Halloween..who is at your door?

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaGreek

It doesn't bother me to see high schoolers trick-or-treating... I think more adults need to be aware and supportive of the choice that the older trick-or-treaters are making by doing that instead of possibly getting into REAL mischief or TP-ing/egging someone's house.

Maybe I'm judging too harshly, but just because a high schooler is trick-or-treating doesn't mean they won't get into the kind of mischief you're describing later. The activities you've described usually occur way past trick-or-treating hours.

AGDLynn, thanks for sharing the FB post. I think it's spot-on.

[MysticCat]

Son is 15 and a high school freshman. He is also 6'5". He has always loved Halloween, both the candy part and the costume part. I remember last year as he worked on his costume (he has a penchant for choosing costumes from video games, graphic novels or other sources that the average person would never catch on to), he lamented that it would probably be his last year for trick-or-treating. Even if he wasn't technically too old, he reasoned, he would look too old because of his height.

This year he never questioned that he is too old. Even when my wife told him it would be okay, that other high schoolers in the neighborhood would trick-or-treat and that people in the neighborhood know him so they wouldn't think it odd to see him or be mislead by his height, he said "Nope. I'm too old."

I hope I can at least get him to hand out candy tonight.

Originally Posted by SydneyK

AGDLynn, thanks for sharing the FB post. I think it's spot-on.

Co-sign.

[adpiucf]

I remember a friend in high school begging me to go trick or treating with her when we were in the 10th grade, and I begged off. Much like believing in Santa, you age out of Halloween.

[AnchorAlumna]

We used to live in a historical district and had zero trick-or-treaters. Now we live in a little nicer subdivision. We have more like 500 to 1,000 trick-or-treaters. I don't even know if some of the kids are neighbors because I never see them out - it's a drive-in-your-garage-and-close-the-door sort of place.

We have a blast giving out candy. I've got 10 HUGE bags this year and I don't think it's going to be enough. It's really cold, though, so I'm thinking a lot of the smaller kids won't come out.

I don't mind teen-agers who dress up - they usually wear pretty clever costumes and are polite. It's the ones who don't say a word and just pull out the bottom of their sweatshirt to receive their candy...then show back up in 20 minutes for another hit.

For them, I need the remote-controlled trapdoor in the sidewalk.

[Phrozen Sands]

I live in an apartment and I've never seen any kids trick or treating at any of the complexes near me. My first year in this apartment, I bought quite a bit of candy, and nobody came by.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

I live in an apartment and I've never seen any kids trick or treating at any of the complexes near me. My first year in this apartment, I bought quite a bit of candy, and nobody came by.

In our apartment complex, the office requires/gives out a common HALLOWEEN THEMED piece of paper for front doors of apartment-dwellers wishing to give treats.

I place a "Trick-or-Treaters This Way" arrow near the elevator doors pointing toward our apartment so they find us. A tiny pumpkin outside our door helps, too.

It doesn't hurt that our treats are small, holiday-decorated envelopes containing a new quarter; word gets around fast to each building and we get lots of kids each year.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Son is 15 and a high school freshman.

Mind = Blown.

Wasn't he just 10 like yesterday?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Mind = Blown.

Wasn't he just 10 like yesterday?

Crazy, isn't it?