Halloween

celticWario

So what's going to happen halloween night? kids banging down the doors of elderly and immune-compromised people looking for sweets? I mean you can't "cancel" halloween but surely there's a common sense solution.

SuperSean11

Don’t open the door. Simple

celticWario

celticWario wrote: »

So what's going to happen halloween night? kids banging down the doors of elderly and immune-compromised people looking for sweets? I mean you can't "cancel" halloween but surely there's a common sense solution.

I'd say Halloween will be in fact cancelled

beauf

celticWario wrote: »

So what's going to happen halloween night? kids banging down the doors of elderly and immune-compromised people looking for sweets? I mean you can't "cancel" halloween but surely there's a common sense solution.

You'd think they only bang on door with lights on and decorations up. Normally.

For Covid, they'll have to cancel it.

JP Liz V1

Do it social distancing get a large pole and bucket

SEPT 23 1989

Large 1980's size bonfires would keep Covid at bay

amadangomor

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Large 1980's size bonfires would keep Covid at bay

It's cancelled and moved to Belfast on 12th July with as you say huge 80's style bonfires.

Make sure you wear a Celtic shirt and bring a tricolour as you will be representing us her in the South.

Mrsmum

There a shop near where I live and for the last month they had a display in the front window of loads of Halloween stuff for sale. On Friday it was all there, this Monday it was all gone. I am fairly sure they took down the display rather than that they sold all the items. It made me think Halloween is probably cancelled if a shop is expecting to sell so little of the stuff that the display made poor marketing sense.

cant26

My kids are 7 and 4 and are so excited for Halloween.
They have their costumes picked and we decorate the house like we do every year. They have been told that there will be no trick or treating this year apart from going to knock on their nana’s door and their childminder said for us to knock on her door!
I don’t think Halloween needs to be canceled but the trick or treating to random houses should be.

I’ve seen something going around on social media comparing adults getting a McDonald’s drive through with kids calling to random houses....seriously. If people actually think this is a valid argument there’s no hope!

iguana

Halloween isn't cancelled, just different. We normally make a huge deal of Halloween, we go camping for the long weekend, do lots of spooky activities in the woods. Trick or Treating is organised on the campsite. Back home, we go to a number of Halloween events and parties throughout the week. Our area is great for trick-or-treating on the night. Obviously we'll do none of that this year but we'll still decorate the house, watch lots of spooky movies, get in lots of treats, dress up, cook spooky foods. We might visit one or two relatives/neighbours that we've prearranged calling to. And maybe do a walk/drive scavenger hunt where I'll give a treat for every witch decoration we see, or something like that. I've managed to find a Lego Scooby Doo Haunted Mansion set, so we're going to build that. And maybe make some spooky stop motion animations.

I've also never done the Switch Witch thing that some people do. But I'm going to this year. Not switching the sweets for a toy but because we've had to 'switch' our Halloween activities.

JDD

Our estate are organising a halloween parade at 6pm set to music at our little green area, so the kids get to show off their costumes, and the parents can all video it on their phones!. And we're also doing a halloween hunt where you have to find certain pictures in windows around the estate. For each clue/window pic you find, your parents give you a treat into your halloween bag. It's not as good as calling to doors, but it'll have to do for this year and I think the kids will enjoy it.

wes

Last year we had something like 50 kids trick or treat. We would usually make little treat bags, with some sweets and crisps to hand out.

Won't be doing it this year. Think its a bad idea. I hope parents have the cop on to keep there kids at home or organize alternatives for them.

paw patrol

celticWario wrote: »

So what's going to happen halloween night? kids banging down the doors of elderly and immune-compromised people looking for sweets? I mean you can't "cancel" halloween but surely there's a common sense solution.

often on halloween houses put out notes - saying they have no sweets left. people can do this .
Has covid robbed people of the ability to handle minor issues or communicate with people? apparently so, that is a sad reflection on the fear and paranoia created in irish society by the government and media.




