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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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 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.

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.

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?

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

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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.