Thread: Perhaps I'm in the minority...

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Every year around this time, all the halloween related forums have their,
"Who do you NOT give candy to?" or similar types of threads, where everyone gets to complain about the "quality" of the ToT's that come to their houses and beg for candy...
("no manners" "no costume" "came around 2 or 3 times" "too old" "too young" etc, etc.)


Is anyone willing to chime in with:
"I'm grateful to be able to do this - and grateful to have enough money/resources to be able to give out treats to people all night long"


I am.

Payment to me is seeing their faces light up at whatever I have displayed - and I make a point of doing so!!

I never fail to hear "Thank you!" when I put a treat in their bag...even if they've been there before in the evening...even if they have no costume...even if they're obviously of college age...even if they're they're too cool to acknowledge me...

That is payment to me - that is why I do this thing every year.


I may not think my display and crap is very good...but it's a treat to other people.


I love this holiday.
When I can give whatever I can, and hopefully help make people happy.

(I had seriously given up on this year, due to work and life requirements, but I'm even going to put stuff up this year (despite all odds) - I finally managed to put out some stuff this evening and wouldn't you know, a neighbor of mine came over and said "About time...I was afraid we wouldn't have Halloween this year" - meaning, without my display, it just ain't halloween for them. Now all I have to do is figure out how to go 8 days without sleeping, if I want a chance at anything decent in my yard))



Anyone else in the minority?

I could not put it better myself.

This is the first year EVER that I'm not letting parents get treats. Anybody over 18 gets no treat, just the scare. We're sick of adults coming in without kids. That isn't the point, it's supposed to be for kids.

Or maybe I'm just getting cranky as I approach Middle Age.

Originally Posted by Wolfman

Anybody over 18 gets no treat, just the scare. We're sick of adults coming in without kids. That isn't the point, it's supposed to be for kids.

Could not put it better myself!

Bravo Ugly Joe! Bravo!

Well, we don't give treats, don't do our trail on Halloween night, and welcome any age. However......... if I was trick or treating with my young kids and came upon say someone who has a garage haunt, heck I want to go in and see toooooo! It seems rather petty to not hand me a piece of candy on my way out as surely that isn't why I came through in the first place. If there was an obviously tiny kids area with happy dancing pumpkins appropriate for a toddler, well no you don't have to give me a candy. I know college kids are starving but I don't know any who go trick or treating just for candy. To me, we spend hours getting our trail ready, if someone wants to come in and see it, that's why we do it, if they are rude I suspect they are rude to more than just us Halloween haunters and it's them not me that has the problem. Would I give them candy anyway, probably.

Lil

Originally Posted by Wolfman

This is the first year EVER that I'm not letting parents get treats. Anybody over 18 gets no treat, just the scare. We're sick of adults coming in without kids. That isn't the point, it's supposed to be for kids.

Or maybe I'm just getting cranky as I approach Middle Age.

Meh, I disagree with you. If the TOTer puts out the effort to dress up and shows enthusiasm, they are worthy of a treat in my opinion. I dont give candy to non-dressers and rude kids, and with the candy I save from them I can give it to the 18+ year olds!

Mage--
thank you very much!
You know what's really funny--

We go out DRESSED up the whole family JUST to take the 5yr old ToTing--I don't expect anything from anyone--- and you wouldn't believe HOW MUCH candy her dad and I get just because we are dressed UP
Then they find out which house on the block is OURS and we get more---

I not ever denied anyone candy no matter WHAT THE AGE as long as their are costumes involved and I NEVER will.
I soooo LOVE my community--

UGLY_JOE--

Ya know I love ya sweets and I think you said it best when it comes to Halloween--
your situation is funny because you know I also have lived where I am for 6yrs.

GOMEZ made us WAIT until OCtober 1st (Imagine that) to even get started and I have actually have had people stop by my house and say, "As usual LOOKS GREAT. we were afraid you all had moved"--heheheheh it was ONLY the second week in October.

The mechanic behind me knows a dude with a classic HEARSE and they are working on getting it parked in my YARD for OCT 31st

I do this because I LOVE it--- and when funds are not available it is amazing the effect you can create with a bag of Spider WEB.

Kudos to you and I KNOW how incredibly insane your life has been...didn't you just feel that warm, fuzzy feeling when you got out in the yard this afternoon?
I know it helps me tremendously....

That is EXACTLY what I did yesterday also

No Ugly Joe, we're not in the minority, we're the silent majority. I do this not only because I love the Holiday, but for the kids, and their parents (who are really just bigger kids). Every kid gets a treat, whether they have a costume or not, and that includes the bigger ones. Every parent is more than welcome to go through the haunt, and if they are in costume, they get a treat also. We have a growing # of adults who come each year without kids, and that's a beautiful thing. They want to relive a part of their youth, and celebrate the day, and after all, that's what I'm alll about in the first place. I have no intention of letting any pettiness creap into my thinking on a day that I enjoy so much.

Ugly Joe,

I am with you. I am gratefult and if they take the time to come and see the display and come to the door we reward them. Of course some get more that others based on their efforts (age, costume, saying trick or treat... ) We hope that it will provide a memory that when they are older and remember our haunt that they do a haunt for the kids.

At least that is our hope.