There is no way halloween including calling to houses is cancelled for my kids. If somebody doesn't want to partake , no problem at all we can go to the next house.

Neyite

We would normally hand out stuff but not this year. While it's all very well for people to say that they will do it within guidelines, I've seen far too many idiots that can't even wear a mask properly so I don't have much faith in humanity any more.



We are looking at alternative ideas for fun instead. Around here the kids know that only the houses with decorations get called on, and you leave the ones without any Halloween decorations alone, so if we've nothing outside we won't get bothered.

JDD

Quite a few houses on our estate have hallowe'en decorations out already. I'm not sure if that means they are willing to have trick or treaters call, or whether they expect nobody will be trick or treating this year.

cant26

JDD wrote: »

Quite a few houses on our estate have hallowe'en decorations out already. I'm not sure if that means they are willing to have trick or treaters call, or whether they expect nobody will be trick or treating this year.

I hope having decorations out is not deemed as some sort of code for saying tricker treaters welcome!!
We will be decorating as we do every year but hope people have enough cop on to just park the trick or treating this year.....I actually don’t get the big deal, you’d swear the kids will be damaged forever more because they can’t do it!!!!
Or is it that some parents just couldn’t be arsed thinking of alternatives for their kids to have fun....love the idea your estate has come up with.

JP100

paw patrol wrote: »

There is no way halloween including calling to houses is cancelled for my kids. If somebody doesn't want to partake , no problem at all we can go to the next house.

Me, me, me!

JP Liz V1

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1315723513832124418

JDD

cant26 wrote: »

I hope having decorations out is not deemed as some sort of code for saying tricker treaters welcome!!
We will be decorating as we do every year but hope people have enough cop on to just park the trick or treating this year.....I actually don’t get the big deal, you’d swear the kids will be damaged forever more because they can’t do it!!!!
Or is it that some parents just couldn’t be arsed thinking of alternatives for their kids to have fun....love the idea your estate has come up with.

Well this is the thing. In years gone by, decorations have been the code to say you had sweets to give out. We never called at houses that didn't have any decorations (though did when I was younger when house decorations weren't a thing).

We get a good few kids from a neighbouring estate and I expect they'll be out trick or treating as usual. We have our decorations out and I fully expect to have a few call to the door. Not as many as usual, for sure, but we made up 100 bags of sweets last year and they were gone within an hour, so I still expect to have to good few callers.

What I'm going to do is make up half the normal amount of bags - while wearing gloves and a mask, and put the bags spaced out a little bit on the window sill beside the front door. So that means no rummaging in a big bowl or anything.

I'm not going to judge people bringing their kids trick or treating. Some parents just want to try and cling on to some normality for their kids. We might be able to revert to some form of normality next year, but our kids view of the world is permanently changed and probably not for the better. I can see a parent justifying trick or treating by thinking it's outside and any risk is low as long as they stand back from the door and the treats are left out for them.

Neyite

cant26 wrote: »

I hope having decorations out is not deemed as some sort of code for saying tricker treaters welcome!!
We will be decorating as we do every year but hope people have enough cop on to just park the trick or treating this year.....I actually don’t get the big deal, you’d swear the kids will be damaged forever more because they can’t do it!!!!
Or is it that some parents just couldn’t be arsed thinking of alternatives for their kids to have fun....love the idea your estate has come up with.

Depends on your neighbourhood, in ours is a definite rule though. Decorations outside = please call to the door, so I've just put our decorations up indoors this year. Just in case, it might be an idea to put a sign on the gate?

We are planning a sleepover (restrictions permitting) with his two friends, and we'll do some 80's style Halloween games. And we are working on a charity trick or treat drive through as well.

So hopefully it won't be a disappointing Halloween for the kids, just the year they did it differently.

Sam Hain

paw patrol wrote: »

often on halloween houses put out notes - saying they have no sweets left. people can do this .
Has covid robbed people of the ability to handle minor issues or communicate with people? apparently so, that is a sad reflection on the fear and paranoia created in irish society by the government and media.




