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Halloween Vent - might get flamed
I'm just annoyed at my two neighbors who take their kids trick or treating every year and don't give out candy themselves. I know they may not be financially able to purchase candy, but I don't think that's the case. They are constantly getting new stuff that aren't necessities and taking nice trips. Even if they're charging everything, what's $10 on a bag of candy? So, really, you expect the rest of the neighborhood to supply your kids with candy each year, but you can't spend a few dollars on a jumbo bag of dum-dums? Oh, and one of the neighbors was getting candy for her 2-month-old. I mean, I took DS trick-or-treating, but I only took him to houses of people we talk to and just said 'we're here to say hi' because it's obvious that he's not going to have any candy (luckily some of them told me to grab something for myself - score!). I know it's their choice how to spend their money and how to celebrate, but I just find it a little tacky to take candy and not give any out every year.
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Re: Halloween Vent - might get flamed
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We hang out every afternoon - all the kids hang out and play and all the parents hang out and talk. It would have come up, and I'd be the logical choice for both these neighbors to ask to give candy out for them (which I would have gladly done), because I am both these people's next door neighbor (i'm sandwiched between them). And they've done this every year. We would know if they gave candy to a different neighbor to give out for them. It's just weird.
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Not to be rude, but that is always what my family has done. My family didn't live in the greatest of neighborhoods, so my mom would always take us to a "better" area. We would always be gone from our house during trick-or-treat times because we ourselves were trick-or-treating.
What infuriates me, are the parents who stay home to hand out candy but let their children roam around the neighborhood acting like heathens. It's dark out, and you are letting your children trick-or-treat alone! That is dangerous. I would much rather miss one house because they are out having Halloween fun themselves, than be upset because everyone isn't home handing out candy.
What most people do in my neighborhood is have one parent stay at the house and the other parent goes with the kid, or one neighbor will take a group of kids. This year was kind of funny. Somehow all the husbands ended up staying home to give out candy, so they all sat on the driveway in tailgating chairs drinking beer and passing out candy.
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We all go trick or treating together and leave a bucket with candy on our front porch. This works out well because we have two barky dogs who go crazy every time the doorbell rings.
This is what most people do in my neighborhood. Or they put out a bowl of candy. Surprisingly most kids are good about just taking one piece.
We really enjoy trick or treating as a family and I would hate it if DH or I had to choose one of us to stay home. Also, I don't hand out candy to compensate for the candy my kids are getting. To me, that's not why people do it. What about the tons of retired couples with no kids that hand out candy? It all balances out. In our neighborhood, there's plenty to go around! I'm not flaming, just offering my point of view.
Consequently, my mom is usually here on Halloween and hands out candy from our house. But if she wasn't, we would all ToT as a family and only hand out candy late after we got home.
This. It's a family event to us, and we dont leave a bowl of candy when we're out because what fun is that? We hand out candy when we get home from ToTing. I dont think of it as a "we gave your kid candy, so you owe ours some" type of thing. Give out candy if you want, but I wouldnt expect anything in return.
What bothered us tonight: the whole street left their lights off except us so we have a ton of candy left over - and I was giving handfulls!
Also - if my kids are old enough, they'll wear reflectors/carry flashlights and go by themselves. How can TorT happen if everyone is out?
Klassy neighbors. I had Emma in her stroller last night but it was just to go with the group. She did not trick or treat. Next year she'll know more about it to be excited for it. But in our group was a lady with her toddler and newborn, trick or treating for both. Seriously? Your newborn needs snickers?
Even though I take the kids to trick or treat in my brother's subdivision I brought 2 huge cauldrons of goodie bags made up and a large tupperware bucket full of dumdums I had left over. I brought more than my brother and his neighbor set out.
this is what we do too...