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I went with 16 but I think I stopped around age 13. I'm in a generous mood, what can I say.

Edit: Wow, 30% think you're never too old? Serious or trolls?

You're never too old! Honestly, as long you go in costume, I say go for it. Just took my 16 year old sibling out (I'm 24) and we had a blast. Yeah, some people gave us some ribbing, but we were dressed up so they were cool with it.

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
I would of hold you to piss off for sure.

Very generous of you to hold a drunk man while he takes a piss.

Also I think 12-13ish is a the cutoff.

ohhh auto correct

 Lt. Coldfire wrote:
I went with 16 but I think I stopped around age 13. I'm in a generous mood, what can I say.

Edit: Wow, 30% think you're never too old? Serious or trolls?

Can't help it, Halloween is my favourite holiday.

Voted for 16.

By the time you leave school and reach working age it gets to a point where its a little silly to go out tricky or treating, unless its to accompany younger siblings and friends. Trick or Treating is really something for the kids.

Fancy dress costume Halloween parties are different of course, especially if theres alcohol involved. You're never too old for that really, its just a themed party.

That said...

Having been brought up by Christian parents, I have never celebrated Halloween or gone to a Halloween party (well, I rarely go to parties anyway). It never really appealed to me and the older you get the less appealing Halloween is, except for Halloween themed alcohol fueld parties I suppose.

Tbh I was bothered more that my parents banned me from reading Harry Potter. Quite a funny story really. Not knowing what it was about, my mom got me the first book as a birthday present. Then the Harry Potter craze began, and I guess certain Christian organizations and speakers began scare mongering over it saying it was a "Satanic influence" or something, my parents confiscated the book and banned me from reading the rest of the series. Even went so far as to enlist my Year 6 primary school teacher (who attended our church) to spy on me and stop me reading Harry Potter in school.

They couldn't stop me watching the movies however and years later I'm indifferent to Harry Potter and still not a Satanist.

Chistrian, raised by Christians, still went Trick-Or-Treating every year until I was 13. Now I play a Gak ton of video games until 1:00 AM with friends on halloween

 Gogsnik wrote:
The local police had a special order in place so that people could be moved on and arrested if they returned.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but where you live, if someone comes to your door twice you can call the police on them? That's pretty harsh, but it's also pretty cool.

Youre never too old if you have kids and grandkids. Seriously though you must be dressed up. Trick or treating is better when you have kids anyway so why stop doing it because youre "old"

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Voted for 16.

By the time you leave school and reach working age it gets to a point where its a little silly to go out tricky or treating, unless its to accompany younger siblings and friends. Trick or Treating is really something for the kids.

Fancy dress costume Halloween parties are different of course, especially if theres alcohol involved. You're never too old for that really, its just a themed party.

That said...

Having been brought up by Christian parents, I have never celebrated Halloween or gone to a Halloween party (well, I rarely go to parties anyway). It never really appealed to me and the older you get the less appealing Halloween is, except for Halloween themed alcohol fueld parties I suppose.

Tbh I was bothered more that my parents banned me from reading Harry Potter. Quite a funny story really. Not knowing what it was about, my mom got me the first book as a birthday present. Then the Harry Potter craze began, and I guess certain Christian organizations and speakers began scare mongering over it saying it was a "Satanic influence" or something, my parents confiscated the book and banned me from reading the rest of the series. Even went so far as to enlist my Year 6 primary school teacher (who attended our church) to spy on me and stop me reading Harry Potter in school.

They couldn't stop me watching the movies however and years later I'm indifferent to Harry Potter and still not a Satanist.

I agree. At a certain point trick-or-treating stops being fun unless you get into mischief. . . (i.e singing christmas songs as they open the door)

I saw a very nice "yummy mummy" in a batgirl costume taking her small children for trick or treating. So I am prepared to make exceptions to the age rule.

Some friends of ours made a fantastic "No Face" costume and put their daughter in it. The head was mounted on a frame so she could hold it up about eight feet high. She hid in the front garden curled up as a black ball. When children came to get their sweets she slowly extended herself to the full height.



Some of the children practically wet themselves.

14 as the usual cut-off age, 16 being the max age. Anybody 14 and up should have an excellent costume. Now that I'm older I'm trying to find an excuse to put together an awesome costume... (I always built mine)

(Also anyone who shows up with a good costume that legitimate effort went into will get candy)

SirSertile wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but where you live, if someone comes to your door twice you can call the police on them? That's pretty harsh, but it's also pretty cool.

I think the order was generally for teen thugs causing a nuisance, so that they could be dealt with more severely if they just walked around the block and came back but the general gist is just as you say. The police also advised local shop owners not to sell bags of flour or cartons of eggs to children and provided posters you could put in the window to show if you were happy for trick or treaters to call or not. The area where I live is, apparently, so I was told by people from the local town, known as The Village of the Damned, so it was a quiet night. About a mile or two away, and in town itself, there are some rough areas where occasions like Halloween are spoilt by gangs of idiots who use them as an excuse, Halloween now providing an extension to the same stupidity which usually spoils Bonfire Night.

0. If and when I get my own place come the 31st all the lights will be off, windows shut, curtains closed, and door locked. Buy your kids a multi-pack of sweets or have some sort of costume party, don't come to my door and expect me to dole out sweets in exchange for leaving me the feth alone.

I suppose that, should I manage to woo some poor, unfortunate woman and should she further agree to bear the curse'd fruit of my shrivelled loins, I may eventually have to take part in halloween, but not until whatever spawn she births starts pestering us about it, and only until we feel the spawn has enough self-control for it to be released alone into the outside world.

If there was a word similar to 'humbug' but pertaining to a lack of halloween spirit (pun very much unintended) then you can be sure I'd have used it at least fifty times over the course of this post, and a further twenty in this sentence.

