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So, how old is too old for trick-or-treating?

I stopped probably 5 years ago.. I'm 16.. I find it more fun to do a cool haunted front yard kinda thing to hand out candy. I think adults, though, going with their kids is cool, especially if they pitch the effort for a cool costume. I do think it's stupid when kids I go to school with show up.
 
If you're a shorty and wear a mask what difference does it make? Unfortunately I'm too tall to get away with it. But if I were 5 feet I'd be out there right now in a darth vadar suit.
 
If I recall I stopped in 7th grade, so roughly 12 years old.

I definitely could not pass for a 12 year old...6 feet tall wouldn't go over too well. :p Though, today, I did take the opportunity to wear jeans, a jet black hooded sweatshirt and my faceless mask (http://www.makebelievecostume.com/detail.lasso?Itemid=RB-2622B) and wander around creeping the **** out of friends and strangers alike. :D

It was an excellent opportunity to get out of my typical shirt+tie day to day wear.
 
me and some people went trick or treating this year (albeit for like 5min before we got bored and realized we had plenty of candy). i think that as long as you're still in high school you can go.
 
I always felt that once you reached highschool (8th grade) it was done, lol. Seeing all these big tall kids coming out seems odd... =P But that's just how I see it.
 
I took a bunch of church youth group kids, junior high and high schoolers, out door to door collecting canned and non-perishable food for the local food bank. They were instructed not to accept candy for themselves, only items for the food bank. They had lots of fun and we brought in hundreds of cans of food. And still managed to get enough candy ("she insisted I take some! really she did!") to spend the rest of the evening getting our sugar highs.
 
Youre too old when you dont have kids and when approaching a house the people tell you to leave or theyll call the cops.
 
dornoforpyros said:
I have a job, I can buy my own damn candy ... yes I'm 23 and my salary buys a lot
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Independence rules! Besides, you have to be so leery of whatever you get from strangers in today's times.
 
We got everything from ~18 months to ~16 tonight. I think 14 should be the cutoff.

The most creative bunch that came by tonight were a group of about 8 ~14 year olds that decided to sing xmas carols as part of their routine. They still wore costumes, but were parading as carolers.

Stuck with way too much candy this year. Will have to dump it on coworkers. ;)

B
 
Me and my friends are in 10 Grade and we all probably stopped in 7th. Tonight though we were a little hungry so we stopped by one house and they were nice enough to give us. In my opinion we are way to old to be getting candy. I wouldn't give out candy to high school kids.
 
I agree with most of the people here who've said that around 12 or 13 years old is a reasonable cutoff age. I think we only had one group of highschoolers show up last night, some boys that looked to be 15 or 16 years old; but they were wearing costumes, and were polite (i.e. non-thugs), so I was OK with that.
 
I would trick-or-treat w/ friend until 7th or 8th grade, then my Scout troop began coordinating an annual troop trick-or-treat. Basically, the older scouts would take the younger scouts to various neighborhoods.

Parents got to stay home, kids got away from parents, etc. It all worked splendidly.
 
clayj said:
High school freshmen (9th grade) are OK to trick or treat. Any older than that, no.
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but how will the households in the neighborhood know? especially with costumes on

i didn't go out in high school at all, but something made me at 21 go out with a 17 year old college student to don some really bad makeshift costumes and hit the neighborhood for candy

we were in the ghetto and somehow nobody shot us and we didn't get mauled by any of the numerous bit bulls in many people's properties
 
I give candy to anyone that rings my doorbell. Costume, no costume, any age. I figure it's a bribe to leave my pumpkins where they are in one piece. :rolleyes:
 
We normally get HS kids that show up in some half-assed costume, or no costume, and expect hand-outs. Some don't even say "trick or treat". We didn't get any this year since they usually come later and it started pouring about 5:30 or so.

I don't generally mind older kids as long as they show some effort and show up later, so that the younger kids can get their candy first.
 
If and when I live in the US or Canada (probably Canada), I'll do it. I've never trick-or-treated before, and I wanna do it at least once. I'm 16 by the way, and I might be living in Canada by the time Halloween comes around. I'll be 17 by then.
 
Well, my 13-year-old son is nearly 6 feet tall, and we didn't let him go. We gave him the option of helping some friends of ours with toddlers, but he opted out. He, of course, believes we're cruelly oppressing him. However, since he got the leftover candy we were handing out, he's not complaining too much.
 
wordmunger said:
Well, my 13-year-old son is nearly 6 feet tall, and we didn't let him go. We gave him the option of helping some friends of ours with toddlers, but he opted out. He, of course, believes we're cruelly oppressing him. However, since he got the leftover candy we were handing out, he's not complaining too much.
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Wow. I went trick-or-treating twice as a child... after that, my parents didn't let me (their religious beliefs). Instead, they would buy me some candy.

That might explain why I am so interested in trick-or-treating now that I am way past what most people find to be an acceptable age for still going out there. :eek:
 
devilot said:
Wow. I went trick-or-treating twice as a child... after that, my parents didn't let me (their religious beliefs). Instead, they would buy me some candy.

That might explain why I am so interested in trick-or-treating now that I am way past what most people find to be an acceptable age for still going out there. :eek:
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But you're short, so I'm sure with a mask you could get away with it.
 
Once kids hit high school they should be toilet-papering houses and going on dates to haunted houses, unless they are escorting siblings.
 
emw said:
But you're short, so I'm sure with a mask you could get away with it.
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But you're mean, so I'm sure with being over the internet you could get away with it.







:( :p ;)
 
devilot said:
Wow. I went trick-or-treating twice as a child... after that, my parents didn't let me (their religious beliefs). Instead, they would buy me some candy.
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That reminds me of one of my best friends from grade school/Middle school.

His parents were hyper-religious, and prevented him from watching any TV shows that had non-christian supernatural events in them (like the Smurfs), and when Holloween rolled around they took him to their church where the kids passed candy around and were taught that Halloween is Pagan and evil. :eek: :eek:
 
Lord Blackadder said:
That reminds me of one of my best friends from grade school/Middle school.

His parents were hyper-religious, and prevented him from watching any TV shows that had non-christian supernatural events in them (like the Smurfs), and when Holloween rolled around they took him to their church where the kids passed candy around and were taught that Halloween is Pagan and evil. :eek: :eek:
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jehovah witness?
 
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