Pretending I'm not at home so to limit the bloody annoying trick or treaters knocking on my door.
Realistically, the only way to do that is to have EVERY light off, plus no TV, as that will be observed by the devious little S.O.Bs
We go out out to dinner every Friday and Saturday night, and we usually have a coffee table lamp on a timer device, as a burglar deterrent, but I'll give that a miss this Friday night.
Hopefully, total darkness, save for the security light that picks up an approach to the front of the house, will do the trick.
In the event that they start early, due to the darkness, I'll meet my wife around 17.30 near Paddington, then hit a few bars until maybe 19.30, then hail a taxi to the restaurant in Borough Market.
Realistically, the only way to do that is to have EVERY light off, plus no TV, as that will be observed by the devious little S.O.Bs
We go out out to dinner every Friday and Saturday night, and we usually have a coffee table lamp on a timer device, as a burglar deterrent, but I'll give that a miss this Friday night.
Hopefully, total darkness, save for the security light that picks up an approach to the front of the house, will do the trick.
In the event that they start early, due to the darkness, I'll meet my wife around 17.30 near Paddington, then hit a few bars until maybe 19.30, then hail a taxi to the restaurant in Borough Market.
All this so you don't have to open the door and tell them to bugger off
Sort my sis dog Ollie out and give him his tea..Then i go to the chippy for my tea, head back to mine ( staying at sis house all week), have my chips whilst watching the soaps and i have the dvd of The Conjuring to watch..watch that in the dark with my pumpkin tealight holder flicking, and settle to watch it ..Then head back to sis later on , take Ollie back out round the block for walk, then go to bed with laptop for a bit ..Hopefully no trick or treaters
did anyone else used to go to a neighbours at halloween and have fireworks,hot jacket potatoes and the games with the dunking apples on string,trying to bite them in water or summat..those were fun days, halloween nights lol
Yes, we used to do all of that..... On Bonfire Night....
Yes, I shall be taking Hallowe'en literally by commemorating "All Saints' Eve" (All Hallows' Eve), and I will be celebrating All Saints' Day the next day.
Not getting any trick or treaters. I live in a church conversion and they're all too scared of actual ghosts to come anywhere near us. So it'll be an undisturbed horror film fest.
Ha ha. Kind of defeats their purpose. Surely, they can't be scared of ghosts.
I don't know. I found three to be the most unsettling and creepiest of all the films and it is a bit underrated. I never found Michael Myers that scary....I think it's all in the music. Take the theme tune away and mute masked bloke is just another clowny nonce. Three also takes an amusing jab at the commercialisation of Halloween. :kitty:
Mum recons this trick or treating should be banned as it only came out over here when the first halloween movie came out.
In other words its an american thing.
Your mum's wrong. We used to go trick or treating in the 1950s when I was a kid. We called it 'halloweening' but it was the same thing. We dressed up in white sheets as ghosts or gran's black coat as witches and neighbours gave us treacle toffee or toffee apples.
We didn't use pumpkins - that is American - in northern England and Ireland it was traditional to use turnips but when Halloween was imported to America they didn't have the same supply of turnips so they used pumpkins. So the only bit of Halloween as we know it today that's American is the pumpkin.
Your mum's wrong. We used to go trick or treating in the 1950s when I was a kid. We called it 'halloweening' but it was the same thing. We dressed up in white sheets as ghosts or gran's black coat as witches and neighbours gave us treacle toffee or toffee apples.
We didn't use pumpkins - that is American - in northern England and Ireland it was traditional to use turnips but when Halloween was imported to America they didn't have the same supply of turnips so they used pumpkins. So the only bit of Halloween as we know it today that's American is the pumpkin.
I agree to an extent. Although until the 80s/early 90s Halloween was overshadowed by Bonfire Night. Trick or Treating may have occurred in some areas but was probably confined to Scotland and various areas of the North (it was fairly non existent in these parts). Until the last decade or so If you tried to go house to house here you wouldn't find many homes waiting with sweets ready.
Eating the sweets myself and refusing to answer the door to pesky children and their gullible parents partaking in this contrived imported American nonsense.
Bravo! Fantastic post have we met before as this is exactly my thoughts? Halloween= crap!
