6' Ghosts Banned?

[Boyd]

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what do you do when all your girls want to be for Halloween is Stripperella or lingerie bowl girls? Talk about gouging my eyes out with a rusty spoon.

They are now going as a black cat, a hockey player and a bum...

 

[StupidBird]

I agree with letting 'em dress up and have fun, but those carloads of people from who knows where are just plain greedy, going from subdivision to subdivision in some mad orgy to gorge on sugar. There's public parties and trunk or treats events all over the county, show some restraint. Some years we have zero, some years mobs. And yes, I always buy a bag of my favorites!

One of the most memorable things DH did (at 17 or 18) in high school was go as Shaggy and Scoobydoo. His scruffy hair and facial sproutings, being 6'2", and slouching along in his usual oversized tshirt and he was the spitting image. Then he took along a large, bouncy dog. Everyone got it! He didn't do it for the candy, just to show off. I think its still fun, but don't get ridiculous (as in toting along a twenty pound sack of booty).

PS, Just remember to put the treats way way out of reach of the family dog! Chocolate is deadly!

 

[EweSheep]

When I first moved in this house, my first trick or treat passing out candies to the kids, it was a mixed response but the teenagers was the one that made me quit doing it anymore.

The little kids, they are so adorable! The parents will hang back at the end of my sidewalk while the kids gleefully run up and get the treats. Even the ones that could not afford costumes (the poor black kids in the low income), they also got treats too! Some would go as far as painting lipsticks on their face on costumeless attire......they can get creative LOL!

As for the older kids, roughly around 12 and older, I have NEVER saw such GREEDY kids, instead of me handing out the candies, they grabbed my box and get a big handful! It is not just only one but three or four at a time! I had to wretch the box from their grubby hands and told them that is enough. And the next group of teenagers, they did the same thing, one was bold enough to yank my screen door off from the hinges.

I told hubby he better come in with me, just to show his presence but that did not stop more teenagers from doing it. I finally had enough, saw one more group of teenagers, I dumped the rest of the candies in their one bag (it was LOADED, I mean full up to the brim! while the little kids didn't have as much in their bags). I turned off the light and shut the door. Well five minutes later, same teenagers came back down the street, asking for more candies and I told them did I have my light on? I dont have any more candies and have a good night!

That was the end of it, no more trick or treating on my block! The teenagers really had to spoil it for me!

 

[PineappleMama]

Mom has had that crop up... so many people coming from other areas that she couldn't even get into her own driveway... they'd parked up and down the block blocking EVERYONE in and refused to move!

Then there was the two brothers, maybe 6ish and 4ish? She opened the door, bucket in hand and they just shot right INTO HER HOUSE! Bad enough driving to a strange neighborhood and taking FOOD from strangers, but to go IN THEIR HOUSE... are they NUTS?! What the heck are these parents thinking... then again mom didn't SEE a parent for these two so who knows. Her dogs started going nuts (outside but could see in, two doxies) and the kids ran screaming "She Got Dogs"... actually mom thought that part was hilarious and made up for all the anger over them walking in.

We get some of that, but not as bad as Mom's area thank goodness. Around here one parent/both take and WALK with their kiddos OR a herd of kiddos and 1-2 adults go while the other adults hand out goodies. What we don't do is drive our car up and down the streets while our kiddos do all the walking causing massively clogs and making it MORE likely that our kid or someone else's will be hit. That does annoy the snot out of me... especially since we already have people parking on the street and knocking our road down two one lane anyways... SO easy not to see a kid come out if there's cars all along the sides. *shivers* THAT is the scary part of Halloween... sheesh can you tell I'm a mom or what?

 

[goldenluver]

I have an opinion about Halloween and Trick or Treating

1. this is a fun holiday even for adults and especialy for them, they can dress up and do things they would never do other wise. and young kids always need to be shaperoned.

2. if a teenager takes the time and effort to dress up to Trick or Treat, they will get a treat from me, at leats they are not vandalizing they neihborhood.

3. I think that if they Trick or Treat then they aren't at some friends party getting drunk and stoned. (also a bonus)

besides, I dress up to give out candy to the kids, and buy full size candy bars to give out to them. and honestly I have never had any rude teens or vandal done to my house, not even the pumpkins at my house get destroyed.

 

[goldenluver]

I remember the change from home made to store bought when I was a kid (the scare I remember was needles and razors put in the home made goodies). But growing up I remember an old lady who lived down the road from us had always made them, and when it became a problem her daughter helped hand them out they also put a label on the popcorn balls and such with her name, address and phone number so the parents could know who gave them the home made treat. my mom never threw out her treats, we ate them.

 

[Break an Egg]

My two oldest stepdaughters are 11 and 12, they are about an inch shorter than me and I am 5'8. I know they look older than they are. I was actually wondering if they are not too old, but too big to go trick or treating. I would hate for them to miss out, but I would also hate for them to go to someone's house where they weren't given candy and their brother and sisters (who are smaller ages 10,9, and 4) were.

 

[bufforp89]

Im just gonna buy a big bag of candy and eat it myself

.....I dont get any trick or treaters and dont have any kids to take...

 

[PineappleMama]

Bit off topic, but I mentioned the nutty driving... kids whipping in and out between all the parked cars and all the supposedly slow moving cars....

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/10/28/2583647/elementary-school-student-struck.html

Another child clipped in a school zone. Mom let her out and Told Her to dash across the street to go to school. Bumps and bruises, could have been worse. Luckily the driver hit the brakes and was going slow as supposed to be. But sheesh people wonder why I'm paranoid. If kids get clipped in DAYLIGHT, in a monitored speed zone... how much worse can it be when dark, hopped up on sugar, and the speed limit is 30? One more reason I send mine out with the glow sticks... the more the merrier.

 

[urban dreamer]

You know in our neighboorhood, the only kids that trick-or-treated were the 18 year olds? That because in this day and age, parents were too afriad to let thier little ones go out or would not let them take candy from strangers. Everyone gose to thier church not not celebrate at all. Have you noticed alot of holidays have gone down the drain? I met several little kids this year who had never heard of the easter bunny.