Just from experience, when I hand out candy to anyone older than the age of 16 and they reach their hands into the candy bowl I feel like I'm getting robbed.
I think I stopped when I got to jr. high. But definitely stop once you get to high school. When you're that old, you go to parties and actually have fun.
Once you hit High School you're allowed to change from Trick-Or-Treating to causing mayhem at night with your friends. You have a good 2 years of that.
Trick-or-treat is for kids, Id say high school is the cutoff. Best idea: Throw a damn party.
Food, music, games, costumes. Get your friends together and go to the local haunted house, corn maze, whatever you have. Decorate your own house complete with costumed friends and be the coolest house on the block for all the *kids* to come to you for candy. About the time candy stops being the motivating factor in anything you do is the time to stop trick-or-treat and start finding other ways to make it fun.
TBH, as an adult Halloween is my favorite holiday. Every year at a random friends house we decorate and have a great time scaring the kiddies(and giving out candies), throw a drunken pumpkin carving night the week before, have a few different parties the Halloween night, etc. Why go out knocking on people's door when you can have a much better time?
Yeah, we aren't necessarily going door to door asking for candy. I mean we'll try to get some, but we just want to do some stupid shit like scare the kids in the streets. Like how older kids did to me when I was younger.
Most people in my high school are actually dressing up and going door to door.
if someone would go with me I'd do it at any age. I'm 27. Just wear a ghost outfit and go on your knees when you ring the bell. Use a kid's voice when saying trick or treat. Then rise up and walk away.
Once your balls drop. Can't you convince your friends to do something else that isn't stupidly inappropriate. At 18 I prefer to celebrate Halloween by turning up to my lectures wearing my lab coat and wolf mask.
" OP here. Yeah, we aren't necessarily going door to door asking for candy. I mean we'll try to get some, but we just want to do some stupid shit like scare the kids in the streets. Like how older kids did to me when I was younger. Most people in my high school are actually dressing up and going door to door. Getting older, feels weird man. "
There's nothing wrong with that then... except if you're going to try to get some candy, I sure hope you'll be wearing costumes. Worse than the older kids trick or treating are the older kids trick or treating without bothering with a costume.
Also, if you're a petite chick, you can easily trick or treat into your 20s while still looking like you're just one of the kids. :)
If you're old enough to go to a party with drunk girls in slutty costumes than you're too old to go trick-or-treating. Why would you want to? Drunk chicks are way better than candy.
The next time you're allowed to go trick-or-treating is when you have to take your own children house to house.
As someone who gives out candy to anyone that comes by with a bag for it, I'd say the biggest difference is how many pieces we give out, and what we give. There's definitely a 'B' bowl for anyone over a certain age who's "dressed up" as their favorite athlete by wearing a jersey they got at the local Walmart.
The + to this is that so far we haven't been egged, tp'd, etc.
I stopped when I was 13-14, but as long as you do it ironically while you are in High School you can get away with it. But only in groups. A 17 year old just going out by himself is sad.
I personally think it's dumb that there's an "age limit". If they give you free candy they give you free candy and you got free candy (yay!) if not then oh well. Who cares what people think. I say go for it. Free candy is free candy!
when your in high school sometime. good times trick or treating me and some friends use to do my neighborhood and his neighborhood. we would get a lot of candy from lots of different places.
Well I'm taking my nephew trick or treating and i WILL be bringing a pumpkin pail for myself as well haha!!! oh and im currently in my early twenties lol
I stopped after 17 I think. After that I would walk with my nephew and little sister and would wear a mask. If your serious about it then I think 17 is a good cut off if your over 17 and serious your a fucking.. jerk. Over 17 and with friends just dicking around going to like two houses to bullshit around is cool I guess. You know what, just keep going until you forget about it.
No age limit if you're a lady and don't have a costume or bag and show up late after everybody else has shut off their porch lights. But then it becomes "tits for treating" and you have to flash each person who answers the door.
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