| I'm still somewhat young enough for it to be relatively socially acceptable for me to go door to door asking for candy from strangers, plus I'm a girl so that helps (I'm dressing as Joey Ramone btw and I'll no doubt be the coolest kid on the block) and I think I'll still go this year, but I'm starting to think maybe at some point soon I should put an end to my trick-or-treating phase and start passing out candy with the grown ups, but I'm hesitant because why would anyone voluntarily give up the opportunity to get a sack full of free chocolate that lasts at least a couple months? So, I thought I'd ask when everyone on MAL quit dressing up and parading around the neighborhood begging for sweets, and at what point it stops being cute and just becomes sad. |
chizzlezOct 17, 2016 7:56 PM
| Just wear a costume that hides your age, and you can do it forever. |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| Hey, free food especially sweets is a plus in my book so I'll go trick or treating as much as I'd like! Take advantage of that easy free food y'know. |
| I want to say never too old but if you have a job and make decent cash you shouldnt be taking free candy from homes. |
Bezaliel said: 13 is too old for trick or treating. You can get away with it if you're short asf though and wear a mask.. I'm cool with wearing a mask but I'm about 5'7/5'8 so i don't think I can really get away with it that way |
chizzlezOct 17, 2016 8:05 PM
| joey ramone, sounds unique. uhhh yeah my ex gf and I went last year, and we were probably older than you, so go for it! Besides, free candy is free candy, why wouldn't you go? Oh, and like you said, you're a girl, so that makes it much easier to be under the adults' radar. edit: i didn't even answer your question! sorry! I think last year was my last time going, I was 17. This year my friends and I are planning to hang out and do some other stuff, so I don't think I'll be doing it again |
 |
| no one is ever too old. I shall trick-or-treat every year. try and stop me. |
 |
Scott said: I mean people do that anyway, so I'm not sure how to tell if it's related to me trick or treating.No idea...until people start looking at you funny? haha |
| I stopped in middle school. I think I remember going out and being one of the "older kids" and just thinking ok, it's time to stop. Now I just get drunk like a good grown up. |
| The football field isn't the only place where you could use a good line. |
| I`m a simple man. I see free candy, I go trick or treating. |
 |
| 1 hour = $8USD = about a kilogram of candy (sometimes even more) If you think going out for an hour and getting a wimpy bag of candy is a good idea after you're 16 and can already get that much easily then you obviously have a different definition of "free" than I do. I'm sure drugs, alcohol, and friends could make the experience enjoyable, though. |
  |
| Growing up, I never did any trick-or-treating... :( and because my house looked from the outside like a block of apartments, not many trick-or-treaters even visited... :/ (the building next to my house was in the same style, but it actually was a block of apartments, which didn't help) But when they did show up, it was always really cool to see their costumes. That's regardless of age, even though lots of them were older teenagers, or mixed-age groups that included adults. So just keep doing it for as long as you want. And if you start feeling old, find a younger sibling or a cousin or something, lol. |
 ~ join the MAL suicide pact! ~ ~ ★☭★ ~ ~ embrace nuclear annihilation! ~ |
| Anytime is too old to ask strangers for candy |
SomeEdgeLord said: I WILL report you from this forum if this continues. In real life, I am one of the coldest, unsympathetic, people you'll ever know, who's grown up in an even colder household, you really don't want me to break my persona, I know how to make people feel bad. YearnsforAttention said: hm who has 1656 friends on MAL that's right me bye bye YearnsforAttention said: I don't want your approval how many damn times do I need to say it I enjoy irritating you I am gonna do things MY way |
| I think the last year I went was either my first or second year of highschool (though prior to this I hadn't gone in a few years). A group of buddies and I dressed up as large shipping boxes, imaginative as we were. It was a fun last run of tricks-or-treats. |
| We don't practice Halloween culture (well, tricking or treating) in most of Asia so I wouldn't really know. Though it would be really fun though.I think maybe it depends on the community? If older people are doing it, and in a group I don't think it could be any weird? |
 |
| I wouldn't know fam in my country we don't do Halloween I've never been trick or treating so i'm slightly envious of the ones who did |
| "This signature is under construction." ~Fabuubz |
| You're not too old until you're dead. And even then you can go as a ghost. If you're worried about looking silly, take a younger sibling or cousin or friend's kid or whatever and make sure the kid is in on your lil plan, and gets visibly upset whenever you're being "left out" (not given sweets). Keeps you looking mature and responsible ("making sure the child is safe! what a sweet young person!") and gets your free shit. 10/10 would scam again. |
| I don't think there is a definitive age. Just depends on the person. I stopped around 14 or so, thats when I started going to Halloween parties. Now I rarely celebrate it. |
| Sorry, but I'm not going to let go of my childhood that easily. I'm going to say 16-17. I think it depends how tall you are and if you can pull off not looking old. I mean, there are 12-year-olds in my school who look 6. |
