For Halloween night, I usually just turn off the light out front in hopes that the dark will keep my doorbell from being rung. This year, we have solar lights that stay on. I don't want to turn them off and then not be able to get them back on until tomorrow. Also, we plan to go to bed super early today--hopefully by about 7pm--and I don't want to have to set the alarm to get up at midnight to turn the light on, and I don't necessarily want the doorbell to ring all evening.
Any ideas for a note to tape to my door? Maybe something as simple as "NO CANDY"?
Thanks...got my note:
WE ARE SICK—
NO CANDY TONIGHT.
Oh, hell, Toni, now it's back to the drawing board. I live in a dark cul-de-sac. (ONLY lights are at the doors of the houses.) Anything down at the end of my long walkway won't be seen. I don't want to ask them not to ring the bell, because I thought that that might be an invitation to ring it. How 'bout if I make the sign big enough for them to read from the street?
Lol, Micky - I don't keep a sandwich board sign at my house.
Perhaps something to stop them before they get to the door, like a poster board strung across you sidewalk/ porch. Otherwise you will still undoubtedly get some excited knockers.
Heck - set a bowl of candy on your front step and state "one per person, PLEASE"
If you don't celebrate Halloween at ALL? then I would string something like yellow CAUTION tape over my front stoop.
SORRY, WE DON'T CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN. PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK. BABIES SLEEPING.....or something similar.
Strikes me this is an invitation for tricks if there are teenagers in the neighborhood. Curious why you don't participate -- I know it's none of my business, but curious nonetheless.
I would consider blocking the walk way/drive way so no one can get as far as the door if you can't afford to give out candy or the entrance to your door is dangerous. You could also disable your doorbell.
If that is not the case you may be in for some tricks in the form of eggs and other things. Putting a NO CANDY sign on your door is just an invitation.
Everyone around here knows porch lights not landscaping lights are what matters.
Still anyone would would still go to your door will only ring once, put a note on the door you are going to get laying on the doorbell and probably any other pranks they can think of.
My husband works evenings and I am out trick-or-treating with my kids, so I put a note on the door that says "Please go next door for candy" and I give the nieghbours a bowl of candy to hand out for me. Maybe I should put it at the end of the walk so they won't have to come right to the door. I leave the lights out, but the kids want to have their jack-o-lanterns lit.
How can you sleep at 7:00 p.m.?
Good night!
I would have unscrewed the light bulb and turned off the door bell in the house. Along with a sign that says "all out of candy" . To prevent folks from knocking.
Hope you feel better next year!!!
I would block your walkway and put a string across your driveway with a sing that says "Wet Cement" so hopefully no one will try to get up to your door.
Edit: Then add a sandwhich sing on the sidewalk that says "Sorry,out sick with the Measles (or some other highly contagious thing").
Edit: Can you cover the lights w/a dark cloth so they won't shine tonight?
