When does your neighborhood start booing?

[monkeybug]

Is the first week in October too soon?

 

[Malibustyle23]

Booing?

 

[SaraJayne]

We don't.

I had never heard of it until I read about it here.

 

[zurgswife]

Is the first week in October too soon?

I've never heard the term booing. Do you mean decorating for Halloween. I typically start seeing decorations a few days prior to halloween. I do see Fall decorations earlier in the over the top creative people who do stuff for every season and holiday.

 

[Feralpeg]

What's booing?

 

[design_mom]

Our neighborhood calls it ghosting -- and we start October 1st.

Ghosting/booing is when one neighbor fills a basket or bag of halloween goodies for another neighbor, rings the bell, and leaves the goodies anonymously. The recipient hangs a ghost on their door to show they've already received, then ghosts/boos someone else until all participating families have been visited. It's fun. The kids look forward to the doorbell ringing, but love to drop the goodies and run even more!

Our neighborhood sends out an e-mail in September asking who wants to participate, so only "participating families" are ghosted. A list goes around with the basket so everyone knows who they can choose from. However, I know of other neighborhoods who do it more like a chain letter. You don't sign up, it just happens... then you're supposed to "continue the chain" to other families.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Never heard of it.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Design_mom, thanks for explaining. I had never heard of it either.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Our office has done it before, but the recipient is supposed to give to two people. So it starts with one and ends with everyone in the space of a month.

Once you're boo'ed, you put a ghost up to show it, unless you want to go again.

 

[Kellydelly]

This just started in my neighborhood the last couple of years. I hate it. I think the kids get enough candy and junk from school parties and trick or treating. Sorry to rain on your Boo parade .

 

[Diegosmom]

Thats sounds awesome...we dont do it but I might have to talk to a few neighbors and get this going...

To PP that doesnt like it, why dont you take your kids candy and give it out to trick or treaters.

I do that with DS we love all the fall festivals but if I kept everything we would have way too much candy...started last weekend with a town fair and parade where they throw candy DS got a huge bag. We'll do our church fall festival at least 2 other churches. our neighborhood has a huge party where DS gets candy and then trick or treating...We keep some but mostly give the rest away...the older kids love when I give them huge handfuls of candy just to get rid of it...

 

[design_mom]

This just started in my neighborhood the last couple of years. I hate it. I think the kids get enough candy and junk from school parties and trick or treating. Sorry to rain on your Boo parade .

That's why I like the way our neighborhood does it. You have to sign up to participate. Anyone who doesn't want to (for whatever reason) is not involved.

I also like that ours is a traveling basket that goes from house-to-house... not a little bag. There's usually some candy in it... but there's other stuff, too. Like a box of "boo-berry" cereal... halloween themed pencils... decorative towels, etc. Sometimes neighbors make a big plate of homemade cookies or caramel apples or something to stick in. Stuff like that. Since we do it every year, you can catch the after-halloween sales and stock up for next year.

 

[scrapquitler]

Our neighborhood calls it ghosting -- and we start October 1st.

Ghosting/booing is when one neighbor fills a basket or bag of halloween goodies for another neighbor, rings the bell, and leaves the goodies anonymously. The recipient hangs a ghost on their door to show they've already received, then ghosts/boos someone else until all participating families have been visited. It's fun. The kids look forward to the doorbell ringing, but love to drop the goodies and run even more!

Our neighborhood sends out an e-mail in September asking who wants to participate, so only "participating families" are ghosted. A list goes around with the basket so everyone knows who they can choose from. However, I know of other neighborhoods who do it more like a chain letter. You don't sign up, it just happens... then you're supposed to "continue the chain" to other families.

I never heard of this before today.

 

[Meriweather]

never heard of it

 

[mtemm]

we do it, but have never heard of signing up before hand. I love that idea! not sure how that would work in our neighborhood, though.

oct 1 is fine, although we probably won't start for a week or 2 into october around here.

its a ton of fun and doesn't have to be candy. one year we got ghosted with a little bit of candy, but also some really cute cookie cutters and craft things. wasn't crazy expensive, but was nice and I (ahem, the kids) still love those cutters.

I also like the idea of doing one basket. in the past we did little bags with stuff in them for each kid in the house. but the kids were a lot younger (preschool) and loved little glow sticks and figures and such. now that they are getting a bit older, it would be fun to just do one basket for the family to share.

we usually do a few different people, but the letter that goes with it says to pass on to two. we do a few but they aren't all in our neighborhood, and each kid (I have 3) wants to choose someone so its just easier.

 

[budafam]

We've done it but only to family & friends... not within our neighborhood. Most of our neighbors are pretty old and I don't think they would really "get" it.

 

[tvguy]

As a general rule decorations here don't go up until 2 weeks before any holiday. For Halloween, those decorations will have to wait until after Columbus Day. And yes, one of my neighbors has Columbus Day decorations up.

 

[CurlyGirl]

Our neighborhood's starts on Columbus Day.

 

[cristit14]

We don't usually do it until a couple of weeks before Halloween, but I say go for it early. You would be the first then. One of my neighbors was talking last year about doing the "booing" and then for the adults also doing a "boozing". Sounds like fun to me

 

[kacaju]

no idea since when it first started around here my youngest was getting too old for it. We ended up doing one neighbor whse dd was already a teen, but dd really wanted to get her, I had to call her mom to let her know the goodies came from us so they would not throw it away....and my sil was threating her friends that they had better not get her so of course I did!!