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I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

When is it considered to old to trick or treat?

I will trick or treat every Halloween until the year I die. There is no age limit. Period. Candy is awesome.

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I can never agree more

I stopped in 6th grade. That's when I started passing out candy and trying to think of ways to be frightening.

I will trick or treat every Halloween until the year I die. There is no age limit. Period. Candy is awesome.

But are you still trick or treating?

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I can never agree more

Hooray! Now I also have the joy of trick or treating with my own kids and it really adds to it. Halloween is a huge deal in our home. My kids look forward more to it than they do Christmas, Passover, and their birthdays combined.

We love it.

But are you still trick or treating?

34 years old and am already making this year's costume. :D

13 is a little bit old for trick or treating.

next year if she is in highschool she is really too old.

what she ISNT too old for is taking smaller children trick or treating. if she has a 6 year old in tow, she can still dress up and still get a bit of candy.

she can also dress up to give out candy at your house. that can be as much fun or more than going around herself. you have time to pull together a great halloween decorating scheme for your house.

so if she wants to go this year, you should make it a "last time blowout" for her. get a great costume together and make a big deal out of it.

34 years old and am already making this year's costume. :D

Cool but don't people give you weird looks?

I was 16 the last time I trick-or-treated. We hit a wealthy 'hood that was hooking up the phat mad bomb shiznit -like money AND candy! I knew it would never get any better than that, so I retired and moved on to bigger and better Halloween things. Like causing four-year olds to wet their costumes.

Well, it wasn't on purpose. Hey, his parents had to have seen me and the other four teenagers scaring every kid who came up our walkway to get candy.

13 is a little bit old for trick or treating.
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I think thats rly unfair for her, trick or treating has always been so much fun for her

I'm 16 and stopped 6 years ago, now I just sit on the porch dressed as a goblin/demon, waiting to pounce on the kids just as they're distracted by the chocolatey goodness...

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

she's almost old enough to go trick or treating for beer, let her go. although perhaps when you get to maybe university age you should only go trick or treating round your contemporaries' places. people might call the police if non-children were egging and flouring their houses for lack of generosity.

iam 17 and i still go trick or treating, its a blast, as long as she is having fun she is not to old, if she really enjoys it you should not keep her from going

Cool but don't people give you weird looks?

Believe me ... you're talking to one of those people who couldn't possibly care about what others think. Life is short, have fun! Be goofy! Play in the mud and build snowmen.

As Maude said (in Harold and Maude): Life is to be lived! L-I-V-E LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothin' to talk about in the locker room.

I think thats rly unfair for her, trick or treating has always been so much fun for her

then find a kid for her to take.

the older she gets, if she goes with people her own age, the more likely is it that they'll get into trouble rather than just have fun.

All of you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and when I tell you the truth. I have no daughter. I was talking about myself but was too embaressed. (although Im a little older than 13) O WELL :eek:

All of you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and when I tell you the truth. I have no daughter. I was talking about myself but was too embaressed. (although Im a little older than 13) O WELL :eek:

I'm not laughing. Go trick-or-treating! Have fun!

Who cares what people think?

The only people who will give you funny looks or laugh at you will be teenagers and, well, who cares what teenagers think? :p

All of you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and when I tell you the truth. I have no daughter. I was talking about myself but was too embaressed. (although Im a little older than 13) O WELL :eek:

*points at Latonic*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
WHAT A LOSER!!!!

just kiddin', most of the people on general don't have a moral qualm about....well, anything. Your not gonna get chewed out for trick or treating.

All of you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and when I tell you the truth. I have no daughter. I was talking about myself but was too embaressed. (although Im a little older than 13) O WELL :eek:

*wiping tears out of eyes*

that was a good one!

i was about to ask if you were a divorced father who never got to see his daughter, you understood the situation so poorly.

as a parent and a homeowner (although i now live where no kids will ever come) dont go trick or treating after normal T&T hours. we assume that you are really just shaking us down for candy and that if we dont give you some youll egg the house. go at the end of the time that the little kids go, wear a real costume, and BE NICE.

it really would help if you took a little kid with you. youll get more candy and fewer suspicious looks.