There is no way halloween including calling to houses is cancelled for my kids. If somebody doesn't want to partake , no problem at all we can go to the next house.

do you live in Cavan?

Badly Drunk Boy

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

I feel sorry for kids but I won't be opening the door to any this year.

Either will I...just like last year.

suicide_circus

As with everything else, it'll not be the middle classes sending their kids out to T or T this year. If you live in a broadly "nice" area i dont think you'll have many aknockin

scamalert

suicide_circus wrote: »

As with everything else, it'll not be the middle classes sending their kids out to T or T this year. If you live in a broadly "nice" area i dont think you'll have many aknockin

if we can skip paddys day it should be made clear kids will survive and parents should have no issue to buy 10nners worth of sugar to get em entertained.
theres no fcking reason any kids should be roaming around this year. and fully agree those that are in agreement to follow guidlines should do their part.


As in most cases sure as fck there will be plenty of scum gangs banging on many doors.


while i dont care if some neighbors make agreements and decide to do it between themselves its grand.


but coming to BH media and gov should put hard emphasis not to partake in this $hit show this year, as many people id imagine would seriously love to avoid any nuisances specially this year.

Kermit.de.frog

I have pumpkin shares I'm looking to sell if anyone's interested

uli84

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1315723513832124418

Hahaha im scarred already

iamwhoiam

I am not opening the door this year but am making individual bags with a few goodies in them . I will put a bowl of little bags on my porch and leave a note for the kids to take a bag each . I only expect our few from the cul de sac to calll so would like to leave something for them

byhookorbycrook

“ Trick or treating” is a relatively new concept , imported from America . Children can still dress up, eat loads of sweets and watch “ Hocus Pocus .” Halloween is NOT cancelled, think a bit outside the box , folks !

iamwhoiam

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

“ Trick or treating” is a relatively new concept , imported from America . Children can still dress up, eat loads of sweets and watch “ Hocus Pocus .” Halloween is NOT cancelled, think a bit outside the box , folks !

Its not really a new concept . Way back fadó fadó in the 50’s and 60’s when I was a kid we went around the houses . We had a net shopping bag and “ Help the Halloween Party “ was our call
We got fruit and nuts and the odd home made cake or bun .

Kermit.de.frog

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Its not really a new concept . Way back fadó fadó in the 50’s and 60’s when I was a kid we went around the houses . We had a net shopping bag and “ Help the Halloween Party “ was our call
We got fruit and nuts and the odd home made cake or bun .

They must have been bleak times

iguana

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

“ Trick or treating” is a relatively new concept , imported from America . Children can still dress up, eat loads of sweets and watch “ Hocus Pocus .” Halloween is NOT cancelled, think a bit outside the box , folks !

It isn't. It's an Irish and Scottish tradition that emigrants from here brought to the US. They fancied it up and that excess has made it over here. (And good because trick-or-treating in a bin bag and an uncomfortable hard plastic mask was not better. Nor was going to every single house in the area without any clue if the occupants were participating or not. I do wish kids got a bit less 'candy' at each house though because getting full goodie bags at each house is excessive.) Obviously we won't be doing it this year but it's our tradition. I did it, my parents did it, at least some of my grandparents did it. I'm not sure if they called it trick-or-treating or not, I certainly did in the 80s. In Scotland it's called guising.

iamwhoiam

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

They must have been bleak times

Nope they were wonderful actually . I had a fabulous simple childhood , maybe not for all and I am well aware of that but many of us had a great childhood .

beauf

iguana wrote: »

It isn't. It's an Irish and Scottish tradition that emigrants from here brought to the US. They fancied it up and that excess has made it over here. (And good because trick-or-treating in a bin bag and an uncomfortable hard plastic mask was not better. Nor was going to every single house in the area without any clue if the occupants were participating or not. I do wish kids got a bit less 'candy' at each house though because getting full goodie bags at each house is excessive.) Obviously we won't be doing it this year but it's our tradition. I did it, my parents did it, at least some of my grandparents did it. I'm not sure if they called it trick-or-treating or not, I certainly did in the 80s. In Scotland it's called guising.

