When did you stop trick-or-treating? [Archive]

purplehairedwonder

10-26-2003, 12:48 AM

Since Halloween right around the corner I was wondering, when did you stop trick-or-treating (if you did). I'm 15 and my family is telling me I'm too old but most of my friends are going. I haven't gone since I was like 12. So when did you stop? And what do you do for Halloween now, if anything? Last year I gave out candy, it was real exciting. I was just curious about this.

Evil Dr. Reef

10-26-2003, 01:00 AM

Stop?

Why the hell would you give up an opportunity to go screw around with your friends for a few hours and get free candy?

Simpler Simon

10-26-2003, 01:12 AM

Hmmm....I remember giving it up in 5th grade because I couldn't decide what to be that year. 6th grade I got an executioner's costume, so I probably went out that year...I think from that point on I was content to take my bro and sis trick or treating and watch from the sidelines.

It didn't hurt that I got a cut of the candy once we got home :D

SlyBoy

10-26-2003, 01:36 AM

I quit last year, so I'm gonna pass out candy like I did last year.

Jowy Blight

10-26-2003, 01:36 AM

What do you mean stop? It's free candy, and it's also one of the few times you can stay out as late as you want and not get in trouble.

The Falcon

10-26-2003, 01:52 AM

when i was eight. halloween never tickled my fancy

Falcon

Allen's Nickname.

10-26-2003, 02:14 AM

Stop?

Why the hell would you give up an opportunity to go screw around with your friends for a few hours and get free candy?Beacuse my parents made me.

Sniff.

Jedigreedo

10-26-2003, 03:22 AM

I quit a few years ago, it just wasn't anything spectacular anymore around here. Soccer moms and organized religion people pushed to make it where even a baby couldn't get scared of anything. I mean c'mon, they even went as far to make it so in elementry schools it's not a "Halloween party" but a 'Fall festival.' :rolleyes:

I think it's cause of that that people really stopped giving out candy alot. When I was real little you could go basically any house whatsoever, but now it's hard to find a neighborhood with at least 10 people giving out. It just got really boring...

RogueMartian

10-26-2003, 05:42 AM

I went with my friends until I was a senior in high school. We all pretty much agreed that that would be our last year. Last time we were still kids and all.

Since then everyone just gets wasted in costume as opposed to in street clothes. A few people I know have done rocky horror, but I was out of town when they went.

I really do miss it. Halloween was always the best holiday to hang out with my friends and be mischevious.

Namuh

10-26-2003, 06:47 AM

I think the last time I went trick treating was in the 6th grade.My friend said he was too old to go and it just so happen his mother was our ride to all the good neighborhoods with lots of candy :eek: .So basically it wasn't a choice made by me at all :sweat: .(It's okay though I know my niece will share her candy with me :p)

Boy Wonder

10-26-2003, 07:03 AM

This year. It stops being cute after 8 or 9, but the only real premise is to get lots and lots of free candy.

Spike04

10-26-2003, 07:48 AM

Hey, free candy is free candy... and this year it's on a Friday so we can stay out to all hours of the night!http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

DianaGohan

10-26-2003, 07:55 AM

I believe around 17. I was in it awhile for the Candy, but there's a time in life to move on past such trival activites such as Halloween and do what you have to do. Also, I realized that the candy wasn't always that good.

Joe Mama

10-26-2003, 08:00 AM

I never really stopped. I still go with my little brother, but I don't dress up. I just grab a Wal-Mart bag or something and hit the houses, and yes people do look at me like I'm crazy. http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Will Sturnick

10-26-2003, 08:29 AM

I stopped in 7th grade. I never liked Halloween all that much anyway.

Nightflower

10-26-2003, 10:02 AM

I went until senior year (So, 17). It wasn't 'cause I thought it was too old, I just got too busy or didn't have a costume or couldn't convince enough friends with me (It's mighty cold in Ottawa). Since then it's been horror-movie-marathons with friends, organized university events, or costume parties. Still miss trick-or-treating though. Halloween is my favorite holiday. :)

Barb Gordon

10-26-2003, 11:03 AM

Never!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I'd have to go with some others and say somewhere around my senior year in high school. Not because I didn't want to, not by any means. But around my junior year I moved farther out from my school and friends, and I didn't trick-or-treat in the new neighborhood, and my friends were starting to do parties instead of going out door to door. But heck, if any of my friends were to say "wanna go trick-or-treating?" I would so be up for it.

