Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

This makes no sense. How is anybody supposed to know whether or not you set out treat bags anonymously?

You're supposed to print out a cutesy sign and put it in the window

http://christmas.organizedhome.com/crafts/halloween-boo/youve-been-booed-print-boo-poem-sign

You put the sign in your window if YOU have been Booed so others don't Boo you again. You do not indicate if you have Booed anyone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

This makes no sense. How is anybody supposed to know whether or not you set out treat bags anonymously?

You're supposed to print out a cutesy sign and put it in the window

http://christmas.organizedhome.com/crafts/halloween-boo/youve-been-booed-print-boo-poem-sign

I'm going to start one at work -- it should really piss people off.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

This makes no sense. How is anybody supposed to know whether or not you set out treat bags anonymously?

Hmm. I live in the suburbs and have never heard of this 'boo'ing thing...and I am glad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

This sounds like a win-win to me.

LOL!

WTF? If you don't want to do it, don't participate. I don't see what the big deal is.

I think it's fine, and I'm not normally one to get into sh&t like this. My kids enjoy going out after dark and trying to trick the neighbors. It's cheap candy in a paper bag that literally takes 5 minutes. I don't care who else in the neighborhood does or doesn't do it. I completely understand if someone else doesn't have the time. Last year, we had a new baby, and I didn't get around to it. NBD. And, I'm a WOHM.

Oh, and the thing specifically says that you leave it somewhere that there is no paper already posted. The whole point is to get as many NEW houses as possible. It is not a 'popularity contest' as some of the PPs mention.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

This sounds like a win-win to me.

me too. I fail friendship tests all the time and Thank G*d, I still have friends. (I entertain a LOT, that might help).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

This sounds like a win-win to me.

I heard it's like the hunger games in Bethesda.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

Your neighborhood is depraved if they "test" you to see if you can join their little clique.

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

All you have to do is not participate.

Someone started a thread on this on the General Parenting about how she wanted to start this in her kids class. I think the consenuse was "don't do it"

For those who didn't know it was a chain sort of thing, in our neighborhood, people usually include one of the "you've been boo'ed" or "we've been boo'ed" poems/graphics (google it). These tell you to pass the favor along to two other people.

My kids enjoy being booed, helping get the bags ready, and delivering them. We usually pick families of kids right near us, not necessarily best friends but people we know. By Halloween, signs are everywhere in our neighborhood.

SAHM in the burbs. Thankfully my neighborhood does not do it. The only place I was ever Boo'd was at work. Our HR lady loved, loved, loved Halloween and started that plus a Halloween decorating contest etc. It was too much. Thankfully she got fired by the next year.