Weird neighbor and Halloween

[Anonymous]

Just let the kids trick or treat on Halloween. Maybe invite a friend or two to the pumpkin patch or over to watch the Charlie Brown Halloween while you carve pumpkins.

But this very public "I've Been Boo'd" signage is a bit much. In my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank God this isn't my life. Get a job OP and stop obsessing over inane Pinterest nonsense.

eh, you can't assume that Op is a SAHM. In fact, this sounds like classic over compensation to me.

Op, do you work?

I don't know why this matters so much, but I am a SAHM.

OK, apparently people don't like this tradition. OK, message received. I thought it was something fun for kids. My kids love it, and I don't know a single kid who wouldn't like a fun little surprise and some treats.

I was wrong to use the word "weird" about my neighbor. I should have found a better way to describe her. I did say stand-offish, I guess that's what I meant. We have kids who like playing together, she's nice, but she's hard to get to know and doesn't seem to get in the spirit of things sometimes. She's the mom at the block party who doesn't talk much. That's what I meant. I shouldn't have said "weird." That was the wrong word.

I didn't know people could be annoyed by something so small and harmless, but I guess I'll stop. I do appreciate some of the feedback, but some of you are downright nasty.

That's sort of missing the boat in my opinion. It's not really the booing that people were reacting to initially as a concept, although many people don't know what the hell it is. It was your weird stalker behavior with the mom, which is still here, and the odd notion that you and you alone kick off booing season.

[Anonymous]

How could you possibly know if they've been boo'd? Wow, unreal!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How could you possibly know if they've been boo'd? Wow, unreal!!!!

PP again. We drove to our old neighborhood once to boo our former neighbors. Then we boo'd our new neighbors. Unreal -- again -- that you think you know who boo's who. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

I still cant believe this site is free

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro booing, anti all after sports snacks for little kids.

Most of our events were early in the morning and everyone was going out to lunch after. Crap like this and goody bags at elementary for every event/holiday/party help grow entitled kids.

Despite this my kids and I loved booing. Any excuse to get outside in the fall and run around the neighborhood was a great idea to us.

Where do you get the "I've been Booed" signs?

This is also what I wonder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro booing, anti all after sports snacks for little kids.

Most of our events were early in the morning and everyone was going out to lunch after. Crap like this and goody bags at elementary for every event/holiday/party help grow entitled kids.

Despite this my kids and I loved booing. Any excuse to get outside in the fall and run around the neighborhood was a great idea to us.

Where do you get the "I've been Booed" signs?

This is also what I wonder.

When you get booed, there are two signs in the bag. There's also usually a cute poem saying you have to put the "I've been booed" sign on your door and then you have to boo two other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro booing, anti all after sports snacks for little kids.

Most of our events were early in the morning and everyone was going out to lunch after. Crap like this and goody bags at elementary for every event/holiday/party help grow entitled kids.

Despite this my kids and I loved booing. Any excuse to get outside in the fall and run around the neighborhood was a great idea to us.

Where do you get the "I've been Booed" signs?

This is also what I wonder.

There are tons that you can print out online.

Do a google image search or go on Pinterest if you want it to be really pretty. Or you take a marker and piece of paper and write “we’ve been Booed!” and you tape it to your front door.

Don’t overthink it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro booing, anti all after sports snacks for little kids.

Most of our events were early in the morning and everyone was going out to lunch after. Crap like this and goody bags at elementary for every event/holiday/party help grow entitled kids.

Despite this my kids and I loved booing. Any excuse to get outside in the fall and run around the neighborhood was a great idea to us.

Where do you get the "I've been Booed" signs?

This is also what I wonder.

There are tons that you can print out online.

Do a google image search or go on Pinterest if you want it to be really pretty. Or you take a marker and piece of paper and write “we’ve been Booed!” and you tape it to your front door.

Don’t overthink it.

No. You get the "We've been Boo'd" sign from the person who boo's you. Then you make two new ones to boo two other families. Come on, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro booing, anti all after sports snacks for little kids.

Most of our events were early in the morning and everyone was going out to lunch after. Crap like this and goody bags at elementary for every event/holiday/party help grow entitled kids.

Despite this my kids and I loved booing. Any excuse to get outside in the fall and run around the neighborhood was a great idea to us.

Where do you get the "I've been Booed" signs?

This is also what I wonder.

When you get booed, there are two signs in the bag. There's also usually a cute poem saying you have to put the "I've been booed" sign on your door and then you have to boo two other people.

A few years ago, when we were booed, we received treats with one sign/poem that we could post, and which had a website address where we could print the next copy. Google "I've been booed" to start your own chain!

[Anonymous]

Our neighborhood has this tradition. It is amongst the swim team apparently as one of my neighbors kindly saw fit to tell me. every kid on my block got booed except for my kids, as my kids are not on the summer swim team. Fortunately my kids did not seem to care that there were boo signs every where but our house. As an adult I thought it was rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Our neighborhood has this tradition. It is amongst the swim team apparently as one of my neighbors kindly saw fit to tell me. every kid on my block got booed except for my kids, as my kids are not on the summer swim team. Fortunately my kids did not seem to care that there were boo signs every where but our house. As an adult I thought it was rude.

That is rude. I hate your neighborhood swim team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Our neighborhood has this tradition. It is amongst the swim team apparently as one of my neighbors kindly saw fit to tell me. every kid on my block got booed except for my kids, as my kids are not on the summer swim team. Fortunately my kids did not seem to care that there were boo signs every where but our house. As an adult I thought it was rude.

That is rude. I hate your neighborhood swim team.

+1 VERY RUDE of those so called neighbors. This is exactly the sort of reason why I would not participate in something like this.

[Anonymous]

OP,

You are sensing this mother is an introvert, someone who doesn't make small talk, someone who doesn't participate in all the dumb, make-work, plastic pollution "traditions" you find essential?

Well, she's not weird. She seems perfectly sane to me!


PS: please look up the definition of "tradition". Boo'ing is not one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a neighbor a few doors down who seems nice, usually. A little stand-offish sometimes. Her girls and my boys play together nicely when they see each other.

She was packing up her car on Friday, and I asked if she needed me to look out for packages or anything. She said no thank you, just a short trip, got it covered, etc.

I was walking our dog later and noticed that they had put up a "We've Been Boo-ed" sign that was definitely not there when they were packing up. My boys and I usually do the first "Boos" of the season, and always get their house, because their girls are so nice and cute.

I get that they don't want to participate, but she could have said something or posted a sign that was like "please don't Boo us"; they definitely were not Booed, because no other house on our street that has kids has the sign up! I'm just bummed. It's not like I would have left it on their porch all weekend, knowing they were gone.

To me, putting up a sign that says "we've been boo'd" is basically the same thing as "please don't Boo us". Maybe more subtle. I wouldn't take it personally.

I agree.