It's say in the 70s it was hybrid of old traditions and some newer stuff. Was less the commercial onslaught and marathon it is now.

But people can decide to make the most of it, and enjoy the good parts and filter out the commercial bits that are excessive.

I'm wondering how it will work (or not) this year. Make it a scary movie night. Or something.

Just witnessed a post on a local community group on Facebook descend into name calling, "dry sh1tes", "kid haters" etc. as an awful lot of locals appear to be in favour of trick or treaters this year. Suggestions such as "wear a mask", "leave sweets outside your door" and "turn your lights off if you don't want any kids to call".
Apparently they only get one childhood and one different Halloween will scar them for life. They touch so many things at school that running around the neighborhood isn't going to make a difference. Oh and my favourite one, those who are isolating or cocooning are not doing it by choice and seeing a load of children in costumes having fun will make their lives better. (That comment even finished up with "They haven't got much time left.")

I won't be opening my door on Halloween, but I'm not going to hide inside with the lights off. I have a very large dog with a very large bark who should react to the squeak of the gate opening, if anyone is downright selfish enough to try coming to my gaff for free sweets. That should do the job.

Dr. Bre

Stay At Home

s1ippy

We're going to leave out a few sanitised unopened bags of sweets with a sign saying "take them all!", then sanitise the dish and replace them if any kids come around to take them.

As for my nieces and nephews, there are parties and at home with fun stuff to do among their own families.

gozunda

Looks like findings on transmission and children have been updated.

https://theconversation.com/children-might-play-a-bigger-role-in-covid-transmission-than-first-thought-schools-must-prepare-144947

Tbh having at home Halloween celebrations is not new. This was standard when I was growing up. I'm sure the kids will be fine without calling around the neighbourhood tbf.

Rodin

Down with all American 'traditions' and Hallowe'en now being a month long..

Was not trick or treating in my day

Dressoutlet

gozunda wrote: »

Looks like findings on transmission and children have been updated.

https://theconversation.com/children-might-play-a-bigger-role-in-covid-transmission-than-first-thought-schools-must-prepare-144947

Tbh having at home Halloween celebrations is not new. This was standard when I was growing up. I'm sure the kids will be fine without calling around the neighbourhood tbf.

This is 2 months old. We've had 2 months of schools with very few outbreaks, ie, positive children (which there are many) are not super spreaders and very very few people become infected by them. I personally ate a sweet that had been in a child's mouth and the next day the child tested positive. I was fine. The child did not spread to anyone, siblings, parents, grandparents, friends, all were negative.


That said, mine will not be going trick or treating this year. I do not want them sick from anything let alone covid, and they ALWAYS get sick after Halloween night

gozunda

Dressoutlet wrote: »

This is 2 months old. We've had 2 months of schools with very few outbreaks, ie, positive children (which there are many) are not super spreaders and very very few people become infected by them. I personally ate a sweet that had been in a child's mouth and the next day the child tested positive. I was fine. The child did not spread to anyone, siblings, parents, grandparents, friends, all were negative.


That said, mine will not be going trick or treating this year. I do not want them sick from anything let alone covid, and they ALWAYS get sick after Halloween night

Right so. Was that the 1 year old in hospital 2 weeks ago with covid type symptoms

But your child was infected - by whom? Another child? i rest my case.

And no the findings on children and transmissions has not gone out of date btw. Plenty of schools now seeing rising rates of infections.

Wolf359f

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Its not really a new concept . Way back fadó fadó in the 50’s and 60’s when I was a kid we went around the houses . We had a net shopping bag and “ Help the Halloween Party “ was our call
We got fruit and nuts and the odd home made cake or bun .