This sentence would also be completely replaced by it.

For a time as a kid its candy
After that its ADULT FUN

 Avatar 720 wrote:
0. If and when I get my own place come the 31st all the lights will be off, windows shut, curtains closed, and door locked. Buy your kids a multi-pack of sweets or have some sort of costume party, don't come to my door and expect me to dole out sweets in exchange for leaving me the feth alone.

I suppose that, should I manage to woo some poor, unfortunate woman and should she further agree to bear the curse'd fruit of my shrivelled loins, I may eventually have to take part in halloween, but not until whatever spawn she births starts pestering us about it, and only until we feel the spawn has enough self-control for it to be released alone into the outside world.

If there was a word similar to 'humbug' but pertaining to a lack of halloween spirit (pun very much unintended) then you can be sure I'd have used it at least fifty times over the course of this post, and a further twenty in this sentence.

This sentence would also be completely replaced by it.

I do agree with part of this, being stuck handing out candy on the 31st. Just nonstop children. Some kid asked to pick which candy he wanted, and flipping sticks his hand in and grabs like 20, then runs off. If we could stop this . . . that would be more than cool.

Easy solution: tell the little blighters to bugger off and buy their own candy.

The first time I was at uni, we had students going round halls trick or treating, still think you can be older and go out and enjoy it, especially if you are chaperoning. Myself, I take great joy in scaring the kids. One time, I ran out the door waving a knife yelling, the mum was more scared than the kids and ran off, leaving them behind. Mind you, it was a family we knew so could get away with doing it...

Can you physically make it to a door in a costume?
If yes, You're young enough.

The day you would be "too old" will be the day you have kids and your going with them, so never.

Deadshot wrote:Can't remember it now because no one's sang it in years due to the ToT culture. Something about putting a penny in an old man's hat.

Dude that's a christmas song:
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please do put a penny in the old man's hat
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do
If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Is_Coming

What kind of crazy part of the UK are you from where you go caroling in October?

 jreilly89 wrote:
You're never too old! Honestly, as long you go in costume, I say go for it. Just took my 16 year old sibling out (I'm 24) and we had a blast. Yeah, some people gave us some ribbing, but we were dressed up so they were cool with it.

Seriously?

I'm ok with teenagers who are escorting llttle kids. but otherwise, get the hell off my lawn.

Unless you're chaperoning other kids, secondary school is old enough IMO. Halloween is nice fun for the little kiddies and spoilt by older kids giving it a bad rep. I don't see why teenagers would be wandering the neighbourhood hoping for sweeties, they should be in doing homework.

I think when you get older, you should be going for the "trick" sid e of things more than the "treat" - focus on practical jokes, that sort of thing. My uncles used to dress up as monsters and scare us/other local kids around Hallowe'en. I guess it'd get you in trouble these days.

The guising aspect is quite old and pre-christian I think, but the "treat" part came in Christian times with Soul Cakes, so I think trick or treating could be considered christian

I don't go out trick or treating anymore, and haven't for years since I avoid eating too many sweets.

We live in a fairly close knit neighborhood/community which is basically a giant culdesac, but a network of roads with one road leading in, so everyone knows each other.

We give out the jumbo candybars to the kids, and free beer to the parents walking with them.

Our house is popular.

 Lt. Coldfire wrote:
I went with 16 but I think I stopped around age 13. I'm in a generous mood, what can I say.

Edit: Wow, 30% think you're never too old? Serious or trolls?

Completely serious. Why would you ever want to stop?

 Dreadwinter wrote:

 Lt. Coldfire wrote:
I went with 16 but I think I stopped around age 13. I'm in a generous mood, what can I say.

Edit: Wow, 30% think you're never too old? Serious or trolls?

Completely serious. Why would you ever want to stop?

1. To hand out candy. Once you're an adult, aren't you supposed to be handing out candy at that point, not going around collecting? Back in the day I recall that the kids would go trick or treating and the adults would hand out the candy back at the house. This might explain why there are less and less people handing out candy each year.
2. I have a job so I can buy my own candy.

I must be misunderstanding here. The adults that are going out are going with their kids, young siblings or young nieces/nephews, yes? That's a little different than a group of adults going around together which is how I'm picturing this.

Well, my brother takes my only niece trick or treating himself and my siblings are all old enough to go out on their own. So, I do not think you are misunderstanding. I have no children, but I find it fun to dress up and go from house to house. Kind of a way of showing off a clever or neat costume. Sometimes I am rewarded with a laugh, sometimes I am rewarded with candy. But at the end of the day, I am out for the fun of it.

Plus, who the feth buys candy before Halloween? November 1st is "National Discount Candy Day" for a reason.

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Plus, who the feth buys candy before Halloween? November 1st is "National Discount Candy Day" for a reason.

lol doing the quick math here: to give out on Halloween?

I did it in a way up until about the age of 16, maybe 17. I actually stopped probably about the age of 12, but I was the escort for my siblings at that point. Didn't wear a costume or take candy (unless the homeowners made a show of the "big brother" having some for babysitting) but I took generous liberties with my brother's/sisters' candy afterwards, so it was all good.

 Lt. Coldfire wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Plus, who the feth buys candy before Halloween? November 1st is "National Discount Candy Day" for a reason.

lol doing the quick math here: to give out on Halloween?

I am thinking you should double check your "math" or at least read my question. The real answer would be "People who give out candy on Halloween!" to which my response would be "Thank god for those people, that's how I get free candy on Halloween!"

I guess the point I am trying to get across is that you should not be amazed when people do not go with the cultural flow. I will go Trick or Treating if I want, that is how we roll in 'Murica!