How old is too old to Trick or Treat?

[ohiosmith]

In recent years the kids coming around later in the evening are older than in the past. We typically get groups of teenagers up to 10:30 PM and later. In many cases they drive around the neighborhood, park, hit all of the homes in a section, and drive to another area. Is a kid old enough to have a driver license too old to trick or treat?

[EstimatedProphet]

1. We had adults last night

Also teenagers too.

[ohiosmith]

2. Unbelievable.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. It's not how old you are but how tall you are that matters

If I could pull it off now, I would trick-or-treat.

[ohiosmith]

4. good point

[MrCoffee]

5. yes, you're too old to put on the Pippi Longstocking costume...again.

[ohiosmith]

6. But it's my FAVORITE!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. You're never too old.

Bah humbug.

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Weird, we had the same subject line. Spooky.

[catmandu57]

8. Door to door begging

I'd say 14, 15 at the most.

[Parche]

9. Trick

That is the last time I come to your house for candy............:grr: :hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. If you're a teenager, you're too old.

Ages 12 and under are OK as far as I'm concerned, but when you start getting carloads of high school seniors from other neighborhoods, that's just too much. :(

[BridgeTheGap]

13. Are you sure your New Wave, Chick?

Sounds a little conservative.

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. Nah, not conservative. And I'm still me...

:P :hi: I stopped trick-or-treating when I was 12, and that was voluntary. I took my siblings around after that, but I didn't do the actual trick-or-treating. 12's old enough. :)

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. And how YOUng is too young to T or T?

Every year I get a few adults pushing strollers at my door. The babies they bring out to Trick or Treat are often as young as a few months old.

Yeah, sure! And, please, take some extra candy for you to stash away until your little one gets teeth!
I know you're not doing this just so YOU can get some candy for yourselves! :sarcasm:

[Midlodemocrat]

24. I had a couple with a newborn last year.

Series. :rofl:

[Pool Hall Ace]

30. This is what really bugs me.

Even though I stopped trick-or-treating when I got into junior high school, I really don't object to teens trick-or-treating. At least they know how to say thank you. But when the parents bring the babies around, grrr. :grr:

[ThomCat]

12. I don't think you're ever too old, as long as you're in costume.

Anyone should be able to enjoy the holiday. :)

[Drunken Irishman]

14. You're never too old.

I went last year at the age of 22. :D

[Beer Snob-50]

17. my 15 yo will be going out tonight with his friends

and my 17 yo is trying to corral his friends to also go out (there are 3 of them, 2 want to and the other does not. i think it will be an all or nothing deal)

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Mine, too. At least he thinks he is. The 17yo is going to a party.

[Beer Snob-50]

21. The 15 yo will be dropped off by my wife in a well to do neighborhood

and then SHE BETTER pick him up from the same place (i have basketball tonight and now that the world series is over I can get playing). There will be 6 total going.

[MissMillie]

18. I always thought that once you were in high school, you should be home scaring the trick or treaters

and not out and about.

[MrCoffee]

19. you are correct.

i loved scaring the hell out of the little kids who came trick-or-treating.

[Midlodemocrat]

23. LOL. That's what my son WANTS to do. I will probably

have to placate him with smores and stuff to prevent that. Too many little ones.

[AlCzervik]

22. when you can drive yourself to the neighborhood of your choice.

my daughter already informed me that this her 13th year will be the last year she goes trick or treating---sigh.

[AnneD]

25. Children under 13 go trick or treating...

older kids and adults have parties.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

26. I last did it when I was 11

I think when kids start high school, that's probably old enough IMO

[leftofthedial]

27. dead is too old

undead is perfect

I think anyone, any age, should participate in trick or treating

[grasswire]

28. I'm a little worried about that.

The 14+ teen in this house will be trick or treating with her younger friends. I'm opposed to it, but hey....

The problem is that she is 5'8" and is dressed like someone being sold for the too-young sex trade. Black mesh hose, short low-cut dress, teased up hair, piles of makeup, high-heeled boots. She's trying to look like a Motown backup singer. I believe she looks like $20.

Bah, humbug.

[Burma Jones]

29. 13

By the time you're 13, you should be getting stoned in someone's basement and swiping your younger siblings' candy........