I actually remember that phrase!
A time when you got fruit and nuts and you ****ing needed a nut cracker to open them. Maybe 1 house out of 20 you would get a sweet treat, but that would be a chocolate apple, if you were early enough.
I swear, I think the dentists hijacked Halloween to add in all the sweets!

Dressoutlet

gozunda wrote: »

Right so. Was that the 1 year old in hospital 2 weeks ago with covid type symptoms

But your child was infected - by whom? Another child? i rest my case.

And no the findings on children and transmissions has not gone out of date btw. Plenty of schools now seeing rising rates of infections.

None of my children have been positive.
The child I took a sweet from who was positive, was my friends child. Myself and my oldest children were close contacts. It was at the start of September. It is completely unknown where that child contacted covid because other than siblings had not been in any contact with other children and thought to have been infected in a shop or on public transport.

My 1 year old who was in hospital had Bronchiolitis, not covid. She wasn't even considered for Covid because she has not been outside the house only my back garden since a trip to the farm left her getting a covid test in August after not being out since March before that. Not everything is Covid! This is not my 1st Rodeo. I have seen bronchiolitis do this to my other children over the years. She got it after my Asthmatic son came home from school with a common cold. All the children caught the cold and the baby developed Bronchiolitis from it. As she did last year at 6 weeks old too. In fact she is on an inhalor now and Dr's think she is asthmatic although cannot diagnose at this age. Like I said not everything is Covid.

If your going to try read over my posts and try piece information together then you are going to look silly.

joeguevara

Trick or treating is essentially young children going from door to door begging. It’s hardly something that should even be discussed as an issue in a pandemic. If it’s such a big deal that Halloween is celebrated, then organise family games such as bobbing for an apple in a basin or trying to bite an apple on a string (main two I remember from being a kid).

RTE are missing a trick though. I remember one Halloween in the mid 80s that RTE sold 3D glasses nationwide and had three 3D movies on Halloween. Best of them was the three stooges. Would have been some money spinner if they had done it this year. Was all a big con anyway as the glasses made no difference. But I suppose we were easily pleased.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055040694&page=2

whisky_galore

joeguevara wrote: »

Trick or treating is essentially young children going from door to door begging. It’s hardly something that should even be discussed as an issue in a pandemic. If it’s such a big deal that Halloween is celebrated, then organise family games such as bobbing for an apple in a basin or trying to bite an apple on a string (main two I remember from being a kid).

RTE are missing a trick though. I remember one Halloween in the mid 80s that RTE sold 3D glasses nationwide and had three 3D movies on Halloween. Best of them was the three stooges. Would have been some money spinner if they had done it this year. Was all a big con anyway as the glasses made no difference. But I suppose we were easily pleased.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055040694&page=2

What was the worst one, dare we ask?

People happy with RTE screening a movie already a half century old, simpler times.

joeguevara

whisky_galore wrote: »

What was the worst one, dare we ask?

People happy with RTE screening a movie already a half century old, simpler times.

I’d still watch a three stooges or laurel and hardy film now.

I was a young kid then so slapstick humour rocked. Remember the last film was pretty boring. Have a vivid memory of a lamp being thrown was only 3D effect.

But honestly, it would be better than baking banana bread, listening to people boast about number of km run or zoom quizzes.

MadDog76

I have young children, trick or treating aged children, but they won't be trick or treating this year ......... not because I think they are a huge risk of infecting, or being infected, by going door to door but because I think it sets a bad example to them if we blatantly break restrictions and show a lack of empathy to people who are genuinely concerned and/or are high risk in our community.

I also won't be answering the door to any trick or treaters, for the same reasons.
I won't be hiding either ........ if the bell rings I'll give the parent(s) standing at the end of the driveway a death stare through the front window.