Stacked up on sweeties (for the kids) and wine for us
We have a plastic, flashing pumpkin, which is getting a bit grubby, which we put on the driveway so the kids/parents know they are not gonna get an angry face at the door.
The OH is a bit shy about it all, so I'm always the one to answer the door, with her peeping around the corner.
We always get loads of trick or treaters, mostly with mums, loitering, slightly embarrassed in the background, and they are all dressed up.
A few quid for some sweets, and a couple of hours of opening the door to small ghosts, gremlins, skeletons, scream masks and a darth vadar is actually quite fun.
The Beast, our cat likes it too, because he can sit on the doorstep and get compliments and strokes.
Bravo! Fantastic post have we met before as this is exactly my thoughts? Halloween= crap!
Seconded.
In fact, I live on a top floor flat and it only just occurred to me I can turn the intercom off. So I can sit in ignoring children, and then go to the pub.
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Me too. Thats what I was saying. Im going out but not dressing up.
Realistically, the only way to do that is to have EVERY light off, plus no TV, as that will be observed by the devious little S.O.Bs
We go out out to dinner every Friday and Saturday night, and we usually have a coffee table lamp on a timer device, as a burglar deterrent, but I'll give that a miss this Friday night.
Hopefully, total darkness, save for the security light that picks up an approach to the front of the house, will do the trick.
In the event that they start early, due to the darkness, I'll meet my wife around 17.30 near Paddington, then hit a few bars until maybe 19.30, then hail a taxi to the restaurant in Borough Market.
All this so you don't have to open the door and tell them to bugger off
Yes it would be cheaper to get a tin of Haribo and chicken chop suey, chips and curry sauce rather than all of that nonsence
Sort my sis dog Ollie out and give him his tea..Then i go to the chippy for my tea, head back to mine ( staying at sis house all week), have my chips whilst watching the soaps and i have the dvd of The Conjuring to watch..watch that in the dark with my pumpkin tealight holder flicking,
Yes, we used to do all of that..... On Bonfire Night....
well maybe it was then,.it was one or the other , and does it really matter^_^gee
Ha ha. Kind of defeats their purpose. Surely, they can't be scared of ghosts.
if i recall we did it both nights..went to friend's house at Halloween, then relatives on Bonfire night..
Got my sweets and pumpkin
Remember to skip 3!! It's awful
I don't know. I found three to be the most unsettling and creepiest of all the films and it is a bit underrated. I never found Michael Myers that scary....I think it's all in the music. Take the theme tune away and mute masked bloke is just another clowny nonce. Three also takes an amusing jab at the commercialisation of Halloween. :kitty:
Your mum's wrong. We used to go trick or treating in the 1950s when I was a kid. We called it 'halloweening' but it was the same thing. We dressed up in white sheets as ghosts or gran's black coat as witches and neighbours gave us treacle toffee or toffee apples.
We didn't use pumpkins - that is American - in northern England and Ireland it was traditional to use turnips but when Halloween was imported to America they didn't have the same supply of turnips so they used pumpkins. So the only bit of Halloween as we know it today that's American is the pumpkin.
I agree to an extent. Although until the 80s/early 90s Halloween was overshadowed by Bonfire Night. Trick or Treating may have occurred in some areas but was probably confined to Scotland and various areas of the North (it was fairly non existent in these parts). Until the last decade or so If you tried to go house to house here you wouldn't find many homes waiting with sweets ready.
Pub crawling with some old school friends. I have a rotten cold and not much money. Plus I have to work on Saturday...
With that in mind I may be watching Strictly instead.
Haven't decided yet.
We have a plastic, flashing pumpkin, which is getting a bit grubby, which we put on the driveway so the kids/parents know they are not gonna get an angry face at the door.
The OH is a bit shy about it all, so I'm always the one to answer the door, with her peeping around the corner.
We always get loads of trick or treaters, mostly with mums, loitering, slightly embarrassed in the background, and they are all dressed up.
A few quid for some sweets, and a couple of hours of opening the door to small ghosts, gremlins, skeletons, scream masks and a darth vadar is actually quite fun.
The Beast, our cat likes it too, because he can sit on the doorstep and get compliments and strokes.
Seconded.
In fact, I live on a top floor flat and it only just occurred to me I can turn the intercom off. So I can sit in ignoring children, and then go to the pub.