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MsNoodles
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aiuta219
Kids get candy. Older than kids get USB power bricks or the most misbegotten shooters I could find at the misbegotten shooters store.
FluxSagrie
These kind of things are what make holidays annoying and stressful for no damn reason.
if a 28 year old dude shows up trick or treating, if they are doing it and having fun, give that dude a mars bar and say hell yeah. Oh no, you are out a 20 cent piece of shitty candy.
There is no joy to be found in gate keeping happiness and entertainment, if it isn't harming someone let people enjoy what we can in this world.
TheOhioGuy
Thanks. Happy Halloween!
benmorris32
Even if they don't have a costume. Kids grow, and not everyone can afford or knows how to make a new costume every year.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Nothing says you can't wear the same costume two years in a row.
GemmaWho
Never did understand the mindset of getting angry when teenagers trick or treat! What a silly thing to be upset about. They are still kids, let them have fun too
ThrowAwayAcct0000
The people who get mad about teenagers trick or treating are the same people who get mad about everything. They are just people who like being mad.
ShierWeevil577
You show up to my door in costume you get candy, no questions asked
charondaboatman
Thefsm
We don’t get very many kids so this year I’m doing goody bags with things like slime and sloppy hands and candy and the adults and teens can have a king size candy bar. It’s fun seeing their surprise.
WenTheEternallySurprised
There was a time when I thought it was lame when older kids came trick or treating. Then I got over it and I enjoy it just as much as the little ones. Even adults. Have fun. Laugh at yourself. Do silly things. Those aren't childish behaviors, they're human behaviors. I'm going to repeat that for emphasis-those aren't childish behaviors, they're human behaviors. Never let yourself forget this.
DefundIsraelTheGenocidalNation
Happy to give them candy, but when I already turned the lights off and they pound on my door like an entitled hoard of greedy bastards I will assume they are choosing the latter and not being kids, but obnoxious hooligans and should be treated as such.
ShimmerinStrider
Yah. As long as they ain't stealing it from other kids, find and dandy.
ShimmerinStrider
*Fine
Acquiredtaste
*find a daddy
ShimmerinStrider
...Huh....*Puts a 'Yes I am a "Daddy"' sign around neck*
SmartAssRN
Teens get full size bars, granola bars, and Ramen. Love teens who still trick or treat
Travelcedric
I had an immigrant family come to the door, trying to sort out our culture. I happily gave everyone, including parents, candy and told them that their costumes were great. They seemed to be enjoying things, why should I take that away from them?
Teratoid
Yup.
theluggage
I was in my… very late teens when I decided to go as little red riding hood with my partner as the big bad wolf. I went to half a dozen Halloween stores trying to find a wolf (not werewolf) mask to no avail. I paper machee’d that thing over many hours. We decided to trick or treat a bit and one house got, “what are you, 40?! Are you husband and WIFE??” And it stung. I was really just trying to make my last time out a good one
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Don't listen to the haters. I still go trick or treating, and I am in my 40's. I usually have my kids, but sometimes, just friends and that is fine too.
chronozoan
I'm sorry you went through that. I went trick or treating last when I was 17, but luckily, I never had such an awful interaction.
PistolPeat
Did a trunk n treat at my 3 years school last weekend for the neighborhood. Saw several older teenagers that were very respectful, took a single piece of candy and had great costumes. Also, many of them were with younger siblings and family. Great to see.
cactusjuiceitsthequenchiest
Show up in costume you get candy 🤷♀️ That goes for parents and grandparents too I don't care if you're 8 or 80 man Halloween is awesome and everyone who wants to should participate and be able to be stoked about it
Pokegeologist
On my last Hallooween in college, we decided to go into the neighborhood off campus on a whim to trick or treat. Best last minute decision.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
Anyone in a costume gets candy for me, don't care if you're 80. I buy 200$ in assorted candy and give out large fistfulls till I run out. If I still have anything left when I get close to closing up shop I dump it on the last kid I see (Or split if its a group). I regret holding out for more kids my first year doing it. Had a girl about 14, in an amazing pirate costume and was the only one that said 'trick-or-treat' without provocation the whole night, and was the last one sadly.
funsizehuman
My 14 year old twins are going tonight. They are kind and respectful and so are their friends. One of my boys is going as Santa, and he asked me to get candy canes to give back to people, for his “bit”.
Turboslacker
Are there people who don't?
SmellingMistake
Yes.
Turboslacker
WillHogann
Never thought of it this way....
drduffer
I like this. Thanks! ⬆️
EarthDragon2189
Are they wearing a costume and participating in the spirit of the holiday? Sure. Are they standing on my porch in their street clothes, looking bored and shoving a pillowcase under my nose? Nah.
gnomedeplume
they're dressed up as the scariest thing imaginable to order people: unsupervised youths
BishopHastur
I'm ready to hand out candy. Probably won't get the chance to since no one has showed up in the past 19 years.
ExtremelyHappyGuy
They're all just waiting for year 20 ;)
BishopHastur
Maybe. And if they are I hope they like that I've got memberships at both Costo and Sams.
nothingtolurkhere
Fuck yeah!
conniecpu
If you show up at my door and your attire can at least loosely be described as a costume I'll give you some candy :)
DoctorWookie
My only rule is you have to say "Trick or Treat" if you aren't in an obvious costume. Little kids get candy anyway. But even adults that say it get a piece from me. Fuck it, why should kids get all the freebies?
