My sister is 23 and still dresses up and goes out knocking doors for candy... and I find it weird but I let her do her. It got me thinking, at what age do you think someone should stop Trick r Treating at? Just curious.
I give candy to parents with costumes. Knock on my door, say trick or treat, and you get candy. Them's the rules.
I also give adults I know beer or seltzer.
Yep. If you show up to my door with a costume, you're getting candy. Age is an afterthought if at all.
As long as you're wearing a costume, I don't care how old you are. You'll get a treat.
If someone has the confidence to dress up and ring my doorbell, they’re getting candy and positive vibes from me.
No age limit, you could literally be 80 at my door in a walker and you'd still get candy.
It's not like Candy is a valuable resource, if they want to dress up to get some M&M's then more power to them.
It's an arbitrary cultural custom, with even more arbitrary expectations for who's included. I find it weird when a grown-up comes to your door and it straight up makes certain people angry, but there's no logical reason why it's bad.
Pretty sure they mean they leave their sister to do as she pleases, and not shaming her for it.
I feel like there's no age where dressing up and knocking on doors becomes inappropriate. It's fun, it can increase social cohesion in a community, there's no reason for adults not to be a little silly, yadda yadda. Already now it's perfectly acceptable for an adult attending trick-or-treating children to dress up as well, but I think adults alone or in adult groups should be allowed to dress up as well.
But then there's the "asking for candy" part... Now I don't think there's any age where people should stop eating candy, either — but when you have the ability to easily buy (or even make) your own candy, then maybe it'd be a better idea to start giving out your candy to the houses you knock on, if you still want to go out in costume.
I dunno, just a thought. I wouldn't tell your sister to stop, though. We're all a little weird at the end of the day.
I agree with you.
As long as the adult trick-or-treater isn't excessively drunk/high, being pushy/grabbing too much candy, or otherwise ruining it for the kids, who cares?
I’d just be happy she has a costume on. Around here we get grown adults with no costumes asking for candy with their kids. I guess I enable them because I don’t want to call them out in front of their own kids, but come on.
it's funny when teenagers show up but you wouldn't want it to be exclusively teenagers.
If you're looking out for your kid/brother for safety, no limits. Otherwise, 16.
when i was 13 or so i noticed the looks of the faces of the people giving out candy went from happy to annoyed. It may have also been my low effort costume but that was my last year
I think I was 15 or 16, trick or treating with my little brothers. A guy on a porch told me it was disgraceful to be a teenager trick or treating and asked why I wasn't doing something with a girl instead.
That guy was definitely totally wrong and out of line, but it did make me realize that I don't particularly enjoy going to people's houses and giving them the opportunity to say shit like that. So now I buy candy whenever I want.
In my area, it is less age and more size. Someone that is large scares more people than a small person. I was large so stopped early, but a small woman with a mask could go quite a long time.
When you have a place to live and can afford a bucket of candy, I think it is an obligation to everyone who wants this tradition to continue to stay at home (yours or someone else if youre having a halloween party) and give out candy to the kids and compliment their costumes.
But other than that, nah, no age limit as long as you can still say thanks and enjoy it.
In Mexico, there are two dates for "trick or treat". One is for kids (the Day of ~the Holly Innocents~ All the Saints) and the next day is for Day of the dead or Día de Muertos, which is for everyone, in a clearly adult-centric celebration. The treats in the first day are candy-like, in the second day it's very-Mexican-food-like.
Ask your sister which one would she celebrate. The rightest answer is both, the right is one or the other, the wrong is none.
Also, if she's watching after some kids, that's great and deserves a treat. Ultimately, as this post and comments suggests, it all depends on the people's heart.
