yet. There still be hobgoblins and spooks hiding around corners and in graveyards.

Our traditions have either disappeared or in danger of disappearing due to the influence from the USA. It is starting to feel like we are just another added state to the US.

I refuse to do Halloween. I have a very polite printed notice asking callers not to disturb us which I attach to the front door. Have been using it for the last few years and it works.

Posted by: JR (569)

Our traditions have either disappeared or in danger of disappearing due to the influence from the USA. It is starting to feel like we are just another added state to the US.

Funnily enough, JR, I said the same thing myself yesterday whilst reading this, and my boss said it as well today at work.

I just hope our Police Officers don't start carrying sidearms like theirs do. That would be a tragedy.

And again!

Does anyone know why this keeps happening, please?

Mollie you are double posting again

I know Peter, but I honestly have no idea why this keeps happening. It's a flippin' nuisance.

I would say, At the present time Tommy tee is the most IT savy bloke on here, If he don't know then, Tonker always knows a man that knows how to do stuff, Those two should have some idea Mollie,
My input is, Turn everything off in your house, wait in the dark for 1 minute and turn it all on, if that don't work, get a new puter

It is a new computer, Tom. No. I'm doing something I shouldn't, but I don't know what it is.

Ah, that could be a good clue but, Its lost on me, I remember a couple of years ago I spilt a cup of tea on the keyboard and all the text was googlygob , the only cure was a new keyboard,