If you don't want spooky visitors you can nick this poster from here.
Enlarge it and print it to a decent size and stick it on your front door.
(If you have trouble I can e-mail it to you.)
OR, you can go get it yourself here:
Gazette website
It's not the spooky visitors I mind, it's the gangs of teenagers demaning with menaces that hack me off
I always do my own sign saying "No trick or treat", i do the O's as pumpkins and draw spiders on it and wish them a good evening. I have a phobia for face masks so will not open the door to anyone at Halloween.
I can understand phobias and elderly people who feel vulnerable not wanting to join in. However, for the vast majority I think it is just plain stingy. Did you not trick or treat when you were kids? Or collect 'penny for the guy'?
I bought bags of sweets and put a lantern in the window. We have had a fair few callers and I have been impressed with the effort that most of them have put into their costumes.
thing is when i was a kid and we did penny for the guy(not much trick or treating in my days
)we took no for a answer. some of the kids to day are just down right rude. my dad gave some sweets to some kids in brighton hill and coz the one of kids wanted money after dad shut the door the sweet were chucked at his window. its kids like that, that make people not want to open the doors
Some teenagers can be quite intimidating, and that's what the poster is all about. Not everyone wants to join in and many think it's not such a good fun thing.
The trouble is a poster (or a barbed wire fence) is not going to deter the intimidating teenagers. All that poster does is spoil it for the little kids who are parading round in their costumes having fun.
Our elderly neighbours used to put a bucket of sweets on their gate post next to the poster. Now older kids in particular might have been a bit greedy with the amount they took but none of them just emptied the bucket leaving nothing for the next group.
(31-10-2008 08:27 PM)Della Wrote: [ -> ]I can understand phobias and elderly people who feel vulnerable not wanting to join in. However, for the vast majority I think it is just plain stingy. Did you not trick or treat when you were kids? Or collect 'penny for the guy'?
I bought bags of sweets and put a lantern in the window. We have had a fair few callers and I have been impressed with the effort that most of them have put into their costumes.
No we didn't trick or treat as kids - In fact as an adult I can only remember it as a reasonably recent occurrence.
I work hard all week and when I get home dont want to be bothered by kids/teenagers knocking on the door incessantly. Fine if people want to take part but respect the wishes of those that dont.
(02-11-2008 01:02 AM)non-stick Wrote: [ -> ]No we didn't trick or treat as kids - In fact as an adult I can only remember it as a reasonably recent occurrence.
Did you do 'penny for the guy' then? It seems to me that trick or treat has replaced penny for the guy but there has always been a tradition of children trying to raise money around this time of year. Adults seem to forget what it was like to be kids.
i think the difference with penny for the guy and trick or treat is location.......penny for the guy was a thing you did outside of shops not by knockin peoples door's........i blame E.T for trick or treating