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

[ohnoohnol]

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 ?

that’s fine.. but going from door to door without kids would be weird 🤣

I love that you’re putting decor up so kids can go trick or treating. If it was only parents doing it the kids would get very little as parents tend to go trick or treating with their own children. It’s people like you that keep the magic for Halloween for young children. We have a couple in our street who has no kids and they chased me down last Halloween to give me a bag for my DS and one for me as I was pregnant at the time and I’ve never forgotten it! 🙂

From your title I imagined you were talking about dressing up and knocking on doors 🤣. Of course it's fine to hand out sweets

Not only is it not weird - it's essential! Round here all the families with kids are out trick or treatin, we need the people without kids to stay home to actually be in, answer the door and give out sweets! Otherwise it's just bowls on the doorstop saying 'help yourself', which are inevitable emptied very quickly!

That was my first thought too! 😆😆

@ohnoohnol of course it's fine to decorate and have sweets in for the children.

Not at all! We did this multiple years before kids.

Hardly any of our neighbours have kids or young kids at least. Most of them still put a pumpkin out and a few little decorations. One lady gets dressed up every year and decorates her whole front garden with different light up things and gives out toffee apples. It's fabulous!!
The kids love it. She loves it. We love it.

Yes this is fine…and a nice thing to do for the kids. When I read your title I thought you meant go door to door which would be weird and a bit creepy IMO!

Another one that thought you were planning on putting on a witches hat and knocking on doors 😁Handing out sweets to anyone who knocks however, is the very opposite of wierd. It’s perfectly fine and normal. Surely anyone with kids who wants to take part won’t be answering the door because they will be out trick or treating.

No, I thought the post was going to be about you dressing up and knocking on the doors 😂 but what you're describing is totally normal.

I put decorations up every year and give out sweets and I don't have children!

I also thought you meant dressing up and knocking on doors for sweets 😂

I decorated the front of the house and handed out sweets for years before having kids. I like Halloween and thought it was fun and a nice thing to do for the local children. I used to enjoy seeing their costumes too.

The more houses that offer decorations and sweets the better! Nobody is going to know or care whether you already have kids or not.

Plus, when you DO have kids, you'll be going door to door, so you won't be handing out sweets at your house. So enjoy the "inside" Halloween experience now, before you have to do the cold, wet, "outside" part if/when you have kids to take round!

That sounds fine. When I first clicked on it I thought you meant going door to door dressed up on your own.
We had a few adults on our street put masks on and scare the kids who are knocking. My children thought it was brilliant.

I thought you meant going trick or treating! Weird!
Giving sweets out to children trick or treating, not weird at all!
I don't have little kids anymore and I love seeing the children in their costumes when they come to my door.
I don't decorate but have sweets ready to give.

Be prepared for just how many kids you may get though. We had about 150 visitors last year before I took in the pumpkins when we ran out. It’s great to have so many out but if they don’t have anyone at their house giving sweets it makes those who do, very popular!

Your friend is weird. Around here the best houses are the ones with no kids, or none of trick or treating age. Those of us who do have kids often just leave a bucket of sweets on the doorstep and a "Sorry, out trick or treating sign".

And my mum still loves to see the neighbourhood children come around on Halloween despite her own children being middle aged now.

Oh yes, they love a costumed adult

Several childless/ child-free couples on our cul de sac put up decorations and hand out treats at the door and seem to really enjoy it. Never occured to me as odd at all. On the contrary it's a lovely way to make a connection with your neighbours. Go for it.

We do it for the local kids. Very much appreciated by our neighbours who have primary aged kids, they allow them to come to us unaccompanied and I have a dairy free chocolate bar ready for the one with a dairy allergy (her mum slips it to me the day before!) they also come on Christmas Eve collecting chocolate money, again there's moo free ones for the little one with allergies

I also thought you meant dressing up and going door-to-door, which would be a bit much. I was going to remind you that as an adult you have an advantage over children - you can buy and eat as many swizzles and small chocolate bars as you like whenever you want rather than having to wait for the sugar-fest which is Halloween 😂.

It's better when some people without kids or older people take part, because it's nice to have people answering the door rather than just taking sweets from a bowl. Just remember to decorate or at least put out a pumpkin - I remember getting a load of sweets in for our first Halloween when I was pregnant and we had just moved to a proper "adult" house in a family area, and I couldn't understand why no one was knocking 😂. The pumpkin rule tends to be strictly observed these days.

Nothing wrong with it at all! Our neighbours have grown up kids and go all out - our kids love it! Last year we met an older couple that were disappointed they didn’t have any trick or treaters and asked us why - we explained re decorating/pumpkin indicating they were happy to have kids knock. It never occurred to me to think it odd - they are just friendly people wanting to be involved in the community activities/a bit of fun!

I updated as i misread ;)

I think it's lovely! When I used to take my DS trick or treating one house without children always had a party and he'd get chocolates and money! One elderly lady used to give out boxes of chocolates!

I love seeing the children dressed up but none come where we live now.

It’s nice not weird. Just being part of the community.