WillHogann
I've lived in poor neighborhoods where kid's parents could not afford (or care) to make a costume for them. I gave them all candy. And I really wish that I'd kept a few masks on hand the following years I lived there. I just never thought to do it until I became a bit wealthier in life.
truthader
Hang onto this. Look for the next opportunity.
Be good. Be well. Stay kind. Stay sweet. 🍬♥️
ExtremeAndViolentButtFun
Everyone gets candy. Be young for a day, be happy.
SadsPikkelson
*With a costume. Sorry, rules is rules. If you can't do a costume you can go buy the cheap bags of candy the day after Halloween.
DongleDingler
You never know what someone is going through. It's a holiday and they showed up to celebrate, I would just be the bigger person and know that I'm making somebody's day better for a quarter or so
ExtremeAndViolentButtFun
I'm dressed as a disappointment.
dracklen
Ok but also, it’s free candy day, idgaf if they have a costume or not ^_^
meowingintensifies
it's also okay to turn your porch light off and not participate. things are tight this year, and candy/treats can be expensive. :)
Burgundee
Or keep the lights on and remind people of the "trick" part of trick-or-treat. "You fools! I don't have any candy, yet I tricked you into coming up to my door anyway!"
gnomedeplume
that's a good way to get lots of free toilet paper
Burgundee
Teratoid
And the older teens too. Lot of kids had COVID mess up Halloweens for years.
empire161
We had a group of teens come one year, and one kid asked if we had Capri Suns to give out. His sister smacked him in the head. I told him to come back next year and I’d promise to have some. I was ready, but he didn’t come back :(
DiafolEternal
Everyone would be wearing masks so might have been ok?
/just ofc
DiafolEternal
Jk * stupid phone
Kittynomnoms
Also maybe don't be a dick to an older teen accompanying a group of younger kids. Happened to me a lot when I would take my siblings.
FestusMA
We iived in Cambridge that year and we still had it but there were definitely some who wouldn’t participate. Most folks built candy chutes off their porch for cans deliverey at a distance.
Teratoid
The past few years trick or treater #s have stayed incredibly low.
Cranbananarama
Would totally do that option if I lived in an area that got trick-or-treaters. That or a candy slingshot from the roof.
Nofoxlefttogive
Ouch, the smarties really smart!
Cranbananarama
"Look out, they've got full sized candybars!" *THUD*
FestusMA
It actually was a blast all the kids loved it more than a normal year. I built mine from two stories up. Bought a bunch of dryer duct from the hardware store. Being near MIT, one guy built a robot and had it bring the candy out to kids.
shitheadtookmyname
Why would COVID have messed up any Halloween? We knew by October the same year that it wasn't spreading outdoors except if you were basically making out
Teratoid
You have kids?
shitheadtookmyname
During COVID I had one, and she trick or treated bc I'd closely followed the science and by Halloween, German studies were coming out there were very instructive about outdoor activities, ventilating school rooms (we pulled my kid out for nearly a year), age bands that showed almost no transmission, etc
shitheadtookmyname
Oh to be clear I'm not saying the one I had died after covid. I'm saying I had a second since then. Actually technically she was born the day our city received its first covid patient because we were a place they sent the early covid patients. But obviously I wasn't going to take a 6-month-old trick-or-treating because she couldn't talk.
Teratoid
Where I am, trick or treating stopped for several years. Before COVID, we'd get around 300 kids. Then none for years. Last night we had about 20.
I was hoping for more. It's rather sad.
CosplayComet
I'll give anyone candy if they come to my door. What good comes from being a hardass about who gets 20 cents of happiness from you?
feanoreldar
20c candy? Look at money bags over here, must be nice
thorinc
We're handing out baggies with a full size bar, ring pop, and some bubble gum in each. About $2 CAD per baggie. We're expecting only 20-30 kids :(
bobthefunny
Kinder Joy, Pokemon Halloween pack, and a chocolate. Also expecting about 30 kids tonight.
DarkLynx13
That's been my philosophy for years..
Be young...have fun.
Life gets hard
wraiththefourth
20c ? I guess I'm lucky I'm from Australia where I offer $20 bags of candy because no one trick or treats here.
gamblingpoet
I was at the park with my nephew when I overheard some parents complain about "non-neighborhood kids" going trick or treating in our neighborhood. Basically, "the poors are here" type of attitude. It was pretty disgusting behavior. Like lady, you drive a Lexus. You can afford to buy an extra bag or two of bite size Snickers.
kathlTvVillain
That's Horrible, I pity the kids going to Her door ! Nearly want I.D.
astrangehop
Also like.. the house I grew up in was fairly rural, so our parents would drop us off closer to the center of town. Do you expect seven year olds to hoof it 3/4 of a mile between each house for a dumdum and a mini Snickers?
JustinArnold
No, they expect those kids to be sad, and to accept that their sadness is because they and their parents are bad people for having not been born 'proper'
Nofoxlefttogive
Not having joy in childhood prepares you for the mines.