My kids will be dressing up at home, we'll take pictures, play games, let them eat sweets, have a party, make video calls to their Grandparents and Cousins etc. ......... they'll be happy and that's Halloween 2020 done and dusted!

Jim_Hodge

MadDog76 wrote: »

I have young children, trick or treating aged children, but they won't be trick or treating this year ......... not because I think they are a huge risk of infecting, or being infected, by going door to door but because I think it sets a bad example to them if we blatantly break restrictions and show a lack of empathy to people who are genuinely concerned and/or are high risk in our community.

I also won't be answering the door to any trick or treaters, for the same reasons.
I won't be hiding either ........ if the bell rings I'll give the parent(s) standing at the end of the driveway a death stare through the front window.

My kids will be dressing up at home, we'll take pictures, play games, let them eat sweets, have a party, make video calls to their Grandparents and Cousins etc. ......... they'll be happy and that's Halloween 2020 done and dusted!

That's it in a nutshell. Well said.

TheQuietBeatle

MadDog76 wrote: »

I have young children, trick or treating aged children, but they won't be trick or treating this year ......... not because I think they are a huge risk of infecting, or being infected, by going door to door but because I think it sets a bad example to them if we blatantly break restrictions and show a lack of empathy to people who are genuinely concerned and/or are high risk in our community.

I also won't be answering the door to any trick or treaters, for the same reasons.
I won't be hiding either ........ if the bell rings I'll give the parent(s) standing at the end of the driveway a death stare through the front window.

My kids will be dressing up at home, we'll take pictures, play games, let them eat sweets, have a party, make video calls to their Grandparents and Cousins etc. ......... they'll be happy and that's Halloween 2020 done and dusted!

Haha is there a need for the death stare?

Neyite

MadDog76 wrote: »

I have young children, trick or treating aged children, but they won't be trick or treating this year ......... not because I think they are a huge risk of infecting, or being infected, by going door to door but because I think it sets a bad example to them if we blatantly break restrictions and show a lack of empathy to people who are genuinely concerned and/or are high risk in our community.

I also won't be answering the door to any trick or treaters, for the same reasons.
I won't be hiding either ........ if the bell rings I'll give the parent(s) standing at the end of the driveway a death stare through the front window.

My kids will be dressing up at home, we'll take pictures, play games, let them eat sweets, have a party, make video calls to their Grandparents and Cousins etc. ......... they'll be happy and that's Halloween 2020 done and dusted!

Likewise. We thought that we could hold some sort of socially distanced event but thought that had too many risks and abandoned the idea. Then we thought our lad could do a sleepover but we've shelved that until it's allowed to have people over.
It's one Halloween, the kids can still have fun if the parents are imaginative enough.

gozunda

Dressoutlet wrote: »

None of my children have been positive.
The child I took a sweet from who was positive, was my friends child. Myself and my oldest children were close contacts. It was at the start of September. It is completely unknown where that child contacted covid because other than siblings had not been in any contact with other children and thought to have been infected in a shop or on public transport.

My 1 year old who was in hospital had Bronchiolitis, not covid. She wasn't even considered for Covid because she has not been outside the house only my back garden since a trip to the farm left her getting a covid test in August after not being out since March before that. Not everything is Covid! This is not my 1st Rodeo. I have seen bronchiolitis do this to my other children over the years. She got it after my Asthmatic son came home from school with a common cold. All the children caught the cold and the baby developed Bronchiolitis from it. As she did last year at 6 weeks old too. In fact she is on an inhalor now and Dr's think she is asthmatic although cannot diagnose at this age. Like I said not everything is Covid. If your going to try read over my posts and try piece information together then you are going to look silly.

I do have to ask why you decided to eat a sweet that had been in a child's mouth? A child which you've stated wasn't yours. Would the fact that you said that the next day the child tested positive not indicate that this type of behaviour maybe wasn't a particularly a good idea?

Btw I came across your other comment separately where you mentioned covid . Thought there was a possible connection. Glad none of your children have tested positive btw.