  WORK IN PROGRESS ~The frog leapt forth to my lilypad memory.~ I was indoctrinated by an inamorata rabbit, Adenomata affronted. It was the verecund, dismissed creatures That I jubilated in most. This rabbit I would nurture, At the aiguille of esse, The anneal of noblesse. ❤️ Birdie ❤️ |
| When you run out of breath between houses. |
| You don't go straight from the "trick or treat" phase to the "hand out candy" phase. There's an important phase in between when you go to parties and have drunk sex in costume. |
 |
| We don't really practice Halloween in my country, but we do have a similar holiday. (It's Halloween but without dressing up). Most people stop attending that holiday when they're about 11, I suppose it would be similar for Halloween? |
| Whenever you feel like it. If you turn away teenagers who come to your door you're a dick, they could be at a Halloween rave doing crazy amounts of drugs and they choose an innocent thing to do one day a year: dress up and get candy. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| About the age of 4 years old is way too old. If you go trick-or-treating and you're 7 then you don't deserve to have candy. Trick-or-treating is for children not preteens. |
 |
| I'm 153cm tall, I can do it whenever the fuck I want. |
| I never actually 'trick or treated', Though we have a similar celebration with a weird name to write in English called "Ghergaoun". Pretty much go around your neighborhood, with cultural clothing as opposed to role playing and sing your way to candy heaven. I stopped around 12 years old, mainly because it was too hot outside to bother. |
| I stopped at 10 but its socially acceptable at least where i'm from until your around high school age to trick or treat |
| You're never too old, but you gotta remember to carry a gun whenever you want to do it at an adult age. |
I luv u |
| You should probably stop once you hit 30 |
Volti said: So just keep doing it for as long as you want. And if you start feeling old, find a younger sibling or a cousin or something, lol. This is brilliant. I have an 8 year old brother and a 5 year old sister, so I can just take them. Thanks fam, you're a life saver. |
| Maybe with children it would be normal ? |
 |
| If your wondering if you're too old, you're probably too old. That's the rule i go by... |
  ♦ Anime List ♦ Manga List ♦ Friend Request ♦ Message Me ♦ DeviantArt ♦ |
| I feel like trick or treating should be open to anyone in the spirit who puts on an actual costume whether they're 5 or 80. I've heard too many stories of special needs adults being harassed for trick or treating and it makes me sad. Just let people have fun mang |
 |
zombie_pegasus said: 1 hour = $8USD = about a kilogram of candy (sometimes even more) If you think going out for an hour and getting a wimpy bag of candy is a good idea after you're 16 and can already get that much easily then you obviously have a different definition of "free" than I do. I'm sure drugs, alcohol, and friends could make the experience enjoyable, though. an hour of mundane work that pays 8 dollar or trick or treating and making fun memories...hmm...tough choice. |
AnimeFreak-San said: I don't think halloween is really about the candy anyway, it's more about the experience. Who would ever think trick-or-treating alone would be a good idea?zombie_pegasus said: 1 hour = $8USD = about a kilogram of candy (sometimes even more) If you think going out for an hour and getting a wimpy bag of candy is a good idea after you're 16 and can already get that much easily then you obviously have a different definition of "free" than I do. I'm sure drugs, alcohol, and friends could make the experience enjoyable, though. an hour of mundane work that pays 8 dollar or trick or treating and making fun memories...hmm...tough choice. |
|
| I'd say around 21 or 22 years old. If I was to go out on Halloween I'd go to a kickback but not trick or treating. I'd rather buy my own candy myself. |
~Go grind a big balloon while eating M&Ms and then you'll know~ |
| I personally stopped after I was 13. Wow, this Halloween marks a decade since I stopped getting free candy. I want free candy again. :( |
 |
| I actually have never trick or treated. My mom wwouldnt let me as a kid because she believed all that bullshit about poison candy and razors in apples and pedo paranoia. Usagi said: I personally stopped after I was 13. Wow, this Halloween marks a decade since I stopped getting free candy. I want free candy again. :( I have some free candy to offer ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
traed said: I have some free candy to offer ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Hand over all your KitKats and Reese's, please. Preferably king sized or in nifty Halloween designs. |
|
Usagi said: traed said: I have some free candy to offer ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Hand over all your KitKats and Reese's, please. Preferably king sized or in nifty Halloween designs. Like those white chocolate halloween kitkats? Those are delicious |
| Easily over the age of 17 years old... |
I prefer the dark chocolate ones wrapped in the festive black and white Halloween themed plastic. I have a preference for dark chocolate in general. |
|
| I don't think there should be an exact age... lol. I stopped when I became disinterested with the whole tradition and started doing other things during Halloween instead. |
More topics from this board
» Plushies_Nette_ - Yesterday |
18 |
by DesuMaiden
»»
43 seconds ago |
|
» What jobs do you all have? ( 1 2 )AnxiousMike - Feb 11, 2023 |
81 |
by DesuMaiden
»»
2 minutes ago |
|
» What do yall collect? ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page )bevarnow - Jan 25 |
316 |
by DesuMaiden
»»
4 minutes ago |
|
» Are you going to apologize?LenRea - Mar 25 |
25 |
by DesuMaiden
»»
4 minutes ago |
|
» whats your shoe size ?sussybakagirl420 - Mar 22 |
24 |
by Spunkert
»»
14 minutes ago |