Pretty much the title says it all. It's the tradition in America for kids to walk around as weird character or something and expect YOU, a stranger to give them candy, as if you owe them something. It makes no sense at all, kids come up and say TRICK or TREAT? Dafuq. So if you don't give them candy like a bitch, they throw shit at your house, like eggs, BBs. But getting back to the point.
Do You Give Candy/Lollies/Sweets on Halloween?
avgbowlofpho on 19/10/2016 - 16:46
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Yes. I absolutely love Halloween and so do my kids. Just wished it was popular in Oz when I was a kid.
Shaking down your neighbours for free lollies, what an awesome scam. Those Yankee kids worked it out a long time ago and Aussie kids are only now on the catch-up.
A big, scary "Boo" to all the Halloween Grinches out there.
Happy Halloween to everyone else.
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I always get a heap of lollies and chocolates in case any kid comes calling. If they don't, I get to eat them all. Win Win!
We had no callers last year as my daughter hung a goats skull on the front door and our very large dog went batso every time someone stepped onto the property.
It was very dissapointing as I had heaps of out of date lollies that my kids don't like and i wanted to get rid of them.
Yes, I give out candy. I grew up in Canada where Trick or Treat-ing has been popular for decades, so it's not only an American activity. I'm happy that it's becoming more common here. It's fun for the kids, gets them out of the house and encourages neighbours to meet each other. It amazes me that people are opposed to something fun just because it's perceived as being an American activity.
I don't think people are opposed to it because it is "American".
I for one do not support it because:
1. Both adult and children spilling out into the streets and knocking on doors. Perfect for opportunists to blend into the crowd.
2. Kids taking candy from strangers. Have we not learned anything?
3. There are existing events that cater to dressing up and socializing. Go to anyone of the many comic conventions.
4. It's freaking warm. Most costumes will end up being skimpy or torturous.So many reasons why it shouldn't be normalized here.
Read the many anti-Halloween comments in this thread. Yes, many people dislike Halloween because they consider it "American".
I think not.
As my dear, dear grandmother used to say, "To hell with the little bastards. Let 'em starve."
She was a lot of fun at Christmas.
So what we're teaching kids is don't take lollies from strangers unless you're wearing a costume?
Cool.
American Crap, we are Australian and dont need Halloween
I'm totally with you
It was one of the strangest thing to happen to my house last year when a few Asian kids visited on Halloween night.
Asians upholding American traditions in Australia.
American tradition has more of an affinity and history to contemporary Asia than it does to Australia.
Although they looked Asian but they were more Aussie than anything else. The type that were born and raised in Australia. Got nothing to do with contemporary Asia other than their looks.
Then why bring their race into the discussion if they're 'more aussie than anything else'. Just baiting people to respond I'm a particular manner.
send my mum to the door "me no speak english"
Next we'll be having thanksgiving dinners to celebrate America's genocidal history.
No I don't participate in Halloween.
And they are lollies not candy ffs.
So kind of like Australia Day aye
Yes. Both are awesome reasons to celebrate and eat. It one is enough so I'll stick with Australia Day thanks.
Pink Woolies sausages for everyone…make sure there's not enough to go around coz your guests should bring their own damn pink sausages!! Traditional Aussie celebration!
The major supermarkets and retailers are relentlessly pushing this crap on us every year just to sell overpriced landfill that's why I'm against it. It's got nothing to do with Australia.
Plus parents who won't let their kids walk 500m to school are happy to encourage this activity.We give out lollies, candy is a US term, and sweets is UK.
So what if Americans celebrate it….its origins lie way before then and we don't exactly have much history to draw on ourselves. The kids love it…. a chance to dress up and walk the streets with your mates and you get to go home with a heap of sweets.
This thread is an echo chamber of anti-American sentiment. The enemy upon us is known as Halloween Comrade - it serves to erode the juvenile and fuzzy tenets that comprise modern day Australian culture.
I was going to eat pasta tonight…but I decided don't want to eat that Italian crap… so I made fairy bread instead coz I've seen that shit at a lot of Aussie parties!
We're having shit on a stick, the most Australian of cuisines.
I block the entrance path to the front door with a car, works every year.
Only if its the pizza dude knocking on my door with my pizzas
Stupid American Tricks should have been turned back by the obese divvies from Border Farce. .
As the indigenes discovered after 1788, importing alien cultural tropes generally doesn't redound to the long-run benefit of the incumbent locals.
We traded Guy Fawkes for American schlock, and went backwards culturally as a result (American culture is half-witted at best)
Doesn't affect me in the slightest though: all the local kids have heard me yell at their parents for blocking my driveway when they park like entitled jackoffs in order to pick their sprogs up from school… so the kids know better than to ring our front doorbell. Plus, our front gate locks. Plus, I can throw things at them from the balcony if they make too much noise.
At least we don't have a creepy Pledge of Allegiance (although Gillard was actually keen to introduce one: our kids aren't indoctrinated enough yet).
milas ellinika re? If not, you should lose your username because it isn't your culture
Diogenes was a Greek philosopher..?
