how old were you when you stopped trick-or-treating?

KSUViolet06 · #1 10-17-2008, 04:58 PM

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 · #2 10-17-2008, 05:00 PM

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

Senusret I · #3 10-17-2008, 05:14 PM

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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.

AlphaFrog · #4 10-17-2008, 05:23 PM

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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 · #5 10-17-2008, 05:29 PM

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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 · #6 10-17-2008, 05:45 PM

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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?"

annabella · #7 10-21-2008, 01:18 AM

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

.... or maybe just turning tricks? I don't get why girls always want to dress like whores for Halloween. You can look cute without putting it all out there.

epchick · #8 10-17-2008, 05:46 PM

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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.

ZTAngel · #9 10-18-2008, 09:27 AM

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

lol...same here. I stopped when I was 13 but came back for an encore at 17 when my friends and me all dressed up as one of the members of the Spice Girls. This was in 1998 of course.

SigKapSweetie · #10 10-17-2008, 05:19 PM

Stop? I was supposed to stop?

KSigkid · #11 10-17-2008, 05:22 PM

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

agzg · #12 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 · #13 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 · #14 10-17-2008, 09:24 PM

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

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.

myopicsunflower · #15 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!