All of you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and when I tell you the truth. I have no daughter. I was talking about myself but was too embaressed. (although Im a little older than 13) O WELL :eek:

hahahaahhahahahahahahaha! no worries. the joke's on anyone who fell for it really. including me
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i think you can still get away with mishchief at thirteen. unless you look older. maybe when you get to 14 or 15 mischief becomes criminal damage and intimidation so you've got to be careful. just keep it jokey and don't victimise and you'll be fine :).

*points at Latonic*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
WHAT A LOSER!!!!

just kiddin', most of the people on general don't have a moral qualm about....well, anything. Your not gonna get chewed out for trick or treating.

yeah... even, er, well, doing certain acts with cousins was deemed OK. You're perfectly fine.

All of you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and when I tell you the truth. I have no daughter. I was talking about myself but was too embaressed. (although Im a little older than 13) O WELL :eek:

No offense, but you gave it away just an eensie weensie bit with this:

I think thats rly unfair for her, trick or treating has always been so much fun for her

Just go and have fun. I'm 32 and I still dress up for Halloween. I let my son do all the hard work though, and then I jack 5% of his candy supply when he's done on the grounds that I have to make sure it's safe.

Trick or treat for as long as it makes you happy. If you feel like you are too old, then you are. If not, go for it! I am 41 and Halloween is still my favorite holiday. I don't trick or treat any more, but love to dress up and go march in the parade (I live in NY and the Halloween parade is one of the best parties of the year!). I have been too busy to make a new costume this year, but have at least half a dozen old ones I can pull out of storage that will work really well. So it is a choice between the mermaid, the dryad, the vampire, the S&M bride...

I've realized for the price of a costume I can buy the candy I would really want, without the walking.

Although I do wear my Monty Python costume at the door. :D

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

Thirteen's a little old. Let her throw a Halloween party at home instead. Bonuses: you know where they are so they aren't getting in trouble, you give them the candy so you know it's not tainted, and no tragic car accidents because she or her friends can't see properly out of their masks.

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

Fourteen is getting to be too old, but if she loves it, maybe she could volunteer to take a small group of younger kids around. Their parents would love her for it and she could still trick or treat - a win-win situation.

I used to trick-or-treat, but now I just tend to stay home and scare the heck out of innocent little children.

Your too old to trick or treat if you have something else you want to do. :D

Thirteen's a little old. Let her throw a Halloween party at home instead. Bonuses: you know where they are so they aren't getting in trouble, you give them the candy so you know it's not tainted, and no tragic car accidents because she or her friends can't see properly out of their masks.

Skipped the rest of the thread, eh?

there is no age limit, but if she can tack on to a group of younger children and look like she is trying to keep them from getting into trouble that's even better.

We don't celebrate Halloween here :(

I will trick or treat every Halloween until the year I die. There is no age limit. Period. Candy is awesome.

You get disapproving looks from people because you don't think getting free stuff should have an age limit, what a world we live in.

she can also dress up to give out candy at your house. that can be as much fun or more than going around herself. you have time to pull together a great halloween decorating scheme for your house.

Giving out candy is never as much fun as recieving it, especially when its free.

Cool but don't people give you weird looks?

As long as you don't notice, and they have no idea who you are. It doesn't matter.

Scaring children that come to your home asking for candy might be the most fun a 13 year old could have

I think as long as your having fun go with it, I dont know why people say its bad to do it when you get to highschool, ive never seen a reason. and 13 is still a child really

Trick or treating is a real North American thing. I only knew about it from films. If kids knock on doors where I live, they get ignored and many people (especially older ones) are TOTALLY freaked and scared by the whole concept. Recently some of the small children in my neighbourhood have started to trick or treat, we are OK with it, as my other half is Canadian and he thinks we are weird for NOT doing it. I never did it, none of my own kids (18,15 and 14) or any of their friends, ever did it either. People actually call the police if kids knock on their doors, but luckily it is getting more acceptable now.

