Putting chocolate on the onions as we speak…….they look like chocolate apples but taste like chocolate onions….just kidding

As my mother used to say, “you’ll take what your given”

Better still, turn out all the lights and hide behind the couch till the rug rats and ankle biters have gone!

when i were a lad it was monkey nuts, more monkey nuts some more monkey nuts and some monkey nuts. if we were lucky there was a satsuma if unlucky there were crab apples. once got a bar of soap, used.

We used to say ” any apples or nuts”. (Curious to know if we were alone in that )
And ya always had the oul one who made ya sing for two feckin monkey nuts.

Ah God help them, do they not get enough crap all year round! Wouldn’t do them any harm to get a satsuma and a few monkey nuts, sure that’s all we got years ago! LOL

Back in my day we were lucky to get a slap and 3 grapes…

an old lady once gave me a starting to rot mandarin orange!

One misanthrope used to throw loose, unbagged popcorn into the kids bags in my estate. Used to mix with coins and the small amound of liquid which was always there for some reason. Mmmm, delicious.

Trick or treat? We used to say help the halloween party. Americanisation gone global.

Last year my kids were given stale digestive biscuits and a half eaten Mars bar!

How about snap-apple & barmbrack
with the ring, the rag, the stick, the bean and other, such fun days back then before it all became too Americanized.. Won’t see Halloweens like those again when we were grateful for small things and big laughs..

Number 5……really?
I love Catherine wheels! I’d eat my own foot if it was covered in Liquorice :-)
Hate Halloween though!

Dried fruit is going to be in my basket of treats this year. ;-)

I got a potato once

Our kids get so much, that we raid their loot when they return to empty their bags. We then rob a lot of their stuff and put it out for the next callers.

That probably messes with some of the parents heads.

I like to hand out LSD to the kids, they love it! Makes Halloween REALLY scary!

Surely the worst thing to give them is handguns.

I wanted to give the kids with attitude (and there are plenty of them) skittles and red bull to teach their parents a lesson…… But my wife wouldn’t let me!

Bonios and oxo cubes.

Just ask for a trick instead, hopefully the kids won’t get to hyper from all the sugar. The only thing to give them is some apples as Halloween is originally a harvest festival to celebrate the fruits of autumn and prepare for the coming winter by talking of the past and the dead, and celebrating this. How it became about dressing up and horrors is something that is been marketed to us. So don’t fall for the bs marketing of buying sweets bring back the traditions of celebrating the people who have left us and enjoy the last feast before winter.

I know a certain someone who has a separate bowl of doggy chocs and biscuits and dishes them out with the good stuff. No complaints yet.

Two words work for me always – fu** off

Money.

A voucher for a night with jimmy savile

Don’t forget grapes! i used to get them every year and of course they just got crushed by all the sweets!

Last year we had to throw out all the sweets my 9 year old had collected as nuts got mixed up amongst them and she is so allergic we could not run the risk of having to use the emergency stab pen containing adrenalin and then heading to casualty…. major disappointment for her…tho
secretly I was kinda pleased…probably also meant no unexpected trip to the dentist for a filling at the cost of 60 euro….

I think it’s quite sad that children prefer a pile of crap over fruit…

Ah leave it out will ya!! Der monkey nuts son!!!

Broken glass in pick’n mix sweets!

We live on a country road where there are no other houses so we travel for Halloween. Daughter went around a nice estate in Greystones last year with a friends son, stale liquers and mozart chocolates were the low note, total haul was 2 shopping bags full and heavy with chocolate and 2 apples. Another year went around a less salubrious estate. 3 bin bags full of crisps and jellies and odd chewy things.

from a health and safety point of view, going round collecting sweets should be abolished. it’s totally outdated in this day and age and you just don’t know who and how those sweets were kept and handled. however, keep going with dressing up parties and eat sweets there.

Fair enough, I see there is not much agreement with my input. Well, maybe my excuse is that from where I come we do not celebrate Halloween the way you do. We only go to visit our ancestors in the graveyards and think about death and decay. Is that not much better than sweets?