# Unethical to take kids trick-or-treating outside your neighbourhood? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 1, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-to-take-kids-trick-or-treating-outside-your-neighbourhood/672834 "2013-11-01T13:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-to-take-kids-trick-or-treating-outside-your-neighbourhood/672834/61 "2013-11-03T02:32:18Z")
> [@nylaw](#): > > What do you do if you don’t want your children to eat a shitload of sugar laden junk food? I don’t know, tell them they can’t go out? > [@Sateryn76](#): > > That would make me crazy. I’d rather put $300 in my IRA or donate it to food pantries than outdoing myself with decorating - that shit gets expensive fast. And then I’d be the only house on the block not decorating, and I’d get egged and looked down on as a stick in the mud because I’d only have a bowl of candy and some construction paper bats in the window. > > No wonder everyone is broke all the time. Sorry, $300 isn’t going to break us. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-to-take-kids-trick-or-treating-outside-your-neighbourhood/672834/62 "2013-11-03T02:34:14Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I know you don’t believe it, but I’d be completely geeked if that many kids came by. And I’d give out the good candy, too. If I had 700 kids show up at my door, I’d have 800 pieces of candy to give out the next year. I can’t even imagine how awesome doling out that much candy would be. I’d feel like Willie Wonka!! > > I love Halloween. Seriously, come on down next year–it’s not a bad trip down from Cinci, and the Mountain Parkway in October is an amazingly beautiful drive. Trick or Treat will most likely be on the Thursday, as the city generally won’t schedule it on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday. (Football, drunks, and church.) We’ve got a comfortable spare room, homebrew, fresh eggs for breakfast, prime ToT real estate, and the best party is only three doors down from us. If you’d enjoy the spectacle, you’re more than welcome. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-to-take-kids-trick-or-treating-outside-your-neighbourhood/672834/63 "2013-11-03T11:34:47Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > Seriously, come on down next year–it’s not a bad trip down from Cinci, and the Mountain Parkway in October is an amazingly beautiful drive. Trick or Treat will most likely be on the Thursday, as the city generally won’t schedule it on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday. (Football, drunks, and church.) We’ve got a comfortable spare room, homebrew, fresh eggs for breakfast, prime ToT real estate, and the best party is only three doors down from us. If you’d enjoy the spectacle, you’re more than welcome. That’s a really sweet gesture. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-to-take-kids-trick-or-treating-outside-your-neighbourhood/672834/64 "2013-11-03T21:00:00Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > . . . > > I hear this so commonly, I start to wonder if my sister and I, and my older kids, are abnormal or just the “silent majority”. For all of us, Halloween (and Easter) involved gorging on chocolate until we were at least borderline sick. Then doing it again the next day and for a couple weeks until it was all gone. That was my older brother. Same house, same rules, different kids. I was never interested in eating it all at once, I’d much rather look forward to having a piece or two every day for a month. My brother scarfed his even while walking house to house. He seemed to think it would all disappear if he didn’t eat it immediately. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-to-take-kids-trick-or-treating-outside-your-neighbourhood/672834/65 "2013-11-04T03:29:55Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I get that there are rural or low income neighborhoods where trick-or-treating is less safe or feasible, and I’m sympathetic to that. But in this case, they were welcome to go to the dorms, yet stepdad turned his nose up at the quality of candy. I just feel that takes some gall when they are not even contributing to the “candy pool” by handing any out themselves. Did he flat out say it was because of the candy quality? Because I could see it also being because he assumed that not that many college students would participate, and thus it wouldn’t be that enjoyable an experience. I also wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted them to trick-or-treat at actual houses, and, since he had to pick somewhere, he picked the place with the best/most candy. My parents always drove us to friends’ and family’s houses, as a lot of them lived in the same neighborhood. That is, until we got caught up in the anti-Halloween craze in the early-to-mid nineties and had “harvest festival” and “autumn carnival” parties at our church instead. (Honestly had more fun at the church parties, really. I just wish they hadn’t limited costume types.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-to-take-kids-trick-or-treating-outside-your-neighbourhood/672834.md?page=3)