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As a kid who grew up tall (and therefore given weird like very early). 100%. These days, I don’t even care if it’s an adult trick or treating, and they’re not wearing a costume. Let people have fun. Let people be kids.
Yeah, my last year I was 12 and around 5’9. I got some looks
This was also my experience, except one person actually told me I was too old to be trick-or-treating. It didn’t help that my grim reaper costume was actually scaring the smaller children.
My first year to skip trick-or-treating, I hid in my mom’s bushes. When people would walk up to take candy, I’d casually walk out with my hands in a nonchalant “surprise” pose, and I’d say “boo” in the most calm, monotone voice I could muster. People would jump or scream a little, see me approaching them fully deadpan, and scream before running away.
I was asked to stop by some of the neighborhood parents who said it was significantly more terrifying and traumatizing than if I had performed a proper jump-scare.
My last year was in high school. We filled our buckets with candy that we purchased ourselves, and then ran around the neighborhood “restocking” all the houses after yelling “Trick-or-Treat!” We’d accept and immediately eat one piece of candy each from anyone who offered, and one of us would ask, “what do we say?” and we’d all shout “thaaank yoooooouuuuu!” with candy in our mouths.
Are you me? I was a giant at 11 when I hit 5’9”!
Still there quite a few decades later.
Yeah, I made it to 6’0 and that was it for me
I don’t care if you’re four, fourteen, or forty; you can have all the damn candy you want.
If you turn up at my house wearing anything approaching a costume and you say “trick or treat” you get trick or treat.
You don’t have to have a costume on. I’ll give anyone candy on Halloween.
I do think you should at least try. Draw some stitches on your face and say you’re a zombie skateboarder I don’t care.
I’ve lived in areas with extremely disadvantaged people. It’s harder than you think to “at least try.” Especially for teens
Candy for everyone!
I prefer when people are in a costume, but it’s Halloween. If you put in the effort to come to my house, you get candy.
what if I show up naked?
Please do!
Promise?
Pizza guy didn’t want candy last year :(
Right? like I didn’t buy an fuck ton of candy to gate keep this candy. Please take it, I don’t care how old you are.
Same. Didn’t get to have trick or treaters growing up - poor and lived far back from the street in a sketchy neighborhood. This is my first year with a chance and I’ll be damned if anyone comes up to my front steps and leaves empty handed.
Address?
You’ll know it when you see it.
I never understood people who got bent out of shape about giving a 14 year old 9 cents worth of candy one day a year.
i don’t care if a middle aged man shows up, life is better if we invest in joy
It’s an old school Boomer mindset. My parents used to get drunk and mess with the older looking kids. Kinda messed up now that I look back at it
Are those 9 cents worth of candy in the room for us?
No for real, hasn’t candy, like anything else, become expensive?
Yes, I was using a form of language known as “hyperbole” where you deliberately exaggerate to make a point.
However. A quick google shows me I can buy a box of 100 mini chocolate bars for $13 at Walmart, or roughly 13¢ per bar.
One year, I think I was around 12, I told my family that I thought maybe I was too old to trick-or-treat so I would figure something else out. They were effusive about how wrong I was and unanimously told me absolutely not, I was still a kid and 100% I had to go trick-or-treating.
The next year I assumed I was still young enough, since they were so insistent the last time, so I told them I planned on going again. They all gave me worried looks and said I was clearly too old.
I don’t remember what age it was, but there is an exact age that people find acceptable, apparently. I’m tempted to go out now, many years later, just out of spite.
Do it. You can grab a handful from my bowl.
Thats always been my question for the childless adults. We should be able to dress and walk around maybe an hour after dark to different houses and if there’s q party stay for a drink
Some neighborhoods do that!
In Des Moines, Iowa trick or treaters go out on Beggar’s Night so adults can have their own parties on Halloween 🧡🖤🧡
If you can drive you’re on the too old side. Even then if you show up towards the end you might end up with whatever is left in the candy bowl.
The only people who think you’re too old to trick are treat are prudes and assholes.
If you show up at my house in a costume, you’re getting candy. My partner and I are in our 40s and Halloween is our favourite time of the year.
Plus there are lots of special needs teenagers out there who really don’t want to explain their diagnosis while dressed up as Dracula in front of their friends …
I don’t care who comes up. Kid, Teen, Adult, you get some fucking candy. You showed up, I’m out here, have a couple of pieces.
Teens get the shit end of the stick, always. There’s no lack of activities for kids and tweens. Teens are usually left out of community things.
Build that bridge to the teens in the community; in a couple of years, you’ll be dealing with them as beginner adults that’ll start out better if you’re that neighboor that gave them $0.30 of candy
If you wear a costume, you get candy. I don’t care how old you are.
Pretty much, you could be 90 years old, enjoy your Milky way.
I have teens that don’t even dress up. I give em candy but I’m gonna complain that they’re not even trying.
Sure I’m giving out candy to be part of the community but my reward is seeing people in costumes. Don’t break the contract or I’m gonna pick “trick.”
Those are the goth kids dressing up as normies for one night. They get candy.
Yeah unless you’re here with a younger sibling if you’re not dressed up you’re getting a quick scoop of the candy nobody else seems to be taking. Like enjoy your Swedish fish, why are you here if the magic is gone?
Anyone who comes to my door gets candy but you don’t get to both want to trick-or-treat and be too cool for trick-or-treating.
One of my neighbors was giving out nips and scratch tickets for the grownups last Halloween.
He just got his 2-month chip…don’t think he’ll be doing that again this year.
You show up in a costume at a reasonable hour fair go. When three highschoolers show up at 2145 out of costume asking if I have some candy you can fuck off
If my porch light is off, nobody is getting candy from me, and I’m not coming to the door.
If my porch light is on, everybody gets candy.
Grownups get candy and a pamphlet on universal basic income.
Give kids the pamphlet, too. Get them while they’re young.
Thank you. My kids are enormous beasts that look much older than they are.
It’s me, I’m that kid.
I may also be older than the people handing out candy.
Everyone in my neighborhood always has sooo much candy that they just want to give it away to anyone. The kids in my neighborhood go to the rich neighborhoods just a little farther south. Is 13 and 15 too old to trick or treat?
Definitely not. As long as you have a costume, you qualify for tricky’treating.
Is 13 and 15 too old to trick or treat?
There’s no such thing as being too old to trick or treat. If you are in a costume and you are out to have fun and not be an asshole, you get candy.
The day I am too old for free candy is the day I die.
Unless they are ‘tricking’ your house. Then they don’t deserve candy.
