Our daughter went out for the last time with friends in 9th grade. They had a group costume and had a blast. Only a couple of people were jerks to them. “Aren’t you a little old for this?” 🙄. For years I had the same 3 teenage boys show up in all black with bandanas around their necks - barely a costume. They mumbled out trick or treat and they were always really late so I gave them all my remaining candy. Don’t give kids a hard time when they are trying to still be kids.

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Anonymous wrote:13 yo son has his Halloween weekend planned with his best friend. He'll be sleeping over at her house on the Saturday night playing Halloween themed party games and telling each other ghost stories. Then he'll be trick or treating with her on Halloween night.

Get your head out of your a$$. Your kid is getting laid on Halloween, not trick or treating in the traditional sense.

This made me lol. All of it. So thanks troll.

The best part was the detail about telling each other ghost stories, though.

I went all through high school, as did my classmates. Prolong the innocent fun!

Honestly, I get annoyed at adults who show up, get a job, buy their own candy. And I know for a fact these are not special needs adults. And I really don't care if that makes me a Grinch. Christmas is for kids and so is Halloween.

Anyone who arrives at my house with manners on Halloween will receive candy. A costume would be nice, but not required. If you are polite and friendly and say trick or treat, I will be polite back and give you candy.

I don’t think there should be a set age and definitely not low. I use to trick or treat until I was 16.

There's no age out in my neighborhood. At all.
Parents approach with their own bags sometimes.
Adults get beverage treats too at the right houses.
It's all fun.
I love Halloween.

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Anonymous wrote:13 yo son has his Halloween weekend planned with his best friend. He'll be sleeping over at her house on the Saturday night playing Halloween themed party games and telling each other ghost stories. Then he'll be trick or treating with her on Halloween night.

Get your head out of your a$$. Your kid is getting laid on Halloween, not trick or treating in the traditional sense.

This made me lol. All of it. So thanks troll.

As others have posted there is no age to end it, it's just having fun.

Anonymous wrote:There’s no longer an age it ends. Everyone does Halloween now.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:13 yo son has his Halloween weekend planned with his best friend. He'll be sleeping over at her house on the Saturday night playing Halloween themed party games and telling each other ghost stories. Then he'll be trick or treating with her on Halloween night.

Your 13 yo is having a sleepover with his girl best friend for Halloween? He must be more innocent that my 13 yo if you allow this. This thread took a strange twist. Not sure what type of trick or treating you mean or if this post was a joke.

Honestly I think whoever posted this is a troll.

There’s no longer an age it ends. Everyone does Halloween now.

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Anonymous wrote:My 12 yo feels like she is too old to go. She will pass out the candy though and I'll buy extra for her to have at home. She never did the group Halloween thing though, so maybe that's part of it.

Hopefully that didn't interest her. My 11yr old always wants to find a group but ends up alone with either me or DH for various reasons. I feel badly for her. She has lots of random friends but no specific group in our neighborhood or BFF that would think of her and reach out to include her. I'm hoping she takes the initiative this year to ask around.

No, she wanted to, but was never able to connect with friends. Either they had other plans, or couldn't figure out anything concrete. It's hard because we live in a different part of town than most kids at her school. When she was younger, her grandparents and I would go out with her too around our neighborhood (which really goes nuts on Halloween). It was a lot of fun, so at least she has some good memories.

I might have her decorate the yard this year. We've never done anything more than a jack-o-lantern.

Anonymous wrote:13 yo son has his Halloween weekend planned with his best friend. He'll be sleeping over at her house on the Saturday night playing Halloween themed party games and telling each other ghost stories. Then he'll be trick or treating with her on Halloween night.

Get your head out of your a$$. Your kid is getting laid on Halloween, not trick or treating in the traditional sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I hate adults who police a fun sized candy bar (and, more to the point, make nice teens having fun feel like crap).

If you show up to my door in a costume and are reasonably pleasant, here, have some Reese’s.

Thank you. I still remember being “shamed” by a few people when a girlfriend and I went out for “one last time” in 9th grade. It was like our last “childhood fling,” and we were bittersweet even as we went out. It really stung to have people be jerks about it. And, yes, we were dressed up and yes, we were respectful.

That happened to me at the very first house one Halloween, and I was still in elementary school! I went home feeling terrible and that was the end of my trick or treating career. Adults who yell at minors for acting like kids should be ashamed of themselves.

Agree.