Halloween
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Topic: Halloween
Posted By: caliandjack
Subject: Halloween
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:49pm
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Are you taking your kids trick or treating?
I've got a bag of fruit bursts in case any of the neighbourhood kids, turn up on the door step. There are a few school kids in the street. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:54pm
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Is it Halloween today.. or tomorrow?? ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:58pm
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Tomorrow night I thought? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:04pm
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Oh bugger. When I saw your post I thought it must have been tonight and was all happy as we haven't had any doorknockers lol!! Now I'll have to go out tomorrow and get some lollies or something. ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:05pm
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Nah, I'm not into halloween although I often keep a bag of lollies so I have something to give any trick or treaters. Tomorrow night we're going around to a friends place for dinner and then we're all (3 mums & 4 kids) going to Party at the Lake in Whitby which is being run by one of the local churches as an alternative to Halloween. I hear they have free merry go rounds and things so Michaela should love it!
ETA: when she is older I'll probably send her to the Saints and Angels party at church so she gets to dress up without wandering the neighbourhood door knocking. -------------  
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:08pm
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We only had one group turn up last year, I just said "we don't do halloween" and they said ok and went on their merry way.
Personally I don't support halloween. I don't like the idea behind it but I really don't like the idea of kids going to strangers' homes and demanding lollies (whatever happened to "don't accept lollies from strangers") so my kids won't be doing it. *gets off soap box*  -------------  |
Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:09pm
No one ever visits us... we're not really in a kid friendly area as it's more industrial and on a main road  We'd love to be able to dress up and dress the house etc, as Halloween is like our Christmas (which we don't really celebrate either) IYKWIM? -------------  
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:11pm
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I'm the Halloween Grinch, I don't like it at all. Nyah has been on at me all afternoon about going out tomorrow and it's just not going to happen.. Conor never did it and I'm not about to start now.
If people come I will give them a piece of fruit.. oh maybe I could give them Gingernut!  ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:16pm
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We are going to a Halloween afternoon tea and we get to dress up! Its just our family and all the little cousins are dressing up and we are putting a little party on for them. Thats stops the older kids harrassing my SIL's about going trick or treating! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:18pm
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DSs school is having a halloween disco tomorrow night which I think is a great idea, they get to dress up and have fun with their friends instead of wandering the streets annoying people for lollies! Luckily we are rural and our driveway is too far for any trick or treaters to bother walking up! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:19pm
Apparently kids are told to only accept wrapped lollies nowadays, so no homemade lollies, or fruit or gingernuts -------------
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Posted By: LuluBelle85
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:29pm
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I don't see the harm in it at all.
As long as kids are well supervised and as MrsMojo said, only accepting wrapped lollies. Most people have a fair idea on where not to let their kids door knock, and if their area is reasonably safe. I've bought some wrapped candy for any kids that might pop by. It's all a bit of fun!
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Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:34pm
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We had quite a few groups last year so we'll have a bag of lollies on hand just in case. And if there's some left at the end of the night ... yay for us!
I don't mind other kids doing it but we're in quite a secluded little area and I would regard it as pretty safe but I'd never let Livvy do it. You can tell some of the little kiddies have gone through quite a lot of effort in their costumes and the first few years I felt so bad telling them I didn't have anything for them. -------------  
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:54pm
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LOL at your gingernut Mel. Here they have an area set aside for a halloween walk and they can only go to houses who have a balloon tied to their letterbox. We aren't doing it thou as we are seeing family down the road(about 30kms down the road, but it is still down the road ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:56pm
Thats what happens out here in our little village too! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:59pm
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I got fruit bursts as they're wrapped lollies, thought of that before I got them.
