Halloween Friday night.............

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  1. Archey

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    My mum would only let me go trick or treating to people's houses who we knew. So it was literally the 3 houses either side of ours and the 2 either side of my grandparents. We weren't allowed to go to any strangers or anyone we didn't know really wells house as my mum then classed this as begging.
     
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    That were my parent's rules on sponsership money too. I was only allowed to go to a couple of houses whereas we used to get the whole school knocking on ours.

    I think the whole begging thing is a bit much though; when I was a kid you'd either get a lollipop or 10p per house. I guess the amount you have to give has gone up considerablynow though.
     
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    Went to America for it in 2008, brilliant. Universal Studio's Halloween Fright Night, looked like a normal Friday night on Wombwell.
     
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    We were in Florida about 8/9 weeks ago and they were advertising it everywhere in the Universal and Disney parks then and they were starting to put decorations up as soon as the 1st of September hit.
     
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    The annual I hate Halloween thread. Well thereev stop your young un from enjoying himself, turn off the lights and pretend not to be in.

    Trick or treating was always a tradition when I was younger and im 38 now. I think its better now that its got a bit more Americanised and people have started doing up their houses a little. It means kids dont have to waste their time calling at thereevs house annoying him.

    They just go to the houses which have a few decorations or a pumkin outside. No kids expect money either, they are happy with a bag of sweets, which in most cases as people have bought them specially they are happy to give.

    Some miserable feckers will moan about owt. Kids dressing up and going round the streets enjoying themselves **** that, get them inside on their consoles
     
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    It's seriously devalued mizzy neet, which is an appalling state of affairs.
     
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    Lot of moaning over nowt. I'll be out all night by coincidence so won't bother me this year but it doesn't really anyway.

    Just give them a few sweets each. It's not much of an issue, just about everyone's got smart tv's nowadays so you can pause your program when they come knocking.

    As for the knocking on strangers doors. If you're young you should be with your own or a friends parent & if you're a bit older go in door to door in groups of at least 3. Simple.

    Lot of whinging over nowt
     
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    I agree with you up to a point. Our kids love it, and as you rightly say, it gets them doing stuff other than gadgets/ consoles.

    BUT What are we celebrating? The kids have no idea - they just have an expectancy of a load of free sweets, which in itself is not a great thing.
    They have come to put Halloween up there with Christmas & Birthdays in the "I'm gonna get loads of free stuff" stakes, with little thought for any of the meaning behind it.

    I have no idea why we started celebrating Halloween. I have even less of a clue why adults would want to get involved. It's all a bit weird as far as I'm concerned. I just let the kids go to the houses of friends, and we put stuff up in the window to let other kids know that we'll take part, but I don't like my kids going to houses where there is no sign that the residents are up for it.

    When I was a kid, Bonfire Night was much more of a celebration. It had a historical perspective, that schools used to include in teaching.

    I think Asda, Sainsburys etc can get stuck into Halloween related sales alot easier than Bonfire Sales, so there we have it.
     
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    We're not from Sheffield you know. Or Norwich.
     
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    The parks close for a hour or two while they prepare it all and then you go back in at night, brilliant what they do with them. Lots of clips on Youtube showing the nights over the years. We're just catching on a bit with it over here.
     
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