<p>Do your college age kids dress still dress up for Halloween ?2 of my 4 ,ages 18,20,23, and 30,still do. I still help alter the costumes, or some years make them! This year, one son is going as Rodney Dangerfield from " Caddyshack"" .When I mentioned this to grandparents,they asked if Caddyshack is a new clothing line ! I imagine most college kids dress up- this is my D’s first year at college,so I don’t know if she will .</p>
<p>My college D informed me that she had a lot of studying to do this week since Halloween starts on Thursday!</p>
<p>I believe that means 4 nights of extracurricular activities! She did borrow her dad’s trench coat for at least one costume…don’t even want to know what for! I do believe Halloween is a giant release for most college campuses! Just s it was for me 30 years ago!</p>
<p>Halloween falling on a weekend is definitely a nightmare for college communities.
I know S dresses up. He isn’t a great communicator so I don’t have a clue as to how he has spent his last 3 Halloweens or how he will spend this one. I just hope he stays safe.</p>
<p>( i don’t understand the Halloween on a thurs- isn’t it on Sunday?)</p>
<p>I called my DD and asked her what she’s doing this weekend she said oh just studying…lol sure …
I told her to be safe. An art student around here recently went missing. Police found a bunch of charred bones and it took police over a week to determine if they were human. It s scary out there…</p>
<p>Halloween is always a big deal around here, my high school junior has been working for weeks with her friends on themes and costumes and such. As big as it is at home my college daughter says it’s even bigger at college. Even her non-theatre friends get totally into costumes and such.</p>
<p>Dressing up and going to parties, yes–trick or treating, no. I hate it when trick or treaters tower over me at the door–time to buy your own candy, this is for the real kids!</p>
<p>Dressing up and going to parties, yes–trick or treating, no. I hate it when trick or treaters tower over me at the door–time to buy your own candy, this is for the real kids!</p>
<p>tons of people here dress up and go to parties. </p>
<p>The biggest dance of the year, “Freaky Tales”, is a costume party. It always falls a week or two before Halloween (it was last Thursday).</p>
<p>I’m one of the RAs on call this Sunday…we’ll see if it lives up to the hype. Though from what I’ve heard, all the REALLY serious partiers go to UCSB or CSU Chico for the weekend.</p>
<p>My D is a freshman at American. Apparently all the college kids (at least Georgetown and AU) go trick or treating at the embassies on Embassy Row on Friday. The candy haul is reported to be great, with treats from all different countries. My D and her classmates are pleading with their writing professor to dismiss class early!</p>
<p>D and her friends dressed up and trick or treated all through high school. She is in college and has a costume planned to wear to a party.
S ( age 14) will not dress up for anything, not even the homecoming spirit days at school.</p>
<p>My daughter is 2 years post college and my son in medical school; both attend parties every year that require costumes. They also dressed up in college; one weekend when Halloween was a Saturday, my daughter had 3 different costumes for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. She and he circle of friends use to do a group theme for one of the night. I would get pictures emailed to me and I was always impressed with the amount of work and creativity that went into each costume.</p>
<p>My freshman D informed me last night that she was going trick or treating in her college community. I told her that I thought adults should no longer be going out for a free candy handout, but she thinks I’m crazy.</p>
<p>I agree that this holiday is for kids. I’d be happy if our town had an ordinance that prohibited it after age 12.</p>
<p>I have no problem with teens trick or treating as long as they are in costume and respectful. Why on earth would you complain about them being kids as long as they can and doing something so innocent? You’d rather them hang out in bars?</p>
<p>At many schools H has become one of the biggest party weekends of the year. Nothing like naughty costumes to get the party started–and naughty tends to be very popular with the females.</p>
<p>I agree with 3bm103. We live in a large subdivision and I am happy to give candy to the respectful teenagers; it is the kids that crams both hands in the basket I am holding and grabs two handfuls of candy, after I said pick one piece! Of course, I have 8 year olds that will do that also at times!!</p>
<p>I love being home for the kids, especially the toddlers! We even tell mom or dad to take a piece of candy as you know they are dying to eat a piece before they raid the little one’s bag after they go to bed :-)</p>
<p>I like it when the teenagers come as long as they are in costume. One year we had a sheepish post college age guy who had been dared to trick-or-treat by his friends. His costume was pretty lame, but he had made enough of an effort I gave him candy. :)</p>
<p>My kids don’t dress up for H and haven’t in a few years, but I can’t imagine being so curmudgeonly that I’d object to teens trick or treating!</p>
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<p>Here’s a great editorial on that very subject from my D’s online college newspaper:</p>
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<p>Youngest D (8th grade) will still dress up and go out with her friends.</p>
<p>D1, a college senior has had a costume party each year at her school and they LOVE IT! Last year, three of them dressed up as “paper-scissors-rock”. :)</p>
<p>This year, one of the girls fiance is dressing up as Howie Mandel - then, 5 girls including D will be the “case girls” - ha , they found blue sequined dresses at JCPenney on clearance for $12 each so they will all match and will each be carrying a decorated briefcase. How fun is that?</p>