Usually the neighbour hood parents tell us their kids are coming, so we know to have something on hand. Fruit and muesli bars don't really cut it. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:03pm
| I thought we might bet more visitors here in our new house, since we're in an area with quite a few families. Didn't get any last year, but I always have some lollies on hand for when my little brothers and sisters visit, so if any kids do pop in this year I'll have something for them. |
Posted By: fallen
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:25pm
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I don't do halloween. I put a sign up outside our door saying "Halloween free home, no trick or treaters. Thank you". We've never had anyone knock.
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:40pm
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I don;t beleive in Halloween - well more that I don't think kids knocking on strangers doors asking for lollies is a good thing to teach your children. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:43pm
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We keep a bag of wrapped lollies in case we get any- and the girls are going to a Halloween themed party tomorrow but I will never take them trick or treating. ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 10:29pm
| i like dressups, i like halloween parties, but trick or treating is not for me! Also, I'm not american, so why would iadopt an american idea? (BTW I kniow about the pagan origins - blah blah) |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 10:43pm
thats one less for you Mel ........ ------------- 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 10:47pm
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I dont know what will happen this year, since we've moved out of my parents, but every other year one of the mums on the street (and a couple of others) takes a group of kids to each house on the street ,but only houses that "do " halloween , and then they come back and have icecream cones ...Caitlyn cares more about dressing up than getting a lolly.
In fact one year, at one of the houses , instead of saying "trick or treat " she said "IM A WITCH !!" and when the lady asked if she wanted a lolly she said "no ...IM a WITCH ! do I look like a PRETTY WITCH ?! " ....as usual, my vain child only wanted to hear that she was , indeed , pretty . Even as a witch . -------------
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 8:13am
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It something we did every year as children (I have really fond memories of my parents taking me)..but it was in the UK, and a different "time" IYWKIM. I love it when kids come around trick or treating - and I have been known in the past to dress up just to answer the door. I normally decorate the front door and do a couple of pumpkins for the front doorstep. Am not going to do it this year, but only because I have run out of time! We live in a nice family area and most of the kids have parents with them, and they tend to come when its light. I have the lolly jar full of fruit bursts and ready to go!!!!
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Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 8:27am
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No trick or treating here. In fact i've got a little sign to put up on the front gate saying we dont have any lollies. Why should I have to lock my dogs out the back while I deal with other peoples kids! ------------- Alex, Thomas and Lily http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 8:38am
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We don't support trick or treating so we will be putting our annual sign up on the door saying no holloween celebrated here, please try next door or something to that effect. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 8:48am
| We usually have a few kids - but our neighbour always comes around and checks with us a few days beforehand to see that we are okay with it. I don't mind cos it is just local kids that I know and they look really cute all dressed up! |
Posted By: DzinerGirl
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:24am
I remember going trick ot treating with a group of friends when I was younger but I didn't enjoy it at all...it just felt wrong knocking on peoples doors asking for stuff 
DF and I had a conversation about this the other night actually (random really) and we decided that once the kids were old enough we would 'host' a halloween party for them and their friends...DF and I threw a Halloween party last year for our friends and family and it was fantastic! Even my grandma dressed up LOL Of course there's still a few years before that happens LOL
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Posted By: ohanlon82
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:30am
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We are off to a party tomororw night - Sat night that is .. Should be heaps of fun..
I am going as a witch - he he he.. better get my broom stick ready LOL ------------- http://lb2f.lilypie.com/TikiPic.php/RPaODBg.jpg |
Posted By: sweetpea
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:56am
| If we get kids at the door and their are dressed up then we might give them something all though to be honest we don't have many kids around us anyway. To be honest i can't undersatnd why something that is so americanised has caught on here. Also we shouldn't be celebrating it tonight it should be in April there is alot in the net about what it means. Basically its a celebration of the end iof harvest time. |
Posted By: Danaj
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 11:58am
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We live in a small community so it's probably safer than some areas. I don't mind the kids coming to the door but I'm always shocked at how many of them don't have adults with them. And i'm talking about little kids too, like 5 and 6 years old! What would happen if I was a weirdo perv or something?
