How Old is Too Old to Trick or Treat?

Different age groups enjoy Halloween for different reasons. Adults like it because it’s an exercise to get in touch with their respective inner children, a way to flex their creativity and imagination that ends up getting squashed by bills and the work week.

Teenagers, college kids and post-grads love it because it’s an opportunity to party. To rage. To potentially hook up with someone or at the very least, try your first beer.

Kids crave it because children are sugar addicted aliens whose parents’ well-intentioned dietary restrictions keep them in a choke-hold of withdrawal for most days of the year. This is why, at birthdays and holidays and the well-stocked junk food house of Kelly Markowitz, kids lose their shit.

Age is just a number, of course. You’re only as young as you feel and can still sit cross-legged without losing that same feeling in your legs. And we know that anyone at any age can play dress up. But when it comes to Halloween, a very real question remains: how old is too old to Trick-or-Treat?

Allow me to float a few considerations by you before you have at it in the comments below:

1)  Financial Aid

Kids have no money. This is one of the few times a year they are not only given candy for free, they are allowed to “eat this crap.” Meanwhile, you probably have a job or at the very least, an allowance. You can buy and eat candy whenever you like. This doesn’t mean free isn’t the best price according to your wallet either, but it does mean you should re-evaluate things if you are, in fact, stealing candy from children.

2) Know your demographic.

Costumes can be scary. If you are over the age of 14 and your outfit could be classified as “terrifying,” it is inappropriate to cause nightmares to those younger and/or more scared of clowns than you.

3) Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

If you’ve ever seen Pet Cemetery or have been to a grocery store then you know that kids can be scary, too. Your feelings count. But as an adult, it’s up to you to protect yourself. Ask yourself: can I handle it?

Otherwise, it’s fully up to you. Vote in the comments below, but whether you’re a yes or a no, know this: Leandra and I will be trick-or-treating up a DAMN STORM together this Saturday, late afternoon. Follow us on Snapchat (man_repeller) and on Instgram to see how ~*sp00ky*~ we get.

Runway images via Vogue Runway; collage by Elizabeth Tamkin

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