Post by: Freddie on October 28, 2006, 01:24:09 pm
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..
Post by: smurfboy on October 28, 2006, 01:47:20 pm
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.
Post by: Freddie on October 28, 2006, 02:04:17 pm
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
Post by: smurfboy on October 28, 2006, 02:44:42 pm
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.
Post by: smurfboy on October 28, 2006, 02:46:04 pm
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?
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 28, 2006, 02:54:45 pm
are diffrent:
Halloween: ghost and ghouls!
Guy Fawkes Night: fire works, and celelbratying that someone nearly blow up parmliemnt, ah happy days
Post by: Jamsi on October 28, 2006, 03:01:59 pm
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!
Post by: Freddie on October 28, 2006, 03:37:29 pm
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..
Post by: smurfboy on October 28, 2006, 04:18:25 pm
Post by: loulou on October 28, 2006, 05:42:40 pm
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 28, 2006, 05:44:58 pm
Post by: loulou on October 28, 2006, 05:53:49 pm
Post by: oldspice on October 28, 2006, 07:41:38 pm
Post by: wjp666 on October 28, 2006, 08:45:46 pm
Post by: smurfboy on October 28, 2006, 08:49:08 pm
Post by: oldspice on October 28, 2006, 09:31:42 pm
Post by: Jamsi on October 28, 2006, 10:46:53 pm
Post by: Freddie on October 28, 2006, 11:28:21 pm
it's not just celebrated in America...
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Halloween.ht ml
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 28, 2006, 11:28:38 pm
Freddie IS NOT A YANK shes a EX scot in Canada!
Post by: kevvosa on October 29, 2006, 09:19:28 am
As for putting a sign on your door saying you don't do Halloween - wouldn't that just encourage the kids to throw eggs at your door? My mam never used to open the door on Halloween and made it look like no one was in. The worst we had was some flour on the doorstep and a broken egg.
Post by: on October 29, 2006, 09:56:47 am
I think Haloween is stupid nonesense. I never got involved in it as child because I don't like the idea of ghosts and ghouls and vampires etc. It is celebrated in a very different way in America and parents and children get involved and it's far more organised and is just another event like Thanksgiving or July 4th. Not so in this country; it's just another excuse for a lot of children to be a nuisance. Not all of them - there are still some nice children but I suspect they don't do Haloween.
As Oldspice says it's a corruption of All Hallows eve.
Post by: smurfboy on October 29, 2006, 12:11:34 pm
MMM Yes the Yanks may have it right BUT
Freddie IS NOT A YANK shes a EX scot in Canada!
How is this relevant? What WJP was saying is that Halloween is more widely celebrated in the US and that, in his opinion, that's a good thing. He never mentioned Freddie!
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 29, 2006, 12:15:41 pm
Post by: on October 29, 2006, 12:19:38 pm
Post by: kevvosa on October 29, 2006, 12:46:59 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on October 29, 2006, 03:33:10 pm
How have the Yanks got it right? Halloween is the night the dead are supposed to walk the earth. It is not a festival to make light of. The following day is All Saints Day, when goodness and rightgeousness is restored. I see no merit in dressing as ghosts and ghouls.
a lot of our special occasions stem from something horrible or pagan... it's just a bit of fun, really. kids love that kinda thing.
i mean Mayday is based around paganism, isnt it? and the sight of children dancing around a maypole doesn't seem at all twisted, does it? (even though the myapole represents a giant penis!)
people of britain - lighten up... kids love horror and gore and ghost stories. it's not seriously demonic in any way. i say halloween is a great, alternative holiday. 
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 29, 2006, 03:41:27 pm
you just have to remember Carry on screaming! to prove that
Post by: StrollingMinstrel on October 29, 2006, 05:16:01 pm
Whoops .... I'm afraid I'm in the 'pooper' camp on this one.
I don't like it when kids knock at the door in a roundabout way 'begging' for things. I have in the past made up little bags of mixed sweets with a halloween theme.