~Barb

Crimson_lynx

10-26-2003, 11:09 AM

You can never be to old to go trick or treating!!! Im 17 and im gonna go out this Friday :anime: ( we get halloween off, so im gonna go out the night before, i think you know why :D )

Nick Biped

10-26-2003, 12:08 PM

MJC

10-26-2003, 12:20 PM

Never really went (execpt at malls).

Trick-or-treating in inner-city Detroit=bad idea.

Digu Volz

10-26-2003, 12:29 PM

When they turned the hose on me.

Crimson_lynx

10-26-2003, 12:53 PM

Never really want (execpt at malls).

Trick-or-treating in inner-city Detroit=bad idea.
Tru dat, tru dat. :anime: I like Detriot though :D I went there for the Auto show last December, it was packed!!

Cyber E.

10-26-2003, 12:56 PM

Around 12. Halloween just isn't wasn't special to me anymore. You have to worry about the people who lurk the streets, if someone was going to give you poisoned candy, what the weather was going to be like, ect.

It was just too much of a hassle for what used to be a fun night out of the year. Sometimes you could enjoy it more than Christmas. But now, the feel isn't as good. Maybe because what those crazy whippers-snappers sport Halloween-esque clothing on a daily basis.

Nightflower

10-26-2003, 01:00 PM

I probably stopped at around 14 or 15. At that time, I just didn't find it very fun anymore going door-to-door in the cold weather. And anyways, our house always has some candy left over, so I wasn't missing out on much.
Yeah. Most of Ontario (Except maybe Toronto :D) isn't very Halloween-friendly, at least not without wearing three sweaters under your costume. Normally, by the time it's October 31, it's -5 degrees Celsius and snowing. :P

Speedy Boris

10-26-2003, 02:00 PM

When I stopped going all out with a costume. I think the last year I went (12 yrs. old) I stuffed a couple pillows under my shirt, wore a lawnmower hat and went out as a fat guy. It was pretty obvious at that point that I could easily get all the candy I wanted just by having what was left over from our OWN trick or treat give-outs.

Dark Spider

10-26-2003, 02:19 PM

I stopped just last year (I was 17). I decided to escort my brother and sisters trick or treating. My brother was a pumpkin, One of my twin sisters was a princess, and the other sister was a clown. It was a pretty cool time... :)

The last time I went trick or treating myself, I went as a "transexual that used to be a female". I am dead serious when I say that. There was school that day, and I had my friends dying in laughter. I pretended my name was Johnisha, and I used to try and pick up girls with my pick-up line: "I used to be female, so I think I would know how to treat a woman right." It was all fun and games. And the best thing about it....NO COSTUME REQUIRED!!! I was basically posing as a male that used to be a woman...and since I was already male...SCORE! Actual trick or treating was fun too. I told people who I was, and I got bonus candy just for the clever idea... :D

And I shall end this post with a true holloween story...

I live in an unsafe ghetto, so nobody is too apt to pass out candy to kids. But I tried anyway....so I went to this one guys house. I said "Trick or treat". He said "Trick" and slammed the door in my face. Who says there's no hospitality in the ghetto..... :sweat:

Is anyone going out egging the night before?

Zapages

10-26-2003, 03:30 PM

never was into Halloween at all. So I never started.

DarkPoet89

10-26-2003, 09:28 PM

I stopped when I was about 13-years-old, but I didn't want to stop. I couldn't go out because nobody wanted to go with me :( I wanted to go alone, but my mom said it wasn't safe. I was very sad.

But this year, I have somebody who might actually go with me, so I might go again this year! Yay! :D

candy17

10-27-2003, 10:17 AM

Sadly, I stopped when I was 15 (or rather, my mom forced me to stop because my having fun on Halloween was an embarrassment to her. Well, she'll get hers soon enough!)

Blue

10-27-2003, 11:00 AM

I stoped 3 year's ago never wanted to though i was alway's moving in october....i just watch halloween special'a and scary movie's though i might start again next year i really want to.

