Since when is Halloween for kids?

[rene moon]

It never started out as a "holiday for kids'. It was started by the Celts and the Druids, Catholics and Irish carried it on with their own versions and those lead to what we have today.

I love Halloween (I am 30) and I dress up every year. This year, I will be an bad pixie!

Giving a shout out to all the DU Halloween lovers!


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[TransitJohn]

1. Thanks

for pointing out the obvious to me, I obviously need it. ;) I'm 32, and the last time I dressed up I think I was 8. My daughter is 8, and she's looking forward to it. I guess living in a college town and seeing 20somethings use it as an excuse to get drunk every year has me jaded. Have fun.

[Debi]

2. It's my son's favorite 'Holiday'

and we have a party every year! Even for his Christmas project at school he wrote a paper on how much he loved Halloween! What a rebel!!

[arwalden]

3. Halloween And Costumes Are For Everyone...

door-to-door trick-or-treating is for kids.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Says who? As long as the costume is there, so what?

Geez, it's not like adults couldn't afford 2 pounds of candy for a buck if they wanted to. Teenagers too for that matter.

That's right, I'm bitter. I was tall for my age and I ALWAYS had someone ruining Halloween for me by saying 'Aren't you a little too old to be trick or treating?" They screwed me out of years of trick or treating.

[arwalden]

6. The Teenagers Are Bullies And Intimidate The

little kids. The teens don't even want to play the game... rarely do they make an effort to have a costume, they don't say "trick-or-treat"... they just barge up to the door with a pillowcase and expect someone to drop in free goodies... then they leave without so much as a thanks or a fuck-you-very-much. Often they'll look at you with a Bush-like smirk and say "that's all?" if you give them too little. (The little shits!)

I'm definitely thinking about making a sign that says "CHILDREN ONLY".

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. That's different.

There are some nice teenagers here that usually go trick or treating. They do the whole bit. Here the kids go trick or treating early and the older kids go late at night. I don't appreciate the teenagers who act like you described but there are some nice ones here.

[skygazer]

4. I love Halloween

It's my favorite holiday and I'm 43. Though I don't dress up anymore (I always did when I lived in a place where I got trick or treaters), my hubby and I decorate elaborately. We have a long driveway through woods and our place has 5 other houses that use it. We do a haunted forest through there every year, complete with cemetery, hanging skeleton above the drive, giant spiders, giant bats - we always buy two or three new things every year and every year it gets better. The neighbors bring their friends and relatives up to see it. We don't get any kids - we do it for us.

As a matter of fact, we have a string of pumpkin lights that hang year round in our living room. The orange glow is soothing.

[tigereye]

7. that's cool

Halloween is a lot of fun.

[DrWeird]

9. Since the Children's Crusade.

Yes, THAT little known invasion of the Holy Land to drive out the infidels. Being vastly outnumbered and outarmed by Saladin, the few hundred children who had survived the long march from Bastille to Jerusalem realized they were no match for their foes. Thus, they reasoned that they could scare the enemy out of the Promised Land by dressing up as evil spirits or popular action saints, with the names on their chests for proper identification. The children were quite soundly slaughtered, or captured and sold into harems.