Yes. I enjoy loading them up on candy as when I was a kid I think 80% of houses knocked didn't know what the heck we were talking about and it felt awesome scoring every few houses.
yeah if they dont mind taking candy from an evil clown
Nah, lets ban all American customs.
I can not get any one in my house to answer the door for a package let alone for trick and treat!
What's this "giving" you speak of?
Remember, we can have lollies any day of the year! :)
I say trick and tell them to pull my finger.
Just kidding, I live int he ghetto and dont get no-one. Cept africans.
Have never ever had kids knock on door, have always lived in relatively nice neighbourhoods, safe etc. Only time I've even seen it happening was in Chelmer/Graceville in Brisbane, which is a very affluent suburb.
If any come to my door, I will pay them to trick my neighbour. More if the tricking includes rotten eggs.
Haven't seen trick or treaters for 20 years or so.
I've never liked the tradition. People call me a killjoy, but if I wanted candy, I'd just buy it instead of dressing up and knocking at strangers' doors. Easier, quicker, and cheaper.
Perhaps that's why they haven't been back?
I buy a bucket of Celebrations for half price just in case they come, and I would give them out, but they usually don't come and I end up giving the unopened box to my nephew.
I have not ever celebrated Halloween since its not a part of my religion but ever since coming to Australia, only once a kid came into our house knocking and the kid was cute so I gave chocolates and candies to her
This is A.U.S.T.R.A.L.I.A not the U.N.I.T.E.D S.T.A.T.E.S. Hence, people asking for Lollies in Australia on Halloween can go F themselves.
Besides, I've always found it strange that parents tell kids "Don't take candy from strangers…unless it's on Halloween of course" :)".
But most of them are just kids…
There not necessarily strangers, they are neighbours!
Yes I do. My kids love Halloween there is nothing wrong with this tradition. They can dress up and they get lollies that is a dream come true for any child.
I think we have enough little fatties without adding this to the mix.
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/obe…
Darwin also his a high ratio of large mixed breed dogs(pit bulls are legal) and mainly 6ft chanilink mesh fences to the verge which makes this kind of activity more than a little risky.Lol one year kids came to our house and we have no junk food. They left with apples and coke zero haha :,)
Its the only day of the year I go out and put a padlock on my front gate! no way in
followed by watching a few re runs of the very first couple of simpsons halloween episodes (LOL) … uninterupted
I give the young unsuspecting kids warheads.
Starting to have to embrace this yank culture as it seems to happen every year in my neighborhoodI totally would! But no one ever comes knocking on my door…..so no 😂
I don't know why Australia does an American tradition, all your doing is increasing the chance of diabetes in your children. Your utterly stuiped if you endorse this American tradition.
I guess I'm "utterly stuiped" then.
Um, no, no and no!
I bet all the people saying "NO" didn't do it when they were younger. I also suspect they spent their days as a teenager inside playing video games.
Kids are dressing up , going around with their friends and being social. It allows them to meet the neighbours. As long as they don't damage your property who gives a s***
The fact that people don't like it because it's "American" shows how immature people are. We (Australians) need to pull our heads out and just go with it.
Simple rule.
Porch lights on = knock on the door for trick or treat ,
lights off = We're sleeping/being a grinch and not participating.well said. It's great fun for the kids.
Although where we live the general rule is that kids will only knock on your house if you have a Halloween decoration out the front as a friendly gesture.see this I can get or understand. but when you get kids constantly buzzing your apartment when clearly no Halloween decor or even lights on when i am home.
this just makes me want to stay over my parents house for holloween.
cant wait to move to my sisters farm house in the southern highlands. where the nearest neighbour is quite a few minutes walk away and the house is well away from the street.
dont get me wrong celebrate all you want what you want just dont annoy others who clearly choose not to participate.
yeah that's fair enough. Maybe just put out a sign saying 'sorry we don't celebrate Halloween, no lollies here but have a fun night'
I really doubt anyone is going to egg your house. You could always just ignore the door on Halloween night as if you're not home too.
I didn't do it when I was younger but I didn't spend my teen years as a gamer either.
There are plenty of ways for kids to have fun and be social - not everyone has to agree that Halloween is the way to do it. We need newly imported holiday (and imo not in a positive way) for this?
Halloween's on a Monday night - shouldn't the little shits be in bed because it's a school night?
No. We don't participate in Halloween.
Yes, I do.
I currently have a large bucket in the top of my pantry full of the half price chocolate from woolworths, coles and big w that I've been buying over the past month.I think last year I had 4 kids stop in.
So usually I end up eating the rest.The mentality of "This is Australia, not America.. we shouldn't celebrate Halloween." irritates me a little. It didn't originate in America, it didn't actually appear in American until the 19th Century when there was a mass Irish and Scottish immigration into America. I'm not religious, but I celebrate both Christmas and Easter, should I stop doing so because I'm not religious? Most holidays we celebrate have been based around things that didn't originate in Australia.
I think the reality here is that people don't celebrate it because they just don't want to, and that's okay. If you don't want to be involved, then don't, you don't need an excuse. If kids eggs your house, call the cops.
Simple.
