Are you ever too old to go trick or treating?

Started by WriteThemWrong October 22nd, 2010 11:12 PM
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When are you too old to go trick or treating?

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Do you guys think there is a certain age limit where you can't get away with trick or treating?
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Depends on how old you look.

Some 18-year-old's can probably get away with it, if they look younger than they are.

In general though, I say 17 or 18 is the limit. Past that, I'd imagine you'd get bashed enough times that it would just stop being enjoyable anymore. That, and once you're past 16-ish.. it's just not that fun anymore. I enjoy Halloween, and going to haunted houses.. even walking around outside on Halloween night is nice. Trick or treating itself.. holds no appeal to me anymore, and hasn't for a handful of years now.


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In general though, I say 17 or 18 is the limit.
I agree even though I really don't want to. xD My birthday falls on Halloween, so as a kid I used to get such a huge kick out of celebrating my birthday and trick-or-treating all on the same night. It's kind of depressing to know it's not as exciting as it used to be... I'd always be the first kid to ring the doorbell and scream the magic words at every house. Now if I go it's only as a last resort because I can't make any other plans, which is pretty much every Halloween since most of my friends are away at school and my family is too busy with their own plans.

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I would say probably around 16/17 at maximum and if you look pretty young.

I don't like giving anything to the older teens who come to the door. Unless they try really hard with their costumes. :3
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Well, I stopped when I was around 17 (which was last year) so I agree that the limit would be 17 or 18.

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It's fine if you are accompanying a younger sibling, your child and possibly it's friends, or other young family member. However, if you're older than about 16, then don't expect anything in the way of candy. It ceases to be about the candy at about that age in my opinon. (But it's still a bonus when you get any. XD)

Now if you're alone...the fun stops at 16-18. It becomes more about the 'tricks' than the treats...not that you can have much fun with the tricks these days. It's still fine to wear a costume on Halloween though even if all you do is wear it all day and do no trick-or-treating.
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no way jose, i say if the universe is going to stick me in the body of a perpetually baby-faced short girl, i'm going to "perpetually" indulge in childlike activities.

really tho, everyone can partake in halloween activities, i wun judge (unless you look sketchy, a sexual offender of sorts >_>)

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I'd say 16-18 is pushing it. Once you get that old, why not just go to a Halloween party where you can dress up and get free candy without going door to door and weirding out both the younger trick-or-treaters and the neighbors...

My parents wouldn't give out candy to the older kids unless I happened to be friends with them (then we moved out to the country where we would get NO trick-or-treaters at all, but that's a different story). We shut down our trick-or-treat operation after 8:00 or 8:30 IIRC to avoid the older teens.

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My mom's 50 something year old friend went trick or treating last year. However, she's painfully creepy. See, I am cute and look young so heck yeah I want my yearly overdose of free candy.

Most trick or treaters here are really young, like 5-10 years old. 10-13 is uncommon; 14-17 is rare. 18+ concerns neighbors = they give you less candy because you should get a job! fml. :(

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I stopped going when I was 15, but that just because I looked a lot older than I actually was, and people actually refused to give me anything. I think that you should go until you're about 16, because I find that people are more inclined to give you candy when you're younger as compared to those who are teenagers, and trick-or-treating is more for children anyways (but if you look young enough, get all the free candy while you can still get away with it!)
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I don't like to go trick or treating anymore. I have my own reason. It's because of my belief/faith/tradition. Well, I'll respect your belief/faith/tradition if you respect mine too.

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I'm 16 and I'm going trick or treating this year. Last time I went with my friends we just went in our normal clothes and some of the people got pretty scared to see a group of teenagers in hoods showing up at their doors.

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