ToT poll

[tennisgal]

A house has pumpkins lit outside front door but doesn’t have outside light(s) on. Are they participating in trick or treating - do you go up to their door?

[sandj82110]

No lights, we don’t bother to go up, though there were a handful of houses with lights and pumpkins that didn’t answer the door, I can only assume they weren’t home because the doorbell ringing all night long must be annoying otherwise.

[lauranicole91]

No porch light, we don’t go up. Even if they are heavily decorated. We also ignore garage lights. Literally if the porch light is off, we ignore it completely.

[teamhayes]

If it looks like no one is home or if we have to cross the street we don't go

We skip lots of houses if they have wonky stairs etc too

[devonpow]

No outside lights = no go. We have a lot of decorations and jack o lanterns out but turn off the lights when we don’t want the doorbell being rung (due to dog flipping out, running out of candy etc) but I don’t necessarily go out and blow out all the candles in the jack o lanterns at the same time.

A lot of people decorate but then take their kids out TOTing and hand out candy when back - the outdoor lights are the indicators, not decorations.

[ktstorm]

We only go up if the porch light is on. There's a lot of families who have decorations and walkway lights on timers and don't shut them off even if they're not home.

[mmmomof2]

There were people with some lit up pumpkins and some lights on, but not the porch light. I wasn't sure what to do. One house was home and gave us candy gladly and the other houses didn't answer.

There were a few houses with porch lights on and nobody answered.

[tennisgal]

MH and I were having a debate about these last night so was curious to see what others thought. My thought was if no front light on = no go, but he seemed to think if there were pumpkins and stuff that they were a go.