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Halloween is just around the corner, and everyone’s getting hyped about it. Personally, I love Halloween. Well, I used to, until I turned 17 and people started giving me looks and judging me for wanting to get free candy on the only day of the year that you aren’t risking getting kidnapped. Since I turned 17, I’ve noticed the clear divide in the “children’s” Halloween, and the “adult’s” Halloween. The difference? The acceptability of dressing up in a fun or scary costume and going trick-or-treating.
For those of you with the amazingly-perfect-for-this-holiday condition called “baby face”, you probably won’t face this issue until you’re about 25, but for everyone else, we become visibly older by about 16 or so. Personally for me, they [candy givers] started questioning my age when I was about 15. I would get remarks like “Aren’t you a bit too old to be trick-or-treating” or “last year for trick-or-treating huh?” And yeah, I get it, it’s supposed to be a kid’s holiday where they go out dressed up as their favourite Disney princess, superhero or monster and get free candy, but let’s be real for a second. We all know that they will munch on it for a week and then forget about it while their parents end up eating it all. The last year I remember going trick-or-treating it was 3 years ago when I was 16. I remember having so much fun walking around my area with my group of friends, getting candy, and then all going back to my place to sort and trade away what we didn’t want. What have I done for the past 2 Halloweens? Sat at home. Maybe played a scary game or two to get my spook on. Going to parties was out of the question when I was 17, and when I turned 18, I had better things to do than go out on a Thursday night. By the time I was 16, they were already handing out less candy to my friends and me because we looked, and were older. There are those 5 years of buffering where you pretty much don’t do anything on Halloween because you’re too old to go trick-or-treating, or too young to go to a party. And let me tell you, it sucks.
Back to the original question, when is it still an acceptable age to go trick-or-treating? I would say the cut-off is around 17 or so. Anything older than that and you’re going to start having people refuse to give you any candy. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it, but unless you don’t want to waste an entire evening, 17 is really the limit. If you want a good night out on Halloween, go to the store and get some Halloween candy. Dress up in a fun and child-friendly costume and walk around your neighbourhood handing out candy. It’s less effort than decorating and you still get to go out and have fun on Halloween.
All this being said, for Halloween this year I already know what I’ll be doing. I got my dinosaur costume ready to go! What are your think about Halloween? Like it? Hate it? Post in the comments your thoughts and what you’re planning on dressing up as, if anything, for Halloween.
For those of you with the amazingly-perfect-for-this-holiday condition called “baby face”, you probably won’t face this issue until you’re about 25, but for everyone else, we become visibly older by about 16 or so. Personally for me, they [candy givers] started questioning my age when I was about 15. I would get remarks like “Aren’t you a bit too old to be trick-or-treating” or “last year for trick-or-treating huh?” And yeah, I get it, it’s supposed to be a kid’s holiday where they go out dressed up as their favourite Disney princess, superhero or monster and get free candy, but let’s be real for a second. We all know that they will munch on it for a week and then forget about it while their parents end up eating it all. The last year I remember going trick-or-treating it was 3 years ago when I was 16. I remember having so much fun walking around my area with my group of friends, getting candy, and then all going back to my place to sort and trade away what we didn’t want. What have I done for the past 2 Halloweens? Sat at home. Maybe played a scary game or two to get my spook on. Going to parties was out of the question when I was 17, and when I turned 18, I had better things to do than go out on a Thursday night. By the time I was 16, they were already handing out less candy to my friends and me because we looked, and were older. There are those 5 years of buffering where you pretty much don’t do anything on Halloween because you’re too old to go trick-or-treating, or too young to go to a party. And let me tell you, it sucks.
Back to the original question, when is it still an acceptable age to go trick-or-treating? I would say the cut-off is around 17 or so. Anything older than that and you’re going to start having people refuse to give you any candy. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it, but unless you don’t want to waste an entire evening, 17 is really the limit. If you want a good night out on Halloween, go to the store and get some Halloween candy. Dress up in a fun and child-friendly costume and walk around your neighbourhood handing out candy. It’s less effort than decorating and you still get to go out and have fun on Halloween.
All this being said, for Halloween this year I already know what I’ll be doing. I got my dinosaur costume ready to go! What are your think about Halloween? Like it? Hate it? Post in the comments your thoughts and what you’re planning on dressing up as, if anything, for Halloween.
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You're old enough to be bringing around little children as their guardians for them to get candy.
I especially dislike when teenagers around 15 and older not only go out trick or treating, but don't even dress in a costume. That's just lazy and proper bum begging.
Now that's not saying you can't dress up, enjoy it, and have fun.
By all means, dress up, throw a party with your friends, really enjoy yourself.
There's a whole other side to Halloween that doesn't involve trick or treating.
That's the kids' side of things, that's why it's only about candy.
I still like candy as an adult too, but there's MORE to Halloween than candy.
Throw a costume party.
You only have a few years of being a teenager where you're in between being considered just a kid and responsibility of adulthood. Don't waste it just doinig kids stuff.
Besides, you've probably been getting free candy for a decade by now.
It's someone else's turn.
it's the perfect holiday tbh
honestly I'd say try cosplay if you really like doing costume stuff
It's super fun and you still get to show your rad costume
im not sure if im out of the ordinary, though; as a kid, the thought of PURCHASING a halloween costume from the store was, in my mind, somewhere around as bad as promoting genocide, so I always made my costume instead of buying one and ended up getting really into that stuff.
seriously though purchasing a costume was like more taboo to me than. like. cannibalization. and i mean i was pretty sure there were WAY more cannibals than there actually are when i was a kid too. but purchasing a costume from a store was still a bigger issue.
But what you're gonna do this year is really nice. I think it's a great idea for everyone to try. Personally I think I'll do that when I turn 15/16.