I get quite irritated when kids turn up on any night other than 31 Oct.
One year we had loads of kids turn up on the wrong night and when I told them to come back on the right night they said .... 'we can't do that we're going round to other houses on that night!!'
I'm afraid I won't let my two boys go trick or treating.... much to their discust. I just can't do it.... it feels like begging and I've never wanted to encourage my boys to knock on strangers doors.
On the other hand I completely ok with halloween parties or such like.
Post by: kevvosa on October 29, 2006, 06:38:27 pm
I see nothing wrong with a traditional way of celebrating it - carving pumpkins, dressing up, having fun etc. Even trick or treating could be nice, but kids just get too greedy and spoilt.
Post by: wjp666 on October 29, 2006, 08:40:29 pm
Post by: on October 29, 2006, 08:46:28 pm
There ought to be a sixth form girls Haloween party, I'd be all for that. I'd give them sweets... and things.
I've got a record by a group called Helloween
Post by: Jamsi on October 29, 2006, 08:55:04 pm
I just had a little boy knock on my door asking trick or treat, I told him it's not Halloween yet and if he comes back Tuesday I may have something for him. He said he won't be here Tuesday so i just said sorry I only do trick or treat on halloween night not before.
He went next door and she said she had 3 of them!
Post by: on October 29, 2006, 09:11:10 pm
Post by: smurfboy on October 30, 2006, 01:32:25 pm
Post by: smurfboy on October 30, 2006, 01:34:28 pm
According to today's news, 'nuisance kids' who go trick or treating could be prosecuted under anti-social behaviour awards.
I'm saying nothing 
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on October 30, 2006, 02:15:26 pm
I live in a fairly quiet cul-de-sac so I can only imagine what people in cities and on estates have to deal with.
Looking out of my bedroom window yesterday afternoon I saw 2 local boys (about 10 years old) accidentally kick a football into an elderly neighbour's garden. It was about 5pm so it was almost dark. The neighbour was either out or ignoring the knocks at the door. The boys threw stones at the windows, tried three different ways of climbing into the garden, and when they realised if they climbed in they wouldn't be able to climb out again, they spat over the fence and broke 3 bits off the fence. I am in no doubt they will be back.
These are the same kids who will be around tomorrow trick or treating. If they think I am ignoring them they are bound to do something to my car / house / fence / garden. If I open the door I have to give them something. Why should we have to reward such menaces?
Post by: wjp666 on October 30, 2006, 03:04:02 pm
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/10/life-and-death-pumpkin.ht ml
something for us all to think about...
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on October 30, 2006, 03:14:53 pm
I watched the film but I guess there must have been sound (at work we don't have soundcards) so I didn't really get what it was about.
Post by: smurfboy on October 30, 2006, 03:17:30 pm
Post by: wjp666 on October 30, 2006, 07:13:39 pm
Post by: wjp666 on October 31, 2006, 05:21:09 pm
well, it's officially Hallowe'en (correct spelling). so happy holloween to anyone out there celebrating it!
Post by: oldspice on October 31, 2006, 06:20:35 pm
Post by: smurfboy on October 31, 2006, 08:00:31 pm
Post by: loulou on October 31, 2006, 08:09:26 pm
Post by: kevvosa on October 31, 2006, 08:47:39 pm
Post by: wjp666 on October 31, 2006, 09:11:01 pm
Post by: goldencup on November 04, 2006, 09:58:30 pm
Post by: oldspice on November 05, 2006, 09:02:50 am
Post by: kevvosa on November 05, 2006, 10:33:18 am
Post by: smurfboy on November 05, 2006, 12:18:54 pm
Post by: loulou on November 05, 2006, 05:53:33 pm
Post by: goldencup on November 06, 2006, 11:29:16 pm
How is it that the saying 'never take sweets from strangers' doesn't count at Halloween?
I've always wondered that one too. Yes thanks Oldspice - great holiday!
Post by: oldspice on November 07, 2006, 06:49:16 am
