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KSUViolet06 10-17-2008 04:58 PM

how old were you when you stopped trick-or-treating?
 
I'm pretty sure I stopped in 5th grade when my neighborhood moved to daytime trick-or-treating, which made it WAY less fun--no one wants to trick-or-treat at like 4:00.

Even though I'm older now, I still somehow end up taking my younger cousins trick-or-treating every year. It's no fun now because it's FREEZING out and they walk way too slow. They got mad at me last year because I insisted on driving them to different blocks, instead of letting them walk in the freezing Ohio cold.


Benzgirl 10-17-2008 05:00 PM

11, but I returned for an encore performance at 14.

Senusret I 10-17-2008 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Benzgirl (Post 1732386)
11, but I returned for an encore performance at 14.

LOL.... a triumphant return.

I believe my finale was at 9 when I was in 4th grade. By fifth grade I had moved to a less safe neighborhood.

SigKapSweetie 10-17-2008 05:19 PM

Stop? I was supposed to stop?

KSigkid 10-17-2008 05:22 PM

I think it was 4th or 5th grade. After that I just helped my parents hand out candy.

AlphaFrog 10-17-2008 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Benzgirl (Post 1732386)
11, but I returned for an encore performance at 14.

Change the 14 to 15 and ditto.

There was a girl trick or treating last year in my parent's neighborhood wearing a "sexy Bo-Peep" costume, and she was a freshman in COLLEGE.

Senusret I 10-17-2008 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1732403)
Change the 14 to 15 and ditto.

There was a girl trick or treating last year in my parent's neighborhood wearing a "sexy Bo-Peep" costume, and she was a freshman in COLLEGE.

Georgetown students trick-or-treat at the embassies. I don't know where this tradition came from.

SWTXBelle 10-17-2008 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1732403)
Change the 14 to 15 and ditto.

There was a girl trick or treating last year in my parent's neighborhood wearing a "sexy Bo-Peep" costume, and she was a freshman in COLLEGE.


Are you sure she wasn't doing "Trick or Beer?"

epchick 10-17-2008 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1732403)
There was a girl trick or treating last year in my parent's neighborhood wearing a "sexy Bo-Peep" costume, and she was a freshman in COLLEGE.

We get kids like that in my neighborhood, except these kids don't dress up, don't say "trick or treat" and are complete asses. When I try to give them candy, they'll push my hand away and grab their own candy. Not this year though, i'm putting a stop to that.

I know I completely stopped at 15 b/c of September 11. We used to trick or treat on base, and after 9/11 they didn't allow that anymore.

agzg 10-17-2008 06:39 PM

I think I stopped when I was 13 - mostly because my friends were less interested in getting candy than hitting everyone else with shaving cream, and since I was a "big kid" and one of their friends I got nailed and they ruined my costume. :(

I'd probably still be trick-or-treating if they hadn't done that.

I'm excited because my neighbor downstairs is in 3rd grade, and he's not going trick-or-treating beyond this block of our street, so live-in and I are going to do a reverse trick-or-treat with lots of goodies.

His dad is going to loooooooooooove us.

Kevlar281 10-17-2008 07:02 PM

I'm pretty sure I stopped in 7th grade.

And then I went once during High School when a group of friends decided to trick or treat as we walked to a Halloween party.

I don’t mind if older kids come trick or treating just as long as their dressed up and polite.

XSK_Diamond 10-17-2008 09:24 PM

My roommate and I went trick-or-treating our freshman year of college. :D

We did double duty, though, and acted as escorts for the kids after we saw how many there were whose parents let them go alone. :eek:

myopicsunflower 10-18-2008 01:05 AM

The last time I went trick-or-treating in earnest, I was 14 and went with friends. When I was 17, those same friends and I went trick-or-treating, but it wasn't really going door-to-door seeking candy -- we pretty much went to houses of guys we liked and made silly small talk.

That same group of friends and I dressed up and did a bit of trick-or-treating when we were 22, because we thought it would be random and funny. We actually got a great reaction from people whose homes we visited!

:)

BabyPiNK_FL 10-18-2008 02:01 AM

I think I was 20. I think I was a hippie and BF was Spider Man. Honestly, why should I pass up the best holiday ever created b/c of an age? I would have gone when I was 21, but that's when I started going to parties or events instead. I'd probably go this year, but I'll be out of town. My neighbor (my age) usually came with me too. :D

alum 10-18-2008 09:15 AM

When we were at West Point, the cadets drove around the post in open-backed transport vehicles and tossed candy to the military kids who were out trick-or-treating in the neighborhoods.


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