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My 15 year old has offered to pass out candy for our neighbors so they can both experience taking their little ones out. He'll get the fun of dressing up and seeing the excitement, but not TOTing himself. Pretty good compromise and the neighbors were delighted.
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Here lately there has been a rash of some awfully big and well facial-haired trick-or-treaters who seem to make a round through the neighborhood then change costumes and make another round. Please don't let your kid be that guy.
I went trick or treating when I was 16, but it was more an excuse to be out of the house after dark smoking cigarettes and talking to girls in the neighborhood dressed up like "sexy pirate", "sexy nurse", "sexy mummy" or "sexy vampire."
After that Halloween started to inspire carpentry and undeclared contests over who could engineer the most elaborate prank.
I know that one year I didn't go because I decided to hand out candy and decorate the house and scare the crap outta the kids as I was passin out candy (another thing I love to do but then the next year I went right back to TOTing until I was 18....... I prolly would seriously still be going (because I can still pass for 18, I have a young face....... (I'm 25 now)) but work usually interferes. I'd say THAT is the main reason I stopped. Was cuz I had to work on Halloween a lot of the last couple of years.....
AND another reason is if Halloween is on a friday or sat I'm usually at a Halloween party dressed to the T :P
The last year I trick or treated was when I was 14 (a million years ago! ). My daughter stopped when she was around the same age; I want to say 14 or 15 maybe. That seems to be the point at which many kids get bored with that routine and want to go out to parties instead.
I was 14 or 15 the last time that I went. My neighborhood girlfriends stopped after 6th grade so I went with a friend who lived out in the country. They didn't see a lot of trick-or-treaters out there so we really cleaned up. They'd give out the coveted full size candy bars and some people weren't expecting any kids at all, so they'd give us cash and bags of cookies or whatever they had on hand.
My son went out till he was 16. He looked younger so that helped. After that, one friend or another would have a party.
I don't mind having the teenagers by. I usually joke around with them and a lot of them are pretty funny. If they come without costumes I ask what they're supposed to be. Before they answer I shout out, Wait!, you're teenagers, right? Great costumes guys! Double treats for that. I tell some that they have to do something for their treat. The concept is completely foreign to most of them. I've gotten handstands, bad juggling, political humor. lol I'm always careful which groups I ask that of. Don't want a trick that I hadn't bargained for.
Yup! And at some point you gotta stop sitting on Santa's lap too, y'know!
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but then the next year I went right back to TOTing until I was 18....... I prolly would seriously still be going (because I can still pass for 18, I have a young face....... (I'm 25 now)) but work usually interferes. I'd say THAT is the main reason I stopped. Was cuz I had to work on Halloween a lot of the last couple of years.....
). My daughter stopped when she was around the same age; I want to say 14 or 15 maybe. That seems to be the point at which many kids get bored with that routine and want to go out to parties instead. 
I tell some that they have to do something for their treat. The concept is completely foreign to most of them. I've gotten handstands, bad juggling, political humor. lol I'm always careful which groups I ask that of. Don't want a trick that I hadn't bargained for.
