Halloween rants! Candy for infants? Teens w/o costumes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about the mini van that pulls up on the cul-de-sac? Out pops a dozen "devils" and like Taz, they sweep all the houses, pile into the mini van and move on to the next street.

Um... that's what you get for living on a cul-de-sac.

??

Living on a cul-de-sac means you should get vanloads of kids who don't even live near your neighborhood?

You people are seriously stingy. No, it does not anger me that children from the nearby apartment complex are brought to our neighborhood by their parents so that they can walk outside in a safe environment rather than go door to door and be greeted by drunks who are more likely to try to take their candy than give them any. Yes, I am exaggerating for effect, but still: if you don't want to give out candy, don't. Just let the poor (literally and figuratively) kids enjoy the night, for the love of the baby Jesus!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then if you don't like it turn off your lights and don't answer the door. We don't take candy but happily give it away.

OP here. I already said I love Halloween. I would not dream of not handing out candy! I just think it's odd that parents would be collecting candy with babies, but I would always still drop a piece in the bucket if they were holding it out.

we absolutely did and my husband and I ate the candy. So much fun, our boys were a chilli pepper, a husk of corn and "super-baby" as infants

I love these costumes! I can just see my mother tying some hay onto me in the 70s and telling me I was a "husk of corn." (I'm sure yours was adorable, it just reminded me of all our homemade ones back in the day.)

[Anonymous]

I think 8 month old DS and I will probably go trick or treating with the neighbors, just to be sociable, have some fun with DS's costume, and meet some new neighbors. We won't take any candy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about the mini van that pulls up on the cul-de-sac? Out pops a dozen "devils" and like Taz, they sweep all the houses, pile into the mini van and move on to the next street.

Um... that's what you get for living on a cul-de-sac.

??

Living on a cul-de-sac means you should get vanloads of kids who don't even live near your neighborhood?

You people are seriously stingy. No, it does not anger me that children from the nearby apartment complex are brought to our neighborhood by their parents so that they can walk outside in a safe environment rather than go door to door and be greeted by drunks who are more likely to try to take their candy than give them any. Yes, I am exaggerating for effect, but still: if you don't want to give out candy, don't. Just let the poor (literally and figuratively) kids enjoy the night, for the love of the baby Jesus!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GET OFF MY PORCH, BABIES!

Wow. Why don't you just offer them your dried, shrunken, hag teat. Trick or Teat?

This made me laugh outloud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've had lots of babies come by in their adorable costumes and we put candy in their buckets. It never occurred to me to care who ends up eating the candy; I assume its the parents, but maybe they donate to Treats for Troops. It would be strange to skip the candy; it's part of the routine. People knocking on the door to show off the babies' costumes and then walking away without candy would be bizarre to me unless they are with older kids who are getting candy.

+1000. Lighten up re: the babies OP.

[Anonymous]

OP if you don't want to give candy to parents with babies, why don't you just give them a trick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then if you don't like it turn off your lights and don't answer the door. We don't take candy but happily give it away.

OP here. I already said I love Halloween. I would not dream of not handing out candy! I just think it's odd that parents would be collecting candy with babies, but I would always still drop a piece in the bucket if they were holding it out.

I think it's odd that you care. I happily give candy to anyone, and I don't care who eats it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then if you don't like it turn off your lights and don't answer the door. We don't take candy but happily give it away.

OP here. I already said I love Halloween. I would not dream of not handing out candy! I just think it's odd that parents would be collecting candy with babies, but I would always still drop a piece in the bucket if they were holding it out.

I think it's odd that you care. I happily give candy to anyone, and I don't care who eats it.

It's been 13 years since she posted - those babies are now teens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then if you don't like it turn off your lights and don't answer the door. We don't take candy but happily give it away.

OP here. I already said I love Halloween. I would not dream of not handing out candy! I just think it's odd that parents would be collecting candy with babies, but I would always still drop a piece in the bucket if they were holding it out.

I think it's odd that you care. I happily give candy to anyone, and I don't care who eats it.

It's been 13 years since she posted - those babies are now teens.

Wonder what OP's take is on all this now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I
love
Halloween

but I'm always stunned when parents take candy for their INFANT whom they bring around for Halloween -- when our kids were very little we just took them to the door and said HI but "No, thank you" to candy. Because come on the kid isn't going to (SHOULD NOT BE!) eating it and how tacky is it for parents to get free candy for themselves?

I've heard on the boards here that some parents take candy anyway even when they're with kids old enough to get it. What's that about?

And what's with the teenager who show up in regular clothes??

Sorry, I sound like Seinfeld and Louis Black rolled into one. I really love Halloween but I shake my head at this stuff. Please comment on these if you wish or leave your own Halloween "WTF"s!

You're going as a wicked witch this year, eh?

There's enough real suffering the world that there's no need to invent reason to hate on innocent behaviors

[Anonymous]

ZOMBIE THREAD


👻🎃 HAPPY
HALLOWEEN 👻🎃

[Anonymous]

For our DD’s first Halloween, she was 14 mos, old enough to technically eat candy, but we didn’t really ever give it to her. A cookie or ice cream more likely.

We still took her bc we thought it was fun. We went to like 4 neighbors to the left and 4 neighbors to the right. College town / rental in duplexes so we didn’t know more than 1-2 neighbors.

I hope they didn’t judge us. Yes, we gave her a few little bites. And then we ate the rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For our DD’s first Halloween, she was 14 mos, old enough to technically eat candy, but we didn’t really ever give it to her. A cookie or ice cream more likely.

We still took her bc we thought it was fun. We went to like 4 neighbors to the left and 4 neighbors to the right. College town / rental in duplexes so we didn’t know more than 1-2 neighbors.

I hope they didn’t judge us. Yes, we gave her a few little bites. And then we ate the rest.

Additionally! We realized it was dumb for us to go as we went, hence us just heading home. Like, sometimes it’s not a big deal and you realize you made a mildly stupid choice and you learn.

[Anonymous]

This is like the grinch but for Halloween. Who cares about this at all. It’s candy.