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Just after an idea of how you spent this most pagan of celebrations last night?

We (The Mrs and me) traditionally usually carve pumpkins and have a few witches in the windows to brighten the old manor up a bit and scare away bad spirits. Now in the past none of our neighbours in our little square have done likewise and we haven’t ever really had any trick or treaters, not even the neighbouring kids (we think that it’s because we are on a private road in a village?).

Now last night was somewhat different. We arrived home from a week long holiday [and no decorations!] to find most of the houses on the square had pumpkins, lanterns etc and there was hoards of kiddywinks wandering around dressed as you name it, knocking on their doors.

However still no one knocked at our door to trick or treat us? [Despite Mrs notprop procuring some Halloween sweets in the shape of jellied eyeballs!]

It makes me wonder, were all of these little tykes on organised outings just visiting their respective houses or is there a rule that you only knock at peoples house that have decorations up and I don’t know about it?

We now have a bowl of gruesome sweets going, no good thing when we are both on diets!

Did you put the light on at your door? Generally putting the light on and some kind of halloween decoration on the door or near it is a good signal that you're handing out candy.

With two small children the the house, we decorate the house to the nines... (starting Oct 1st), watch old B&W horror flicks (easier for the kids so fewer nightmares) & other themed movies & cartoons, carve pumpkins & go trick-or-treating in town on Halloween evening. We also hold a huge part for each of the kids school-mates, usually on a weekend before Halloween but this year we did it on the 30th & 31st respectively. Near midnight the wife and I watch Rocky Horror to finish off the night, and I always make a point at putting a lit jack-o-lantern outside of each door to the house before bed in order to scare away the "evil spirits" that roam the woods on all-hallow's-eve (don't really believe this of course but it's in keeping with the tradition & adds to the fun).

It's probably the biggest holiday aside from Christmas at our house.

Halloween is a pretty big event at Casa del Fitzz,we decorate (though not as much as I'd like to),everyone gets dressed up,we buy tons of candy for all the little ones who come knocking,spend the whole day watching old B&W classic horror films and cap off the festivities by attempting to tranquilize our two offspring who ultimately end up on a berserk sugar high.

we had every light in the house on and one kid came by all night : / but also, there were no kids out at all...just a couple hoodlums...

Pretty much nothing at all goes on here. Although this year there were actually a couple of trick or treaters, generally nothing else happens. So it's just mooch day for some random kids.

jordanis wrote:we had every light in the house on and one kid came by all night : / but also, there were no kids out at all...just a couple hoodlums...

Hoodlums??..I thought they stopped making those in the 50's...I thought the new models were called "Gangstas"

Hey FITZZ! Sounds like Halloween is celebrated in a very similar matter at our respective residences... go figure! :-)
Unfortunately we live too far out in the country to have trick-or-treaters come by, but we make up for it by hosting the big parties for our kids. To be honest the parties are as much for the parents as the kids... my wife puts out a great selection of food and I'll have the football game on in the living room for any dads that come (and there's beer on the porch in the "adult cooler").

I went around to my brothers house last night and he and his wife were expecting kids to come by so they made abit of effort, the only kids who arrived were about 14 years old, in hoodies and demanding money.

I thought kids were meant to do paper rounds as an occupation, not door to door extortion.

meh, i call em hoodlums, cuz "gangsta" isnt accurate, i live in a filthy rich town (ironically, im poor as gak) and all the kids think they are "gangsta" but they arent...at all, more like whiney rich kids...


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oh, and they think leaving a steaming pile of "fudge" on your doorstep is funny....

Frazzfest usually involves converting the garage into its proper use - a two room haunted house and maze. however, this year the GS troop was elected to do the haunted trail so we worked that up instead. scaring 200 girl scouts from age 4 - 18 - priceless!

Gitsplitta wrote:Hey FITZZ! Sounds like Halloween is celebrated in a very similar matter at our respective residences... go figure! :-)
Unfortunately we live too far out in the country to have trick-or-treaters come by, but we make up for it by hosting the big parties for our kids. To be honest the parties are as much for the parents as the kids... my wife puts out a great selection of food and I'll have the football game on in the living room for any dads that come (and there's beer on the porch in the "adult cooler").

