So Halloween is right around the corner. MOOOOOOHHHHAAAHHHHHAAA.
Actually I could care less at this point in my life. I had originally romanticized the whole notion of being a home owner and now getting the opportunity to pass out candy to cute trick or treaters. What’s ruined it for me are the kids in my neighborhood, in particular, our street. I have mentioned before that our street tends to be a little “peppery”. There are some cute houses that people have taken the time to fix up as well as some serious trashy homes. It frustrates me to no end, taking care of your house is a choice. You don’t have to have a lot of money to cut your grass, keep trash off your lawn (why is it there in the first place?) and to keep random objects off your lawn (toys, bikes, equipment, garden gaudy crap) Call me a snob, but I really have a hard time with people just letting their houses run down, especially when I see them sitting on their porches for hours on end. Make hay while the sun shines people!
Anyway, back to Halloween. Have candy prices gotten outrageous? I can’t believe how much a bag of candy is if you want to get anything decent. You could seriously blow $30-$50. That is an investment. With Ryan and I now on one income our expendable income is about null and void, so every penny counts. Now, who doesn’t think it is worth it when an adorable 3 year old rings your doorbell and says “Twick or tweet!” Sure, have a candy bar…have two you sweet, adorable little monster. I love children that are polite, sweet, have the excited energy around them that they got to dress up and get candy. What I can’t stand is when a 15 year old rolls up with no costume on, a huge pillow case and has a crappy attitude like you owe them. I don’t understand why they don’t stick to the rules of age limits and the times you are allowed to trick or treat. Teenagers in 8th grade and above should not be trick or treating. You are also suppose to do it between 6:00-8:00 in our town and from what I hear it starts as early as 4:30 and people still get knocks until past 9:00. WHAT!?!?!?!?!? That is ridiculous. The kids in our neighborhood are loud, obnoxious, constantly run across our lawn, throw trash in our bushes and grass (including an open can of salmon!) They have set their fast food cups on the hood of our car a couple times, play basketball in the street right next to our vehicles…totally and utterly disrespectful. Am I wrong that I have no intention of passing out candy next Tuesday because of this? We will have our lights off and will skee-dattle off somewhere and kill a few hours. I don’t want to hear my doorbell ring or my front door being pounded by ungrateful, disrespectful kids. The sad thing is, I am sure there will be some really cute, little kids that will come by who I would love to give candy to, but how to you pick and choose? You can’t. It is just the nature of this neighborhood and in a few years, hopefully, we will be able to upgrade a little bit. So give me your opinions, what would you do?
yeah, I hear ya. I hardly have any kids that come by in my neighbourhood, sad thing. I’m just nervous about leaving my house un-manned on Halloween with the creep-os out there.
i would pass out candy to the cute kids and used hypodermic needles hidden in candy apples to the little bastards… it’s a lot of prep work but it really teaches kids a lesson.
I think you should answer the door with the same intention: say trick or treat and then help yourself to their bag of candy. Confuse them, but it will teach them a valuable lesson for years to come: don’t go to the Portnoy’s on Halloween, they steal candy from children.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll be skee-dattled to the hospital for Chloe to be born on Halloween!
You’ve totally changed my mind about it Joe and Candace!
Part of the fun of hypodermic needles is that you never know what’s inside! Could be more candy! who knows! Well, I’m off to the medical supply store (or random back alley) to pick up some
diseasescandy for the kids!i like candace’s idea a lot!
damn kids.
Yeah - I am so not a fan of the spoiled rotten teenagers! They totally ruin it for me! But in our neighborhood we have a lot of cute little kids… so I went out and spent $15 on stuff to hand out…
$10 got me 80 little containers of play-dough at Costco. Perfect for the little ones — they can play with it and it won’t make them hyper or rot their teeth. (And really - who doesn’t like play-dough???) If I have any left over, it makes for great little gifts when going over people’s houses with kids or to be put with birthday presents.
Then I spent $5 at Wal-Mart and got a bag crappy candy - not the good name brand stuff, but the largest bag I could find of just stuff (smarties, bubble yum, generic lolly pops, etc). This is for the teenagers/older kids. If they have a bad attitude - screw em… they get the cheap stuff. If they don’t have a costume on - screw em - I just might make them answer a trivia question or two (or make them dance or something) just to earn their crappy candy! At least I’ll get a laugh out of it!
However nothing gets opened until that evening just in case (and I can hope here) that I either have the baby before or on that day! And if that’s the case then I play really cheap and return it all later in the month!
I would definitely be worried about leaving my house unguarded. Maybe should try to suck up to all the little bratty kids by passing out awesome candy that way you will be in their good books for the rest of the year…That way they will think of you as the cool couple and not want to terrorize your lawn with garbage any more.