My sister is 23 and still dresses up and goes out knocking doors for candy… and I find it weird but I let her do her. It got me thinking, at what age do you think someone should stop Trick r Treating at? Just curious.
Like I don’t give a shit how old someone is. If you show up in a costume I’m giving you candy. No matter the age. I don’t know why you’d care what she’s doing, how is it hurting you or anyone else?
There’s no age limit.
When you have a place to live and can afford a bucket of candy, I think it is an obligation to everyone who wants this tradition to continue to stay at home (yours or someone else if youre having a halloween party) and give out candy to the kids and compliment their costumes.
But other than that, nah, no age limit as long as you can still say thanks and enjoy it.
I’d say 9.
No age limit, you could literally be 80 at my door in a walker and you’d still get candy.
It’s not like Candy is a valuable resource, if they want to dress up to get some M&M’s then more power to them.
When I took the kids trick or treating there was one house with a fire pit that was offering candy, Pokemon cards or beer depending on the age and preference of the trick or treater
We have like 4 children in our neighbourhood. If an adult showed up at my door in costume, I’d be thrilled to get a visitor, give them candy and offer them booze (it’s also common in my area for homes to offer drinks to parents who are chaperoning their kids).
On a similar note, when my son was about 7, my girlfriend at the time (who was 28) came with us in costume and and went up to houses with him with a candy bag and collected treats. The first couple houses, I actually felt like “this is a little embarrassing” but people just gave her candy and alcohol and I was like “You know what, this is fun!” I realized I was being a stiff adult and should just get over myself (a beer and a couple cup of hot cider with whiskey didn’t hurt my attitude either).
Hmm I guess in my mind it’s when you have a job that pays you well enough to have fun money and buy your own candy.
So age isn’t even a factor.
i think it’s dependent by area. if you’re in an area/neighborhood with mostly younger people in their 20s or such and few families, its acceptable to go out as a younger person thats around that age. but if your area is mostly families and you’re going out trick or treating as a 20 year old, that’s pretty strange.
I think your Senior year of high school oughta be the cutoff, but I don’t have any issues with college students trick or treating, so I think 23 or so would be my candy refusal threshold. This actually reminds me of a story I read a long time ago:
It’s Halloween and there’s a knock on the door, nothing out of the ordinary, and the person got up and went to the door. When they opened it, they found another door and doorframe up against their door, which read “Please knock for candy”, they knocked and were offered candy by some college students who were carrying an entire door and frame around for this bit. I believe it ended with the homeowner refusing candy and giving the college students candy.
So yeah, I need to add an exception to my Halloween code of ethics: An awesome costume / gag can make up for any age.
Okay, rant time. If you don’t like rants, skip this comment.
Listen motherfuckers, Halloween isn’t about candy. The fact that the candy has become the point is a fucking problem.
We’ve lost the social cohesion, the sense of community, and even the superstitions that made Halloween such a popular holiday.
And that fucking sucks.
Nobody really believes we’re scaring off bad spirits any more, but we could at least celebrate the weird, the scary, and just spend one night a year dressing up for fun.
Fuck the candy. The only reason we have to give out candy is because assholes fucked up being able to give out home made treats. Man, did any of y’all have the fucking awesomeness of getting candy coated apples, or home made fudge, or wax paper wrapped cookies? Or anything but the sugar bombs in a bag you buy? But no, some assholes had to fuck around and break the ability to trust the social contract of Halloween.
Shit, I’m the only asshole in my entire town baking and making things today. Why? Because I’m the only idiot willing to put up a sign on my door “home made treats available on request by adults”. Which means I’m the only house on the fucking street that has cars pulling up with kids in them, accompanied by adults. Parents don’t let kids walk the streets on Halloween any more because humans are fucking horrible and can’t be trusted not to mess with kids. So that means nobody even fucking bothers to hand out anything, they all go to fucking trunk and treat shit, which ends up being about the fucking candy instead of having fun because a bunch of people in parking lots isn’t a community.
Fuck. Fuck the assholes that ruined Halloween and turned it into a day for fucking candy.
There’s actually a huge amount of trick or treaters here but the thing is they all go to like the very best neighborhoods that go all out and no one wants to go to mid tier neighborhood with only a few houses that are doing things anymore.
In Mexico, there are two dates for “trick or treat”. One is for kids (the Day of the Holly Innocents) and the next day is for Day of the dead or Día de Muertos, which is for everyone, in a clearly adult-centric celebration. The treats in the first day are candy-like, in the second day it’s very-Mexican-food-like.
Ask your sister which one would she celebrate. The rightest answer is both, the right is one or the other, the wrong is none.
Also, if she’s watching after some kids, that’s great and deserves a treat. Ultimately, as this post and comments suggests, it all depends on the people’s heart.
I would put together a costume if it meant I could go trick-or-treating and get tamales and empanadas instead of candy.
That’s extra cool, tbh. We have our own traditional costumes but regular people are only required to pay respects to the dead to be invited some tamales, home-made bread and all kinds of things. See, the thing is you are invited to eat whatever the dead loved to eat and drink. So, put together each home with their own dead people, this amazing Mexican gastronomy and some homes mixing their ancestry with other cultures (I’m loosely related to a Mexican-Chinese family, for example), it can be pretty wild in the stomach, but just marvelous.
Depends on the area around here 12-13 years old
If it makes her happy, why do you care? I assume that most people do “childish” things despite their age because it makes them happy.
She can do her, and I am happy for her. I’m just curious what other people’s opinions are is all?
All the thirty five year olds giving her candy probably think it’s funny
I’ve watched from their driveway and they usually have a look of debate on their faces as to if they want to give her candy or not. They usually just give her a piece though.
Most older people don’t want to be left with a bunch of candy at the end of the night. If they didn’t want to give it to her, they wouldn’t.
Honestly? I wouldn’t care about age. Just tell her not to destroy other people’s property by doing the “trick”.
Fair enough really. She is right in that she isn’t out getting drunk or anything like that.
Honestly, I don’t really set an age limit. I won’t judge people who are out for fun. I’ve been there, there’s not much to do around where I live.
That being said though… Regardless of your age, if you costume up, you’re likely to get more candy from me. (I’ll also offer candy to parents and older siblings who aren’t taking part because I’m cool like that. Just don’t stick chocolate bars in your pockets LMAO)
Yeah if you have a costume on, that’s all I need to know
If you don’t have a costume, I’ll use the special bowl of candy full of Almond Joy’s…