Yes,we've had some pretty "memorable" Halloween parties,but since it fell on a Sunday this year,we didn't go "full tilt".
However,as we live in a HUGE apartment complex,there was no shortage of trick or treaters...I believe we ran out of candy around 8:00 P.M. (of course I am responsible for part of that...damn you Three Musketeers).
As for the Football games,let's just say I spent a few hours running back and forth from "The Wolf Man" in our living room to the Saints game in the Bed room.


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jordanis wrote:meh, i call em hoodlums, cuz "gangsta" isnt accurate, i live in a filthy rich town (ironically, im poor as gak) and all the kids think they are "gangsta" but they arent...at all, more like whiney rich kids...


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oh, and they think leaving a steaming pile of "fudge" on your doorstep is funny....

Just having a bit of a joke with you ...but yes, I'm very familiar with the types of kids your referring to...desperately in need of a swift kick in the pants.

oh definately

Yet, unfortunately, they probably never will. At least until they pick a fight with the wrong person.

bagley wrote:I went around to my brothers house last night and he and his wife were expecting kids to come by so they made abit of effort, the only kids who arrived were about 14 years old, in hoodies and demanding money.

I thought kids were meant to do paper rounds as an occupation, not door to door extortion.

That's when I roll out my Eastwood costume...



We had a mix of cute polite kids in costume enjoying their night and sullen jackass teenagers with no costume/bag/or saying "trick or Treat". Trampled my wife's flower bed and made a general nuisance of themselves. We decided to be out of town next year.

To top it off the city announced that Saturday would be the night for Trick or Treating so we had to spend two evening handing out candy for the people who heard about it (Sat.) and the people who missed the memo (Sun.).


Since most women take Halloween as an opportunity to dress slutty my wife is loath to go out for Halloween together. Ya for sitting at home dealing with other people's kids!

Ah, you poor things, adults. You've no sense of fun left in you!

Trick or Treating isn't a British Halloween tradition but it has become popular under the influence of American cartoon series.

Around where I used to live in Richmond, the code was that if you put out a pumpkin lantern, that was an invitation to children to come and trick or treat.

The younger children were ferried around in gangs by a couple of parents.

On a related topic, I am sad to have witnessed the serious decline within my lifetime of the great tradition of "Penny for the Guy".

I believe this is not unrelated to the banning of all fun fireworks such as backer-rappers and bangers.

rubiksnoob wrote:Ah, you poor things, adults. You've no sense of fun left in you!

Oh I'm all for fun...hell I'm all for downright mischief...go toilet paper trees...scare old ladies..have a ball.
But take a crap on my doorstep?...well..I'm quiet likely to scoop it up and make the offender wear it as a hat.

Sleep.

I ended up smoking midday yesterday so I sat around eating pasta then fell asleep for a while. I then passed on going out to a bar because I'm starting to feel a cold coming on, so I made a phone call then got laid instead. I also painted half a zombie. That's a pretty normal halloween for me I never do anything big anymore.

FITZZ wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:Ah, you poor things, adults. You've no sense of fun left in you!

Oh I'm all for fun...hell I'm all for downright mischief...go toilet paper trees...scare old ladies..have a ball.
But take a crap on my doorstep?...well..I'm quiet likely to scoop it up and make the offender wear it as a hat.

To be honest, I'm not into the whole crapping on peoples' stoops thing. Takes too long. Urinating in grouchy old men's mailboxes is a different story though!

Watch out FITZZ, (Should i say Mr. Fitzz?) you may be next!!

rubiksnoob wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:Ah, you poor things, adults. You've no sense of fun left in you!

Oh I'm all for fun...hell I'm all for downright mischief...go toilet paper trees...scare old ladies..have a ball.
But take a crap on my doorstep?...well..I'm quiet likely to scoop it up and make the offender wear it as a hat.

To be honest, I'm not into the whole crapping on peoples' stoops thing. Takes too long. Urinating in grouchy old men's mailboxes is a different story though!

Watch out FITZZ, (Should i say Mr. Fitzz?) you may be next!!

I'll be watching out for yellow post cards...

I watched a Halloween-themed adult movie.

Just kitten ^.^ I get a bottle of jack and watch the rocky horror picture show with some friends.