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.You can be too old to trick or treat? I'm 22 and I'd still do it if I had the time! :D

Scaring children that come to your home asking for candy might be the most fun anyone could have

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I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.
13 is a bit old, at least where I come from. However, there is a great option that I took advantage of for many years into high school...take other neighborhood kids trick-or-treating!

Your daughter can offer to take younger kids around trick-or-treating. She can bring along a couple of her friends, too, so it's not just a baby-sitting job. Neighborhood parents will be delighted that their kids have an extra set of eyes watching out for them, and she'll get to keep going trick-or-treating.

Halloween stopped beign fun many years ago...it started being a pain in the ass in college, where, every Halloween, there's a huge drunken bash where people get arrested, raped, assaulted, and generally go act like imbeciles. I've only even seen it twice, and I just went uptown to see the costumes and came right back. Frankly, I've kind of been of the opinion that the university should bring in extra police and enforce a curfew on Halloween weekend, thereby breaking up this excuse for a party.

That said, if I have kids, I doubt I will let them trick-or-treat.

I will trick or treat every Halloween until the year I die. There is no age limit. Period. Candy is awesome.

I second that.

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

My kids went through HS. Some kids get littler kids to go with them so they have an excuse.

I say go and have fun. Who cares if people look at you weird...you're in a costume as is.

As for me, I went untill I was 17, then started college, where we really can't. The good news is, I'll be trick-or-beering this year in my apartment, as well as pregaming in a class. Heroin chic model ftw!

there is also a rumor of another zombie march in Boston...I can only dream. Last years was great.

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

considering I had classmates trick or treating in COLLEGE...

it's time to stop when you stop having fun. :D

it's time to stop when you stop having fun. :D

Agreed.

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

I think most people are pretty much OK with Trick or Treaters as long as they go to the trouble of having a costume. I might tell a 36 year old out of costume to go away but the rest get candy from me. There will probably be some homes she visits on Halloween which house jealous sugar hoarders or some equally desperate type people who would actually deny a 13 year old candy or be judgemental towards her for Trick or Treating. They would be the ones who are sad and not your daughter. It's just as well that at 13 she sees that there are joyless people like that in the world. She can figure out to avoid too much exposure to them now, and hopefully eventually even be a little thankful that you didnt raise her to be like them. (Dont hold your breath on that she IS 13 after all) .

The age she should and certainly will stop Trick or Treating is when she has something better to do on Halloween. Probably a party with her friends. That age is likely right around the corner. She'll be doing less and less little girl things and more and more young woman things. Dont be too quick to stop her from doing the little girl things, you might miss them when they are only memories.

This topic just proves that people skip the entire topic without reading it and just post. :p

I know a 43 year old man who goes trick or treating every year and has gone for as long as I've known of him. That, my friends, is the definition of too old.

*eyes V mask, costume, and sextet of metal daggers in closet. smiles as only a, to quote a friend, a "Halloween loser" can*

;)

I don't actually have those.

Or do I?

:D

This topic just proves that people skip the entire topic without reading it and just post. :p

Yeah, I know! *Rofl* :p

There should be more threads like this. ^_^

This topic just proves that people skip the entire topic without reading it and just post. :p

No such proof was required. It's in the rules that you can't post if you've read the thread.

I don't know who else to ask. When is it considered to old to trick or treat? My daughter is 13 and she asked me, when will society laugh? I know she loves it. What do you think? IF you don't have any serious advice then don't say anything.

Tell her to borrow someone's baby, dress the kid up, and go trick or treating with him. Most people hire 13 year old babysitters as it is. Just consider this a perk.