There are some nasty older boys that don't dress up and go back to the same houses again and again to clean the place out so there are no lollies left for the other kids. I let my German Shepherd answer the door to this kids lol. I like the idea about the balloon tied to the letter box. I know alot of families who are struggling and buying bags and bags of lollies just isn't in the grocery budget. ------------- http://www.TickerFactory.com/weight-loss/wyI1oWn/"> 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 12:52pm
| Just got back from a Halloween baby shower! Was fun! |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 1:31pm
| Our street/neighbourhood is really cool, the last couple of years they give balloons to everyone in the street with a note saying if you want kids to come knocking put the balloon on your letterbox |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:19pm
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I love Halloween and wish we had a party to go to. I wouldn't let my kids go off on their own but if I could be bothered I'd organise a ask a few people before the night if we could come. My kids are too young to care so maybe when they are older I'll do it.
I get all excited each year and have all these lollies waiting but noone ever comes so I end up eating the lollies myself. The best part is the scary movies on TV
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Posted By: Danaj
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:31pm
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It's such a shame everything has changed. I remember growing up in a Cul de Sac with about 15 other kids in the road all gearing up for weeks before the big day. Families would pour hours into the costumes and we all had the most fantastic night. It was almost as big as christmas for us.
However, the old guy down the street did turn out to be a Paedophile and got at least four of the girls from our street that we know of   ------------- http://www.TickerFactory.com/weight-loss/wyI1oWn/">
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Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:43pm
We close the gates and put the dog in the front yard......... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: AzzaNZ
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:53pm
| We'll be taking our little one and are really looking forward to it. We wouldnt let her go unsupervised regardless of age though. |
Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 5:16pm
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NA we don't do it. like otehr's have said seem's silly we spend a whole year telly our kid's not to take thing's from stranger then send the round the neighbour begging for lollies.. Our pre school was dressing up today so my boy's had the day off was not keen on them being a part of it at all. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 5:24pm
i remember this old lady up the road on our street used to give us a grapefruit LOL ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 6:23pm
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if anyone turns up I'll give them a lemon fromt the tree!
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:51pm
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My kuds will never go T&T as 31st Oct will always be Zaara's Birthday and I prefer spending it with Family. I also dont like the idea of kids going to strangers houses asking for lollies!
Today we had sooooo many kids coming to our door...I had bought a few packs of stuff and there was choc and lollies left over from Z's Birthday lootbags etc but we are completely cleaned out!! I gave away exp chocs as thats all I had and some older rude kids kept coming back....I told them to go away! Then there wer amny with guardians with them which was fine....and they were asked to say thank you after....and then there were little ones with out any one....Hmmmm....I wasnt soo happy and asked where the grown up was? they informed me "at home". As it was Z's birthday there was B/Day decor in the house and some kids nearly came thry the door and asked if we were having a party?? I was shocked, what if I was a sicko? Ooohhhh I would hate to think! I might adopt the no halloween policy next year!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:59pm
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Ive been watching the Crime Investigation channel with all the scary stuff on, about the real story of Amityville etc. Am waiting on Halloween to start on TV2.
Not that keen on kids comg to door asking for lollies, but then again I also hate it when unsupervised kids come selling door to door raffles.chocolate etc, I feel its a bit of a violation of my privacy, coming up my driveway uninvited. No one tends to come here anyhow. Last year we went to a HUGE kids halloween party held in a barn by a friend who is American, it was really cool, and she was raising funds for WSPA as well. It was really cool the kids loved it, she had all the cool decortaions. Would prefer something like that as opposed to trawling the streets looking for lollies. I'm not unopposed to the "idea" of halloween, though, as I feel as with everything, good, bad and otherwise, it depends on what YOU teach them about stuff. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 11:10pm
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ooh whats the real story of Amityville ?
we only had one lot of Trick or treaters tonight . Caitlyn and DF are pleased, more lollies for them to pig out on ..... -------------
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