Our children never really did much Halloween stuff. Our choice, but they didn’t suffer for it, as we made sure they had other opportunities to wear fun costumes, go to parties and gorge on candy. And we made sure, when they were older and not engaged in other parties/gorging on Halloween, that we had plenty of candy available to give out to the greedy lil waifs who came to our door, until…
Our final participation in the annual shakedown was when kids became coming by and demanding their extortion candy so rudely that we simply rebelled at supporting such barbaric behavior any more. “Give it to me!” delivered rudely by a little “girl” (apprentice Dhimmicrap, more like) in a princess outfit wasn’t the last straw, but it was one of the more memorable ones.
Nope. Not going there again. They can find someone(s) else to give them sugar highs and expand their parents’ dental bills.
Have yet to have that happen. So far, all the kids who have come to our door have either been polite or at the very least, not demanding. If it comes to that, then I will be done with the giving of candy as well.
It is nice to live out in the rural area where there aren’t many kids, be the last on the road in the community and not have to worry about trick or treaters! Once in 40 years living here have we had them come to our door – relatives then and I guess we didn’t give them enough. They never came back – fine with me! We don’t even give it a thought anymore.
Word’s getting around. *heh* We had one knock at our door this evening. We didn’t answer.
yeah, we quit giving out candy years ago.