Halloween is one of the top celebrated holidays, and my personal favorite. It’s a day of celebration and superstition. Everyone, young and old, can enjoy it.

You’re never too old for Halloween activities, the way you celebrate it just changes. Some go a little crazy with the day, and still dress up and go trick-or-treating at age twenty-two. Some use it as an excuse to go out and drink, while others stay home and hand out treats to neighborhood children.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with dressing up for Halloween when you’re an adult; you can do that for as long as you wish. But I think when you’re over eighteen years old, going door to door for candy is creepy and weird

“You’re never to old to dress up for Halloween. But for trick-or-treating, the limit for free candy should end when you’re maybe eighteen,” Tina Cao, SFCC student, said.

For me, age sixteen is about the time you stop celebrating like a child and start celebrating more like an adult. There comes a time when we have to step back and let the little kids have their fun. By high school, you should be out at parties or handing out candy to others. Even throw your own Halloween party. Cover your house in hair-raising decorations and put on an outfit, invite your friends over for a costume party.

If you’re supporting your little ones by dressing up and helping them trick-or-treat, that’s fine, but don’t go to the door with them wanting candy as well.

There’s so much to do on Halloween and the days leading up to it. Once you have kids it doesn’t mean that you have to stop celebrating Halloween. Take them to all the festivities around your area. No matter how old you are, you can have fun in corn mazes, haunted houses, and scary drive in movies. They even have movies showing at cemeteries in certain places. And usually events like haunted houses and corn mazes get better the older you are. They’re made to be scary and challenging so that adults can have fun in them, too.

Halloween is the time where it’s “accepted” to go around wearing a pink afro and crazy clothes you wouldn’t normally wear as an adult. Costumes are truly centered around older crowds now anyway. No one should tell you you’re too old to dress up and have fun, it’s obvious that that’s what’s expected on this holiday.