All of you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and when I tell you the truth. I have no daughter. I was talking about myself but was too embaressed. (although Im a little older than 13) O WELL :eek:

Pfft. Halloween is awesome. Who cares who laughs at you? I get dressed up to hand out candy at my house, and get other parents who laugh at me for getting so into it. I love it. I don't care how old the kids are who go trick or treating, as long as they've made an effort to dress up -- it's all in good fun.

Find the houses that go all out with the decorations or try to make their place look extra creepy. They'll appreciate you!

As long as your costume is badass, you're never too old. But keep in mind, the older you are, the more badass it has to be. Little kids can get away with sheets over their heads with eyeholes to be ghosts - 30 year olds can't.

As long as your costume is badass, you're never too old. But keep in mind, the older you are, the more badass it has to be. Little kids can get away with sheets over their heads with eyeholes to be ghosts - 30 year olds can't.

Tell that to the KKK.

13 is a bit old, at least where I come from. However, there is a great option that I took advantage of for many years into high school...take other neighborhood kids trick-or-treating!

Your daughter can offer to take younger kids around trick-or-treating. She can bring along a couple of her friends, too, so it's not just a baby-sitting job. Neighborhood parents will be delighted that their kids have an extra set of eyes watching out for them, and she'll get to keep going trick-or-treating.

My neighborhood is too urban (IN a good way, it's NYC!)for that quaint little idea. if you say "ooo, like girllll you wanna join me and little kids to trick or treat?" they will laugh their heads off. hardly anyone babysits outside family and maybe just maybe friends children other than that babysitting is unheard of. plus im not familiar with any neighborhood kids, and i think little kids or annoying, all they ever talk about is cartoons and stuff. and don't be mad but... NYC people laugh at that idea.

Hmm. I think your daughter should stop trick or treating when she feels like it. I stopped officially the year I was fourteen, because I had just moved, didn't have alot of friends, and didn't want to go by myself. However, that was actually the only year when I didn't go, since when I was fifteen, a few friends and I went on a whim, and when I was sixteen a younger friend dragged me out. This year, I'm planning on hanging out and giving out candy. I used to think I'd never stop wanting to go, but it just sort of lost it's appeal to me. I guess I was corrupted by society and peer pressure, or something.

The last year I did it I was 12 (grade 8).

But I didn't stop because I was too old - I stopped because I couldn't bring myself to do it well anymore. It only really works if you're into it and having fun - people then reward your fun with candy. If you're just going through the motions for loot, people can tell, and it's more a chore than anything else.

Age didn't stop me. Apathy did.

Though (and this is a bit of a strange aside), there are other fun things you can do door to door on halloween.

Since it's the day people will answer their doors for strangers, a group of people I knew in high school decided to trade for things (much like that guy who turned a paper clip into a house). There were 3 teams of 4, and we went door to door trading up from an ordinary pencil. At the end of the night, the team with the best haul wins.

My team managed to turn its pencil into two things (because at one point we ended up with a pair of something so we decided to split up to increase our trade rate). A screen door, and a mounted elk head.

We won.

The hard part was transporting the screen door in a Dodge Colt hatchback.

I will trick or treat every Halloween until the year I die. There is no age limit. Period. Candy is awesome.
But are you still trick or treating?

Hmmm... Zombi Keruvalia?

I don't feel like trick or treating anymore...But I still got this sweet Samurai costume...with sword and small daggers. So I just whack people with the sword as I give out candy.

I don't feel like trick or treating anymore...But I still got this sweet Samurai costume...with sword and small daggers. So I just whack people with the sword as I give out candy.

I'm dressing as an Emo this year. I can't wait to both terrorize neighbourhood kids and piss off my emo friends, simultaneously.

I'm dressing as an Emo this year. I can't wait to both terrorize neighbourhood kids and piss off my emo friends, simultaneously.

Bwahaha...You need emo music, and like, a razor a fake blood and stuff...Bwahaha...