The only thing worse than kids banging on the door demanding money with menaces and that's their creepy breeders lurking in the nearby hedges making sure that their brats aren't invited in by some Jimmy Savile / Rolf Harris character....
We must really live in a different world......
Round here some people put up a
No Halloween Callers please and SWMBO said last year that when she was walking with the kids nobody went near these houses respecting residents wishes.
One house with older teenagers had decorated the living daylights out of their house (Christmas is something else) and happy to welcome everybody.