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.
No age limit but costume required. At least put on your sister’s makeup or brothers overalls or saggy jeans, something. I have turned away kids without costumes but will candy anyone of any age who makes even the weakest attempt at a costume.
The rule is, if you dress up you get candy. I don’t care how old you are, but you have to be dressed up.
I always end up over buying and want that candy GONE! No age restrictions for me either.
The key to buying Halloween candy is to buy the things you would want to eat yourself. We freeze the leftovers and slowly eat them. Still working on last years!
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I make an exception for parents watching their young kids. I have no problem rewarding good, responsible parents.
Plus, we give out juice boxes. Sometimes, when parents see their kids walking away with juice boxes, they’ll ask for one themselves. Walking around the neighborhood with kids is thirsty work! I’ll happily give juice to parents!
If you’re looking out for your kid/brother for safety, no limits. Otherwise, 16.
Why?
Oh of course! 16 OK, got you.
Best part about having kids is we can all dress up and go
I want to make a house costume, so I can dress like a house, I will go to the doors, and make them knock on my little door, and I’ll open it with puppets to give out candy
Age limitation on trick-or-treaters is an inherently fascist concept and will be trashed when the revolution happens.
Comrade 🤝
- I’ll give a decrepit old dude candy, but i draw the line at actual vampires
The key is to not invite them in, silly. But, then again, who would be inviting trick 'r treaters in? Eh, it’s late, don’t mind me…
There’s no age limit.
" I let her do it"
I just assumed that was them leaving off, “without giving her a bunch of shit.”
Bullying your siblings isn’t just a right but your social obligation sometimes!
I’d be super happy with no upper limit on age.
What I definitely have is an attitude limit; I loathe it when sullen teenagers knock the door, mutter “trckotrt”, no dress up except someone has drawn a tear on their face and then grabs five portions of candy and just dashes out.
Like, you can be fucking 40 for all I care, but you squeal “triiick of treaaaat”, then I say “wow, aren’t your costumes great” and offer the bowl up. You then grab one large or a couple of small things, say thank you and walk off excitedly.
The requirement for me is that you look like you’re enjoying it. Otherwise, why am I opening the door to strangers and offering them sweets?
This.
As you age, trick or treat should be more like wasseling, where we wander the local hood, check in the people we should see more often, share candy back and forth and agree that Mr Stewart in #10 is a bit of a dick.
It should keep a more social aspect with less candy as we mature as social adults. Parents should take older kids to mature them a bit.
That’s a neat concept. I’d like that
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In Mexico, there are two dates for “trick or treat”. One is for kids (the Day of ~the Holly Innocents~ All the Saints) 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.
Yes, this sounds potentially awesome.
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.
It’s an arbitrary cultural custom, with even more arbitrary expectations for who’s included. I find it weird when a grown-up comes to your door and it straight up makes certain people angry, but there’s no logical reason why it’s bad.
Cause they got jobs and buy their own goddamn candy
And that’s the problem. People have started focusing on the candy as the point. It’s the dressing up and having fun that’s supposed to be the point.
By that logic, the kids’ parents have jobs so they can buy their own kids their own goddamn candy.
We do. But on Halloween, we trade showing off our children in cute costumes for candy. And I mean… I also buy candy for the other kids.
It’s a holiday.
Teenagers in costumes are less cute.
I’ll pass out candy to anyone who comes to the door, and I like offering to parents as well, but I judge parents that have a big bucket for themselves the same way I judge people that empty bowls at unattended houses. Just because it’s technically allowed doesn’t make it approved.
Depends on the area around here 12-13 years old