Elven Moon

10-27-2003, 12:20 PM

A few years ago, when my job had me working until 8. Otherwise, I probably would've been out there ;)

The Falcon

10-27-2003, 01:21 PM

actually, i'm not scheduled to work this friday (i have no idea why. i didn't take it off or anything) so maybe i'll bring my little sister and her gang of friends about the neighborhood. i'll dress up as a college student (my favorite costume of all time!!!)

Falcon

Outlander00

10-27-2003, 03:11 PM

If memory serves, the last time I went was 16 or 17.

Why so old you ask? Two reasons:

First... Where else are you going to get an abundant amount of snacks to eat while doing homework for school?

Secondly... since they started a curfew in the town, we had to start our mischievious deeds (bombing houses with eggs and shaving cream) earlier in the evening and have a reason to be out :evil:. The only thing was that the eggs would get broken, which made the candy gross and made us perfect targets for the cops. After that night we figured it wasnt worth it and just hung from there on out for Holloween.

Billy

10-29-2003, 11:41 PM

Never done it! I wanted to go when I was about 8 but my Mom said I was too young. By the time I was old enough I thought forget it - knocking on random people's doors isn't something that sounds interesting to me, no matter how much candy is involved.

Antiyonder

10-30-2003, 12:39 PM

When I was 13 years old.

That's because I've end up going to Halloween Partys. Sometimes I'll be at home passing out candy to the Trick Or Treaters.

If I ever have a kid (one that likes to trick or treat) then I'll be grabbing a bag and collecting candy.

I could always go out as Peter Parker. I have the glasses.

Lord Ashram

10-30-2003, 11:16 PM

I'm 14, and haven't stopped yet. I'll probably stop when my younger sister and my friends do.

Scythemantis

10-31-2003, 12:32 AM

I'm now officially 20 (born october 31st, 1983!) and my girlfriend is 23. We're still going, even though we're in maryland which is mostly backwater hicks and probably a lot of those religious nuts.

WingZombie38

10-31-2003, 12:56 AM

I started at around age 5. I thought I stopped at age 11. I asked my mom ans she said I was 9.

I would NEVER dare to go door to door in this neighborhood. We only went around to the shops of the 'hood. I don't know why I stooped. I remember I didn't understand why I said no when I told my mom I didn't want to go anymore.

Now, I would not go trick-or-treating but I REALLY want to go and hag out with people in costume. I've wanted to go to the annual Halloween Parade in Greenwhich Village for four years now. My parents won't let me because of the "risks" involved.

Chris Wood

10-31-2003, 01:45 AM

Probably stopped around 12 or 13, mostly I suppose out of the embarrassment of asking for candy alongside 6 year olds.

You have to be kind of jealous of Michael Myers. He never gets too old for Halloween. Trick-or-treating as a kid, and stabbing teenagers as an adult. The fun never stops. Plus his mask is always in style.

Catlover

10-31-2003, 11:20 PM

Around 12 or 13. Kinda of a family thing to stop. I didn't mind much. Mainly because of the same thing CyberE said...

Halloween just isn't wasn't special to me anymore. You have to worry about the people who lurk the streets, if someone was going to give you poisoned candy, what the weather was going to be like, ect.

It was just too much of a hassle for what used to be a fun night out of the year.

Narfpinky

11-01-2003, 02:26 PM

I gave trick-or-treating up when I was about 11-12. I felt I was getting too old for it, though the couple of years that followed, I'd be the one gving out treats and see my friends at my front door saying to me, "Hey! Why aren't you trick-or-treating?". Heh heh, oh well.

But, really, I couldn't think of any costume ideas, and I never ate all the candy I brought back. I recall once I'd still have some candy leftover and it was the following spring by then. ;)

The Detective

11-01-2003, 02:42 PM

I've never gone trick or treating.

*looks at everyone staring*

What? :p

Samurai Karasu

11-02-2003, 09:36 PM

probably never. Or maybe next year depends who has the balls to stop before me.

Chris Wood

11-04-2003, 02:19 AM

We're still going, even though we're in maryland which is mostly backwater hicks and probably a lot of those religious nuts.

WHAT???????? The hell it is. Show a little state pride buddy. Maryland is politically one of the most progressive states around, and the "backwater hicks" in my neighborhood sure have pretty nice multi-million dollar houses.