Halloween - Am I a grinch?

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by Army Wife'79

What do you all do? Do they get the same "good" candy that the little cuties get? Am I getting to be a grinch in my old age?

First, grinches are for CHRISTMAS

No you are not a grinch. I tell those who are older than a certain age, I am sorry we have a XX age limit if you don't have a costume.

Of course I have the big creepy bad-ass son standing next to me when I say it, so there is no "retaliation" later in the night.

Generally in our Halloween obsessed town (amazingly I think it is because you can't acknowledge Halloween in our schools in this town), the oldest that do the "beggars night" stuff is middle schoolers and not many of them.

[33girl]

I don't give treats out at all for this very reason. People drive in their kids from the neighboring communities, and I won't even get started on the uncostumed, unspeaking, extremely rude teenagers.

I think you should give them something even more useless than a pencil...a handful (or more) of packing peanuts comes to mind.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I think you should give them something even more useless than a pencil...a handful (or more) of packing peanuts comes to mind.

lol

My first thought was to give them a brick - just to weigh down their pillow case. But then I realized it would just end up being thrown through your window at some point. So nix that idea.

But seriously, you're not the only one irked by costumeless teens.

[lyrica9]

i remember people in my dorm going trick or treating, but i think they at least wore costumes. even if most of them were in their 20s... yeesh.

[DSTRen13]

We went trick-or-treating in college - but it was Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, and we DEFINITELY had costumes. Because it's all about the costumes.

[aephi alum]

Give them toothbrushes.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I don't give treats out at all for this very reason. People drive in their kids from the neighboring communities, and I won't even get started on the uncostumed, unspeaking, extremely rude teenagers.

I think you should give them something even more useless than a pencil...a handful (or more) of packing peanuts comes to mind.

A box of raisins
A container of tofu
A religious tract
A scoop of ice cream (NOT in a cone...right in the pillow!!
Somewhere around here I have a greeting card that shows an uncostumed teen-ager coming up the sidewalk as costumed little ones leave...the adult at the door is ready with the lever to open the trap door in the sidewalk LOL!
Our teens just hold out the hem of their enormous sweatshirts......they need the other hand to hold up their pants!