halloween

We don't get many kids around here. We have mostly retired people it seems in this neighborhood. We usually don't buy candy or do much of anything for it, but I always liked Halloween as a kid.

I'll probably eat some candy myself... lol

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We have a celebration of st. Martin on the 11th of November. The children walk around with lanterns and sing songs at the door for sweets.
Obviously last year was difficult but my solution was to put an honesty tray full of treats on my front porch and left a little note asking the children to take one sweet and leave some for other people. I was quite shocked at the end of the evening when I open the door and found some sweeties still on the tray they had obviously been very honest children.

It's the opposite here. we usually get hundreds. I am not sure what will be happening this year though. Last year we didn't give out candy.

Here in the UK trick or treat seems to have replaced November 4th which was mischief night when peoples gates were taken off or children ran around knocking on doors and running etc. Trick or treat is an Americanism which has been adopted although Halloween has been around all the time.

We have sweets for the children but tend to end up eating most of them ourselves. Around here these days the children are usually accompanied by adults who wait at the roadside. They usually only visit their friends or houses of people they know well. As they are mostly younger children they finish early so, over the years, I saw little of them as they would usually be home by the time I got home from work.

With any luck they may put 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, on TV again. I like Peanuts.

sounds like it's time to fire up the other laptop and make a fresh batch of avatars. lol!

i don't celebrate, dress up, or pass out candy anymore. if they let us at work i like to look for halloween tee shirts. but likely won't do that this year either.

i'm off thurs and fri. i'll start looking for some and working on them then.

I'm going to start getting out my Halloween decorations this weekend. Time to horrorize my house.

I just decorating over the weekend. I have so much still to do so I will try to get some done each evening this week.

I used to always dress up but I haven't the last couple of Halloweens. This year I probably won't either but I will be giving candy out again u like last year when I didn't. let the decorating continue tonight.