Is it weird to take part in trick or treating without kids?

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Love Halloween and love the whole trick or treating thing.
We don't have any kids yet but I plan on putting some decorations in the window and a pumpkin at the front door so kids know we are taking part.
I've bought some sweets for the trick or treaters.
Friend says it's weird because we have no kids yet but I don't think giving out some sweets is that weird is it ?

Doing it spot on! The neighbourhood kids will love it!

Aorry. Miss read your post ...i thought YOU were trick or treating ... no its perfectly fine to do it and hamd out aweets

No giving out sweets and decorating is fine.

I did see a group of dressed up adults with one baby in a pushchair knocking on doors trick or treating last year though- that's weird!

Not weird. We have a few locals - students or those with young adult kids - who delight in dressing up and scaring the trick or treaters. My kids love it. And we only go to decorated houses, the more decorations to view the better!

Your friend is being odd. Maybe it’s different in different parts of the uk but where I am people all give out sweets and have done since I was a child in the 80’s. My grandparents used to live seeing all the kids dressed up and buying sweets ready for Halloween would be part of their autumn routine every year. My son is in his 20’s and I have my sweets ready for the trick or treaters 🎃

This too

I think it's lovely! Make sure you have a pumpkin or decs outside otherwise you won't get May callers! X

Not weird at all op - lots of people decorate and give out treats in our neighbourhood who either don't have kids or they've flown the nest.

It's a nice fun community event here, I say go for it

I assumed that was what OP meant top. There's a few people in our area who don't have trickery treating aged DC decorate and give out treats, never occurred to me they might be being unreasonable. Go for it OP, the kids tricker treating will be happy you've done it. The more the merier.

Of course it’s not weird, I love decorating the outside and greeting the children with a big bowl of sweets. I only open the door until 8pm though I think that’s late enough, after that I leave the leftovers outside for anyone who comes after.

Decorating the house for Halloween and having treats to hand out to children is definitely it weird and shows you to be a fun person imo

However as an adult dressing up in fancy costume and going door to door for treats would be weird!

Not weird at all, totally fine and a lovely thing to do!
When I saw the title of this tbh I thought you meant you were going to dress up and go round peoples houses trick or treating, now that would be weird haha

Trick or treating relies on non-parents participating imo: as all the parents are out taking their kids trick or treating! We’ve always decorated and had sweets - both pre-kids and now that both our kids have left home. Lots of people round here dress up to answer doors too: all adds to the fun!

I thought you were going to ask whether it was weird for a childless adult to go from door to door asking for sweets! That would definitely be weird. Having sweets for children who come knocking is lovely and not weird at all.

I do this too and I don't have kids. Just feels community spirited to be involved.

Where we live people without children have treats ready. Not all of them decorate their house though, or have pumpkins out.

Yes I always take part.

My kids are 24 now and if they are home over Halloween they love to help me decorate and hand out sweets.

How is that weird??

That's how Halloween works

We don’t have kids and we decorate our house every year. It’s a huge deal round our way and almost everyone in the street decorates their house though. I love seeing them toddle up in their scary costumes, they are so sweet! And always so polite too. Only ever take one sweet even though we encourage them to take as many as they want lol.

Not if you stick to Halloween. If you're enticing kids to your door for the rest of the year it'd probably look a bit weird.

No it's not.

It’s totally normal surely?

Of course it isn't weird.

That said, after years of having children at home I'm relishing not having to do it any more!

I first thought you meant going out trick or treating which yes I admit I would have thought odd. But having sweets to hand out and a pumpkin no I think that's a nice thing to do.

Go for it - the more the better - kids love it

Decorating your house, dressing up, handing out sweets - all sound fab!

Going door to door for sweets as an adult without small child would be odd.

Have fun!