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Do you get kids knocking on your door, ours will start at around 6pm and will be a constant stream till around 9pm. Don't mind really, when it's done proper and they with a parent, it's the scallies that just put a mask on and want money that get me. Happy Halloween everyone. catherine xx

hi catherine,im like you,i love to see the little ones all dressed up,i will spend a good hour wrapping up my 1ps and 2 ps up in tin foil,to add to there cauldron,and i have my bag of sweets on stand by.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxjoy

I just sit with the light off all evening so I dont have to answer the door to any local yobs.

Morning Catherine, hope you are well. We have loads of kids on an estate just across from me and they always start around 5p.m. and if you don`t give them anything god help you............... Like last night they throw eggs at my windows. R.B. xxx

Oh dear, i wont be answering the door tonight, most the kids round here are bigger than me and wearing those masks, oh ek (im such a wimp lol).

Yep a few, but we live in an awkward spot...I have sweets ready but no one knocked yet :((( My little Joe is out running around as a skeleton, with his friend and her grannie.... He loves it xx

Morning Catherine! My youngest is still at the age for going out trick or treating so it would hardly be fair to complain about kids knocking at my door! I've already done the pumpkin that sits on our doorstep so that the children know they are welcome. And yesterday we went out and bought all the stuff for Livvy's costume. The kids round here are generally well behaved and usually accompanied by an adult so it's quite enjoyable really

well my daughter got one of those scream masks that purs blood down the front. Not bought any pumpkins this year, had 3 last year. But her birthday on the 2nd so she having a bonfire party instead, so said you can't have both. She got a right face on her, thinks we are all miserable.lol. But she still going trick ot treating. catherine xx

A mask pouring blood down it - OMG Catherine, it may give someone a heart attack lol!

The goodie bags are done and the pumpkin ready :) We get lots of children of all ages knocking.I love to see them all dressed up.Our Jack will be 'Dracula' this year :))) Heather x

Morning, This will cheer you up (not). Researchers for Norwich Union Insurance have discovered that claims for malicious damage to property rise by 150% on 31st October. Average cost of attacks on homes is £900. Trick or trickers throwing eggs and flour are responsible for 80%. Then there are those who switch off electritcity supplies, wreck gardens and steal items from outside homes. Also one of the worst days for car vandalism with 20% more claims than a normal day and an average damage bill of £1,200. Of the 1,000 people interviewed, 65% dreaded a knock on the door and some 72% said they had pretended not to be at home. Wales is the region where homes are most likely to be vandalised. Aileen xx

One year, when we lived in Cardiff we were taking Emma around to my mum's house up the road so that Emma could show her her outfit, took her to some people we knew but arrived home to find eggs all over the front door and windows and car....what a mess... Was quite disappointed really as we were actually having fun and into it, quite spoilt the night thinking that someone would do that even though we weren't at home. Maybe they thought we were hiding behind the curtains??? Who knows???

don't get that round my way eggs and stuff, we know all the kids round our area and most of em are with a parent. So it's quite a fun night really. Mind me laddo don't like it he gets scared, go him a costume skeleton one last year he hated it. Had to put him to bed in the end.lol. catherine xx

Good excuse to get rid of the crisps that no one eats, (Prawn cocktail in my house) or are out of date. lmao

Haven't had any for the last couple of of years, not that I know of anyway. I think now most of the kids go to parties. We used to get the little boy (not so little now) over the road come with his mummy, like most I don't mind if done properly with mummy stood at the gate. Funny one year though I went out a couple of days after and the little animals I had on the side fence ahd gone I said oh someone pinched me animals then I found them all sat on the table in the front garden . Now that kind of trick I like. Hadn't heard anyone at the door though. Been lucky no bad tricks done on me yet only silly one's that I can laugh at. Thing is if they come to our front doot I don't often here them so I get the tricks. Our Joe is only taken round his relatives. Germaine x

Did you go out trick or treating when you were young or is it a more recent happening in UK? My own children are adults now but I remember very little special items in the shops, when they were young. Usually there were a few pumpkins on sale, but not much more. Gwyn

No we didn't Gwyn think it really came over her late 70's it was so funny the first one we ever got the kids stood there said to my OH Trick or Treat he said I will have a treat please NO!!! they laughed you give us one. Germaine x

Hi again, Don't usually get anyone knocking unless it is next door neighbour's kids. No other young children in our neck of the woods. Our little grandchildren usually do the rounds to both sets of g/parents but are going to a Halloween party this year so won't have them calling. Remember how much fun it was when I was young. Such a pity that so many kids are brought up nowadays with absolutely no discipline or boundaries. Aileen xxx

I don't mind the little ones accompanied by adults coming to my door I think it's lovely to see them all dressed up but I don' t really like the older ones who turn up later, so once 8 o'clock comes I am afraid my lights will go out - young ones will be home by then and I don't really want my kids disturbed by my dogs barking every time someone comes to my door.xx