Around where I live it is quite well organised - lots of kids in costumes roaming around and houses participating (around 30%) usually have some type of Halloween decoration outside so you know whether to knock, and leave the rest alone. The kids love it and it works really well
where do you live? We are in Adelaide and same story, although we're up to about 50% participation.
My old man always gives out lollies, he calls it "planting seeds for the future" his theory is treat the neighbourhood kids when they little, so when they become teens they don't cause trouble for you
We do. We are in Adelaide near the beach and it's picked up some steam in recent years. Obviously the supermarkets are pushing it but the kids have a great time getting dressed up and going door to door.
We have a pretty close knit/friendly community and we'll get at least 20-30 groups of kids with an adult supervisor come along. Costs us $50 in candy but when we have kids they'll do the same and get looked after by neighbors.
And why does anyone give a shit if people call it sweets/lollies or candy?
My friends went trick or treating in a mostly asian suburb. Most of the houses had no clue what it was, one house didnt have any candy ready so they gave them a packet of mi goreng. Bloody hilarious
I nail a dead rabbit to the door. Tends to keep people away.
Very grumpy topic. Hoping you're not serious.
Course not! ;)
No
This is what I left outside my door one year: https://scontent-syd1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/335460_10150438…
It never had anything in it to begin with. Simultaneously made me look awesome/generous and crushed the souls of children. Good times.
I wonder how many were puzzled by this. ROFL when i looked at the picture
This is even better than the recent chocolate brussel sprouts trick because of the significantly smaller effort!
In my neighbourhood we do a letter drop with a balloon to let people decide if they want to or not. We give a balloon so those who want to Halloween put the balloons out and those who don't have balloon free mailboxes. All the kids love it. Lots of parents go out and we all get to know each other.
Halloween is derived from All Hallows' eve which is an Anglo tradition anyways.
Also all traditional stuff in Aus is nicked from other peoples cultures anyways. If it gets us out n about and meeting new friends then it is a good thing!
Change is inevitable …get over it 😝Sounds like your kids are the takers, and the "neighbours" are the givers, in that case, its not hard to "get over it" 😬
Not really sure how u came to that conclusion Rocky …we print letters, supply a balloon to all the neighbours to give them the ability to opt in or out. We don't knock on the doors of those who don't put out balloons. It is a community event and nearly our whole area does it.
We also give out lollies to other kids.
So I'd be interested to know how you worked out we are takers without also being givers?
We as a family have no interest in things like State of Origin Footbll and the League Grand Final, and yet I am not going to whinge at those who plan their whole weeks around these events.Sorry - it was meant to be tongue in cheek.
Hence the 😀
I prefer to kick the little sods off my property. If I can be bothered to open the door!
Gave apples, bananas, oranges and mandarins…… probably a reason why I never get disturbed at Halloween.
yes why not… it makes them happy, whats the big deal.
No to Halloween. If shops need to create another retail holiday they should reinvent cracker night.
probably just give out some ice cubes or something
maybe scrounge up the last bits of a pack of rice crackersMy son goes around and ask for "Eneloops or tricks?"
I don't think "trick" these days will lead to an egging…
They'll more likely hack your WiFi, change it's AP name to something insulting, sign your email up for multiple spam lists, and order you something at full price from Harvey Norman online!
and order you something at full price from Harvey Norman online!
The ultimate insult for an ozbargainer
I'm originally from the U.S. Trick or treating was so fun way back then.
When I moved to Australia twenty years ago, I became an Aussie not just in law but in heart. When I had my child, I decided I would not impose yank ways on my fellow citizens. We stayed home and always had lollies ready. After a few years I found a real jack o lantern pumpkin and they were very expensive then, but the kids loved it. For a couple of years I put up decorations as well.
I never took my child trick or treating but as they got older,their friends would go and I allowed them to go. I stayed home to hand out treats but never tried to promote it other than being happy and generous with the kids who would come by. I let my child go because so many if their friends were already going.
I understand that some people don't like it. My housekeeper was so vehemently anti trick or treaters, she said she would curse them out. That's sad. Please just don't answer the door if you are not interested.
Sadly, I'll be on a cruise and will miss out on the fun of trick or treaters coming to my door.
when I was young mum would make us turn off all the lights and make us play in the family dining room (can't see light from outside) so it looks like no one was home.
I never believed in it until my kids insisted we do it. I got to meet all my neighbours. Honestly it was the best was to meet them all. I wish I had done it earlier!
Yes! why not? They are adorable.
…. sorry double post
No, I refuse to participate in it. The rule 'if a house isn't Halloween decorated then don't bother knocking' should be adhered to. Last year I had kids jumping through my garden to get to the next house whilst the parents stood & watched from the pavement. I don't even bother opening the door when they knock.
Laxative chocolates are the way to go :)
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I do. Holidays from all cultures or religions mean nothing to me, but I support anything that brings the neighborhood closer together. Most detractors do so on cost, but if you work it out it might be $5 worth of candy, hardly a big deal.
I do have concerns about liability though. I live pretty loosely, so my front yard isn't the best place for children to be rooming around.