Halloween is all but dead in my area, Seattle Washington. Only pockets of neighborhoods put up decoration. If you are able to get to my front door I don't care what you're wearing or how you got there. You get a treat. Anyone elitist with this is literally helping to kill the spirit of Halloween. The holiday hardly exists, stop trying to kill it more.
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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it's funny when teenagers show up but you wouldn't want it to be exclusively teenagers.
I started getting judgemental looks in my teens. That being said, I don't know how much I would care if an adult popped up on my doorstep
Depends on the area around here 12-13 years old
A UK sub asked this question recently. Their answer was teenagers. Apparently they are afraid of groups of teens. Therefore only primary age kids should go.
Best part about having kids is we can all dress up and go
I haven't done it in a couple, but I used to have a "trick or treat" table and a "trick or drink" table. You got to choose one. If I was even a little sus, you were carded, that was rare, and never actually caught anyone cheating anyhow. Takes a lot of prep work though.
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
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Probably once they get to college they're too old, unless they're chaperoning younger people around. New England / USA.
previously I think I would have said about 10-12 feels like the proper cutoff, but I took my 3.5 year old out tonight, and at one house she got a king size snickers bar while the teens after us got fun size. this feels the most fair.
As an adult I find it fun to dress up and go trick or treating, but I instead give candy instead of taking it. After all I can just buy candy any time I want so it's fun to reverse trick or treat.
Sometime when I was 13 or 14, I stopped. For one year. (I thought I had outgrown it, and was too old for βkid stuffβ.) The next year my friends and I ended up putting on our costumes and trick or treating βironicallyβ. If anyone judged us, that was their problem. They missed out on free candy and a license to be stupid. We had a great time!
Your sister is having fun and like you say, each to their own. I'd do it definitely especially together with my daughter.
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
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 allow it if it's a parent or sibling accompanying a child. Or if they have an amazing costume. If it's a grown ass man wearing a trash bag or a $3 mask not so much.
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.